Who Made Life In The U.S. Unaffordable?

Shoomer's affordability schtick is a classic tactic taken right out of Alinsky's rules for radicals handbook - accuse the opposition of exactly what the accusing party is doing.

Is this even a serious question? Does anyone still have any memory cells? When Biden and the entire Democrat apparatus went "full-green-new-deal" loco by going to war against oil with their insane EV mandates and climate-change nonsense they massively increased the price of gas. EVERYTHING in our economy is directly dependent on the price of gas and carbon-based products, whether it's for manufacturing processes, components, heating, or delivery and distribution. When those prices were forced up by the Democrats' insane war on gas/carbon, it directly impacted the cost of everything. It's absurd that this question is even being asked, and even more ridiculous asking who caused it. Democrats whining about affordability is like the Menendez brothers whining about being orphans.

At or near the top of the list should be the intentional devaluation of the dollar. They have been overprinting money for a hundred years to where it is only worth about 2 cents compared to then. Watch what the "economists" do on tv when someone suggests reducing the money supply to make what remains worth more. It is absolute panic in their words and faces. So I guess the only answer is to keep inflating until it blows up.

Open borders and allowing 25 MILLION illegals come here and rob us all blind is what has caused this "affordability" crisis. When you go shopping and the steak, eggs, butter, cheese, etc. are free to you ... then you just buy it ... raising demand and thus the price to the citizen paying cash and not Federal/state subsidized food stamps. When you rent a house with 4 families you take it off the market and away from the young newlywed American couple. The empty houses leftover now cost 20% more. When you get your drugs for free ... we all pay more due to a lack of supply! Immediately deport ALL of the illegals who came here since just 2020 and prices will drop. You've only been here 5 years or less? You're under immediate arrest. Now get out! After we all throw of the newer ones out --- we'll go after the rest from pre-2020!

Of course it will work. The word affordability has been hammered home for months. Even the local communist news network (channel 11) in Baltimore has been focusing on this for at least a month with daily local examples and interviews. However, Maryland is a prime example of a democrap run state that is making living here almost unaffordable for the average person. The demoslut policies that have led to this are never the fault of the democraps. They forced the closing power plants with no plan of how to replace them and then blame the power company for higher electric costs since now power has to come from Pa. which is more expensive. They took a billion-dollar surplus left over from a Republican governor, and in less than three years, turned it into a four-billion-dollar deficit. As a result, fees for everything are four or five times higher in Maryland, than in any surrounding state. The news station than interviews people complaining, but never really gets around explaining who is responsible and why. They act like this is normal and that every state has the same issue.

The problem has been going on for decades. Through both Democrat and Republican Presidents and through Democrat and Republican run Congresses. The difference now it has reached critical mass and has become much more noticeable. We got people that want something for nothing, and in many cases, everything for nothing. We have big money interests that buy policy. Nevermind everything comes with a price tag. Nevermind many of those things have no return on investment. End result is massive debt and inflation. We 'elect' people who are all too happy to oblige. They buy votes and in return give out 'free money'. They sell legislation and get very rich in the process. The people we 'elect' have jobs for life as long as they 'produce' more 'free money' and more bad legislation. They call it governing. It's not. These people are bought and paid for. People like Schumer have been around for decades and know exactly how the game is played. For him to wring his hands about the affordability crisis is laughable. He is one of many that caused it! I see so many people playing party politics. I have the same question for people on both sides. Why do you support them? They aren't looking out for you. Just remember. They need us divided for them to stay in power.

The answer is Biden and whomever was controlling him. Only a Dem would create a problem and then accuse the other party of doing nothing about it.

I would drop Biden from that #7. He is not responsible for any of the things he is accused of. It’s the cabal that slid in behind him - as planned, unelected, unaccountable, unseen - that has ruined the country. Biden couldn’t wipe his own butt!

Democrats. It's always Democrats who make life "unaffordable" even as they preen about being able to solve the problem if only the voters will give them power. Democrats kept life unaffordable during the Depression, during the the (near hyper) inflationary 1970s (after US went off the gold standard), and most recently during the FJB administration, which gave us the Orwellian-named "Inflation Reduction Act".... which served in practice as the Inflation Ragin' Act. To the youngsters out there... a bit of wisdom: Want a strong economy? Don't vote Democrat.

It’s Democrats. It’s ALWAYS Democrats! Stop voting for them!

The affordability issue is a typical Democrat tactic -- created the problem/crisis -- blame it on the other side and then claim you have the answer to the problem. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Dems and lots of Repubs too have spent past 40 years importing labor icluding illegals and H-1Bs to drive wages down to effectively less than half of 1980 rate. Then jobs were exported to Mexico and China. The factories I grew up with are empty boarded up. I suggest all government employees be fired and replaced with H-Bs at 1/3 the wage. It happened to me three times.

Even armed with all the facts, Democrats are too stupid and too party focused to think on their own and too many Republican registered voters too lazy and/or uninterested in voting if Trump is not on the ballot.

When has a democrat strategy ever worked, except to enrich themselves?

During "Biden's" four years in office the purchasing power of the dollar fell by 20%. Did your income in nominal dollars increase by 20%? Likely not. That is the root cause of the "affordability" crisis and Democrats -- hardly for the first time -- are promising to fix a problem they themselves created. President Trump has succeeded in bringing inflation down to the 2-3% range. Zero inflation or actual deflation would be great for the few Americans with no mortgage or consumer debt but terrible for everyone else. Some progress on prices can be made by eliminating regulations which keep prices high, like Trump's recent action on Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards for automobiles and "green" restrictions on energy production. Trump's efforts to deport illegals will decrease downward pressures on wages and upward pressures on rental and housing costs. The only other avenues to increasing affordability involve increasing real incomes for wage earners by re-shoring industries and encouraging foreign and domestic investment. All of these things are already being done by Donald Trump -- and most of them are being bitterly opposed by Democrats! Concerns about "affordability" are hardly bogus but Democrat posturing on the issue certainly is.

Democrats complaing about affordability is like an arsonist complaing that the fire dept is too slow to put out their fires.

The Democrats and RINOs have a long history of redistributing wealth earned by Americans, away from middle class workers, and given for free to imported poverty stricken arrivals with criminal histories. George W. Bush scolded Americans who attempted to patrol our borders for being "vigilantes" as if there was something wrong with Americans wanting to preserve the safety and orderly society beneficial to their own families. Barack Obama spoke approvingly even before his election, of wealth redistribution and today Democrats are united in their determination to keep known criminal illegal aliens on our soil and unaccountable for everything from murder to child rape and human smuggling. Surely the 20 million illegals Biden and the Democrats invited to live on our soil (at our expense) have shown little gratitude toward Americans who must get by with less because we are forced to provide illegals with "a better life" so Democrats can get their illegal votes. The term "sell out" fits today's "Democratic Party" perfectly. The wealth amassed by the Clintons, Obamas and Nancy Pelosi show the system is easily worked, while middle America is having to compete at the grocery store against imported public charges "entitled" to subsidized food, shelter and medical benefits Democrats. That's what happens when those in power ridicule "America First" and President Trump. Try to remember the last time any Democrat stood up for American families with the passion they ALL seem to have for their imported criminal class.

Affordability is a two symptom issue. Wages have been driven low for 40 years. Inflation has outpaced wages. And many products have unnecessarily been driven up in price due to government policy. The import of millions of very low paid immigrants drove low end wages down to half of what they were in 1980. Also, the import of millions of H-1Bs and other technology immigrant programs drove skilled workers wages down by one half. The green energy hallucination drove up energy prices. The EPA and other government regulators drove up car and appliance prices. And the final icing on the cake was Biden's purposely misnamed Inflation Reduction Act which drove inflation up for 4 years into the nearly double digit range. How can it be fixed. Deflation? I've always heard deflation is very bad economic policy so I'll assume it is and not suggest that method. But that leaves only a push to make wages go up faster than inflation. And keep that push going for several decades to get back to the 1980 benchmark. So who has made inflation low. Trump 1 and now Trump 2. Low enough that perhaps wages have a chance of outpacing it. And who has begun limiting immigrants who work for very low wages and drive overall wages down? Trump again. And who has begun pushing for reduced regulations like removing the EV mandate. Trump again. It is only Trump that has taken any steps to do any of this. Only Trump. Republicans have both houses and yet they just sit still and do nothing.

First, there is Congress. They don’t say no to graft or spending. A seething den of vipers would have a hard time competing with those vomit covered wretches. Second, there are the Presidents. They have the power of the Veto but rarely exercise it. It’s better to rule by executive order and make deals with the vipers than to stand on principle. Third, is the 16th Amendment. It made government theft legal. Fourth is the 17th Amendment that reduced states to vassal status. And finally, there is the endless expansion of voting rights towards a corrupt democracy. The Founders hated democracy, thus a representative republic in which the States were guaranteed a republican form of government. That died long ago.

This is like the arsonists who start a forest fire blaming the firefighters for not putting out fast enough. They say they are the ones who no best about putting it out. Their plan it to put it out by putting more gasoline on the fire.