For sheetz and giggles

Before Biden (2020):
My groceries rarely topped $200
A new dock was $18K
My car cost $23K (newest model)
My house cost 20% more than I paid for it
My credit card charged 11.99% APR
I could easily sell my house and buy another one, if needed
Fast food was around $6-7 for a combo meal
A gallon of gas was $2.24

Since Biden (today):
My groceries are rarely under $300
A new dock is $32K
My car costs $35K (newest model)
My house costs 120% more than I paid for it
My credit card interest rate is 18.99%
I couldn't afford to buy my house at today's rates and market value
**Housing today is more unaffordable than at any other point since those records started (4+ decades)
Fast food is rarely under $10
A gallon of gas is $3.39

You do understand fully 100% of the inflation we have suffered IS STILL HERE. You do realize for things to go back to the affordability before 2020, either prices (CPI/inflation) needs to DROP about 23%, OR wages have to rise 23%, or a combination of the two. That hasn't, and won't happen.

So if you ask Americans today if they're betoff than when Biden took office, good luck with those results. Americans have seen no RELIEF from the inflation we had. We've only stopped the bleeding.

Now, I'm not going to make this political, because our inflation wasn't Biden's fault, or Trump's fault. But it is what it is, and it's NOT going away. Our present monthly inflation sits in the middle (10th) among all G20 nations. If you look at the countries doing better than the US, most have had recessions, or nearly stagnant growth. The GDP trends are all down though the past two years, over most developed countries with GDP. Many more face a possible recession in the next year.

And I'm just leaving out our deficits and debt, since they don't matter. The reason we still have pinched wallets in the US is because the fed failed to 1) recognize the inflation happening for 11 months and 2) not raising rates higher. Regarding #2, they never had the ability to raise rates higher than 5-6%. They "can", but if they did, our national debt goes up exponentially and the solvency of our debt comes into question around 10%.

And lastly, probably the #1 most overlooked/purposefully ignored stat is this:

You're beating your political chest about the CPI data, when that data comes from the federal government, who has a VERY vested interest in lowering inflation (or data) as they have $35 trillion of skin in the debt game. Hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars that the federal government may have to spend, is determined by economic data that SAME government releases? The "parent company" of the Bureau of Labor Statistics stands to gain, or lose, hundreds of billions of dollars based on the data the BLS releases. Now just let this scenario sink in. When there is this much money on the line, and you see a glaring conflict of interest with this much money on the line, you darn well should question the source of your data. And they already exclude the largest drivers of inflation, energy and housing. You can cherry pick data from tooth brushes to legos to whatever else, but EVERYTHING requires energy, and EVERYONE requires housing, and transportation. Our unemployment rate is a farce. In America, you're ONLY "unemployed" if you have no job AND are looking for a job. If we could just get some more social programs so people could live unemployed WITHOUT having to look for a job, "unemployment" would be 0%. If you have no job, and are not looking for one, you are NOT unemployed. You just don't have a job. OR, if you're not looking for a job, and don't already have one, you're NOT unemployed. This is how you get a 3.5% unemployment rate when you have a 62% labor participation rate. That difference is comprised mostly of people not working AND not looking for a job. If you exclude those 5-6% or so on disability, and subtract the 3.9% looking for work, you see the tens of millions of people capable of working, but who are not working, BUT are also conveniently NOT unemployed.