Weird, you mean the 40-60% rise in food prices we've seen in the last 4 years wasn't based on reality or supply chain issues, but rather on pure corporate greed just like everyone already knew? Thank God the government is here to do absolutely Fuck All about it except confirm what we knew already!
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20$ to fill up my tiny, old, 96 Toyota
50$ to buy essentials (bread, cheap meat, fruit/veg)
Post COVID
30+$ to fill up my car
80+$ to buy essentials
The one and only constant I trust anymore is Arizona Iced Tea
Talk about having your cake and eating it too... 🎂🛒💸
Guess?
sob
...guess
He is either hopelessly naive or...
You want investigations and enforcement actions? Then we need to oust the agency-destroying buffoons who are currently trying to defund all oversight.
Because that is the literal opposite of neoliberalism.
Get freedom instead
Let's not diminish the fact there were supply problems because farm and food workers were being disproportionately killed by covid.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-12/measuring-shrinkflation-and-its-impact-on-inflation.htm
rants about FDR / is ignorant of the great depression (and also ignorant of the Jim Crow south)
the extent to which you have flunked history is a wonder to behold.
jesus christ
How efficient of you.
Reported for dumbassery.
https://financialregnews.com/bill-introduced-in-congress-seeks-to-protect-consumers-from-price-gouging/
Bill tracker says it's been "introduced" but 🤷 about actually getting it on the floor
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3803
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The best thing the Biden Administration will have done (if they follow through) is stop the Kroger-Albertson's supermarket merger. That will prevent another +15% hike.
allow me to be the ✨bad guy✨:
BIDEN IS 1,000% RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS. YET ANOTHER REASON TO CAST HIM OUT OF ANY BALLOT, BC, THIS STARTED WHEN TRUMP WAS PREZ AND BIDEN JUST LOOKED THE OTHER WAY!?!
xoxox, CoverGirl™
And that all 4 major packers fucked up badly when it came to preventing outbreaks in mostly immigrant communities in the US?
one of the workers just won a covid workers comp against them.
https://thefern.org/ag_insider/in-texas-a-rare-workers-comp-win-against-meatpacker-jbs/
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/us-inflation-caused-by-corporate-profits
The point’s that the independent agencies like the FTC and the NLRB have been doing things way beyond the ‘bare minimum’.
I agree that (a) this is 100% corp green and (b) the govt could do more, but thought the info below might be of interest to some folks.
Sarcasm. Of course I know that's what they're doing.
I love our broken system