by Chris Black
Yesterday, NPR ran a chunk about how “inflation isn’t as dangerous because it appears,” additional demonstrating that their audience principally consists of overpaid yuppies who’ve extra money than they know what to do with and are due to this fact unbothered by inflation.
Their rationale?
Used automobile costs fell 3% from final yr! Avocados received cheaper too.
Sure, actually.
And let’s simply ignore the cumulative enhance since 2019 and the onset of the COVID rip-off, which is the actually pertinent measure of the financial hardship regular individuals are experiencing.
Based on a report from April 2022 (www.washingtonexaminer.com/information/used-car-prices-soar-over-30-since-2021-report), used automobile costs elevated 30% from 2021. And that’s on prime of the cumulative enhance from 2020-2021 and 2019-2020.
Bear in mind tales like this whenever you work together with of us who get their info from sources like NPR.
They actually dwell in an alternate actuality.
It’s like strolling round with blinders on.
It’s not simply restricted to NPR although. These rats do that for a residing.
These are the folks telling younger, struggling White folks to only “recover from it” after the umpteenth main financial disaster of our lifetimes; growing old yuppie shitlibs and their small-hatted bosses.