Even more than grocery and gasoline prices, fast food prices have exploded across America, and the left-wingers at Axios are worried that might be hurting their precious President Joe Biden.
“In 2020, Biden beat Trump 55%-44% in households earning less than $50,000. In households between $50,000-$99,000, Biden had even bigger margins, at 57%-42%.”
But that’s all changed…
An accompanying chart shows that non-management wages have increased by 36 percent since 2017, but fast food prices have jumped by 41 percent.
That’s all well and good and all kinds of erudite and slide-rulish, but let’s look at the actual price increases since Biden took office…
- Medium French Fries: $1.79 – $4.19
- McChicken: $1.29 – $3.89
- Big Mac: $3.99 – $7.49
- Ten McNuggets: $4.49 – $7.58
- Cheeseburger: $1.00 – $3.15
Remember in Pulp Fiction when John Travolta’s character couldn’t believe there was such a thing as a $5.00 milkshake? Well, a large milkshake at Chick-fil-A now costs $5.19. When former President Donald Trump was president, it cost $3.15.
Gas prices have the same effect. My pretty wife and I are on the road now visiting family. We’re seeing $5.00 gas in some places. It was $2.39 under Trump. It’s unsettling. Every instinct tells you something isn’t right.
These brutal prices are entirely Joe Biden’s fault. He has spent hundreds of billions of unnecessary federal dollars, which cheapened the dollar. Biden flooded the country with millions and millions of illegal aliens, which increased the demand for housing, energy, and food, which always increases costs. Biden destroyed our energy independence with his green nonsense, which increased the cost of energy, which increases the cost of everything because energy is needed to produce, transport, and store everything.
Biden can try to blame the pandemic, but that was three years ago, and things are getting worse, not better. When the fake media tell you inflation is down, all that means is that inflation isn’t going up as much. What the media won’t tell you is that inflation is cumulative. If inflation was nine percent in 2023 and five percent in 2024, that means prices have gone up 14 percent. But we’re still told inflation is going down.
The poor, most especially the working poor, put in a lot of hours and count on the $5.00 McDonald’s meal every now and then to take a break from cooking and doing dishes. Biden’s destructive policies have likely destroyed affordable fast food forever.
Well, they sure got what they voted for. We’ll know in about six months if they want even more.
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