Donald Trump started his inauguration off by saying we were entering the Golden Age. Since that time he has boasted repeatedly about how “the cost of everything have come down and Americans are enjoying a much higher quality of life than ever before” on his watch. But is that true?
According to restaurants and bars, that is definitely not true.
Many food and beverage establishments are struggling. Wholesale food prices are up 17%, beef is up 21%, produce is up 10% or more, and they aren’t hiring anymore. They are cutting hours and reducing food portion sizes in order to survive.
Case in point. Just recently, my wife and I went to a breakfast joint in our neighborhood. I was shocked that the food barely even covered my plate. They had cut the egg and hash brown size by HALF. I paid $15 for a meal that didn’t even fill me. We said we would never go there again. Since then, I found out that many of my neighbors have decided the same. Sad.
A growing number of businesses are hurting just as bad as they did during the pandemic or worse. Many are closing for good. Consumers are eating at home way more often now. And it’s all because of continuing inflation that Donald Trump has failed to make a priority of his admin.
I can’t help but wonder if the situation would be different if Donald Trump actually focused on bringing prices down. Instead, he is focused on punishing universities, slapping massive tariffs on all kinds of businesses, more tax breaks for the ultra rich and investor class, suing and silencing his critics, AI, crypto, expanding his Trump empire, building data centers, and now making marijuana legal and readily available to everyone in every state (as if already dumbed down Americans need one more thing to numb and sedate them).
Given Trump’s priorities, you could never convince me that this is a man for we the working class people. This is a man who is for the elite class. He is totally out of touch with the majority of American people and our needs, and everyone will feel the pain of his apathy and ignorance on an increasing basis —until people stand up and stay “enough!”
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