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Its coronavirus not President Biden that created the circumstances that have caused this inflation. It will get better towards the end of the year.
I suggest an analogy to view this event. The USA is fighting a war that is slowly ending as we vaccinate more individuals. Following World War II, Korea and the Vietnam War this country experienced bouts of inflation as the country made the transition back to a peace time economy. It was necessary to spend large sums of money on vaccine research and development, unemployment benefits, PPP for business, and economic stimulus payments. That was bound to cause some inflation. Those payments though are ending and the country is slowly returning to a normal shape. Inflation will be a problem for perhaps six more months. Than these problems will begin to resolve and our economy will return to normal and low to moderate inflation.
It would have happened no matter who was President.
People still went to supermarket, got takeout food. How can Covid-19 cause hot dog prices to go up? Fast food was still going strong. Only consumer markets that took a hit are movie theatres, sit down establishments, fitness gyms/recreation like swimming pools and the like.
Stimulus is not going to bump up the demand for hot dogs. The select few STEM grads working on the cure, are not going to buy a gazillion hot dogs because they bosses got money from govt. Most employee UI did not make them overnight millionaires either. Even if they did, they wont spend on hot dogs.
Meat shortages are real.
The pandemic quarantine forced a lot of livestock growers to thin their herds last year, so for a while, the meat prices were very low because there was so much to be sold.
But that livestock demands a lot of time to replace. A cow is pregnant for 287 days, and it's at least 7-9 months more for the steer calf to be old and large enough for slaughter, so don't plan to eat much cheap beef for a while.
But hogs don't take that long, nor chickens, so there's plenty of substitute animal protein that is ready available. The prices will be higher for all because there weren't lots of feed crops that were grown last year either.
The drought and heat throughout the entire west will also create big shortages of everything this year, but Americans still have enough time to plant a garden and harvest it, so home-grown will still be plenty cheap, and more available too.
We all have had a very hard time of it in the last year and a half, and there's nothing any of us can do to change Mother Nature quickly. If someone cannot feed themselves, it's because they have become either too soft or too far removed from nature and our ancient knowledge of how to make things grow.
If you don't know how, it's time to get out and learn it. Sitting in the Laz-E-Boy and whining about Joe Biden won't ever fill your belly.
Society as a whole did not really curb their diets because of the pandemic. Why would the livestock industry need to thin their herds? The meat producers usually sells so much to the wholesalers; even by the time retailers get it, they end throwing much of it away as waste because consumers dont buy it all.
Maybe you need to ask your wife to teach you to be a better shopper. Where I live, I can pick up a pack of hot dogs for around .99 cents. If you can't afford that, you should ask Uncle Joe to give you a SNAP card.
But your 4th of July picnic cost 13 cents less per head than last year!
And I sent over $1.00 more, per gallon of gas from last year, to get to that picnic to save that whopping .13 cents.
I loved it when Biden’s White House Press Secretary, the American version of “Baghdad Bob” was trying to mislead people by telling them that that Hot Dog was cheaper. Thanks to Biden’s great policies. Yes, it was true, but very misleading since everything else costs far more than it did last year. Please do America a favor, do t “circle back” that one since you’ll only dig a deeper hole with another half truth.
As I told all my kids, a half truth is still a lie since that half truth is meant to deceive you, just as much as a bold face lie.
I’ve hardly noticed any changes with the exception of gas, and I don’t care about gas prices.
And you haven’t noticed any changes...give me a break!
“wholesale beef prices have shot up more than 40 percent, with certain steak cuts skyrocketing more than 70 percent, according to the Department of Agriculture.”
And you haven’t noticed any changes...give me a break!
“wholesale beef prices have shot up more than 40 percent, with certain steak cuts skyrocketing more than 70 percent, according to the Department of Agriculture.”
You can thank those of us who don't eat beef and pork. More available for you.
You can thank those of us who don't eat beef and pork. More available for you.
The only good thing about all of this for health reasons I’ve got to cut down on eating red meats
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