I track my spending on a spreadsheet. And I definitely saw a significant rise in groceries, etc. over the last few months.
The first higher bill/receipt I was like ‘hmmm, maybe I got some out of season produce and maybe something else wasn’t on bogo’
But the the next time, it was the same and it hasn’t gone back. I told my family and they are just like ‘well what are you buying? You must be buying extra stuff for your total to be so high’ and like NO.
I am buying the same fucking things I always buy. I might get green apples vs red depending on what looks best, but everything is the same. Same toilet paper, same pasta, same granola bars, same seltzer water. And I get the same amounts to last for about a week.
The prices have just gone up! And my pay hasn’t changed. (Although the assholes that run the company have cut payroll, so even though I make the same amount dollar wise, hour wise I make less. It’s a fucking pay cut without cutting the pay rate.
But yeah. I’m not sure what the income threshold is to where you don’t notice the inflation/gouging, but it’s fucking there.
What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than. all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which lie is the constant victim. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.
Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the every day practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.
Ancient Egyptian limestone plaque with the head of a crocodile, perhaps representing the deity Sobek. Artist unknown; 664-525 BCE (26th [Saite] Dynasty, Late Period). Now in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Photo credit: Mary Harrsch/Wikimedia Commons.
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