But but but Obama’s economy is doing great, gas prices are down (due to increased supply; had absolutely nothing to do with Obama), unemployment is down (due to skewed and misleading figures consisting of holiday employment, part-time jobs being counted as full-time jobs, and hundreds of thousands of people giving up looking for work no longer being counted).
Everything else has gone up in cost; healthcare premiums up at least double, groceries up at least 33%, utilities are up, rent is up, etc...
That’s right; with so much being spent on essentials, there is little left over.
This won’t improve any time soon, either; the dynamics behind it (outsourcing of jobs and importing of cheaper labor for both blue- and white-collar jobs) aren’t letting up.
With virtually all prices rising, many steeply it is a real relief that Inflation is less than 1%. If there was inflation, too, we’d really be in trouble.
My homeowner’s insurance bill increased by 25% in 2015 vs 2014 with no claims in 35 years!