[autumnraine]

Income hasn’t risen to gas/food prices in five years.

[Rapscallion]

Consumers know that Obama's declining economy is the result of deliberate policies to impede growth. He is ignoring the truth that government spending contributes nothing to the economy because the money government spends comes out of earners pockets. It's like an Obama-dog chasing his tail - he looks like he means it, but he cannot succeed.

More likely what is going on is earners know Obama is playing a rigged game to diminish the US and they have stopped spending out of concern over what he will try to do next.

[Common Sense 101]

Income hasn’t risen to gas/food prices in five years.

Five years... is there some correlation between that fact and a ignorant jug-eared moron's ascension to the "daddy chair"? You mean there's a downside to having woefully inept and inexperienced idiots destroying the private sector? One other thing... I'm hoping someone can answer: How in the hell can consumer confidence be at a high level yesterday, and the same enemedia be reporting consumer spending be down today? Isn't this counter intuitive?

[jsanders2001]

When the price of every service, commodity, angood goes up like it has in the past 5 years people’s spending power goes negative anyway. I will say that everything has gone up faster in the last 5 years than at any other time in history during my lifetime that I can remember.