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Biden Says he Found Out From Family Friend That Meat Costs Are Soaring
New York Post ^ | January 3, 2022 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 01/03/2022 5:21:10 PM PST by nickcarraway

Economic reality took a bite out of President Biden over the holidays when a family friend griped in his Delaware home that ground chuck can now cost $5 per pound.

But the president said Monday his beef was with corporate “middlemen” rather than decades-high inflation that has caused the price of food and consumer goods to spike.

“I was sitting in my kitchen yesterday and here’s a sunroom off the kitchen and my wife was there with her sister and a good friend named Mary Ann,” Biden recounted during an event focused on ways to reduce meat prices. “And she was saying, ‘Do you realize it’s over $5 for a pound of hamburger meat? $5?'”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: beef; biden; food; inflation; meat; middlemen
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1 posted on 01/03/2022 5:21:10 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Betcha his friends don’t go to Walmart and don’t buy the big package! I don’t pay that much per pound.


2 posted on 01/03/2022 5:22:02 PM PST by Tax-chick (Nature, art, silence, simplicity, peace. And fungi.)
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To: nickcarraway

When Geo Bush didn’t know what a supermarket scanner was nor how it worked, he was excoriated for being out of touch. This guy? Crickets. Never mind that chicken has solidly doubled and beef is up a solid 20-25% where I am.


3 posted on 01/03/2022 5:24:55 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: nickcarraway

Wait till he prices a used car. They’re up over 40%


4 posted on 01/03/2022 5:27:10 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: nickcarraway

Biden has never shopped in decades what difference does it make to him or the Democrats.


5 posted on 01/03/2022 5:28:02 PM PST by cnsmom
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To: cableguymn

Be one of the lucky ones and sell your used car for more than you paid for it...


6 posted on 01/03/2022 5:28:38 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway

Family pack of chicken wings was $20.00


7 posted on 01/03/2022 5:28:47 PM PST by mware (RETIRED)
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To: nickcarraway

“Biden beats big meat”

Coming soon to a liberal Twitter feed, unironically.


8 posted on 01/03/2022 5:30:03 PM PST by cdcdawg (Let's go Brandon!)
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“Biden beats big meat”

That’s just cause he wants to do AOC


9 posted on 01/03/2022 5:31:54 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I’m a used car dealer.

I catch hell all day long from people expecting pre-covid prices.

A bucket for a bend (1000 dollar bomber) is 1500-2k now.

My margins are thinner as the cars cost me more too.


10 posted on 01/03/2022 5:32:33 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: nickcarraway

A cow farted somewhere and an environmental zealot got concerned about climate change.

A progressive college kid decided to go into the cattle business.... Oh wait....he has other priorities.

Biden and his urban constituents have zero solutions, only more roadblocks, hurdles & stupidity for producers.


11 posted on 01/03/2022 5:33:53 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: nickcarraway

A friend named “Mary Ann?” He must be watching too many Gilligan’s Island reruns.


12 posted on 01/03/2022 5:33:56 PM PST by teacherwoes (I am Philip Nolan )
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

“That’s just cause he wants to do AOC”

According to her, we all do. All the time. She has quite the fantasy life.


13 posted on 01/03/2022 5:34:47 PM PST by cdcdawg (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: nickcarraway

Good to know he’s in touch with the little people

He feels their pain


14 posted on 01/03/2022 5:35:23 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“Be one of the lucky ones and sell your used car for more than you paid for it...”

We did that. Paid off the note and made $2,000 on a Honda HRV we bought used in the first place.

L


15 posted on 01/03/2022 5:35:27 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: cableguymn

Yeah people dont get that

Theres several stages of costs before the retail price tag


16 posted on 01/03/2022 5:36:39 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cdcdawg

And enough diseases to take out the entire Red Army


17 posted on 01/03/2022 5:36:57 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: cableguymn

That’s why I’m still driving my 2003 Buick Century...


18 posted on 01/03/2022 5:37:17 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: nickcarraway

F&$##ng Brandon.


19 posted on 01/03/2022 5:38:40 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: Tax-chick

I just checked. The local meat market has ground chuck for $3.69. I usually buy 5 1 pound packs at a time. That lasts me 2-3 months

Sirloin $4.99 this week. Still too much for sirloin, but it’s far better beef than the grocery store


20 posted on 01/03/2022 5:38:45 PM PST by digger48
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