I think they're getting downvoted for mentioning a politician on Hacker News. From the HN Guidelines [0]:

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

and

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies, generic tangents, and internet tropes.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

They're being downvoted because it has almost nothing to do with the linked article, and is essentially a political rant.

None of that is new though. Housing, healthcare, education, childcare have been increasingly unaffordable for at least a generation now. The focus on specifically food prices and gas prices makes it seem like a recent phenomenon but outside of this 10% (are you not in that?) it has been brutal for a long time.

People are nervous. It isn't clear to me that there is much in the short-term that can be done about it. The invasion of Ukraine and bad weather (likely a result of climate change), as well as various consequences of the pandemic, are making life hard.

> Just talk to anyone outside of the valley

You mean, in the whole world, right? The situation isn't great in Canada or Europe too.

In (moderate) fairness to Biden himself, though, we'd almost definitely be in this same position regardless of who had won the election in 2020. We're dealing with the unwinding fallout of the Covid lockdowns - we knew this would happen even when they started, we just have to ride it out at this point.