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Re:U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter,... by gorwell on Thursday October 26, 2023 @10:48AM (#38026316)
That literally always happens with every presidency.

Good luck gaslighting the working class into believing their day to day situation is something it's not. "Don't believe your lying eyes. Your grocery bills and rent and gas and car and healthcare didn't go up, and you're closer to owning a house than before! It's the bad people telling you otherwise. Trust Us. Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad."

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Re:U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter,... by asynchronous on Thursday October 26, 2023 @11:03AM (#38026523)
Great account name to go with this comment. Ministry of truth trying to tell you your dollar isn’t evaporating on a daily basis.
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Re:U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter,... by vel0city on Thursday October 26, 2023 @12:42PM (#38028175)
Rents around me are going down. Gas is under $3/gal here. I filled up my ICE about a week ago for ~$2.75. Lots of staple foods have dropped closer to pre-pandemic price levels but many do remain high but have seemed to stabilize.

I'm obviously only looking at a small part of the overall US, but if we're going to go by what we as individuals see the numbers I'm personally seeing largely match the trends I see from the BLS.

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Re:U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter,... by kouru225 on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:58PM (#38040974)
The right seems to be able to do it constantly. The right takes control and the white working class goes “oh the economy is so good” while they privatize the services that the working class rely on and then strip them of all their assets . The white working class doesn’t ever seem to mind then.
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