{"id":55522,"date":"2024-07-01T12:34:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T16:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55522"},"modified":"2024-07-01T12:34:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T16:34:30","slug":"things-to-think-about-before-you-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55522","title":{"rendered":"Things To Think About Before You Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/21-facts-joe-biden-doesnt-want-you-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Zero Hedge<\/a> posted an article about some things that the Biden administration will not be talking about during the presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>These are the facts:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>1.\u00a0It takes the typical U.S. household\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/economy\/wealthy-americans-anxious-about-making-ends-meet\">$1,069 more a month<\/a>\u00a0just to purchase the same goods and services that it did three years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>2.\u00a0Two-thirds of the respondents to one recent survey indicated that they had to take action to deal with rising financial stress within the past year.\u00a0 Those actions included\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/markets\/even-high-earners-worry-about-making-ends-meet-us-poll-finds\/ar-BB1oVQgE\">\u201ccutting back on spending, skipping monthly bills, or taking an additional job\u201d<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>3.\u00a0Home insurance rates have risen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6knDLMd930g\">by 38 percent<\/a>\u00a0since 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>4.\u00a0Home rental prices are up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1806374857128472872\">30 percent<\/a>\u00a0since Joe Biden entered the White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>5.\u00a0A whopping\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/states\/center-square\/report-61-renters-cant-afford-median-apartment-rate-us\">61 percent<\/a>\u00a0of U.S. renters cannot afford the rent on a median-priced apartment in the United States right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>6.\u00a0Gasoline prices are up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1806374857128472872\">46 percent<\/a>\u00a0since Joe Biden entered the White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>7.\u00a0The average rate on a 30 year fixed mortgage is up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1806374857128472872\">148 percent<\/a>\u00a0since Joe Biden entered the White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>8.\u00a0According\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2024\/03\/01\/mortgage-payment-on-a-typical-home-nearly-doubled-in-last-4-years-report-finds\/\">to Zillow<\/a>, the monthly mortgage payment on a typical home in this country has almost doubled during the past four years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>9.\u00a0One recent poll discovered that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/retirement-nightmare-hordes-of-retired-americans-may-need-to-go-back-to-work-just-to-survive\/\">44 percent<\/a>\u00a0of retired Americans are considering going back to work because the cost of living has become so oppressive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>10.\u00a0New home sales fell\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/26\/economy\/us-new-home-sales-may\/index.html\">11.3 percent<\/a>\u00a0last month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>11.\u00a0Pending home sales are dropping\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfmB927_0.jpg?itok=moiKh_f1\">at the fastest rate ever recorded<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>12.\u00a0According\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/budget.house.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/ogr_icymi.pdf\">to the House Budget Committee<\/a>, there have been more than 8 million migrant encounters nationwide while Joe Biden has been in the White House.\u00a0 We truly are in the midst of an immigration crisis that is far greater than anything that we have ever witnessed before.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>13.\u00a0Thanks to our unprecedented immigration crisis, the homeless population in the city of Chicago\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/our-national-migration-crisis-is-supercharging-the-growth-of-homelessness-all-over-the-united-states\/\">actually tripled<\/a>\u00a0in just one year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>14.\u00a0Murder rates are up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IYx7k0TNyXo\">by double digit percentages<\/a>\u00a0in many major U.S. cities this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>15.\u00a0Continuing jobless claims just shot up to the highest level\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/bfm149.jpg?itok=FhPDtsWA\">in almost three years<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>16.\u00a0The number of job openings in the United States has dropped to the lowest level\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/06\/04\/job-openings-report-april-2024-job-openings-fell-again.html\">in more than 3 years<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>17.\u00a0Rite Aid just announced that it will be closing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2024\/06\/27\/rite-aid-pharmacy-closing-ohio-michigan\/74231785007\/\">27 more stores<\/a>.\u00a0 That is on top of more than 500 stores that it has already decided to shut down.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>18.\u00a0Walgreens plans to close\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/walgreens-stores-closing-locations\/\">approximately one-fourth<\/a>\u00a0of its 8,600 U.S. stores.\u00a0 If the economy really was \u201cbooming\u201d, why would they be doing this?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>19.\u00a0Today,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/20-california-lives-poverty-whats-going\">20 percent<\/a>\u00a0of the entire population of the state of California is living in poverty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>20.\u00a0According to one recent survey,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/personalfinance\/majority-of-middle-class-americans-say-they-struggle-financially\/ar-BB1nB2lI\">46 percent of Americans<\/a>\u00a0don\u2019t even have 500 dollars saved up.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>21.\u00a0So far, the U.S. has spent a total of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crfb.org\/blogs\/congressionally-approved-ukraine-aid-totals-175-billion\">approximately 175 billion dollars<\/a>\u00a0on the war in Ukraine, and the Russians are still winning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, President Trump will mention some of this during his campaigning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, Zero Hedge posted an article about some things that the Biden administration will not be talking about during the presidential campaign. These are the facts: 1.\u00a0It takes the typical U.S. household\u00a0$1,069 more a month\u00a0just to purchase the same &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=55522\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13417,2058,6767,8315,5274,1399,4141,10589,14017,7146,8976,11782],"class_list":["post-55522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden-administration","tag-budget","tag-cost-of-living","tag-gasoline-prices","tag-homelessness","tag-immigration","tag-jobless-claims","tag-president-trump","tag-the-biden-administration","tag-ukraine","tag-zero-hedge","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55523,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55522\/revisions\/55523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}