Americans are struggling financially, grappling with debt and the rising cost of living, and are blaming the Trump administration and corporate interests for worsening economic outlooks for working families, according to a new poll.
Six out of 10 Americans place blame on the Trump administration for driving up their cost of living, according to a poll conducted by Morning Consult for the Century Foundation, which asked 2,007 Americans how they are managing the high cost of living in the US economy, who they think is to blame and what are the solutions.
Sixty three per cent said Trump had had a negative impact on grocery prices, and 61% said he had had a negative impact on the cost of living. Nearly half, 49%, said the Trump administration had had a negative impact on their finances. Nearly eight out of 10 Americans, including 70% of Republicans, fear that Trump’s tariffs will increase the price of everyday goods.
Anyone said “Maybe he ain’t the brightest” yet? Just asking for a friend. B/c they don’t want to get deported to a real crap hole. I’m curious about these new ICE recruits. I heard that if you waterboard them, they begin telling they mama’s life story.
Class conflict never ending.
Welp, you lot either voted for it or didn’t bother to vote at all, so you’ll excuse me whilst I play the world’s tiniest violin.
There will be two years of hardship and the rest of the world will come up with a new trade infrastructure which will finally bring back some prosperity and Trump will say…“See? I told you I could do it.”.
Nearly eight out of 10 Americans, including 70% of Republicans, fear that Trump’s tariffs will increase the price of everyday goods.
I fear how the the prices are going to go. It’s why I’ve been trying to garden this year and will continue next year to try to cut down on food costs. Also doing everything I can.
But what I find hi-larious about the 70% of republicans is right now at my job I’m mostly surrounded by republicans and I’m doing way better than most of them. But part of that is I drive a shitbox car, eat cheap as possible, live in a house where my payments are cheap as fuck (that one I got lucky on timing on, but when asked if I’m going to move somewhere bigger I laugh my ass off.) I’ve lived within my means especially with it took me nearly 20 years to break $15 an hour, and that was a pandemic doing it, and when I broke out I’ve been working at keeping myself okay, not just going out and putting down money on a truck that payments cost more than my mortgage.
There’s going to be a lot of people hurting on all sides, but I’ll at least help the people that tried to stop it. Those temporarily embarrassed millionaires that voted for this shit won’t get a handout from me for how much they whined about handouts.
Nearly eight out of 10 Americans, including 70% of Republicans, fear that Trump’s tariffs will increase the price of everyday goods.
The money that the federal government rises through import tariffs (import taxes) should be redistributed to the people sothat the people can buy american-made products with it.
republicans not afraid enough to vote against him though.
lol. That will never happen. Unless the people are billionaires.
When he said “drain the swamp” he didn’t specify that to him, the swamp is the American people.
The best part is Trump has been manipulating the market since this tariff debacle started.
I blame consumerism.
here, here! We simply need to stop eating. that’ll show em!
I guess you don’t know what consumerism means, or you’re not willing to admit its drawbacks because you’re a part of it.
Are you implying you don’t take part in consumerism?
No, but I contribute to it at a level that we all can participate in so I’m not part of the problem.
If you’re implying that I have to go live off in the woods or something to criticize consumerism, then you’re just looking for excuses to not consume less. You’ve been conditioned to believe it’s “all or nothing,” so any mitigation of your contribution doesn’t matter.
So you take part in consumerism but you aren’t part of the problem. It’s the others who take part in consumerism that are the problem. Because you consume at an acceptable level and others at unacceptable levels. I’m not sure how you are evaluating how much I or others are consuming, nor do I understand how you decided what is excessive in your little purity test but since you seem so excited to win a debate nobody is having, I’m certain you’ll follow this up with something more than “muusemuuse wouldn’t understand.”
I’m not going to assume that you are exceptional when you haven’t given me any reason to. Thus far, everything you’ve said is typical of people defending consumerism without any regard to magnitude.
Trying to argue that ‘there’s no ethical consumption’ (which I assume you believe) is a tactic you people use to avoid admitting how you’re part of the problem or that you can take steps to solve it. If I were to go live out in the woods, then you can point at me and say “See!? Either we spend as much money and consume as much as we can or live in the woods like a crazy person! There’s no in between!”
It’s not a purity test. You’re looking for any reason to make it seem like the person ordering doordash everyday is contributing to the problem at the same level as the person cooking their own meals every day. That’s not true and you’re going to get upset at me for pointing this out because it causes your cognitive dissonance to flare up.
Guess about 40% of the country is just completely off the rails hopelessly stupid from these polls.
That percent gets their information from propaganda networks and those networks are subsidized by russia. Without that malignant influence they’d collapse very rapidly. Yet liberal democracies cant seem to find the political will to shut those networks down. It’s weird how US oligarchs and Russia oligarchs have a lot of overlapping goals. I still dont understand why they hate lgbtq+2sp
Hatred is a strong emotion, and it keeps the rabble fixated and obsessed on non issues with easy “wins.” It’s not really that they even care about queer people, it’s that they know stupid people enjoy having a group they have permission to abuse.
I don’t know why they hate anyone with a wallet, why discriminate, money is money, you’d think they’d be kind to people being so fortunate and having anything they want but that’s not the case, so the clearly have deep mental issues. Why does it seem like the richer people get the more and more they want? It’s a sickness, these people are sick in the head. I would go so far as to say they are barely human anymore. They should be exiled for the good of humanity.
It’s so baffling to see that number.
You’d think it was majority percentage where I live.
Conservativism is a cancer that needs to be excised before it kills the host. First the US, then humanity.
Anytime there is a poll, results show about 25-35% are always either completely fucking brain dead or evil, depending on the poll.
The disparity in wealth wasn’t any better under Biden.
The disparity in wealth wasn’t any better under Biden.
It’s worse now. A part of that is due to natural developments (worsening job markets due to AI), but a large part is because trump fails to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor, thus halting the circulation of money and stifling the economy.
money is like blood in a human, it needs to flow in circles. it cannot only go from bottom to top. there needs to be redistribution from the top to the bottom for the blood to continue to flow. only then can the organism survive.
the projections for where they are going were better under biden. not great, but far worse under trump.
Really? Can you share sources of these projections?
Where is your source?
You’re the one who stated your opinion so confidently to begin with. You first.
No but inflation was lower and we weren’t paying idiotic tariffs
…and the US is experiencing increasing unemployment.
I wasn’t paying pointless tariffs under Biden, so my buying power is lower under Trump.
Cost increases (like those caused by Trump’s trade war) hurt working class people like me more than rich people because it’s a larger portion of our income that we’re losing when there are no alternatives for necessary foreign products.
I was financially better off under Biden and, if you’re American, you probably were too.
He’s not the president, get over it.
He got in to reduce grocery prices, and they are UP 2.7% from a year ago, when Biden was president. Good job, psychopath.
All of this mess is on HitlerPig, I don’t want to hear anything about Biden, Obama, Hillary, etc.
He’s to blame for a lot of things.
Well no shit a kindergarten racist gets in and shit goes wrong what did you expect.
It’s funny, because while he has absolutely contributed to it since January and all throughout his first term, the systemic conditions that yielded our current state have been decades in the making. This is, per usual, the American populace coming to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons.
Note that this is absolutely not orangeboi apologia - I’m simply pointing out that this entire sequence got kicked into high gear by Reagan, and pretty much our entire political establishment did nothing to stop it and everything to accelerate it since that point.
Yes, Reagen is considerably more responsible for the current economic landscape than orange man. Consumer culture is an even bigger contributor to the disparity in wealth than any politician.
But tribalism is strong on both sides, while both sides want to believe they’re above it.
It really puts into perspective how ‘intelligent’ the average person is these days.
We know that all the lead we imbibed before they removed it from most fuels didn’t help.
What it puts into perspective is how well the corporate media proganganda machine works… and it’s all of them… bbc npr, fox, cnn, msnbc…. All of them.
Reagan did such an incredible amount of damage, his presidency was definitely the catalyst for the modern era of suffering and techno feudalism. And with the abolition of the fairness doctrine, he paved the way for many Americans to be brainwashed into accelerating it.
What’s hilarious to me is how my dad and I used to talk about how reagan was a supervillain that kicked off all the shit we are dealing with today. This was maybe 10 years ago.
Now he no longer speaks to me since I refuse to “take the red pill”.
So, apparently enough propaganda works.
The average person has difficulty admitting when they are incorrect.
Damn that is unfortunate, you say 10 years…so was it more of Trump propaganda and less of Fox News? Any idea what got him to believing Repugs were helping him in some way?
I honestly don’t know. This is a man who wrote in Ralph Nader for every presidential election of my life, until he voted for Obama. Ever since, he’s hard maga and all I get from him anymore is him calling me too woke, saying that I need to take the red pill, that this isn’t politics, it’s civil war. He’s gone completely and totally insane.
Was always a shitty father anyway, not much lost.
I mean with regards to this poll, yes and no. Look at the question framing. For some questions this is true but a lot don’t really leave space for that mistake:
Did trump have a negative affect on grocery prices?
Did trump have a negative affect on your finances prices?
Will Trump’s tarrifs increase the price of every day goods?
These don’t ask if Trump or his administration is responsible for high grocery prices or CoL or the financial climate, just if he has helped or worsened it. Other questions are pretty clear in their separation from this specific administration:
Do you believe Corporations or billionaires have had an active role in making life more difficult for average people over the past 25 years?
Do you believe congressional Republicans or congressional Democrats have made life more difficult?
A lot of the other questions just have to do with how anxious people feel about finances or the concerns they have and doesn’t really ask about any politicians at all.
Of course you are absolutely right that, in general, people have an astonishingly and consistently short memory resulting in attributing current problems to current politicians but I dunno if this poll is really indicative of that.
Yes.
The 1950s created the middle class and boomed with prosperity for working class because of government subsidies to the working class. Never before had this occurred in America. Always, prior, it was the industry/corporate class who were supported, and, drum roll, tariffs.
Then, Reagan flipped the script in the 80s, saying greater efficiency in that prosperity could only happen if we subsidized the corporate/industry class again. And this trickle down economics was born. And never rolled back by DEMs.
This legacy of corporate subsidy began to squeeze hard -2015, theb exponentially in 2020 and beyond.
This was not felt much in the 90s. It’s important to realize the lack of immediacy to any of this on the timeline. Including the Trump fallout. He’ll likely be dead of his medical issues and old age before his damage really hits.
To be fair, the Biden admin did start to roll back a bit of Reagan but 4yrs is never enough time.
All the good with the FCC, for example, including making internet a necessary utility, like electricity, was wiped, with Trump. Consumer protections roll up, rolled back, with Trump. Attempts to undo trumps education secretary damage in the first term, fouled by Congress, and rolled back entirely by trump. Oh. And tariffs are back. So taxes on everyone at the grocery store and beyond. We can’t even get free shipping on cheap items any more, he removed that too.
What’s great is full fruition of his damage will still move slowly such that it will only really be felt in full after 4-6yrs.
The fact that billionaires even exist now shows how absolutely wrong Reagan was with trickle down.
A middle class cannot exist organically in capitalism. Capitalism needs to be tempered by regulation and subsidies to working class or we end up here.
The tariffs have not even shown their effects yet. Wait till next year and you will see people burning down the White House.
Hahahahaha… somehow the people I work with will be blaming Obama still.
Wait till next year and you will see people burning down the White House.
Ooh, are we throwing an apology party for the Canadians?
Apology and invite accepted. ;)
