A pound of Oscar Mayer smoked bacon at the meat counter in a Colorado Target on Saturday, December 4, cost $11.99.
That’s up from just a year ago when the average was $5.56 per pound.
That’s not the only concern for American workers who want to bring home the bacon in the face of the highest inflation since Bill Clinton was in office.
Economists blame the higher prices for bacon—along with eggs, poultry, and other meats—on supply chain disruptions, along with the usual suspect, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Virus plandemic.
The sizzling bacon hike is blamed on the lower 2020 demand where farmers had to thin their herds to cut back on feed and maintenance costs.
Then there is another not-so-well-known pandemic, African swine fever.
Not widespread in the United States—yet—this always-fatal disease in pigs caused the global supply of bacon to fall, raising prices even more.
Animal rights activists don’t eat bacon, so they have pressured states like California, one of the country’s largest agricultural centers—to pass laws making chicken and hog farming more humane.
Those laws target so-called “factory farms” that keep animals in tiny cages prior to slaughter.
All that could drive up the farmers’ expenses, and meat suppliers will probably pass those higher costs to the consumers.
Then there’s the cost of driving around that 27-foot-long, 12-feet-high Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.
While food prices are soaring to a 5.3% inflation rate, gas prices have more than tripled in the last 18 months—and according to Fortune—they will probably go higher.
Again, one of the culprits is the pandemic.
While the economy has begun bouncing back, so has the price of a barrel of crude oil, which, back in April 2020, plummeted to less than $17.
Today, to OPEC’s delight, prices rebounded to just over $66 a barrel.
That higher cost has driven gas prices up past the $1 increase over the last year.
The average price for a gallon of gas in the U.S., according to the AAA, is about $3.36.
Millions of Californian car owners are charged almost $4.70 a gallon, unless they drive a gas-hog and need premium gas at just over $4.85.
Arkansas drivers pay just under $3.00 for a gallon of regular.
Adding to the problem are the motor vehicles that guzzle up all that gas.
New vehicle prices are up for the sixth month in a row.
According to this Road Show CNET article, the average new car in September cost over $45,000.
That’s up 12.1%, or over $4,800 from 2020.
If you can find one, the price of a used car has gone up by over 26%.
Higher prices for new cars have been caused in part by a microchip shortage, another unexpected outcome of the pandemic.
New vehicles have had to compete with everything else that runs on electronics.
Big chip manufacturers like Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Samsung haven’t been able to keep up with the resurging demand.
Last year, consumers stopped buying everything, except home electronics.
Now that sales have returned, electronics manufacturers can’t get the microchips they need.
So, with rising food and energy costs today, we aren’t close to the Carter administration debacle of the late 1970s, when inflation hit double-digits.
Even so, considering what happened to Jimmy Carter, the biggest rise in the cost of living that affects every American should sound like a firebell to the Biden regime.
The Biden administration has already created or worsened two crises—one at our southern border, and the other during the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Americans tend to forgive and forget mistakes in immigration and foreign policy.
John F. Kennedy survived the Cuban Bay of Pigs fiasco, for instance.
Nevertheless, economic discontent that affects everyone’s standard of living can ruin presidencies and drive majority political parties out of power.
In fact, Biden’s rating on the economy registers an almost 60% disapproval rating, according to liberal media NBC’s own poll.
Even majorities of Democrats, Republicans and Independents say that inflation is “a very big concern to me.”
There are, of course, economic forces beyond any president’s power to control inflation.
But “President“ Biden was elected on a platform of high taxes and government expenditures, and crippling fossil fuel production that has made the problem worse.
Worst president ever, needs to be impeached!!!
Not impeached. Put on trial TREASON
If it looks like a dictator and quacks like a dictator then it’s a dictator!
FJB and his entire Admin. The Cat House Clowns. Those POS clowns couldn’t run a circle K. let alone the country.
The scumbags have made the USA the laughing stock of the world. The Gallows is where they belong for Crimes Against Humanity & High Treason.
What NEEDS to be done to the Leftist Treasonous Swamp Freaks is what was done to those like Benito Mussolini, Muammar al-Qaddafi, and Saddam Hussein i.e.!!!!!!!!
What about the biden family plague? Another diamond in the rough ignored, yet uncovered not by the FBI, DOJ, IRS, etc.even thou business offices were shared checking accounts, we paid for his concubines, had not idea what the smartest man I ever met was up too, understand most of Hunters friends who we golfed with, are now in jail, it leaves me wondering, what he was up to, and doing? How is that for plauseability deniability? Chinese energy firm chairman gifted Hunter Biden an $80,000 diamond after he agreed to help expand the business by making ‘introductions’ for $10MILLION a year A new book, Laptop from Hell, claims that Hunter Biden helped expand Chinese influence in America for $10 million a year and an $80,000 diamond In her book, Miranda Devine claims that James Gillar, a former SAS officer, recommended Ye Jianming, the chairman of CEFC China, link up with the Bidens,He reportedly connected Ye with Hunter Biden through family friend Rob Walker. Gillar then reportedly enlisted Tony Bobulinski’s help in setting up a Chinese joint venture, later revealing it’s for Hunter Biden and CEFC China. To seal the deal, Devine claims, Ye offered Hunter $10 million a year for three years and sent him a diamond worth $80,000.Shortly after, $6 million was wired into Rob Walker’s accounts, which the Department of Treasury deemed suspicious.Hunter soon reportedly received regular payments from Walker’s business. By MELISSA KOENIG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM. PUBLISHED: 10:23 EST, 28 November 2021 | UPDATED: 18:44 EST, 28 November 2021.Time for full accountability on acceptance of money from foreign sources, adversarial to our Governmental, it’s ideals. principals. Biden crime family has been allowed to continue for too long. Time has come to hold the Biden’s for criminal it’s ideals. principals. Biden crime family has been allowed to continue for too long. Time has come to hold the Biden’s for criminal border acts against the American people. The Country can not continue on this path without the full input of Congress to hold the executive branch to the laws they created, that are in place to stop incompetent self elected dictatorship from taking our country. Overreaching criminal political obfuscation by a mindless leader. Impeachnent is not enough, the Biden’s betrayal should be held on the world stage for his crimes agaiinst America. Loyalty is your faithfulness to your nation, faithful adherence to your sovereign government and full allegiance to it’s people. Why is it the biden family can’t fit anywhere into the above definations? China owns the biden family, recent events uncovered from Africa confirm this even further, Hunters pot of gold awaits the bidens for their rainy days.
Only the Clintons are as corrupt as the Bidens. I’m sure Obama is just as corrupt, he’s just too sly to get directly caught. Plus you can’t accuse an African anymore…..you’re automatically racist if you do. Notice I said African….everybody knows that birth certificate was faked. What do you expect from Democrats? Hell, there not even Democrats anymore, they’re Communists. They could care less about this country or the Constitution. They only flout it when it benefits their reelection chances. Straight from the Saul Alinsky playbook.
Will you people please watch Biden online or on TV? It should be crystal clear that the President of the U.S.A. lacks a functioning brain. It’s bad enough that when he urinates, someone has to aim for him. As a result, anyone who can talk to him for more than three minutes can be the acting president. He no longer knows what to do, not that he was very smart to start with. The man is totally incompetent, and belongs in a mental hospital where he can’t release the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal with a phone call. For the good of the country and himself, he needs to be removed from office. As long as Biden remains the President, this country is in mortal danger.
THAT IS BECAUSE MORONS ARE IN COMMAND , CONTROL , MANIPULATION
IT WILL GET WORST AND THEY THE VILLIAGE IDIOT S IN DC WILL SCREW YU AND ALL AMERICANS TO SET UP THIER AGENDA
THEY WORSHIP A FALSE god , and a demon rats agenda of fools
money and control , force you to follow or get fired, loose you job , or go with out
well get a clue , they will screw you after you get the jab and follow their group of fools
collapse, poverty, starvation , pestilance that is thier agenda
genicide , population control and letting thier group of invasion force take over , notice they dont force them to get shots
ask , why ?