The new buzzword today seems to be affordability. Suddenly, the entire media has woken up to the fact that Americans are in a cost-of-living crisis, something that has been true for several years now.  

Of course, the mainstream media had no interest in discussing the issue when Joe Biden was in office, but now they view it as a cudgel to beat President Donald Trump. 

The irony here is off the charts. The liars in the media, which is probably most of them if we’re being serious, are trying to pin on Trump a crisis that began literally years before he took office.

Recall that these left-wing stooges dutifully reported that inflation was “transitory,” then said it was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s fault, then said it was somehow a sign the economy was great, etc. 

In other words, the media refused to acknowledge the American people’s financial pain, despite many food and energy prices rising by a third or more, credit card interest rates hitting about 30%, the monthly mortgage payment on a median-price home doubling, and health insurance premiums hitting stratospheric levels. 

Of course, these were all reasons why the electorate overwhelming decided to send Trump back to Washington, to fix the mess created by the radical left’s big-government agenda. Only now, as if awaking from some kind of drunken stupor, does the media acknowledge what American families have known for years: we’re in a cost-of-living crisis.  

Of course, the left-wing apparatchiks in the media gleefully report on the people’s pain today during a Trump presidency, then conveniently ignore both how the previous administration got us here and the fact that things are getting better. 

Let’s throw some numbers out to illustrate each of these two points.  

Imagine a family with both adults working and each........

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