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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

The affordability issues Americans worry about most

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

If you thought you missed the big sale at Sullivan's, good news.

0:03.6

You didn't.

0:04.4

We're holding over the 20% savings on premium patio furniture for just one more weekend.

0:10.7

It's the best price of the year, Sullivan Hardware & Garden.

0:15.0

There was a new study done, and they put out three charts.

0:18.9

And what the charts said was that there are affordability issues that Americans worry about the most.

0:25.9

And they divided them up into three different categories.

0:29.1

One was food prices, the other housing, and finally, health care costs.

0:33.9

So when it comes to food prices, there are certain foods such as ground beef and coffee,

0:38.8

and they have continued to rise even with inflation slowing down. You've got grocery prices

0:45.2

that remain a persistent burden for many families. And this is, you know, part of one of the

0:51.1

big problems with Trump's speech last night is, of course, everything's great. Everything's great. There are no problems. Everything's wonderful in the world. And by the way, I've won affordability and the economy is doing fantastic. And the problem... Boring economy is what he called it. Right. And the problem comes down to, well, that, you know, there are huge swaths of Americans in this country who that's just not true for.

1:11.2

And that's really where Trump's problem is, is that when you sit here and tell me that things are

1:16.1

great, remember classic Joe Biden, inflation is transitory.

1:20.2

When you sit here and just flat out lie to me, then that becomes a problem because then

1:26.2

I'm not going to believe anything else you're

1:27.6

going to say. You're just putting on these rose-colored glasses when I'm having trouble paying my bills.

1:32.3

I'm having trouble going to the grocery store and my groceries are 30 to 40 percent more expensive

1:37.4

than they were just a few years ago. Would you rather be gaslit by Joe Biden or by Donald Trump?

1:42.5

Because I felt like when Joe Biden was saying,

1:44.6

and inflation is transitory, oh, that pains me to say,

1:47.7

you knew he was lying.

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