“While inflation has cooled from its peak, grocery prices have not returned to where consumers remember them,” Martin told The Post.

“Food prices have effectively reset to a permanently higher level after years of supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, transportation costs, and broad inflationary pressures,” he added.

Meanwhile the minimum wage hasn’t been raised in almost 20 years. There’s nothing that leads to revolution faster than hunger:

Every society is three meals away from chaos

-Vladimir Lenin

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    If anyone ever thought he would help people in lowering their bills — you just bought another seat in his grifting class held at his defunct school.

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      He’s a con man and always has been.

      But the conservatives just love to punch themselves square in the balls to own the libs, because they rely on the fact that everyone else will suffer, too, and they hope that libs suffer more.

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      Trump voters are if you took an imbecile, gave him brain damage and then replaced his brain with straw.