J.D. Vance 'caught lying' on video about egg costs — with price tag right behind him
J.D. Vance 'caught lying' on video about egg costs — with price tag right behind him
J.D. Vance recently blamed Vice President Kamala Harris for an increase in prices for eggs, but observers noted that his point was undermined by a contradictory price tag behind him. CNN's Kit Maher reported than Donald Trump's pick for Vice President "swung by supermarket in Reading, Pennsylvan.....
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Who cares how much eggs cost? If I put eggs on a pie chart with the rest of my monthly expenses, I would need a microscope to see it. Focus on real problems like price gouging rent.
You might as well buy the free range eggs for $8/dozen. If that's too much money, it's not like the purchase will make you more financially doomed than before.
For staple food items, especially things like eggs or bananas that were very cheap in the past, pointing to increasing prices is one way to make the cost of living figure easy to see and feel.
Using examples to illustrate a point is perfectly normal, both in politics and real life, and I expect people will continue to do so.
Diabetic people probably care about egg prices. Low-carb diets were a bit pricier already. But I'm going to go out supposing you are really asking why every article about inflation for the past two years focuses on eggs. I just assumed it was a manifestation of that meme about United Statesians desperately grasping for any metric other than the metric system to quantify the world around them.