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 life comes at you fast most of it is just smoke and mirrors we're here to clear the air whether

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 and a little bit of humor and a little bit of humor and a little bit of humor

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 it's time for the morning drip on wrto.fm radio free georgia

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 hey good morning everybody welcome to the morning drip it is me grady d here

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 with you on a wednesday it is the 8th of july 2026 and as i keep reporting

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 it's the morning drip on the morning drip on the morning drip on the air

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 in portions of big bend florida and south central and southwest georgia hot temperatures

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 and high humidity may cause heat illnesses so basically yeah drink plenty of fluids stay in

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 air conditioning if you can do your best to stay out of the sunshine and check up on your relatives

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 and your and your neighbors so yeah and as i've said before if you if you happen to work outside

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 or you work in a in a factory or a warehouse that's not air conditioned then take breaks as often as you

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 can make sure you stay hydrated and if your boss bitches about it tell them grady d said shut the hell

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 up your health is more important than their bottom line anyway that's the way i feel about it

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 so let's start off today talking about there's there's two stories that we need to talk about

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 that's related to affordability first one is if you don't if you're running low on your forever

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 stamps which i am then you better go ahead and get some ordered go to the post office and buy them

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 whatever you need to do because the u.s postal service will be raising those postage stamps

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 starting july 12th the forever stamps going to move from 78 cents to 82 cents so a book of 20 stamps

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 will rise from 15 dollars and 60 cents to 16 dollars and 40 cents other mailing services are also increasing

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 domestic postcards are going to go from 61 to 65 cents

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 metered first class letters from 74 to 78 cents and international letters and postcards from a dollar 70 to a dollar 75

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 and the post office is saying the increases are part of a broader effort to stabilize its finances after years of

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 declining mail volume and mounting losses they lost 9.5 billion dollars in 2025 their annual mail volume fell

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 from more than 213 billion pieces in 2006 to about 109 billion today and i think they were trying to make up

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 some of that along the way because they they were the preferred last mile shipping partner for amazon uh amazon is

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 like what's happened to us here in south central georgia they now have a i don't know what you call it

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 like a depot or whatever in valdosta where we now actually have amazon drivers delivering our amazon packages most of the time

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 now there's still some things that come in ups depending on what the item is or whether it's from a third party

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 that's shipping directly and doesn't have all their stuff sitting in an amazon warehouse somewhere

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 and i do believe that amazon renegotiated a contract with usps but i don't think usps is getting as much money

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 out of amazon as they were that's what i that's what i remember if i'm wrong on that you can let me know

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 our phone lines are open 229-520-5957 or you can send a text to that same number 24 7 229-520-5957

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 or shoot us an email morningjep at wrto.fm postal officials have warned congress that without

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 significant reforms the postal service would face serious financial challenges within the next year

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 this hike is part of usps's long-term restructuring plan officials have indicated additional increases

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 could follow potential future changes under discussion include raising the price of a forever stamp to 90 or

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 95 cents and reducing regular mail delivery to five days a week which means you wouldn't get mail on saturday

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 honestly i don't care 90 of the stuff that comes in my in arrives in my mailbox is junk

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 sometimes i get uh checks from clients in there but most of the time it's just junk most of my bills are i pay online

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 i have tried and tried and tried with farm bureau i don't need you to send me a bill they keep sending me a bill

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 anyway even though it's on auto pay and it's important to recognize

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 how valuable the united states postal service still is even if all we seem to be getting most of the time is junk

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 i mean you look back at its its origins i mean it's a staple of any functioning democracy in my opinion

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 but it's in dire straits and i and i remember somewhere along the line in the past 25 or 30 years

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 congress made it almost impossible for the postal service to actually break even or turn a profit and

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 it has to do with what they what they forced them to do to fund retirement for like the next 75 years or

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 something like that so yeah the post office needs some reform how many of you actually send letters

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 that's a good question i don't send any letters i mean i have to put stamps like my mail-in ballot i have

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 to put a stamp on it occasionally i have to send something back that requires a stamp but i think

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 the last time i bought these forever stamps was over two years ago that's how long they've been sitting on

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 on a desk in here and i just in the last couple of months i think it might have been the the ballots

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 where i had to send in the request for it no i did that electronically well i had to send in the actual

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 ballot and i've done it twice because well we had the primary and then we had a runoff so i've used two

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 stamps this year that i can remember and i think i just flipped it over to the front of the little strip

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 that the stamp set on i don't know when's the last time you sent something that required you to put actual

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 stamps on it let me know another thing connected to affordability the this one just gets me because

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 vehicles used to be a lot more affordable the ratio the ratio and i haven't looked at this scientifically

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 but it feels like the ratio between income and the cost of these vehicles is definitely out of whack

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 now from what it was 30 years ago 40 years ago the average monthly payment for a new vehicle

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 has climbed to a record 770 a month this is according to lending tree and experian data so of course this

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 is a continued affordability issue that's facing car buyers average lease payments also reached a new

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 high of 619 per month used vehicle payments well they increased more modestly to 531 and even that

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 even that just blows my mind a used car that you're having to pay over 500 a month now granted

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 in 2003 i bought my wife a 30 it was a 35 or 36 000 ford explorer all right we got it for five

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 years zero percent interest i i don't even remember if i put anything down honestly i can't i can't

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 remember those payments for a brand new vehicle for five years were under 500 a month so now you're

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 telling me in 2026 for me to get a used vehicle i'm still looking at a car payment for over 500 a month

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 it's it's ridiculous the average new car loan is now approaching 44 000 i have a friend of mine who has a

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 diesel truck i think he bought it two years ago now 70 plus thousand dollars for this vehicle that truck

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 cost 20 plus thousand dollars more than our 2 000 square foot double wide mobile home that we bought

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 in 1996 i know we've got inflation folks but damn outstanding u.s auto loan debt has also reached a record

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 1.685 trillion dollars which is up more than 57 percent over the past decade it makes auto loans

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 the nation's second largest category of consumer debt behind mortgages americans in their 30s 40s and

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 50s account for the largest share of new borrowing while lenders report that even borrowers with excellent

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 credit continue to finance large loan amounts because of persistently high vehicle prices well

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 that also goes to the point that if you can get a really good deal now the interest rates i think the average

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 interest rate for a vehicle still somewhere between six and seven percent i believe it's it's been a couple

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 months since we checked it but the old adage is use other people's money don't use your own well in a

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 sense this is what even people with excellent credit i have excellent credit my credit score is over 800

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 but i don't have the available funds to just walk out and drop down fifty thousand dollars for a vehicle

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 i don't even have it to do for 30 or 35 000 i'd still have to finance it

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 even even at this godforsaken interest rate somewhere between six and seven percent if that's still where it's at

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 i i yearn for the days of the 1.5 and two percent and even the special zero percent i'm not sure if

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 we'll ever see those again industry analysts say affordability of course remains the biggest

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 challenge for buyers despite modest improvements in inflation well we haven't really inflation's not

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 improving it's actually going backwards discounts have been become harder to find yes forcing many

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 customers into longer long terms or higher monthly payments i remember the first time back in the 80s

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 you know you didn't do over a five-year loan and and i believe i want to say that used cars didn't you

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 couldn't do more than 36 months and i remember my parents were they were trading in a vehicle it was a

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 Parisian white beautiful my mom loved it but for some reason she got it in her head that she wanted a van

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 so she could haul butts around for church and stuff like that and so they traded the vehicle in and

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 wound up because of one of being upside down in the Parisian or something like that having to do an

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 unheard of seven-year loan at the time this was like 1986 87 somewhere in there never heard of that now

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 seven-year car loans it's average that's that's a typical one and that's because you have to if you're

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 trying to finance a 70 000 vehicle for five years i'm not even gonna do the math but i can tell you

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 it's approaching my mortgage payment so it's ridiculous but yeah if you're out there looking

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 for new vehicles or if you if you need to buy stamps if you're running low on the forever stamps you

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 better get get to it right now because everything's going up everything's going up you recently bought

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 a new vehicle are you looking at buying a new vehicle are you are you relegated and this is not

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 a down thing i mean there's some good used vehicles out there my son bought a 2003 ford ranger several

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 years ago got a really good deal on it of course then covid hit and the the actual value of that vehicle

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 damn near tripled from what he paid for it so i don't know what's your car situation let me know

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 hey everybody welcome back to the morning drip it is me grady d with you here on a wednesday morning

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 the 8th of july we're going to have another scorcher today so as i said earlier take care of yourselves

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 look out for your loved ones your relatives your neighbors your dog your cat everybody and that

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 power bill oh i'm not even not even wanting to see that i want to see that phone lines are open

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 229-520-5957 or you can send a text to that number 24 7 365 229-520-5957 or drop us an email

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 morning drip at morning drip at wrto.fm all right let's keep on going with the affordability idea so

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 this week it's come out that walmart and sam's club have announced temporary summer price cuts on

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 hundreds of popular products including groceries and grilling supplies and outdoor items and household

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 essentials as some of the biggest discounts are fresh corn dropping from 68 cents to 25 cents a year

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 73 percent lean ground beef falling from 674 to 594 per pound fresh cherries cut roughly in half 24

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 packs of coca-cola and pepsi reduced to nine dollars and 97 cent sam's clubs also lowering their prices on

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 more than 250 products such as chicken wings and hot dogs snacks and other barbecue staples as part of a

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 seasonal promotional aimed at helping families with summer shopping now of course this announcement

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 quickly became political after dear leader donald trump said on truth social that walmart made the

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 price reductions at the request of his administration as part of the nation's 250th anniversary celebration

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 yeah right he praised the retailer inside of the lower uh ground beef prices as evidence that

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 his administration's economic policies are helping reduce costs for consumers all right let's let's uh

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 let's let's take a beat his administration's economic policies are not helping reduce costs for

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 consumers his economic policies are what drove the damn prices of this shit up to begin with

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 tariffs the tariffs and even walmart in their official announcement has described the discounts as a

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 company-led summer savings event focused on seasonal demand and helping customers stretch their

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 budgets they said that it was investing in lower prices on frequently purchased items

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 they did not state that the promotions were made at the request of the white house the discounts are part of a

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 limited time summer campaign they apply to sell selected products while supplies and promotional pricing last

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 other reports that have been validated out there said that the reason why walmart is

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 actually doing this is you remember that the supreme court ruled that that dear old donnie's tariffs were

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 illegal he did not have the power and so they had to set up a process to start giving this money back to

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 all of the companies that basically got raped due to his economic policies aka tariffs and so

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 they're using this money that they have gotten back to help offset the cost of these products

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 it didn't have a

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 fucking thing to do

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 with the trump administration but

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 he's always going to take credit

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 he is he's always going to take credit he's going to he's going to take credit for anything that is a positive for the economy and the

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 american people

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 and then anything that he does that basically bends us over without lube

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 he's going to blame on anybody else

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 he's he's he's going to blame it on other countries that have been taking advantage of the united states

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 he's going to he's going to blame it on the democrats as he likes to say

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 oh by the way did you know that the word dumb

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 actually ends with the letter b a lot of people don't know that right

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 good god

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 the stupidity of this man and all of the people that believe in him so yeah

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 when he's out here touting that his economic policies are the reason why prices are coming down

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 an affordability which by the way was a democratic hoax just several months ago

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 affordability you've probably heard of the word affordability it's a democratic hoax

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 when shit goes

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 i get so flustered because the

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 the stupidity

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 the absolute stupidity

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 of some of the statements that he makes and then the fact

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 of his supporters

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 that just

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 blindly believe every damn thing that comes out of this con man's mouth

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 he calls the affordability crisis with tariffs and then

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 whenever he got his hand slapped by the supreme court and said donnie you can't do that

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 they had to start giving this money back

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 one of the biggest retailers in the world

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 is lowering prices due to the fact that they got some of that money back and so they're trying

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 to help people during which that in itself just blows my mind because none of these corporations give two

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 shits about any of us if they can fuck us over they're going to that's you you know

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 i don't trust any of them

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 at all but the fact that they're doing this

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 but they're only doing it because it's not necessarily costing them

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 anything now granted you could you can rest assured that they're not using the total amount

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 of what they got back and and i haven't seen any reports on how much money they actually got back

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 in this whole tariff fiasco but you can be guaranteed that they're not using every bit of

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 it to offset these costs so that they can provide you lower hamburger meat just not maybe half maybe a

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 third i don't know maybe even maybe just a quarter but the point is you're going to see some lower prices

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 which is good because as you know hamburger meat's gotten ridiculous we started buying

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 we've been buying the 73 percent hamburger in the 30 in the pre-formed patties 32 pat

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 for years now because back when it was still 19 and 20 dollars a box and even today when it ranges

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 anywhere from 28 on a good week to 32 it's still cheaper to buy that take four patties which

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 roughly equals a pound thaw it out and bust it up and that's what you use ground hamburger meat for if

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 you're if you're putting it in a hamburger helper you're putting it in stroganoff whatever it is that

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 you're going to do that's what we've been doing over the last couple of months every week i've tried

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 to buy one pound of grass-fed beef and it started out at seven dollars and something per pound and

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 that's ridiculous in itself but it's good quality meat so i'll give it that then like three weeks

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 after we started buying it three to four weeks after we started buying it it went up over eight dollars

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 now it's come back down in the seven dollar range there's absolutely no reason why that hamburger

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 meat should be over seven dollars a pound but it is what it is all right which is the reason why i

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 only buy one pound per week and we keep trying to stock it up and then we use it for various meals

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 because that that type of meat is best used in recipes where you're going to season it if you're

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 making hamburger patties because you want to make hamburgers you're better off with the higher fat

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 content because that's what gives it its flavor that doesn't mean you can't season it of course

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 season that meat but that with that underlying fat is what makes a really damn good hamburger we've

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 actually found and it's cheaper buy turkey turkey is is around two dollars a pound buy turkey season

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 it up like you would hamburger meat to make hamburgers you got turkey burgers and it's a lot cheaper it's a

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 lot cheaper but don't be fooled when trump's out there touting that he's the reason why walmart is

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 lowering prices he's not he's taking credit yet again for a positive that he had nothing to do with

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 but he definitely had his hands right in the middle of everything that was negative when the prices started

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 going up due to the tariffs what is your grocery budget looking like i talked about mine yesterday

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 i talked about six hundred and i talked about six hundred and i talked about six hundred and twenty six hundred thirty

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 dollars a month now on average i try to nail 150 every week try not to go over it some week most weeks i can't i

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 i wind up going over by ten or twenty dollars and we don't buy junk food i buy i buy a 12 pack of uh of grape soda maybe once every two weeks i buy one bag of potato chips

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 once every two weeks and everything else is just staples of trying what you need to make

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 meals out of hamburger meat turkey meat chicken tenders you know your your staple stocks of ketchup and

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 mayonnaise and mustard and cheese and things like that we're not out here buying forty dollar roasts we might do that

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 for say like a a thanksgiving or christmas or something like that but our our weekly eating habits

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 no nothing like that no steaks either nope not at all tuna fish canned chicken things like that but i'd love

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 to hear from you you know what is have you seen your grocery budget go is it is it like doubled already from

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 say like two years ago how are you coping i guess is a question anyway let me know 229-520-5957 phone lines are

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 administration has and this does not surprise anybody they have abandoned plans to redesign the 20 bill

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 to feature abolitionist harriet tubman and this is according to treasury secretary

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 scott bessett asked about the status of the long delayed redesign best said the administration is

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 quote not at present moving forward with replacing andrew jackson on the front of the currency

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 the decision reverses efforts by the previous administration to revive the redesign

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 the proposal to place tubman on the 20 bill was first announced during the barack obama

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 administration with an original goal of unveiling the new note in 2020 marking the 100th anniversary of

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 the 19th amendment to the united states constitution project was delayed during the president uh trump's first

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 term then revived by the joe biden administration which said u.s currency should better reflect the nation's

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 history and diversity i agree with that and of course with the latest announcement there is no time time

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 time table for a tubman design 20 bill so andrew jackson will remain on the front of the currency

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 and the redesign effort has once again been placed on hold again this is not surprising

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 and the reason why i say that is because just look at what this administration has done they are doing their

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 best to whitewash the history of the united states of america and and again don't get me wrong i still

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 love this country i think it's one of the best countries on the planet we have some major issues that we need to

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 to resolve and we have some very very dark history slavery happens to be one of them but this administration

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 is doing everything they can they don't want slavery taught in school they just want american exceptionalism

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 taught in school that america is the shining beacon of freedom and democracy that every country on this planet

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 should strive to be just like to emulate etc they they want to shove all of our dark the darker parts of

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 the founding of this country the darker parts of us getting it wrong they just want to shove that

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 into the closet shut the door lock it and then put a wall in front of it and basically say there's there's

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 nothing to see here move along and we can't do that one of our greatest strengths as human beings is that we

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 learn or we should learn from our mistakes and it because if we don't we're going to keep repeating them

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 so you can't whitewash the history no matter how much you want to forget about the the darker aspects

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 of our country you can't you need to acknowledge them you need to recognize that that was a dark part

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 of our history you need to learn from it and you need to move on and maybe maybe the twenty dollar bill

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 is not not the best vehicle to put her on i don't know but i can tell you this they're constantly

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 wanting to put trump's face on damn money his freaking signature is on it now which is out of character

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 and there's actually a law that says that no living president's face or likeness can be on american

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 currency yet i forgot this is an administration that think the laws are just simply there as

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 recommendations suggestions not something that they actually have to listen to anyway that's going to

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