{"id":34206,"date":"2026-05-13T07:53:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34206"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:53:53","slug":"going-backwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34206","title":{"rendered":"Going backwards&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;for all of you workers out there, there really is a reason why you feel like the economy the idiot trump has created is leaving you behind&#8230;over the past year, wage gains were 3.6% which would be pretty good in any normal economy&#8230;but in the trump rigged, Iran war economy, inflation has been 3.8% meaning you really have gone backwards&#8230;and the real inflation from idiot boy&#8217;s war and tariffs haven&#8217;t even hit yet&#8230;do you drink coffee? Well that sucks for you with prices up almost 50% and analysts saying that you can expect another 20% increase on top of that this year&#8230;do you drive a car? Well that sucks for you, too with gas prices up over 50% since the moron in chief started his stupid war in Iran&#8230;do you like to eat food? Get ready for shortages as farm bankruptcies surge 58% over the past year and costs of fertilizer see a 100% increase&#8230;and no food gets grown without it so you can see what&#8217;s coming&#8230;I really do hope some of the maga folks that saddled this country with this asshole starve to death&#8230;nothing else will get them to abandon the repubs even though idiot boy just said that he &#8220;doesn&#8217;t care&#8221; about American&#8217;s financial difficulties&#8230;after all, most of you are not billionaires and that is all he cares about&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;for all of you workers out there, there really is a reason why you feel like the economy the idiot trump has created is leaving you behind&#8230;over the past year, wage gains were 3.6% which would be pretty good in any normal economy&#8230;but in the trump rigged, Iran war economy, inflation has been 3.8% meaning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=34206\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going backwards&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4555],"class_list":["post-34206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-workers-going-backwards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34207,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34206\/revisions\/34207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}