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All hail Phredgreen, font of wisdom!!!
These kind of questions are journalistic low comedy, imho. It's an easy target, and it takes an easy, shallow swipe at what is a complex and important problem: do our leaders have any fucking clue what we're going through? When the median income in the US for a family of 4 is $32K, knowing how much a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk costs is kind of a moot point. How much of that family's money is going to health care? Housing? Taxes? Food in general? Most of the people in office are fairly wealthy, and many of them have been in office for so long that they haven't lived a "normal" life in decades. I would trust someone to make policy decisions for me a lot more if I thought they had any idea what impact those decisions would have on average people, not just on some economic indicator, or on the bottom line of some special interest group.
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