Brooke Rollins thinks meals in the United States cost $3 each and three full square meals and a snack is about $15.64 per day, while Scott Bessent thinks the average retiree owns 10 to 12 homes.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins doubled down after claiming meals in the United States cost $3 each.According to the secretary, she asked a team of economists to estimate the cost of a meal."And I don't want any funny business with numbers," she recalled telling the group in a Tuesday...
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was ridiculed for suggesting typical middle-class investors owned as many as a dozen homes.Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo asked Bessent during a forum Tuesday at the 2026 World Economic Forum about President Donald Trump's threat to ban “large institutional...
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So, let’s imagine a world where $15.64 is what a family pays for 3 square meals and a "snack" (lol).
For the average family of four:
$15.64 x 4 = $62.56 per day x 7 days = $437.93 per week x 52 = $22,772 per year, just for groceries.
So, a parent working a full time job would need to bring home $11 per hour after tax just to buy food for their family. Assuming, of course, perfect adherence to our government economists rosy estimate of what food costs, if your clever and frugal, and leaving exactly $0 for any non-food expenses.
I guess that’s where the rent money you’re earning from your 10 to 12 homes comes in?!
Gaslighters gonna gaslight! .. These people are nuts!