WASHINGTON - Rising prices, falling home values, stagnant wages and tight credit. It's a potent combination that has struck the American consumer hard.Huge deficits, $4 trillion added to the nation's debt, a plummeting dollar, record trade deficits, higher unemployment, higher under-employment, anemic stock market, dismal housing values, and costly and needless foreign occupations, and a clone to all of this, John McCain, is even close to being elected?
In June, the second biggest rise in prices in nearly three decades muted the impact of billions of dollars in government stimulus payments, government figures showed Monday.
Incomes barely budged in June and consumer spending retreated after taking into account the higher prices for food, energy and other items, the Commerce Department data show.
What a bunch of dumbasses.
