“Americans must learn to adjust to a lower standard of living,” he told the crowd before suggesting a specific solution to prices hiked by his tariffs, which he continues to insist are a success. “You can give up certain products. You can give up pencils…You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter. Two or three is nice.”
Are we great again?
Not Great Depression level yet; just Severely Depressed now.
Mediocre Depression
Are we sure about that? They keep refusing to release the economic reports, and us having lost 30% of our economy sounds reasonable.
Yeah we are great now.
Can’t you tell, we have less pencils in our home and umm… pencils are made with lead, and that is bad for us.
Oh, they are also made with wood and that can catch fire. So our homes are safer.
Umm and uhh… You know, I could slip and fall on a pencil.
So, yeah, We are great again.
/s < if it wasn’t obvious.
Also I know pencils are not made of lead, they are made of graphite.
Mostly ceramic and wood, but you still have a sharp point.
A feckin pencil
Yes, just with less pencils and dolls.
Da! Da! You now have similar living standard as great power of russia. Too many poor? We have solution to that too - bestest solution, da.
Sorry no dying in a wheat field for us. Now if theres a jungle with socialists in it…
Only if you lower your standard of living. Rtfa!
/s