A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis has called Florida the “Iowa of the Southeast.” But unlike when he’s in his home state, the Governor continues to decry the unaffordability of living in the Hawkeye State in national interviews.
The latest occurrence was an interview in which the Governor blasted Bidenomics by noting that Iowa families can’t afford to buy all the food they want when grocery shopping.
“I’m going around and talking to voters across the country. I’ll have a family in Iowa tell me, you know, now they go and check out at the grocery store and it rings up so high, so quick they’ve got to take things out of their shopping cart,” DeSantis said on the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports.”
The Friday comments are similar to those the Governor made during an interview on the Guy Benson Show last month.
“I was in Iowa. I met a lady who, they’ve got four kids outside of Des Moines and she’s talking about how much the groceries have gone up, how much their energy costs have gone up, how it’s hard to afford a new car,” DeSantis related back in August.
Ironically, Iowa’s cost of living is less than Florida’s. Iowa is the eighth least expensive state in the country for residents, while Florida is more expensive than all but 18 states.
The impact is even greater in metropolitan areas. The Miami Herald reported this week Miami has the highest cost-of-living increase of 14 big cities tracked, and the city has been in that position since late last year, per the most recent Consumer Price Index report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
8 comments
Joe
September 15, 2023 at 3:11 pm
In reality here on planet earth, real wages have actually kept up with and generally outpaced inflation for nearly all goods including groceries.
Tiny D is just puppeting his tiny-brained manager Casey’s talking points from Tucker’s anti-American twitcast.
Lynda
September 15, 2023 at 3:20 pm
Re: FL’s cost of living v other States
The “alternative facts” about comparing costs of living presented by deSantis in Iowa offer a good chance to look closely at what deSantis is prioritizing in FL. He simply does not care that FL families and seniors on fixed incomes are suffering with the high cost of food.
Comparing trump who admits he will destroy the current method of governing the USA to deSantis who just wants to sl”slit some throats” finds little difference in their ability to overlook normal residents just trying to keep ahead of rising property insurance, rising costs of energy and lack of affordable housing.
FL’s current governor, deSantis has been a bad steward for FL’s environment, has not kept promises for hurricane damage repair and has destroyed medical care for pregnant women, LGBTQAi+ people and children who suffer from lack of health care.
None of the current crop of GQP candidates for the Republican primary nomination have shown actual independence of policies or a more caring personality. They just don’t care about the needs of voters more than they care about personal power over the lives of voters.
My Take
September 15, 2023 at 3:33 pm
And heaven only knows what pork would cost if they had to let their sows turn around.
Michael K
September 15, 2023 at 4:22 pm
I guess it’s a grocery store is culture shock when you are used to flying on private jets, staying at fancy hotels, and playing golf at exclusive resorts. Since he lives in subsidized public housing, he’d really be shocked at the cost of insurance if he owned a home in Florida, which has the highest inflation in the nation, thanks to Ron!
tom palmer
September 15, 2023 at 4:31 pm
well,yeah, bread does not cost 25 cents and weekly wages are not $50. It is 2023 not 1953
Elmo
September 15, 2023 at 7:55 pm
All this coming from the guy who has refused to raise the $275 state unemployment benefit, and the guy who blocked over $3,000 in federal benefits. How dare he cry out for the little man.
JD
September 15, 2023 at 9:41 pm
Let’s bring up the state unemployment benefits from $275/wk – where it’s been for almost two decades.
Fix the insurance and housing crisis – stop letting the f*cking builders build Luxury Apartments for 2-3K a month rent instead of basic housing. Hell, encourage tiny houses or even California style “dingbats”.
Foods about to get worse because of the immigrant bill and the food we grow here cannot be picked or won’t be planted, making the prices go up.
When all this comes back to roost in a Blue Wave in 2026, you know what people are going to say to the Republicans?
“Cry Harder”
M. Mouse
September 16, 2023 at 10:54 am
Sounds like our Little Governor took a ride in a shopping cart! And loaded it up with too much Jell-O Pudding! Put that back, Ron!
Squeak!
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