Sunday data doodling – how have US households been impacted by rising prices over the last four to five years? Maybe at least 4,000 bucks a year – plus a look at the costs of wind turbines
People across the USA have been impacted by the three-legged stool of the Maoist/Marxist/Cult of Moloch over the last four to five years. The Cult – having failed to impeach Trump using treasonous tactics – inflicted a scamdemic, rigged an election and poisoned the American population leaving tens of millions wounded and 700,000 dead. In order to cover up the corruption of the Clinton and Biden crime families AND they started a war with Ukraine that risks nuclear Armageddon because or Russia’s refusal to allow continued bombing of eastern, Russian speaking Ukrainians and the presence of pathogen and bioweapons labs aimed at Russia.
To cap it all, the Democratic Party created a J6 incident, along with swamp dwellers in the FBI, labelled parents as well as peaceful J6 protesters as “domestic terrorists” and opened the border to 10 million or more criminals masquerading as “refugees” and “asylum seekers” when a significant number are on the run from the authorities in their home countries or worse still, who are spies and terrorists.
All to gain votes for the libtard demoNrat party of mouth bullying (p)ignorant kakistocrats – with yet another complete embarrassment to the US by sending “Cackler Harris” to represent the US and negotiate world peace. All these “peace talks” with one combatant absent - Russia. Can you imagine Middle astern peace talks without one of Israel or Iran present? Those attending are just one pack of two “dogs of war”.
We are faced with the naked bigotry of the “global elites” where “intellectual supremacy” has replaced the “racial supremacy” claimed by Nazi Germany. This has been combined with attempts to eliminate the separation of powers, fascist “public/private partnerships” and the establishment of a one-party state. run by the radical socialists within the Democratic Party.
The costs in human lives and injuries are immense and covered elsewhere. I thought I would do some “surfing” and check out some numbers around the devastating consequences of just one of the legs of the stool—the direct and indirect consequences of the madness of the climate change agenda as it has impacted prices paid by US households. The other two legs of the stool are mass injections f poisons, along with surveillance and enforcement plus human trafficking on an epic scale.
I have previously suggested that the annual cost of importing criminals via the southern border is around a trillion bucks a year (50,000 bucks for each of the direct and indirect costs per criminal times 10 million criminals). The scamdemic resulted in 4 trillion extra dollars of national debt and, even now, spending over the scamdemic has not reverted back to pre-academic levels and is about to be repeated.
Remember, the Cult considers itself a class above “deplorables”, “useless eaters” and those earning less than a 6-figure income because they are “intellectually superior” and can do what they please with the proletariat.
Hillary Clinton was not just talking about the Republican base – she was referring to the Democratic Party base arming less than 80,000 bucks a year as well. To her and the “intellectual supremacists”, anyone earning less than that is a “useless eater” and a “deplorable”.
Clown world and not the nice kind, more the “Chucky”.
Okay, enough of the ranting, let’s get back to the hardships intentionally caused by the Democratic Party on instructions from the High Priests of the Cult of Moloch.
Let’ set the backdrop with a look at some key US numbers.
The USA has a population of around 340 million living in around 128 million homes.
It has around 9 million doctors and nurses including 7.4 million people employed in 6,200 hospitals and 400 health care systems – the US has 920,000 hospital beds.
Fast Facts on U.S. Hospitals, 2024 | AHA
Interesting numbers – lots of outpatients, otherwise there are ten doctors per hospital bed!
The USA has 4,000 higher education institutions and 15 million undergraduates.
The US has 35 trillion dollars in debt, costing 1.4 trillion a year at 4% interest rates.
At the risk of using averages to represent large variations in individual circumstances and hence adopting the “one size fits all” methodology beloved of socialists, let’s take a look at what has happened to prices paid by the average US household.
You can do this for your own personal circumstances.
Here are some price changes for key components – household income, taxes, housing, energy, food and insurance.
In the interest of brevity, I haven’t accounted for the 70 million Americans on social security.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/chartbooks/fast_facts/2022/fast_facts22.pdf
Here is a summary table with some 5 year and intra-period data over the last four to five years.:
The biggest contribution to increases in costs comes from the interest bill for a 200l 30-year fixed rate mortgage. I believe this can be used as a reasonable proxy for all the other increases in costs caused by interest rate increases for things like credit cards, car finance, store cards etc.
You can plug your own numbers in. Maybe your income has compounded up more than 3% per annum for five years.
Bottom line, the average household is more than 4,000 dollars a year worse off just from these components of household spending.
I show some workings from all the data gleaned from surfing the net below.
Before you pile in to that – or not! – I also tried to work out what it would cost to replace the energy needs of a town of 250,000 people living in 100,000 homes.
There may b a logical fallacy in using average US household consumption – but I assume that averages can be applied as they reflect usage or no-usage of gas and electricity.
The average US household consumption of gas is 8,200 kwh equivalent – the average US household electricity consumption is 10,500 kwh for a total of 18,700 kwh per household or 18.7 mgw.
A 100,000-household town requires 1,871 megawatts of power a year.
A land-based wind turbine costs around 1.3 million bucks per megawatt, so to replace the gas and electricity with wind would cost the town 2.5 billion bucks.
How Much Do Wind Turbines Cost? (2024) | Today's Homeowner (todayshomeowner.com)
And here:
Commercial Wind Turbine Cost ($1 Million Cost Breakdown) (climatebiz.com)
From here:
How much Electricity do Wind Turbines generate? | Sustainability Info
“A wind turbine generates about 1.64 megawatts (MW). This is an average calculated from the number of turbines in the US wind turbine database (USWTDB) and its total rated capacity. However, the number assumes the turbines are working at full capacity, which is not the case.”
So, to generate 1,871 mwh of electricity you would need 1,871/1,64 = 1,141 wind turbines.
Each turbine occupies about 1.5 acres, so 1,141 would occupy around 2.8 square miles and would have to have a one-mile distance from any dwelling all around such a wind “farm”. Screw the environment of that 2.7 mil long and one-mile-wide area.
Of course, the wind must blow to drive the blades of those turbines and they must not “cannibalize” any wind energy. You could probably triple that number and area for “redundancy”. All to replace the existing energy needs and not allowing for any growth in homes or population!
You can get an expert view here on average household budgeting, but I am going to pull the data around a little:
The Average American Household Budget | Bankrate
Using that website, from here:
The Average American Household Budget | Bankrate
“The average middle class family income was $59,757 in 2021.” Middle class is the 20% of families lying within bands.
From here:
Income in the United States: 2022 (census.gov)
“Real median household income was $74,580 in 2022, a 2.3 percent decline from the 2021 estimate of $76,330 (Figure 1 and Table A-1).”
Okay, that’s a couple of representations of income using different averaging methods from which we can get some sense of household income.
Wage inflation has tracked at around 3-5% over the last five years or so.
Wage growth vs inflation U.S. 2024 | Statista
You will note that, rather than using headline or “core” (ex-food and energy) inflation Io show the inflation – I show some data on what people actually paid for – for some key components.
Taxes
“On average, middle-class families paid $17,902 in taxes in 2021, $10,391 went to the federal government.”
And from here:
2023 Average Federal Income Taxes Paid by State (nationalpriorities.org)
“The average taxpayer in the United States paid $19,113 in federal income taxes in 2023. How does that compare to where you live?”
So, taxes up by more than 1,200 bucks in one year + 6.7% - Biden plans more.
Housing
Let’s just look at mortgage costs.
From here: Mortgage Statistics: 2024 | LendingTree
The US owes around 12 trillion bucks on mortgages. The average mortgages size for those with mortgages is around 145,000 bucks but expressing that 12 trillion across 128 million homes which either pay rent or have larger mortgages or are mortgage free equates to around 84,000 bucks.
30-year fixed rate mortgages were around 3.7% in December 2019 and are now 7%. If you were to apply this to the entire mortgage market of 12 trillion, this would equate to a whopping almost 400 billion dollars a tear – though of course, the entire mortgage market is not refinanced every year.
Suffice to say, a new home buyer seeking a 200,000-dollar mortgage would now be paying 14,000 bucks a year instead of 7,400, for an increase of NINETY PER CENT!!!!
Energy
Here’s some good news! Henry Hub natural gas prices are back at levels seen in 2019 – after tripling in 2022!
After converting some data from cubic feet to kwh, the average US household “burns” around 8,200 kwh of gas a year.
Not great news on electricity. Prices have increased 32% since 2019 – from 13.3 cents per kwh to 17.5 cents per kwh. This means the average home is now paying 3.316 bucks a year instead of 1,838 bucks for its average of 10,500 kwh used each year.
Food (groceries)
There are lots of stories about food price inflation and a bucket of factors impacting its price.
From here:
2019 Mortgage Rate History Chart for the 30 Year Fixed Mortgage (propertycalcs.com)
The average monthly spend by a family is around 1,000 bucks. Other sources estimate half that. Most people know that most of their groceries are up between 20% and 50% - so assuming an increase of 30% in the last four to five years is not a stretch. This mans that what costs 1,000 a month now (well in January 2024) used to cost around 650 bucks a month, for an increase of 3,000 dollars a year.
Insurance
There are many other sources of price increase. Beer and wine, sports and movie tickets, restaurant prices and so on – but here is a look at health insurance premia (other insurance costs have increased as well).
From here:
2019 Employer Health Benefits Survey | KFF
For 2019:
“Annual premiums for employer sponsored family health coverage reached $20,576 this year, up 5% from last year, with workers on average paying $6,015 toward the cost of their coverage.
To this in 2023.
“The average annual cost of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums rose from $7,911 in 2022 to $8,435 in 2023 for coverage of single individuals and from $22,463 to $23,968 for family coverage, according to a new analysis by health research organization KFF based on survey results from a sample of U.S. firms.”
Family insurance up from 20,576 in 2019 to 23,968 in 2023 – a 16.5% increase. Individual insurance up from 6,015 to 8,435 – an increase of a whopping 40%. I didn’t look, but I am betting that life and car insurance rates are closer to the 40% increase than the 16.5% increase!
Just to show I am not making all of this shit up here are some links to sites used to grab the data.
How much does the average American family pay in taxes? (usafacts.org)
2023 Average Federal Income Taxes Paid by State (nationalpriorities.org)
The Average American Household Budget | Bankrate
Grocery Prices and Inflation | US Inflation Calculator
Average annual U.S. household food expenditure 2022 | Statista
Not all the links used, but most of them.
Onwards!!!
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Have only skimmed through it but was struck by "10 doctors per hospital bed". They've been reducing hospital beds for at least a decade. Now we have medical staff treating patients in corridors. Debbie Evans of UK Column spoke about corridor care in recent UKC bulletin. Only a matter of time before they get rid of the doctors too.