Dan Lipinski Quotes

Today's gasoline prices are taking a severe toll on Americans' pocketbooks. Consumers are anxious.

We need to see many more people starting businesses and becoming their own boss, but the squeezed middle exists as much within this group as in the population at large as rising costs are hitting small businesses - who after all are consumers too.

The price of meat has just gone up and your old lady has just gone down.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.

High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.

Americans are also feeling the effects of soaring energy prices at the gas pump. The double burden of these added expenses will be far too much for many families.

The way prices are rising, the good old days are last week.

With inflation, debts and bills fly to the sky

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

Rising energy costs kill jobs and hit America's poorest the hardest.

I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.

Higher energy prices act like a tax.

The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy.

Higher energy prices act like a tax. They reduce the disposable income people have available for other things after they've paid their energy bills.

I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

But the fact that we had to devalue by 40% at once means that Malawians are feeling the shock, the impact of that huge devaluation and particularly rural people, the poor are the ones that are going to be most affected. That is why there is the austerity plan.

Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost.

It doesn't do Costco any good if nobody can afford to buy anything.

And as you point out, for American families who struggle every day to figure out how do they pay, we talk about gasoline prices. That throws budgets into a real problem when you have budgeted really tight.

How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.