Rising Costs Quotes

American families, families back home in Minnesota, know only too well that out-of-pocket expenses for health care have been rising at an astonishing rate.

Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.

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.

College costs are out of control.

I used to watch Babe Ruth for 50 cents. Now, baseball tickets are $400!

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

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

Expenditures have to keep rising to keep up with the population [growth].

The cost of a university education is risen faster than the rate of inflation for decades.

Heating bills this winter are the highest they've been in five years, but President Bush has a plan to combat rising bills. It's called global warming.

In 1991, if someone came in with a $1 million budget for a boutique, I would have fainted. Nobody spent even half that. But now, the bar has risen very high.

Each and every day, more people pay the price of Obamacare's mountain of mandates. As I travel across the country, I continue to hear from Americans who want Washington to take its hands off of their healthcare.

Yes, prices go up in health care. They have been doing so for 80 straight years.

Americans understand that rising drug prices, wage stagnation and inadequate infrastructure affect everyone, regardless of race.

Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general.

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.

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.

Our economy continues to struggle with slow economic growth, high unemployment and stagnant wages. "Obama care's" raising costs. That's making it harder for small businesses to hire. In short, it's a train wreck.

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.

A more courageous empathy is needed in our country to see the struggles of people from factory towns to farm towns to city towns who can't even afford the rent in their cities anymore because costs are going so high.

Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.

College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.

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 high cost of health care is creating a crushing burden, threatening our economy.