another thing when you re doing the same thing flipping a hamburger and you get $0.05 more by walking across the street to a different place. we also are supporting small businesses. vice president harris has prioritized providing support and capital for small business owners including for rural minorities and women, entrepreneurs including through a brand new program that s already helping deliver billions of dollars in growth capital to small businesses in every state. we ve seen a record 10.5 million applications, 10.5 million applications, folks looking to start a small business just in the last two years, 10.5. every one of these applications is an application to hope. hope. competition also means lowering costs for consumers. bringing down inflation remains one of my top priorities. today inflation is less than half of what it was a year ago, and that inflation caused by russia and by the war in ukraine
over the last year or so and prices of individual items have gone up and down within that period but today, each of these ten items is more expensive than they were this time last year. the standout increase is these crinkle cut frozen chips, which are up 79%, from £1.09 to £1.95. sugar was up 62%, from 65p to £1.05. but cornflakes increased a little less, just 13%, from £1.99 to £2.25. so my whole trolley has gone up by 25.5% in a year. that is higher than the overall inflation rate and higher than the official rate for food inflation too, as price rises are higher on lots of basic food items. bread, milk, eggs and fruit and vegetables. and how does it feel, what sort of impact is it having on your budget? my budget is quite depleted! i m 78, i live on my pension.
and when they keep telling you republicans want to slash the budget, that is simply not true. all mccarthy is saying is he wants to slow down the growth of spending. the only guy that s been honest about that on the democratic side is joe manchin, said there is a limit on the increase in spending. the level of spending is not going to go down, an increase in a limit to the increase in spending is a very common sense approach that the public will favor. mccarthy has the whip hand here. he s in the driver s seat. joe biden and company don t want to cut $0.05 from anything, ok. they don t want $0.05 slower. sandra: you ve heard it, it doesn t sound like the president will give here. he will give, revenues are coming in short and spending is coming in way above budget, like $350 billion of additional spending against last year, the
hey, isn t this fun? it will be great. the first 200 bucks is free, which kind of version of a pusher in an alley. hey, kid, the first one s free. people need to understand this if they don t already. if as a group and over time, gamblers didn t lose way more than they win, then there would never have been a nathan detroit floating game, no casinos, no racetracks, there d be no draft kings, no bet mgm. one of the things that s happening now is that the come on is for parlay bets because a parlay bet whaile enticing, if you hit it, you re going to make more money, but the chance of losing it is much greater. so generally speaking on a single bet, the betting operation, draft kings, whatever it might be, is making about $0.05, $0.06 per bet, but for