[BitWielder1]

Increased demand without increased supply = higher prices.
Economy 101, which apparently all our elected officials must have flunked.

I can't help but think about this quote:
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I'd look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this. Can you and your associates arrange it for me, Mr. Morden?"
  -- Vir to Morden in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"

[wally_bert]

Vir got his wish didn’t he?