Posted on 11/14/2023 10:39:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Silvio is an ignorant clod
The rate of inflation is down.
The inflation of prices is cumulative irrespective of the rate.
When its said inflation is down it doesnt mean for example the price of milk is back to what it was a month ago, it means it didn’t increase as much this month as it did last month.
food is bad, though
the Gov’t is taxing every stage of the food-delivery system (especially fuel)
now they’re going after fertilizers (”contribute to global warming”)
Doesn’t matter. the Democrats aren’t worried, they can steal another election in broad daylight.
Exactly. It like I say to you: “Good news, you got 12” of water in your basement yesterday, but only 3” today.” Sure, but your basement is still flooded with 15” of water.
I live in California...I paid $5.29 yesterday for a gallon of “regular” gasoline.
Good to know that inflation is down...
Chicken thighs in “value pack” for $1.77/lb last week. Also had whole pork loins (approx 10 lbs) for $1.98/lb and had the butcher cut one into thirds for pork roasts.
Otherwise, try to load up on loss leaders, store brands, buy a few items at Sam’s Club.
Two three-inch-wide frozen Maryland-style crab cakes in a cardboard box one-half-inch deep, six inches long three inches wide price is twelve dollars and ninety nine cents at Publix. You can’t haggle. Who the hell do they think is going to buy that thing?
The pain relief section at Wal Mart has bare shelving over eighty percent of the length of the aisle. You used to see that kind of thing only in newsreels of the 50’s showing you the “benefits” of communism in Moscow supermarkets.
“I live in California...I paid $5.29 yesterday for a gallon of “regular” gasoline.”
$2.96 here.
or they do it with “shrinkflation”
producers quietly make their package sizes smaller, but still charge the same price
hamburger patties are thinner, buns are smaller, etc.
On the positive side, the price of beer is relatively unchanged
I haven’t bought meat that wasn’t on sale for decades
Then, I stock up the freezers
Other than taxes and insurance, most of my spending is on food and fuel [including utilities].
” the price of beer is relatively unchanged”
NO!, I find beer prices to be yugely up since BiXiden. [Bud Light notwithstanding]
What brand are you using?
Speaking of Sam’s...they have the 60-ounce jug of pomegranate juice on sale for $7 right now. Pomegranate juice is a known ‘aphrodisiac’, and that might take your mind off of grocery prices for a bit. You’re welcome.
The “crab cake” is probably only 10% crab.
Wrong! If you start measuring inflation at the start of Biden's inauguration, the CPI was 258. It is now 309, so prices have increased 51 basis points since Biden took office; an increase of almost 20% in less than 4 years. So to say that inflation is down means that the CPI would have to be less than 258, so that statement is a baldface lie.
Also, the CPI conveniently does not include changes in fuel or food costs, which means the CPI is substantially understated. If you'd include those price changes, the CPI index would suggest an inflation of closer to 35%. Since I'm living off my social security checks, my spendable income has fallen by almost a third under Biden's "leadership".
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