Issue: Economic: Inflation - only 3%??? where?

[Ponce]

Milk just went up from $2.89 tp $3.27 in my Micky Mouse one mule town, in one day...... spoke with the manager and whe told me that in three weeks it will go up another 5%.

Soft drinks up, toilet paper up, sugar up, rice up........lucky for me I have no family and I can afford those high prices.....but.....how about those with four kids that cannot afford it?, the majority of those living here are either on welfare. food stamps or both.

I don't know amigos, we don't have to wait for TSHTF because it is already here.

By the way, there is now only one store in this town so that all that I buy here is milk and bread......for anything else I go to the big town to Costco once a month, about 74 miles away.

Warning....... for those of you that are getting ready for WTSHTF, when you go to a large store like Costco, Sam's Club and so on and they let you buy only a certain ammount of something that's when you really will have to get ready, walk out and wait for ten minutes and then go back in and buy more.

How about you ???

 

[tonyr1988]

Just in case no one else knows (I had to Google it ): TSHTF = The S*** Hits The Fan

 

[Tsoman]

What state do you live in?

 

[lucius]

Most cargo moves by truck, the fuel prices are being incorporated. I was slapped yesterday at the pump by Big-oil corporate gangsters (George Bush and crew) for what I swag as being a 260% fuel increase since he has been office: all in the name of prosecuting a bogus GWOT.

 

[Ponce]

Oregon.....we have our own milk supply that only has to go about ten miles from farm to store.

By telling me that you don't know WTSHTF that tells me that you are one of those who are not ready for what is to come....... get AT LEAST a six months supply of food, this will give you time to sit back and think about what to do next.

 

[DrKevorkian]

I'm not disagreeing with you that inflation rates are easily manipulated, but groceries and gas are rising in price far above the inflation rate due to other causes and not necessarily inflation.

 

[Bradley in DC]

Consumer prices are not the same as inflation. GDP deflator is a better number.