…your grocery bill, gas bill, etc. will go up by 25 percent…/snark
See, this is what I don’t get–they were just saying not two months ago that this was one of the worst droughts on record and our grocery bills were going to be severely affected–but this article states that food prices have pretty much stayed the same.
Ahem.
Like I’ve noted in my personal grocery bills, I’ve seen several items jump $1 or $2 per item in a month’s time, which really adds up if you’re on a restricted budget, as folks on S.S. are. They know that every time there’s a S.S. increase, it isn’t enough, and the prices will go up accordingly. (No, I’m not on S.S. or disability.)
I’ve done a quick search of several articles, and they all insist, via the Consumer Price Index that grocery prices have remained the same.
I looked up the table they publish: http://www.bls.gov/cpi/cpid11av.pdf for the 2010-2011 price list…and somebody ain’t telling the truth, here…
You have to scroll down to get specifics, and looking at something that most poor folks purchase: ground beef went up 11%. Eleven freaking percent in one year! White bread 5%; Cereal 3%; Bacon 13%; Fresh Fish and Seafood 8%; Eggs 9% Milk 9%; Potatoes 12%; Coffee 14%; Butter 14%; Peanut Butter 6%….and non-food: fuel oil 30%; water and sewage 5%; motor fuel 26% and on…
(note that medical care only went up 3%…well, now, the oil companies aren’t getting nearly as much attention from the politicos as the medical community’s medical costs increases…hmmm…twenty-six percent should garner a little more attention, dontcha think?)
But they’ll give you a 1% increase…
…so you can try to make that can of dog food go a little further…after all, the top 1% need those tax breaks so they can…feed and house their horses…and John McCain needs another house…
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