WHAT THINGS COST
Do you ever wonder what things actually cost? Sounds like an easy question...just look at the price tag. Walmart has the little yellow bouncing ball showing that its prices are continually going down. That will stop when the Chinese discover trade unions. The government tells us on a monthly basis that there is no inflation. This is demonstrated by the CPI, the Consumer Price Index. The only problem is that when the government figures it out, it removes the "volatile food and energy prices". Huh??? What a novel way to stop inflation: just remove the things that cost too much!!! A case in point is my mother, who had me buy her a Sunday Vindicator for $1.25. She buys it for the coupons, and after using the clipped coupons at the grocery store, the cents off coupons more than pay for the Vindicator. So the Vindicator cost her...nothing. Then she goes shopping at Giant Eagle, and uses her cents off coupons to get discounts on everything from napkins to Campbell Soup. So her groc