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 groceries cost....something less than is stamped on the merchandise. It is even better on double coupon days.
Then she buys her pharmaceuticals at the Giant Eagle pharmacy. These cost several hundreds of dollars each month, for which she is reimbursed by her insurance company, and soon the federal government. Her statins cost her....nothing.
At Giant Eagle, she get 10 cents off a gallon of gas for each $50.00 she spends. Given that she fills her tank up every 3 months because she doesn't drive anywhere, and all of the drugs she buys, the last tank of gas she got at the Get Go cost her........nothing.
So with a free newspaper, discounted food (more on double coupon days), reimbursed drugs, and free gas, maybe the Federal government is right. How can there be in inflation when everything we buy costs.....nothing. Isn't America great?
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 groceries cost....something less than is stamped on the merchandise. It is even better on double coupon days.
Then she buys her pharmaceuticals at the Giant Eagle pharmacy. These cost several hundreds of dollars each month, for which she is reimbursed by her insurance company, and soon the federal government. Her statins cost her....nothing.
At Giant Eagle, she get 10 cents off a gallon of gas for each $50.00 she spends. Given that she fills her tank up every 3 months because she doesn't drive anywhere, and all of the drugs she buys, the last tank of gas she got at the Get Go cost her........nothing.
So with a free newspaper, discounted food (more on double coupon days), reimbursed drugs, and free gas, maybe the Federal government is right. How can there be in inflation when everything we buy costs.....nothing. Isn't America great?
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