The most recent Consumer Price Index numbers are out for June (July’s are not yet out: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm), and they show that the cost of food overall, food at home, and food away from home (dining out, for example) rose across the board.
Here’s a look (and shudder!) at how some prices have changed month over month:
- Food: increase 0.2%
- Food at home: increase 0.1%
- Food away from home: increase 0.4%
- Energy: decrease 2%
- New vehicles: decrease 0.2%
- Used vehicles: decrease 1.5%
- Apparel: increase 0.1%
- Medical care service: increase 0.2%
It’s not uncommon to now see a dozen eggs selling for well over $5 per carton. A fresh gallon of whole milk on average costs over $4. And staples like flour and beef have increased in price by about 33% since early 2020.
“The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs rose 2.6 percent over the last 12 months and the index for other food at home increased 1.6 percent,” the CPI reports. A particularly interesting point is that if you go to the 2nd link above, you will find that the Feds have revised the numbers down… neat, huh? Just a little time travel does wonders!)
The above is all sheerest hogwash. Take your own trip down the aisles of your local Kroger or Albertsons or WinnDixie. Or even your local Sam’s Club or WalMart. Or whatever your favorite convenience store is. Take a sales receipt from June or July of 2023 and just compare the prices. 1%? Haw! 5% if you are very lucky. But probably you are looking at 10% or in some cases 25% or even 50% higher. Go to a Dollar Store (Family Dollar, Dollar General, etc.) – not much left for only a dollar: all those items that were a dollar in 2022 or 2023 are not $1.25 or even $1.50. Or they reduced 32 ounces down to 26 ounces. Or ten pieces to six. And that does not take seasonal highs into account: righ now we are in the middle of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally – and prices are as high as the denizens of the beer dens and strip clubs! (Of course, we must remember that there is history to consider: for Troopers from nearby Fort Meade (between 1878 and 1944), Sturgis was “Scooptown” for what the town did to soldier’s wallets and pockets.)
Back to the country as a whole: Rally numbers are down this year: one reason given is the rising cost of living, especially travel. One of many indicators of a US-wide economic crash (together with Monday’s stock markets.) Why? Oh, the GOP and The Donald want to blame Uncle Joe and the Dems. The Dems blame the Russians. But the GOP shares the responsibility.
They cannot look in the mirror and be honest about it.
Of course, as we here at TPOL have sometimes suggested, maybe they are just stupid. Ignorant. Unlearned. Ill-educated. Maybe they just can’t do math. (We know they can’t balance a checkbook, after all.) So they are using some new math calculations that somehow show that when milk that two years ago cost $2/gallon now costs $4/gallon, that is 4/2 = 2 and since it is always supposed to be a percentage then that is 2% inflation over 24 months, or 1/12% per month, and that is confusing to them, so they just round it to 0.2% (since it is easier to divide and multiply by 10 instead of 12). Right?
Only to the stupid and those who went through government-ruined, theft-funded schools: not uneducated but unlearned.
Government “succeeds” in many endeavors because of the ignorance of the people – who then believe the lies of government. Not just economic lies, but lies about science and medicine, history and politics, and especially about how desperately we need government!
Think about it.
About TPOL Nathan
Follower of Christ Jesus (a christian), Pahasapan (resident of the Black Hills), Westerner, Lover of Liberty, Free-Market Anarchist, Engineer, Army Officer, Husband, Father, Historian, Writer, Evangelist. Successor to Lady Susan (Mama Liberty) at TPOL.
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Government lies: the Consumer Price Index
The most recent Consumer Price Index numbers are out for June (July’s are not yet out: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm), and they show that the cost of food overall, food at home, and food away from home (dining out, for example) rose across the board.
Here’s a look (and shudder!) at how some prices have changed month over month:
It’s not uncommon to now see a dozen eggs selling for well over $5 per carton. A fresh gallon of whole milk on average costs over $4. And staples like flour and beef have increased in price by about 33% since early 2020.
“The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs rose 2.6 percent over the last 12 months and the index for other food at home increased 1.6 percent,” the CPI reports. A particularly interesting point is that if you go to the 2nd link above, you will find that the Feds have revised the numbers down… neat, huh? Just a little time travel does wonders!)
The above is all sheerest hogwash. Take your own trip down the aisles of your local Kroger or Albertsons or WinnDixie. Or even your local Sam’s Club or WalMart. Or whatever your favorite convenience store is. Take a sales receipt from June or July of 2023 and just compare the prices. 1%? Haw! 5% if you are very lucky. But probably you are looking at 10% or in some cases 25% or even 50% higher. Go to a Dollar Store (Family Dollar, Dollar General, etc.) – not much left for only a dollar: all those items that were a dollar in 2022 or 2023 are not $1.25 or even $1.50. Or they reduced 32 ounces down to 26 ounces. Or ten pieces to six. And that does not take seasonal highs into account: righ now we are in the middle of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally – and prices are as high as the denizens of the beer dens and strip clubs! (Of course, we must remember that there is history to consider: for Troopers from nearby Fort Meade (between 1878 and 1944), Sturgis was “Scooptown” for what the town did to soldier’s wallets and pockets.)
Back to the country as a whole: Rally numbers are down this year: one reason given is the rising cost of living, especially travel. One of many indicators of a US-wide economic crash (together with Monday’s stock markets.) Why? Oh, the GOP and The Donald want to blame Uncle Joe and the Dems. The Dems blame the Russians. But the GOP shares the responsibility.
They cannot look in the mirror and be honest about it.
Of course, as we here at TPOL have sometimes suggested, maybe they are just stupid. Ignorant. Unlearned. Ill-educated. Maybe they just can’t do math. (We know they can’t balance a checkbook, after all.) So they are using some new math calculations that somehow show that when milk that two years ago cost $2/gallon now costs $4/gallon, that is 4/2 = 2 and since it is always supposed to be a percentage then that is 2% inflation over 24 months, or 1/12% per month, and that is confusing to them, so they just round it to 0.2% (since it is easier to divide and multiply by 10 instead of 12). Right?
Only to the stupid and those who went through government-ruined, theft-funded schools: not uneducated but unlearned.
Government “succeeds” in many endeavors because of the ignorance of the people – who then believe the lies of government. Not just economic lies, but lies about science and medicine, history and politics, and especially about how desperately we need government!
Think about it.
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About TPOL Nathan
Follower of Christ Jesus (a christian), Pahasapan (resident of the Black Hills), Westerner, Lover of Liberty, Free-Market Anarchist, Engineer, Army Officer, Husband, Father, Historian, Writer, Evangelist. Successor to Lady Susan (Mama Liberty) at TPOL.