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TexasLawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:22 PM Original message |
Do you really believe we have 3% annual inflation? |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
1. Maybe, on the misadministrations select list of consumer products. |
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focusfan (884 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:37 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. I think they are using the new math |
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liberaldemocrat7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 10:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
39. The Republicans: Hooked on Hedonics |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
2. No. My guess is 8-12% annual real inflation for consumer goods. |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
3. Economic depressions don't usually have runaway inflation. |
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skids (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:43 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. I don't think what is to come will be anything "usual"... |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 03:23 PM Response to Reply #3 |
29. Well, remember.....STAGFLATION??? That was a bummer... nt |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 10:43 PM Response to Reply #3 |
38. Not the depressions, but the run up to depressions |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
4. Of course not. I don't know anyone whose expenses have risen only 3%. |
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allisonthegreat (586 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Yeah it is like gas and food..Government knows you need it n/t |
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here_is_to_hope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 06:34 PM Response to Reply #4 |
31. Thats what I come up with too... |
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PSPS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
5. Like everything else from this administration, it's a lie |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
6. Well. . There's the math they're selling to us.. . |
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ikojo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
7. Aren't a lot of things not included when |
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charlie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
10. As long as they're allowed "in kind" substitutes |
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skids (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
11. You are attempting to make me laugh, right? n/t |
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Ready4Change (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
12. If you include home prices, for the last couple months, maybe? |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
14. Government inflation, unemployment, really all of their economic numbers, |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
15. Only ten percent??? |
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BelgianMadCow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
16. I argued we had higher real inflation against my dad |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
17. No. nt |
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renie408 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:56 PM Response to Original message |
18. Maybe after you eliminate all the stuff people buy, we do. n/t |
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shaniqua6392 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
19. I don't trust any of their figures!! |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
20. the 'numbers' are so spun and manipulated they mean nothing |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
21. Inflation is calculated differently now than it used to be. |
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vssmith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 02:55 PM Response to Reply #21 |
28. What about health care and college expenses? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
22. For correctness some of these numbers have not |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
23. This is just the usual admin policy |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
24. I think it's 38%. You guys are all SOOOOO naive. |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 07:33 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. That was the actual one month increase in commodity prices |
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mediaman007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
25. So in reality, Jimmy Carter did a good job! |
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Trillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 02:23 PM Response to Original message |
26. Both are the MONEY party ... |
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bigbrother05 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
27. They do it to keep down military pay |
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Wiley50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 10:40 PM Response to Reply #27 |
37. I works the same way with Social Security, SSDI and SSI |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
30. You really need to read This ARTICLE! |
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TexasLawyer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 09:33 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. That is a good article |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 10:30 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. WAY too many things in that article are insane! I was an |
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necso (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
34. More raygunomics at work: |
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kineneb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
35. he-yell no! |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 11:35 PM Response to Original message |
40. Even lower when you |
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Hoof Hearted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-30-07 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
41. Not at my house. n/t |
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