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<blockquote data-quote="Bagels" data-source="post: 1127543" data-attributes="member: 43436"><p><strong>Re: Concessions with record profits?????? are u serious hoffa and Hall?</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No offense, but take your own advice and do some research <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" />.</p><p>- Over the past two years, grocery prices have not gone "way up." The CPI has them rising 1.5%-2% in 2011, and virtually unchanged in 2012. Walmart Shopping Basket indexes (compares a shopping list at Walmart, which does not utilize sale pricing, from year-to-year) has them rising about 1% during this time frame. Actual cumulative spending on groceries is virtually changed on heavier volume.</p><p>- Since February 2011, gasoline prices have fallen within the same confidence interval, rising less than 1% on average overall. </p><p>- Natural gas prices have hit a ten year low, by far offsetting increases in for electricity.</p><p></p><p>FT workers in the USA over 25 earn a median $40K annually and contribute $4300 toward family health coverage.</p><p></p><p>To suggest that inflation would've increased your cost of living by more than $5K over the past two years is absurd. I think the problem is that some BC members believe that trading their Hyundai in for a Mercedes constitutes an inflationary expense. My brother commutes weekly by air from his home in Florida to his job in Ohio; he spent $11,000 more on air travel in 2012 than he did in 2009 -- this is an example of personal inflation. Wage hikes are meant to cover / subsidize CPI (standard inflation) increases, not personal inflation. So if you're a driver performing a 200-mile RT commute to work daily -- we have several at my building -- yes, you're more volatile to fuel increases but that's your problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bagels, post: 1127543, member: 43436"] [b]Re: Concessions with record profits?????? are u serious hoffa and Hall?[/b] No offense, but take your own advice and do some research :). - Over the past two years, grocery prices have not gone "way up." The CPI has them rising 1.5%-2% in 2011, and virtually unchanged in 2012. Walmart Shopping Basket indexes (compares a shopping list at Walmart, which does not utilize sale pricing, from year-to-year) has them rising about 1% during this time frame. Actual cumulative spending on groceries is virtually changed on heavier volume. - Since February 2011, gasoline prices have fallen within the same confidence interval, rising less than 1% on average overall. - Natural gas prices have hit a ten year low, by far offsetting increases in for electricity. FT workers in the USA over 25 earn a median $40K annually and contribute $4300 toward family health coverage. To suggest that inflation would've increased your cost of living by more than $5K over the past two years is absurd. I think the problem is that some BC members believe that trading their Hyundai in for a Mercedes constitutes an inflationary expense. My brother commutes weekly by air from his home in Florida to his job in Ohio; he spent $11,000 more on air travel in 2012 than he did in 2009 -- this is an example of personal inflation. Wage hikes are meant to cover / subsidize CPI (standard inflation) increases, not personal inflation. So if you're a driver performing a 200-mile RT commute to work daily -- we have several at my building -- yes, you're more volatile to fuel increases but that's your problem. [/QUOTE]
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