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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brett_in_Sacto, post: 2302160, member: 71510&quot;]Meat - last time I was at the grocery store - a select grade rib-eye (lower grade cut) was $10/lb.&nbsp; Compared to $7-$8/lb a year or so ago.&nbsp; I know because I buy them once a month - pretty religiously - from the same store.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eggs - in Ka-lee-for-nee they went up because of several reasons - one in particular because the (political edited) made a new law saying that chickens needed bigger cages for their quality of life.&nbsp; So every farmer had to dump every cage they had and buy larger cages.&nbsp; There&#039;s also other costs (Foster Farms had to re-brand to safe face for bird flu or salmonella, something or other.)&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The end result is cost increase on both.</p><p><br /></p><p>Meals went up because distributors raised prices - and wage costs went up due to incremental minimum wage laws and new healthcare mandates.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s always a reason that everything goes up or down.&nbsp; The net effect on my pocketbook is prices are up.&nbsp; That is inflation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, you can stick to whatever the pundits are telling you - but I play it as I see it.&nbsp; I see my costs for the same goods and services going up, and have gone up dramatically in the last 3 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Water bill?&nbsp; Up because of drought (won&#039;t go down this year - even with all our rain and snow so far).</p><p><br /></p><p>Sewer bill?&nbsp; Up because of drought - dry pipes they say (next year it will be too much water - raise rates)</p><p><br /></p><p>The Sunday $16.95 lobster special at Rudy&#039;s Hideaway - now $19.95.&nbsp; Labor and healthcare rates I assume.&nbsp; It&#039;s gone up a dollar a year the last 3.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>THAT is inflation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>in·fla·tion</p><p>inˈflāSH(ə)n/</p><p><i>noun</i></p><p>noun: <b>inflation</b></p><ol> <li><b>1</b>.<br /> the action of inflating something or the condition of being inflated.<br /> &quot;the inflation of a balloon&quot;<ul> <li>Astronomy<br /> (in some theories of cosmology) a very brief exponential expansion of the universe postulated to have interrupted the standard linear expansion shortly after the Big Bang.</li> </ul></li> <li><b>2</b>.<br /> Economics<br /> a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.<br /> &quot;policies aimed at controlling inflation&quot;</li> </ol><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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