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Message:: [QUOTE="Vess1, post: 392376, member: 13650"]Bingo!!  So will there still be reason to celebrate over essentially treading water?   It's not looking like I'll be getting a raise this year.  But yet I just found out today (without notice) that my water bill is going up 30.00 a quarter.  So there's 120 bucks a year out the window for the same service.   The news tells me to expect natural gas to be up 15% this year from last year.  Expect $5.00/gallon gas at the pump by year's end also.  Oil prices hitting new records daily.  Food keeps going up.  Ammunition keeps going up.  Nobody can afford to buy vehicles anymore so Toyota's sales, down 21% in June.  Ford down 27%.  And from what?  Were they that good to begin with?   Now Starbucks is planning to layoff 12,000 full and part time workers and close up 600 stores.    Do I work for them?  No.  But it still tells me the economy has got to be bottoming out and gold and silver prices SHOULD be at all time highs right now.  Even though the dollar value means very little when you have to pay more for less every day.   If people actually knew the real inflation numbers (not the phony ones the government spits out) there'd be people going off the deep end.   It sure as hell isn't 3%!!   For now I guess I'll just be happy to have a job and the 'luxury' of DirectTV, internet and a few coins stashed away.   End rant.[/QUOTE]