Are you all enjoying your shrinking dollars? Today’s numbers:
Price increases over last year (CPI report)
Used Cars: +41.2%
Gasoline: +38.0%
Gas Utilities: +23.8%
Rents: +18%
Meats/Fish/Eggs: +13.0%
New Cars: +12.4%
Electricity: +9.0%
Food at home: +8.6%
Overall CPI: +7.9%
Food away from home: +6.8%
Apparel: +6.6%
Transportation: +6.6%
Shelter: +4.7%
Hotels +29%
Furniture +17.1
Chicken +13.2
New cars & trucks +12.4
Flooring +11.3
Lunchmeat +11
Dry clean +9.5%
Tools +8.7
Baby food +8.4
Full service restaurant +7.5
Pet supplies +7.5
Toys +6.7
Car repair +6.7
Ladies and gentlemen, this is only part of the price that we will pay for the “woke”politics being inflicted on this country. We have every indication that this is just the leading edge of the problem.
As this is written, diesel fuel is up over $5.50 a gallon. That’s up from $2.90 last year. Diesel is what power is the trucks that bring you everything that you have. Does anybody think that those fuel prices aren’t going to be reflected in even higher prices for everything else?
Addendum: the Washington Examiner has today’s numbers
