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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts) Tue Mar 4, 2014, 01:39 PM Mar 2014

Get ready to pay up: Five things that will cost you more in 2014

Food prices are expected to rise by 2.5% to 3.5% in 2014, according to the USDA Consumer Price Index.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ready-pay-cost-2014-article-1.1561733

According to the article..TIP: Build your menu around supermarket circulars. Then find coupons that match what's on sale in the circular. "Those two things combined can cut the price by 40%

But we have all kinds of money for defense

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Get ready to pay up: Five things that will cost you more in 2014 (Original Post) SummerSnow Mar 2014 OP

and interest on savings will rise? ha ha that's a joke nt msongs Mar 2014 #1

Social Security COLA yeoman6987 Mar 2014 #3

"But we have all kinds of money for defense" dixiegrrrrl Mar 2014 #2

msongs

(67,367 posts)

1. and interest on savings will rise? ha ha that's a joke nt

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Tue Mar 4, 2014, 01:43 PM

Mar 2014

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)

3. Social Security COLA

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Tue Mar 4, 2014, 02:46 PM

Mar 2014

They will find a way to say that in January 2015, a 1 percent raise is justified because nothing went up.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

2. "But we have all kinds of money for defense"

Reply to SummerSnow (Original post)

Tue Mar 4, 2014, 01:54 PM

Mar 2014

From Breaking news headline:
White House's fiscal 2015 budget request includes separate 'opportunity, growth and security' fund that would give the Pentagon $26.4 billion in extra funding for maintenance, training and aircraft - @Reuters

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