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In reply to the discussion: They are not telling the story of food price inflation [View all]DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)EVERYTHING is going up, it's not just food.
For two years I have been watching the escalation of prices of everything. And the massive Republican owned main stream media is playing oblivious to everything..........Not only are the prices going up astronomically, their package size being considerably smaller is a double whammy. For about two years prices have been going up steadily in the grocery market, but kicked into high gear before the election to frame the cost increases/inflation as being caused by the Dems/Biden. Rape and Run is what it is called in many industries.
It is almost revenge by manufacturers to get even for increases in the Minimum Wage increases.
Also utility price increases are un-fathomable. We use the budget billing where you pay the same amount every month. Last years Xcel's bill for us was 182 a month. I just received the new year budget billing amount for us.......299 a month.
One eighty Two to Three hundred a month. A 74% increase!!!!!!!! The Colorado the PUC was, in the past, a group that looked out for the consumer in the situation of a monopoly. Colorado, (and I don't know about the other seven? states Xcel provides utilities) has done nothing except rubber-stamp every single rate increase Xcel puts across their desks. Xcel has succeeded in changing utility users in Colorado, from a PUC governed/regulated monopoly, into basically a For Profit Corporation.......
I saw an article that the Oil companies, and other major/top corporations and industries are reporting massive increases in their profits.
That wouldn't be the case if their "costs" were indeed increasing as they use as an excuse for all the corporations in America playing Rape and Run like nothing ever before in the History of our country/democracy.
BEND OVER AMERICA...........
The dictionary defines, in the most simplest of terms, FASCISM, as a merger of Government and Corporations. The New Republican party is hell bent on trashing Democracy, and installing a Corporate Fascist Tyranny. They are one millimeter away from achieving their goal. The top 1% is going all out to make that happen, and they will use any and all corrupt means to get there. They want the remaining 99% to be crushed into what would be the bottom 1%, becoming merely serfs and peasants.
WASF