So where's my $250 check?

[unkachuck]

....I may have a theory....

....if giving tax-breaks to the rich allows business' to create jobs without customers, will giving Seniors a $250 COLA replacement check create customers without jobs? The implications are serious....

....so I went to buy a deflationary gallon of gasoline at a local deflationary BP station....wow, $3.29/gallon!....I went inside and promised I wouldn't spill any gas or oil at the pump so shareholder value wouldn't be compromised in any way, yet the price remained $3.29/gallon. Why? We must be in a period of deflationary inflation.

....numbers being used at Social Security show deflation while numbers at the pump show inflation....reconciling deflationary inflation with customer-less job creation brings me to only one conclusion, "Where's my $250 check?", motherfucker....

[Newsjock]

1. But there is no inflation!

And people should stop saying that there is.

:sarcasm:

[katnapped]

2. Agreed

The government says there isn't so THERE ISN'T.

Now don't make a fuss or we WILL disappear you! :sarcasm:

[pacalo]

3. Everything's going up but the paychecks.

I'm seriously thinking about planting a vegetable garden in my backyard in the Spring.

[catnhatnh]

4. I LOVE the "little" surprises....

Like registering my 20 year old truck that cost $91 last year and finding out that including a $30 "surcharge" this year the tags are now $132...but if I complained I'm sure they would have explained that the surcharge was in the newspapers last January and that people on SS should have "budgeted" for it. Oh-and don't go around saying the OTHER $11 of mysterious increase is inflation either! No one knows how but all those little fees and surcharges grow and multiply each year and those don't weigh towards COLAs either.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. One of the totally ignored factors in this recession is the enduring

high energy prices. The last few recessions were ended after gas prices dropped way down, both Clinton & Reagan
benefited from this.

I don't think we will ever get relief like that again, since the markets are so well organized that as soon as there is any sign of recovery it is followed immediately by higher oil prices on the anticipation of increased demand.

The inflation index excludes energy & food prices, so it's based on wages, consumer goods & so on. Those things that are depressed right now.

[jwirr]

6. They needed it to pay the hostage ransom.