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All I've been saying from the top is that people should understand what the impacts and implications are and try to plan accordingly.
What I hear in pushback is that its unmeasurable, unusable if measured, and just following the CPI is good enough. Based on actual information, it seems that its quite measurable, quite actionable and often unrelated to the CPI.
Take C-T for example: he measured it, took actions based on his measure, although he found his results were similar to the CPI.
Were my concerns based on a knee jerk reaction based on a trip to the grocery store, I'd go along with the eye rolling "bunnys just a conspiracy theorist and doesnt believe in the cpi", but my cable and internet bills have gone up a bit ($34 and $29 a month 5 years ago, $54 and $57 today), my insurance bills have gone up about 35% even though I've gone to higher deductibles, my electricity and gas bills have risen about 20-25%, gas was $1.75 a gallon a couple of years ago and its $2.50 now after a time over $3.00...etc, etc, etc.
I'm not aware that anything I regularly purchase excepting the costco $1.50 hot dog and a drink has remained the same or gone down in price.
What I hear in pushback is that its unmeasurable, unusable if measured, and just following the CPI is good enough. Based on actual information, it seems that its quite measurable, quite actionable and often unrelated to the CPI.
Take C-T for example: he measured it, took actions based on his measure, although he found his results were similar to the CPI.
Were my concerns based on a knee jerk reaction based on a trip to the grocery store, I'd go along with the eye rolling "bunnys just a conspiracy theorist and doesnt believe in the cpi", but my cable and internet bills have gone up a bit ($34 and $29 a month 5 years ago, $54 and $57 today), my insurance bills have gone up about 35% even though I've gone to higher deductibles, my electricity and gas bills have risen about 20-25%, gas was $1.75 a gallon a couple of years ago and its $2.50 now after a time over $3.00...etc, etc, etc.
I'm not aware that anything I regularly purchase excepting the costco $1.50 hot dog and a drink has remained the same or gone down in price.