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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Brad Johnson on January 05, 2023, 12:43:44 PM
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I have a new vision scrip and want lenses for my WileyX sunglass frames. Wow, have prices gone up.
Five years ago I paid $275 for single-vision polarized poly lenses with anti-glare, anti-scratch, and mirroring. As of today they're $450. Ouch.
Sure wouldn't mind those mean tweets right now.
Brad
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You seem to imply that Trump being president would result in lower inflation. Do you have any reason to believe that?
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We just have past fond memories of a prosperous economy, during which one could buy a pound of butter, with a picture of a proud native american emblazoned on the package, for under $4...
ZOMG! That's the issue! We have to put the indian back on the butter package!
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Eggs for under two bucks a dozen would be nice, too.
SWMBO and I ate at a local diner over the weekend. Their generic grilled cheese plate, formerly a $5 lunch special, is now nine dollars.
Brad
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You seem to imply that Trump being president would result in lower inflation. Do you have any reason to believe that?
We would still have inflation. Would it be lower? Maybe. With the elevated cost of fuel being a significant driver in the increase in the cost of goods I think it would not be as high as it is now if Biden had not declared war on the fossil fuel industry.
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Eggs for under two bucks a dozen would be nice, too.
Who do you blame for bird flu that killed millions of chickens in the layer flocks?
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You may have a point on the oil prices but Trump was pretty bad about the interest rate and deficit so who knows how much of it would have cancelled out.
What's ticking me off now is the Fed chairman is saying the solution is to bring wages down, as if wages are causing the inflation. Wages are going up but that's lagging inflation so it can't be the cause of the inflation, but that's what corporate America wants to hear. Gotta create a recession to spur layoffs so desperate people have to accept jobs at lower wages, and that will save "the economy". That's basically their playbook they are publicly promoting.
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What's ticking me off now is the Fed chairman is saying the solution is to bring wages down, as if wages are causing the inflation. Wages are going up but that's lagging inflation so it can't be the cause of the inflation, but that's what corporate America wants to hear. Gotta create a recession to spur layoffs so desperate people have to accept jobs at lower wages, and that will save "the economy". That's basically their playbook they are publicly promoting.
I can totally agree with you on that.
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A few days ago I went to a local optical place looking to have new lenses put in some existing frames that I had that were still in good shape. The lenses were quoted very close to what I originally paid for those frames and lenses together.