New Tanglewood Day

CTGull,TonyKgull,Derick,

It sound great for me, as my state pension has gone up by 10% of which I'm very greatfull, but 10% of very little, in not much of a rise in real terms.

I think I've heard that before somewhere!!

Inflation is more than 9%, I know what items cost say 2 years ago, every once in a while I come across a receipt from the grocery store that drifted to the floor and look at it. Most items are near 4 times the cost plus if you add in the price per gallon of gas the cost of natural gas and the electric bill all have gone way up. I look at the bill get these readings comparing what it cost me even a year ago compared to now it's 4 times the cost. 1 dollar is now worth 25 cent.

As far as wages go and working hours and min wage. Corporations who own these chains are not going to lose , it will end up with some sort of app and a touch screen drive through with no live person. They already have for a good long time self checkout at most grocery stores here and have added more lanes.

Look at what happened to Sears and Radio Shack , that was a while back and was the beginning of this sort of thing.

But the over paid politicians who care nothing for the people they claim to represent get everything on the tax payers dime , have no clue what it's like to deal with inflation and even after they retire still get their pay and cost of living increase.