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To: unrealistic_thoughts who wrote (53621)	5/6/2006 5:43:47 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 306849

While I agree with a lot of what you say, I believe your car, any small appliances, many foods (especially seafood from Asia + vegetables from Latin America), technology services like broadband access and cell phone delivery, as well as many wages have depreciated over the same period, as you say. Cars are a great example, they have depreciated over the past 10 years in terms of the cost of real consumer dollars to buy them. Plus anything electric. So basically, anything that comes from China or India is depreciating while everything they consume is appreciating. Is this how free trade is supposed to work? We basically exported our recovery to this region and now we're left with the bill.

To: unrealistic_thoughts who wrote (53621)	5/6/2006 6:07:41 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

If you believe government CPI numbers You got better, buddy? And don't tell me "gold". You can't eat gold. Your grocer won't take it for food. Your life expectancy is going to be rather short- -about 30 days. Does the gov't play with CPI? You bet! They've given themselves lots of reasons to. The larger it is, the larger the increases to SS recipients they have to pay and the more pissed the voters are. Weights and "factors" are used in calculating CPI. But the same is true of GDP. Both are political numbers. So now YOU give us one that isn't. Sound good? then you probably also believe that there are WMD's in IRAQ, No. If you looked closely at the evidence the gov't presented BEFORE the war, it was rather weak. that Clinton never did anything with that girl, He absolutely did and you know it and I know it. So does the little blue dress. that Global Warming is only a theory, Care to explain all the large temperature variations that occurred BEFORE the industrial revolution? And before men existed? Try this for starters: chatham.edu and that Supply Side Economics does more than just line the pockets of the Elderly Rich ?? Dream on, lie believer. You believe lies, not I. You think the cost of living has DOUBLED in 6 years. That's whats required to justify that 100% claim. Let's see your numbers. It's put up or shut up time. Care to try again?