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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (10103)	10/5/2009 12:17:19 PM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

That's a projection for one or two years... a data point not a trend as we discussed earlier. Didn't mean to suggest a trend, only to rebut your claim of a trend in the other direction. In my own experience, the cost of living has gone down. I had no trouble at all adjusting to a 50% reduction in my income when I retired. Clothing is so cheap now it's ridiculous. I just bought a winter jacket at Macy's for $33. I can't recall having paid less than three figures for a jacket. My previous one cost several hundred dollars. Yesterday I bought some country style pork ribs for 99 cents a pound. There are only a few things that have gone up for me. I complain as loudly as anyone about the cost of cable TV, I fussed about the cost of gas when it went bonkers, and was recently surprised at the high cost of pens, which I bought for the first time in decades, although I think that was more because they were only selling in packs of several or more rather than as singles. I rarely encounter something that seems expensive to me. So I have trouble identifying with the notion that the cost of living is escalating.