Common Cents Economics

Nothing brings economic awareness to the forefront of daily issues like tax filing season. Once in awhile people will venture into the melting pot, talk to folks they don't normally talk to, read what is inside of a newspaper or peer over the self erected barriers that keep them from the real world. Then all of a sudden they realize things aren't so great and maybe they should pay more attention. The realization soon passes and they again immerse themselves into oblivion hoping that by ignoring the facts the bad stuff will go away, never grasping that if they don't deal with bad stuff and it doesn't go away they lose self determination.

One such event happened recently at the grocery store when the prices in the dairy aisle went up 10% overnight. All of a sudden the chatter in the check out lanes was all about the  price increases. Where have these people been for the last 5 years ? By the end of the week, no more talk about the price increases. The facts are that we have not recovered economically from the recession of 2008/2009 which by classic definition makes it a depression. How many folks get food stamps ? That makes for some pretty long bread lines, which by comparison to the Great Depression and percentage of population in bread lines makes today's bread lines much longer and effecting a larger segment of society.

These types of things bring up the question of - why has the government not done anything to correct this problem of economic woes, unemployment, inflation, lowering standard of living, increasing tax burden on the working class, growing entitlement class, rising healthcare costs .....etc. After all they have the wherewithal to get us back on track. The answer is very simple; a socialist administration and a Federal Reserve using the wrong economic models. You couple that with a population of socialist leaning, under educated people and you get exactly what we have - a mess. Things are going to be different when this all shakes out. I hope you folks are ready.

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