Why the cost increase?

I agree well said cd318. If it get deleted this time we'll ask Mrs Tammy to put it back up.. She can and has done just that.. There is software involved you know. It's not a physical mod most of the time..

tomic601, interesting. Now as soon as the heat wave breaks I think I'll get back out in the shop. 2 months, I haven't done a thing.. I use to couldn't wait to work in the shop, on cabinets..

Boy have things changed. I'm looking at a plinth on the back porch waiting for a clear coat.. It took a month to find a non water base hardener for oil base urethane.  They want 100.00 for clear coat.. My way is 30.00 a gallon and sets just as hard and polishes pretty darn good.. 6 weeks of curing and wax.. Hard to beat.. for about 10.00 a plinth..

Paint and good thinner is 20% higher in just the last 6 months.

Everybody gets a 10% raise to compare with 50% increases on everything else.. It NEVER fails, like vultures. Smokes were .39 a pack for camels and .29-39 cents a gallon for 95 octane fuel. 1969 My Dad made 2 cents a gallon on fuel.. 1.00 or 1.25 an hour...for wages

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Not too far… About 3 months ago I order a pair of Legacy speakers,  At that moment I ask about the prices in the future ( a few months, like my birthday in October or end of the year) I was interested in the surrounds speakers.  I said, we already update our prices May 31 st.  Regular price was $3000.00.  After a few days not even a week, just changed to $4950.00. I called right away and He said, nothing I can do.  I tried different place, I found the old price, placerd the order, they took my money, and after 3-4 days they cancel the transaction.  Saying they don’t have the product at that moment.   

Man people toss around trillions like it no big thing. If I started counting out loud I  couldn’t get to a billion before the end of my life.

Ah what the heck. They just reinstated a fire chiefs pension in Danville CA to over 20,500.00 per month. They had reduced it to 14,000.00 because of the way he stacked his last years.

One court representing the actual workers sued to have it reduced (his co workers) and won in a lower court. Only to be overturned in a higher court with back pay to the tune of 1.5 million dollars. The real kicker his retirement is greater than the salary he made when he was working full time.. PRISON!!! and whoever supports this type of thieving from the people.. Absolutely NUT

In Danville CA. The worst thing to ever happen was the hills would catch fire and that would wedged in the cattle. They new where to go in the basins where there was no grass..

250,000.00 a YEAR plus benefits.. For a fire chief in a COW TOWN converted to yippyville when the sprawl started.. When I was a kid You couldn’t give that land away.. 2 million an acre now in some places.. 20,000,000. For a 5 acre hobby farm..

BROKE doesn’t even get close to what’s wrong it’s not REDS or the BLUES.. IT’S BOTH.. No concept of DEBT.. NONE.. ZERO... They ALL spend like there is no consequence.

Raise the debt Ceiling.. NO LOWER IT NOW. Spend less than what you bring in.. Period. AND put people like this idiot who screwed EVERYONE he could, everyway he could, in a GD prison, forever along with the Judge and the lawyers that overturned the lower court decision.

Every month the spending exceeds the GDP, how is that ok? They're raising the limit. Not reducing the spending and paying OFF the interest.  All the while skimming the interest off SS for anything BUT SS and spending it like it has any place in the hands of people, who REFUSE to pay and fund retirement plans and reduce the nutso out of control spending OUT of our country alone..

Didn’t the Athenians try their leaders after their terms in office.. After all it was the cradle of Democracy..

If I had my way this type of stealing would get the worst of punishments.

The reduction in retirement payments of 6,000.00 a month to THIS fire chief is greater than the combined SS of me and my wife. His REDUCTION. for god sakes! 30-35 MAX working years.. MAX

We worked almost 90 years between the 2 of us paying social security. Glo and Me.. 90 F*&^ing years to read this CRAP.. about a THIEF Fire chief and a broken system letting him get away with it..

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I had to turn on the O2 machine after that one.. Bogart the O2 machine.. LOL.

51 hours in the hospital.. 81,000.00 dollars.. Last year at this time I got the bill.. AFTER coming home and having 16 more heart attacks behind a hard clot they missed.. 12k more BTW. ALL behind a bruised thigh..

I’ll bet money it’s 110k now. Not a worker ONE getting paid a dime more..

My insurance paid all but 117.00 of a 7k ride to the hospital. Sure great people though.. God sent those Nurses, X-Ray techs and Doctors. The X-Ray Tech found the clot, that was missed.. Sharp cookie..

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