Why the cost increase?


I went to buy materials for a speaker project. I also priced some T-111 siding on 8" centers, 5/8 thick, Ship lap.
I hadn’t picked up any sheets or anything in over 18 months.

48" x 96 x 5/8 wood siding was 19-26.00 and on sale 15-20.00 per sheet, NOW 74-84.00 per sheet.

MDF 3/4" 48 x 96" if you can find it. 45-55.00 per sheet it was 22.00 to 27.00 per sheet.

2x4x8 DF stud grade 1.99-3.00 per. Now 4-6.00 per stud,

There is no shortage but there sure is a LOT of price gouging. NOTHING changed. Just the price..

The quality is worse. The workers aren’t paid worth a crap...Why the increase?

I’m getting ready to finish my home out. WOW.. I might have to rethink this a bit..

The price all most tripled in 12-18 months.. This kind of stuff is NOT cool at ALL.

Just my opinion of course. Any projects you’re doing get put on hold or STOPED?

YES I’m very frugal. Money never came easy, and it leaves the same way..

oldhvymec
@nonoise I did not play the race card some one made a post, not me.

Also could care less about your liberal agenda and quotes from the Chronically Liberal Houston COVID Journal.

But since you like to lie supporting your Tyrannical agenda.

Stats are stats and per capital TX is way behind NY. Also TX is 6 times bigger than NY and has close to 9M more people (not including the 1M illegals that crossed into the Laredo District since January of 2021 a 400% increase over 2020.

https://abc7ny.com/texas-coronavirus-covid-new-york-jersey/6348516/

Also with Joe letting all those infected people invading the southern borders in, it will get worse as they are relocated all over the US.

I am all for immigration as we are all immigrants but come through the front door like our for fathers did.

Mr Noise again you are wonderful and the smartest guy in your house. (Bet you are alone too)

And as Stewart Smalley said. Man Leeann is sleeping …..

https://abcnews.go.com/US/sen-al-frankens-accusers-accusations-made/story?id=51406862

I am going to leave you and your audience of 2 and move on to less divisive topics. Like about audio and that’s an area you seem to never contribute much to.

Good day kind sir.

oldhvymec

So now you're calling me a scammer. I've never scammed anybody in my entire life and if you were any sort of polite person, you'd retract that. But I'm guessing you won't so maybe it's you who is the problem and not people who curse.

I'll tell you how I arrived at $3.5 billion. I assumed that on average the illegal workers make $40,000 per year, which is likely on the high side. 6.2% (the SS tax rate) of 40,000 is $2480. I have a source that says 1.4 million invalid SS numbers were used in 2019. So 1,400,000 times $2480 is $3,472,000,000 or approximately $3.5 billion per year. And when compared to the $6.55 trillion the government spends per year, it's totally insignificant. But worst of all, you didn't even acknowledge that it goes into the SS fund and never gets paid back out to the people who paid it in, so it BENEFITS you and yet you still complain about it. You're a totally illogical and completely wrong in your thinking on that one.

You have this terrible habit of ignoring the parts of my replies that are difficult or impossible for you to answer. That's how the incompetent debate, just ignore when bested. I got no reply from you on Clinton's balanced budgets, opening your own lumber yard to beat the price increasers (not scammers, price increasers) at their own game, and how illegal workers paying into SS actually benefits you. Maybe if you actually tried to reply to my actual statements, you wouldn't feel the need to go off on these bizarre tangents (see the next paragraph).

I don't have a clue why you are asking about my driving habits, but I follow all traffic laws and I never talk on my cell while driving. You make these crazy assumptions with no evidence and you just look foolish doing it, so just stop.
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The moderators are not deleting the post. The members are..

IF we kinda stay on track about the cost of goods and people taking advantage of the situation. Nothing would get deleted.. AG is a whole lot better than the, poor me crowd, SAYING "they deleted my post".

Don’t call names and we’ll be alright. BUT if the shoe fits as they say, enjoy the thread.. BUT hold back on the name callin’

Remember the song "Wild wood Weed".

Who was settin’ on that sack of seeds again?

The bag was full of seed not money.. Paper/alloys come and go, LAND is forever.. Trees in the Americas are the lifeline and backbone of this country.. Canada has always been the 51 state.. Even I know that..
Mexico is number 52. One supplies lumber, one supplies hard working manual labor.

Go ahead deny it all you want.. The US itself can sustain all the wood it need on it’s own.. No problem. The problem as discussed, is when the governments LEASES the land and it’s clear cut at the tax payers expense.. Tax payers don’t see a dime but the monies pour into the coffers with ZERO accountability for were it’s coming from, but worst of all where it’s going to..

AGAIN, Iran Contra and DRUGS (I mean tons and tons of cocaine) for guns (traceable military weapons) winding up in other countries and on our streets killing US citizens, not to mention the killings of all the unreported illegals in our country. And the legal citizens in their own country..

The land grab has just started... WATCH.. CUBA.. state # 53 coming up, 20-30 years at the most..

There is so much fake money flying around what is 1%. unaccounted for just a trillion or so..

The LOVE of money (not MONEY) is the root to ALL EVIL.. Loving OTHER peoples money, what do you call that, double EVIL..  NO its called coveting, one of the BIG 10 right there with killing, not one bit different..