US Elections (& Politics) :)
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Just paid $2.31 at the pump this week. Groceries are not down or up where we live, pretty much the same as it has been these last couple of years. Restaurants have raised their prices, but hard to put a finger on it since we saw this happening last year too. Depending on which restaurant, how long they held out hoping grocery prices would go down, guessing, but one owner did tell us this. We have plenty of restaurants still with low pricing though. Mainly lunch specials...
The restaurants with buffets have definitely went up since we moved here 2 years ago. About a couple of dollars more for a buffet.
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But it's still Trump's fault that the June 2024 prices have not gone down. He had an entire 10 months to fix a four+ year issue. Bad, bad orange man!
As far as goods are concerned, I just reordered some Jeans that I ordered a year and half ago for $10 less than they were then, not on sale...these Wranglers I have been buying for a decade or more...$20 work jeans...Walmart, they beat Amazon on jeans...
We buy most of our stuff on Amazon though, it is very continent for us out in the country. Many things we rebuy so I know what we paid 6 months to a year ago. Zero pricing has changed. This our dog's medicines, septic tank tabs, pools chemicals (actually went down some), certain food items, etc. Been watching TVs for about a year or more, looking to possibly get one. No price changes there either.
Since I don't have Health Ins., presently, can't speak for it, my wife, yes went up, but looking at previous years it is not out of the norm for Medicare to increase. I will say one thing, SS Benefits are increasing which is normally stated due to Inflation, which I don't know, maybe it is up or down, hard to know which numbers are correct there.
In Texas, our Property Taxes have gone way down and two more Propositions passed Nov. 4th so next year it will go down even more, possibly no more paying for School taxes for Seniors too...that is a Big win for us...
I cannot speak for others, only ourselves, no price decreasing seen, or very little other than what is mentioned above, oh our vehicle Ins. went down $100 a year, got a new truck too last year...
Oh speaking of truck, same year/make/model is up $3000 more from when I bought it last year but I bought it at the end of the month, best time to buy a vehicle, I saved $2000 more back then, one day left to the end of month, Dealership needed to make their sales quota...
We are not looking for prices to decrease, rarely do they once they get up to a point so we are pretty much stuck with that point, IMO. Also, not looking for any handouts/$ from our Gov't, even though politicians like to promise things. We are not Democrats, did not vote for Trump to get handouts. I know many would love to see Trump perform a miracle and everything go back prior to the Plandemic, just ain't going to happen, again IMO
Just sharing...and trying to stay away from the buffets, lol
UPDATE: Wife did just inform me that meat prices have increased but could not give me a time line nor a percentage. She is right, I have noticed that, forgot to mention, just not sure if is just the local market/area here though. Many factors play on meat pricing...
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