This article from the Daily Mail:

The REAL cost of inflation: Steak has soared 22%, kids’ shoes by 12% and washing machines by 19% – despite official rate of 5.4% – as value of dollar is on pace to be cut by half in just 13 years

The article covered price increases in various goods and services, all of which I have covered before.

Only sentence in the article that needs to be highlighted.

Overall inflation hit 5.4% on the year last month, matching a 13-year high, if that rate persists, the value of a dollar would be cut in half in 13.3 years

That’s the critical point right there.

Remember a few days ago Miguel published the post “Men who wanted to be left Alone.”

I’m going to repost the whole thing because of just how salient it is:

The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of “Men who wanted to be left Alone”. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love.

They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over.

The moment the “Men who wanted to be left Alone” are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these “Men who wanted to be left Alone” will fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives.

They fight with raw hate and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these peoples’ doors, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy… but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the “Men who wanted to be left Alone”.

Allow me to get completely real with you.

I have three degrees and a technical certificate across three different fields of engineering.  I have a job that I really like.  I make $130,000 per year.

My wife has a bachelor’s and master’s degree.  Her salary is commensurate with her level of education, about $70,000 per year.

Our household income is just north of $200,000, not including bonuses.

I enjoy a decent, upper middle-class professional quality of life.  Of course I have to watch my budget and not do anything stupid, but I’m not hurting.  I have a nice house in the suburbs, a pickup truck, a used sports car, and a minivan for the wife to haul the kids around.  With a little bit of self control, I can occasionally buy a new gun or other toy when I want one.  I can take the family out to a restaurant every once in a while.

That is what keeps me in line.

I enjoy my middle-class life in the suburbs with my kids and I’m not going to risk losing that.

But what happens is that is taken away from me.

When I got my first job, my salary was $85,000 and my wife was doing $35,000.  Combined income of $120,000.  We didn’t have kids and lived in a 1,500 sq-ft condo.  I was driving a 10-year old truck that had seen several salt covered winters past better days.

Take my current household income and cut in in half with inflation.

The purchasing power of my money will be worth less than my income when I first got out of school a decade ago.

Everything I worked for and built up, everything my wife worked for and built up, over the course of our adult lives wiped out and we’re sent back to square-one fresh out of school again.  Not because of something we did but because the powers that be did it to us.

Make a family like mine have to turn down the heat to 60 degrees in the winter so I don’t have a utility bill that’s half as much as my mortgage payment.

Make me have to choose between new shoes for my kids or red meat in my spaghetti sauce because I can’t budget both in the same pay period.

Make taking my family to a sit-down chain restaurant for burgers and chicken strips a birthdays and anniversary type special occasion.

Take away the upper middle-class quality of life that I worked so hard for, the thing that keeps me in line, and see what happens.

I cannot be the only guy who feels this way.

That is exactly the direction this nation is going and right now the clock is set at 13.3 years.

Unfortunately, I don’t see the rate of inflation slowing down, or even leveling off.  In fact, I see it speeding up as our government responds to every problem by making them worse.  That 13.3 years may come sooner.

Utterly destroy the middle-class lives of Middle American professionals by cutting the value of their middle-class salaries in half.

Take away a lifetime of hard work and a achievement in their careers and see how many of them remain peaceful.

That is a very nice price for a class.

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But depending on what you are looking for, there are some deals to be had.

I went to Academy Sports yesterday to look at rifles because I am so seriously liking the Ruger American Predator Moss .308 Winchester Bolt-Action Rifle selling for $449.99
Now compare that with they asking full retail for the Ruger PC 9mm Luger Semiautomatic Carbine of $599.99.

I am not badmouthing the PC9, far from it and you guys know I have one which I love and bought at a well-below-retail price. But I am also well aware that it has limitations and I would not used but for relatively short distances, namely 25-50 yards with the provided iron sights which is the reason why I added a light and it is one of my inside-the-home + home perimeter weapons.

But my reality has changed somewhat and I now need something with a bit more long distance and “oompf”  to serve both as hunting stick and “other duties” weapon. And then I am seeing .308 populate the shelves again while .30-06 has disappeared from the market or so it seems.

But I am writing from my new point of view and  needs rather than what most people that make the market want and need. Going full urbanite/suburbanite,  the PC9 makes more sense because you will probably will not need any long range, full power cartridge that can go through many walls or clear across the neighborhood while a pistol round shot with a carbine will have that bit extra velocity provided by the long barrel giving you proper defense force.  And being able to be taken down and transported in a case that does not scream “GUNSZ!” is an advantage if you happen to have a neighbor who is less than thrilled about the Second Amendment and will dial 911 in a jiffy.

At the end, we revert back to the Supply and Demand flow of commerce.

PS: I forgot to mention that 9mm is also becoming more and more available and is less expensive than rifle cartridges. Another plus for the Pistol Caliber carbines.

When we go from quoting this:

To parading this:

The sad part is that the people tagging us with the “freedumb” moniker, are not in control of their security but they relinquished it the State with the conviction they will be perfectly taken care of.  What they do not know is that the State’s version of security is very similar to a chicken coop: As long as you provide the state with “eggs” (taxes and other contributions) and don’t peck on other chickens, you will have a nice confined life. The moment you stop producing or are a threat to other chickens, off the the soup you go.

Freedumb? You must mean Free Range, my dear future KFC 2-piece meal with biscuit.

https://twitter.com/leftyinvests/status/1449102415689519104?s=20

People were mad at $1.79 gas, record low unemployment, record high wage increases, and mean Tweets.

Whatever is going on today, mad doesn’t begin to scratch the surface.

This is the Biden Administration’s playbook:

1. Utter, bumbling, hamfisted, dog-humping, bed-shitting, fucking incompetence leading to total disaster.

2. Lie and deflect and tell you why everything you think is bad isn’t and it’s all really your fault.

3. Repeat.

I told you Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg took two months off for paternity leave.

I think the reality is, like his boss Joe Biden, he knows he’s incompetent and is in hiding.

Now comes the deflection.

Also proud to work in an Administration that is fighting to make paid leave a reality for everyone, and with people like @SecretaryPete who are role models on the importance of paid leave for new parents https://t.co/Zby6W6XoNo

— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) October 15, 2021

I’m a millennial.  I’m all for paternity leave.  When my wife gave birth and she was at home, it would have been very helpful to have that first two weeks off too, to help her with the baby while she was still recovering from labor.

Two weeks.

But unless that baby fell out of his dilated asshole he only needs two weeks off not two months.

Especially as a fucking cabinet secretary during a crisis.

But nope, this Administration is going to tell you that a cabinet official disappearing during a crisis for two months is good.

Just like 6% inflation and a 50% increase in your heating bill in winter is a good thing.

I think the silent majority of Americans finds it repulsive to mock a gay dad for taking paternity leave

— Christian Vanderbrouk ?????? (@UrbanAchievr) October 15, 2021

And if you still think Secretary Pete needs to do hid fucking job during a crisis, new baby or not, you’re a homophobe and a bad person.

This will not get fixed.

They will bumblefuck it more.

And when we have a heating and energy crisis in the dead of winter and we all discover that the Secretary of Energy knows precisely dick fuck-all nothing about energy because she’s a jagoff lawyer from Harvard, we’re going to be told that anyone who complains is a misogynist.

Mark my words.

Why the Army thinks a French Manicure is an “obnoxious” color compared to the civilian world which views it as an understated yet professional look is beyond me. But I have to be in uniform tomorrow, so here we are. It looked nice while it lasted. pic.twitter.com/GOxjDHbROR

— Jo Clyborne (@joclyborne) October 15, 2021

Because we have fucking Two-Star, Major Generals bitching about the Army’s grooming standard on blue check Twitter accounts like teenage girls about the high school dress code.

For fuck’s sake, your job is to be a war fighter and you’re complaining but how you can’t have a French manicure in uniform even though it’s acceptable in a professional business setting.

This is ridiculous.

Our military isn’t up to winning wars anymore because they are too worried about white rage and white tips.