Why the cost increase?

Are you arguing for Socialism? I think you're just angry that some people have figured out a way to make some money and you haven't been able to either take advantage of it or beat them at their own game.

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I could not have said it more clearly..

I don't take advantage of people, you clearly think that if there is a will there is a way? If there is a a scam take advantage of it?

I see exactly where you're coming from, just like with skimming the coffers of SS, you think it's alright to take money from someone else's interest earnings and call it your own because of what reason?

Because a damn thief wrote a law and did just that? I called Nixon what he was A THIEF. Remember "I'm not a crook"? I do , HE was a crook, of the highest magnitude. The worst of the worst...

If you can justify that alone your probably ok with 9.75 % sales tax too.

10 cents on a dollar? ARE YOU KIDDING?

The "illegal SS contribution"? You are thick.....

People in this country use false SS numbers to obtain employment.

Where the HECK is the money going? We are talking BILLIONS of dollars being siphoned to WHERE?

WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING?... That is the issue I'm having?

Receiving stolen monies into our coffers, you're ok with that? Then it is stolen again by some thief posing as an agent for OUR GOVERNMENT to do with as they see fit?

Does Guns for Drugs, Ollie North, Iran Contra, Mena Arkansas, Bill Clinton and George W and Jr Bush, ring any bells.. THAT is what happens when people with OUR money , that aren't watched do behind the American people's backs.. Very  BAD THINGS... 

America is still the greatest country in the world, now let's clean it UP..
And act like it is.. The language when I walk outside.. When was the last time YOU told someone to watch their language? WHEN???

Gouging is NOT American.. But Picketing is...

I wonder how GRs prices are doing? Option for the speakers anyway?

Now the house? Maybe I’ll go with adobe brick.. Make my own.

Hope the price of digging up mud hasn’t gone up.

Gouge myself and see how that feels, a double screwin’

There is no doubt that a person that will work his butt off for half the day and picket his own job site the other half a day is a person in conflict.. I’m not that bad yet..;-)

Now look, no Admin step in. WHY? We all stayed civil and voiced an opinion that affect us all.. 

Stereo Stuff!!! Cost more... WHY??

Regards

• When was the last time YOU told someone to watch their language? WHEN???

I’m with you on this one. As for me, I’ve set people straight a number of times at our local high school football games. Idiots. Teens and grown men using foul language when women and children are present is a no-no as far as I’m concerned. Oh yeah, I’ve been given "The Bad Eye" a number of times, but they seem to shut their mouths after I’ve said something. What surprises me is, I’m the only one who seems to care.

Frank

PS:  Check out the social security system in Chile. 

https://fee.org/articles/how-we-privatized-social-security-in-chile/

Anyone notice how the only voices you now hear about ending UI is from the people here, and that it's no longer a big thing with the right wing media and politicians anymore? 

I haven't heard it once in the last couple of weeks except for here, in this echo chamber. Could it be that the benefits that companies got from the CARES act expired in June? You know, the one that allowed companies to deduct 50-70% of what they paid their employees up to $10K/quarter on their tax liabilities? When that ran out, they had nothing more to whine about so it's now onto the next manufactured crisis.

So now it's lumber? Canadian lumber is heavily subsidized by their government and dumped here at prices so low, it undercuts US suppliers. So where's the thievery coming from?

And as for welfare, why are public lands with publicly owned trees subsidizing the logging industries with below market rental rates on the land and with taxpayers paying for the logging roads to be built?

Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

In the late '90s it was almost half a billion/year in taxpayer subsidies for the logging industries. I wonder what it is now? Nothing like socializing the costs and privatizing the gains. Don't you people see that it's always been socialism for the rich and unregulated capitalism for the poor? Why do you think they hate the idea of socialism so much? Hint: because it works so well when you twist and pervert the use of it.

They've got you all fighting and complaining about the crumbs that fall on the floor but no one's smart enough to look at what they're feasting on at the table. And, that feast is the biggest, propped up by government racket going. In the past, the aristocracies used to employ extreme levels of violence to maintain their positions, but now, all they have to do is buy off their favorite politician.

All the best,
Nonoise

one 2" x 8" x 16 ft pine board:     $52    I choked and bought it for a project for my wife.  The porch will just wait...
I get some of the anger but hope the O.P. finds some relief from the anger; it's not good for one's physical being (or mental).