At 6:50 AM 3/8/5, Jones Beene wrote: [snip] >When you ending >up paying for several million people taking statin at $600 >per year per consumer, when fish oil + aspirin at $75 year >does almost as well in comparative testing, then this is not >exactly the same kind of inflation as in other segments of >the economy (and I am not suggesting that statins should not >be taken, only that they are a very poor value, and that it >is a "choice" issue).... Consequently when there is no >choice, and everyone is forced to pay arbitrary >OPEC/petrol-mafia style price increases for the same >unimproved item, things are FAR different for comparison >purposes.
You can make the same argument about the price of a cup of coffee. However, inflation is inflation. >There are very few inflationary items in our economy that >have the same basic inflationary **push** as oil - it all >starts with oil and petrochemicals. I think it starts with government creating or printing money it doesn't have, whether that money is created for the pupose of paying more money for medical care, petroleum, weapons or replacing a tax base lost to overseas manufacturing. Regards, Horace Heffner
