One of the things I do for the boat I work on is grub shop and it's getting harder and harder.

I get a grub allowance and buy grub with it.

It wasn't all that long ago I'd have a surplus and we'd use the leftover funds to buy something we could use out there such as some halfway decent raingear.

The surplus is there no longer as inflation has eaten at the value of money for all of us. Things are going up and that's simply the way it is.

I suppose that sometime the company will raise our grub allowance but that is not the point.

It looks now like Americans are not going to live as well as they used to unless their employers raise their pay. Employers are not going to be able to raise employees pay unless they raise their prices.

It is a round robin effect that will only serve to make life a little more miserable for everyone. Add the prospect of the minimum wage going up and things will only get worse.

If you are retired and on a fixed income you are pretty much screwed. Over time the retirement you planned that included three trips a week to the golf course and steak and lobster a couple nights a week will likely be reduced to no more golf and cat food three nights a week.

Of course, Uncle Sam will promise to fix the situation as always but the truth is that Uncle Sam caused it to begin with.



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