LITTLE GEMS
Is inflation the right word, or is ‘more profit’ a better phrase to describe it?
For those who visit the restaurants in and around Lake Geneva has anybody noticed that it costs fifteen dollars or more in almost all the restaurants for a simple hamburger? How did McDonald’s get to the point where their reasonable (non-tiny things) cost six or seven dollars, as well? Try breakfast meals. It used to be in the not-too-distant past that a couple of eggs, a chunk of meat, toast, and coffee would total less than ten dollars, and in many cases much less than that.
Not anymore.
There’s cheaper stuff out there but most all of it is pre-made, and God knows about the timing of the pre-making. What about gasoline? Why and how does Lake Geneva, the city, get away with having all its gas stations commonly charging more than twenty cents a gallon more than is seen in Elkhorn, Delavan, and even Williams Bay? That’s just pure profit-taking at the expense of everyone who lives in and around the city. When the city, under the strange ‘command’ of Mayor Mayor, increased the parking rate, it didn’t charge ten or twenty percent more. No, it doubled the rate from two to four dollars. The public understands all this and takes it in stride, but is there any wonder that there’s so much anger displayed in every area, particularly in politics?
Inherently, by everything but definition, there’s not much good, except for very few, in a policy of completely free trade. Trade without rigidly hard and enforced rules simply doesn’t work in a capitalist economy, at least it doesn’t work while having the public experience much of any bliss. That’s a policy of fair trade, and that works.
Person of the Week
Mary Straus, heroine extraordinaire of the hot-selling war book called ‘The Cowardly Lion.’
