An excellent poetic description of such times as this! Well done, Edward! What we lack today is authentic leadership! Clown Harris is always smiling, which is nice. But take her off script, and she will sound like the RIDDLER! She talks in circles! She is a GREAT circus act but not good presidential material. Our present administration has brought inflation to new heights! God save our country! Amen X 110!

I have a 100 bolivar note from Venezuela pinned to my wall to remind me that inflation can happen to any currency when government goes wild with printing money. I'm sure you can buy one for a few American pennies. But the dollar is not immune either, as we have seen. Let this on-target poem remind you not to sell your gold and silver coins. Woops. We don't have any more gold and silver coins, do we? And I used to return from Las Vegas with a pocket full of silver dollars. What happened to them?

Nice work and a good subject

Very thought provoking, thanks for sharing :-)

you are both of what you deny...and good at both. this 'alitte bit of sugar' makes the 'seriousness' go down, was excellent...pat

Edward, you'll love this; in today's mail I received my annual form ssa 1039 - Social Security Benefit Statement (how much I received in benefit payments from SS. To my surprise I found that they (SS) added over $1100.00 to my income and called it, and I quote, "Medicare part B premiums deducted from your benefits." I've been on Medicare for almost five years and this is the first time they've dunned me for something I didn't know I was going to get billed for. Only in America!

Inflation, Inflation, Inflation, damnation...that and a lot more.
Cheers,
Dan

There's no such thing as free lunch. When we exploit the ground for its riches in minerals and water, the forest for its trees, and the sea for its fish and animals, we search the world over for the lowest price, and usually get it. Exploiters never pay full price and pass the savings onto us by way of discounts and middleman like Amazon.com and Walmart.

Sooner or later there is scarcity. And when there is scarcity, the price, inevitably, goes up. When many prices go up, we have inflation. When our paper and electronic money becomes useless, we fall back on the goods and commodities we have that we can trade. Woe is me. Few of us have tradable assets.

So many seniors rely on fixed income to carry them through long retirement. Inevitably, prices rise and they get caught in the trap of negative cash flow.

Your poem holds a hidden warning for all of those that think they can survive on fixed income until the end of their days.

Ron

As my father taught me when I was very young, the financial system is the bane of life on this planet. It has always been. Earthians seem to learn nothing. Everybody (countries etc.) is/are in debt. To whom is the money owed? "They" sure don't want the system altered in any way. Money is power and control. Well. You got me thinking, Edward. Love and peace,

Regis