Why the cost increase?


I went to buy materials for a speaker project. I also priced some T-111 siding on 8" centers, 5/8 thick, Ship lap.
I hadn’t picked up any sheets or anything in over 18 months.

48" x 96 x 5/8 wood siding was 19-26.00 and on sale 15-20.00 per sheet, NOW 74-84.00 per sheet.

MDF 3/4" 48 x 96" if you can find it. 45-55.00 per sheet it was 22.00 to 27.00 per sheet.

2x4x8 DF stud grade 1.99-3.00 per. Now 4-6.00 per stud,

There is no shortage but there sure is a LOT of price gouging. NOTHING changed. Just the price..

The quality is worse. The workers aren’t paid worth a crap...Why the increase?

I’m getting ready to finish my home out. WOW.. I might have to rethink this a bit..

The price all most tripled in 12-18 months.. This kind of stuff is NOT cool at ALL.

Just my opinion of course. Any projects you’re doing get put on hold or STOPED?

YES I’m very frugal. Money never came easy, and it leaves the same way..

oldhvymec
"Everything is not left or right, fascist or liberal,...".
The way you worded it, you were making a comparison.
The way you reason goes a long way towards demonstrating how you could come up with this kind of explanation.

And I see my post explaining how the infrastructure bills are not going to add to the debt due to its relatively small proportion to the GDP and how the debt ceiling works and how the right are going to exploit it with lies has been deleted. It violated none of the criteria for removal. 

We've got some really dangerous people lurking here with an agenda other than audio.

All the best,
Nonoise

We've got some really dangerous people lurking here with an agenda other than audio.


Why would you say that? Just because people don't agree with you they are dangerous and have an agenda.
When they use an audio site to post lies and inflame dissension points to motivation. Why would they continually do that? Why would they censor those who speak up and point out their fallacies?

There are plenty of platforms out there besides an audio site where they can feel right at home. They should try GETTR (set up by Rump's press secretary) for those that support right wing platforms.

There's also Twitter and Farcebook and all manner of sites where they can glad-hand each other.

All the best,
Nonoise

@mahgister,

A great post, with much to consider.

"For universal health care system, it is beyond my understanding that some people dont understand that health care are not there to create profits....It is beyond my understanding that people let the pharmaceutical globalist companies RUNNING the show in this pandemic..."


Beyond mine too.

Especially questions such as why was not every virus lab in the world immediately closed down in the aftermath of the Wuhan lab leak?

Questions such as why do Bill Gates and Tony Fauci have financial links to the Wuhan lab?

Or why has this become all about Pfizer v J&J v AZ/Oxford v Sputnik v the rest in a cut throat stab in the back battle for the lion’s share of global vaccine profits?

Why isn’t this about pooling knowledge and coming up with a safe vaccine that genuinely offers 95%+ protection against all variations?



"Reading and studying is easy but also hard work, people prefer to be afraid and pointing fingers to a ready made scapegoat and let the hard books alone on the shelves and pick the "leftist" or "rightist" ideology without understanding how they ALWAYS be played now by globalist and transhumanist powers controlling the agendas...."


Another great point, namely why don’t people want to consider that there may be powers and forces operating at a level above national governments?

Powers that ALL politicians of all denominations must remain beholden to. Perhaps we might ask ourselves just how much power do the global banks and global pharmaceuticals really have over our elected representatives?



"I will add nothing, it is like in audio matters....Forget the marketing, use your hand and brain like our OP and enjoy high level S.Q. at low cost...."


Yes, this must be the best advice. When I was in my teens I had a great thirst for knowledge which I hoped would lead me to the truth one day.

So I read and read and yet came coming up against the same advice the and time again - ’Think for yourself’.

I hated hearing this because I knew I knew nothing and was desperate for every shortcut going, yet here I am some 40 years later and those words now sound more truer than ever.


Here’s George Harrison offering the same advice back in 1965.

https://youtu.be/F8hRX5tmq_s