Bring Back The 2-Cent Coin

usc96, Peter Schiff discusses the CPI and how it's tweaked to disguise the true inflation in his book, Crashproof.

Like you said...all I know is my OJ is getting more expensive, so is my bread and many other things.

I remember when you could get 100 pc. of candy for a dollar but then, I didn't have a dollar but I did have somewhere between a nickel and ten cents when I went to the "penny candy store".

Some of the candy was
jawbreakers and Fireballs
swedish fish
licorice
flying saucers
big malted speckled eggs.
wax lips, wax mustaches, wax teeth
wax tubes of colored syrup drinks and they had em in soda bottle shapes too.
pretzel sticks
2 wild cherries on a string ( in February for Washington's Birthday )
They called em nigger babies right on the box ( honest to gawd, they were licorice sugar sprinkled black chewy babies )
Tootsie rolls and Tootsie Pops
They had a piece of paper that had dots stuck on them too that they rolled out and tore off and you would eat the dots of different colors right off the paper.
candy cigarettes and these were stuck together in 3's with pink coloring on the end.
You could get bubble gum cigarettes too and if you blew out the powdery stuff it looked like real smoke.

Today kids can't do the math to go to a store and get change in 2 and Three Cent coins, not only that the cash registers don't know how to do it either.

The CPI is definitely a fiction. For ages it has claimed around 3% a year. I run a carpet shop and we keep getting letters from our suppliers telling us that due to rising cost for raw materials our prices are going up 8 - 10%. And we get this letter EVERY THREE TO FOUR MONTHS. We are experiencing 30% inflation per year and have been for at least the past four years. Our costs have tripled in four years. Material I used to sell at $12 a yard retail now costs me $18 a yard wholesale. The CPI is a joke.