esmith,
per your statement “my employer pays most of my health insurance anyway.” so you almost get a completely free health care. so this doesn’t apply to you.
You don’t eat so much. So cost of food doesn’t apply to you.
Your car is very thrifty with fuel (okay now $3.25/ gallon for premium and its only cost you $4.00 for 40 miles, so you get about 32mpg on your Beemer. What kind of beemer is this, a hybrid?). Again gas price doesn’t affect you.
Lets forget about utilities, who needs an AC anyway when you could watch the 50″ Plasma.
This make you not affected by all this price squeeze, but what I noticed is 2 gallons of milk is about $4.00 early of this year, now its about $5.50 (thats is more than 10% in less than a year), the inflation is real and I don’t care what the fed is projecting on the inflation number they generated its all garbage.