Rising Prices Really Hurt

To The Editor: My name isn’t Eddie Chiles, but I am mad as _ _ _ _ too. I just got home from the grocery store and my total purchases are now at $200 weekly. Some regular items increased close to 100% in a week or less. I won’t mention putting a little gas (very little) in the truck or the price of toilet paper made from recycled paper. This is just wrong. Why are we as a nation so complacent about this situation? Having just read the Record article about Albina Huebel, made me think of when our whole country “worked hard, cleaned our plates, and said thank you (NOT “no worries,” but a sincere thank you). I went to work in retail at 14. My meager earnings went straight into equally meager family funds. Those funds were all earned the old-fashioned way by hard work. I also worked hard to pay for my education. As a retired teacher, I worked hard to supplement our income on a teacher’s salary and now I am working hard to survive on inadequate retirement funds. This is just wrong. I don’t know the answer. I write and call my senators and congressmen to no avail. The pure evil which has been wrought against these United States is massive and I am on my knees daily.

Dawn Jamail West Point