The true value of the American Benjamin Franklin in my pocket is exactly the same as the true value of that bill from Zimbabwe and I am afraid that it is about to be marked to market! Already we are at the point that the same nominal dollar amount that my father used to earn in a year as a master carpenter is only a good week’s pay or a poor month’s pay and he supported four sons and my mother stayed home to raise us. It would take his gross pay for ten years to buy a low end new car now. One average month’s electric bill for me now is equal to from two to three year’s worth of electric bills back in his day, of course I use a lot more power now but the price per kilowatt is twelve times higher than then. Gasoline is about fourteen or fifteen times higher than then. The sales tax on many items here is as much or even more than the item with sales tax added cost in those days. The worst part is that WE AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET!