No, utility bills aren’t new. But with today’s rising prices at the grocery store and the gas prices at the pump getting higher and higher, in many cases, it’s all a family can do to survive each month. And now the rise of the utility bills just to put the icing on the very bloated cake. It seems that with the end of winter, because of the difficulty people are having in coming up with the money for all the bills, the utility bills are starting to suffer. Lots of people have opted to stop paying the light bill and the gas bill since it’s not freezing out there anymore.
Okay, our family is one of those that lives almost completely on Social Security. Anyone who gets one of those checks or knows someone who does, knows that there is nothing rich about that. The crime is that the checks do not keep up with the continually rising prices of literally everything in sight. So, what is a family going to do when there is no food in the house, some of the people need medications that are sky high priced and the bills need to be paid? They either end up removed from their homes or they find themselves buried in bills they could not pay. Where do you draw the line? In the past, it was a rule of thumb to pay the bills especially those that were going to keep the family in lights, hot water and heat or coolness. I remember when the amounts of food coming into the house depended on how much the bills were each month.
These days, people are thinking more about making sure they have enough food instead. But the reality is that there is not enough money to go around anymore. Most of the middle income, lower and lowest income people are being touched by this incredibly bad situation. What can anyone do about this? I have no answers here. Perhaps when the greed dies down, we can survive all this. I have no idea. And the reality is that it will get worse before it gets better. Count on it.
This is not a fun subject but it is reality and it must be addressed. Since the congress appears to be doing nothing about all this, maybe if we made enough noise about it something would have to be done. What do you think about that?
EDIT NOTE: We just got our electric bill for this month. It was up considerably from last year at this time. We actually used less wattage but were charged more for it. Big shocker. The funny, as in very peculiar, thing is that the amount our bill was for this month was the largest bill we ever paid before. The largest bill we had last year was in August and was slightly lower than the one we just received. This is not going to get better any time soon. 
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