The criminal practice of price-gouging has been brought to the forefront of American news in recent history.

1. Haliburton and Iraq http://www.propagandamatrix.com/240104haliburtonwins.html
2. Energy suppliers and California's energy crisis http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/West/11/16/california.energy.ap/
3. Gas prices and "The War On Terrorism"
4. But the most devastating, and most recently noted (by this author) is the price of cream cheese at Einstein Bros bagel stores.

Yes, the sad fact is that Einstein Bros is participating in the unabashed gouging of bagel consumers around the country. Here are the facts:
The Einstein Bros bagel shop at the Georgia Institute of Technology Student Center in Atlanta, Georgia charges $0.75 for a bagel. A little pricey, but for a hot, delicious, 'everything' bagel... I'm willing to sacrifice 3 quarters. But wait! How much is a bagel with cream cheese? A bagel with cream cheese is TWO DOLLARS! DOS DINEROS! ZWEI DOLLAR! TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY JAPANESE YEN!!!!! Excuse me? Did you say $2 sir? But a bagel is only $0.75! So, a dab of cream cheese costs $1.25? Are we importing the cream cheese from Iraq? Is that why it's so expensive - - because of the current wartime situation? Yes, I realize that a "dab" of cream cheese at Einstein's is equivalent to roughly 14 daily servings, which is why I generally scrape off more than half. So, why don't they offer a lesser helping for those of us who love our cream cheese, but in moderation?.... Some of us aren't willing to give up drinking coffee (the magical elixer) with our bagel because we can't afford the freakin' cream cheese!!!!!

Give me a break Einstein Bros! Anyone with half a brain and the salary of a graduate student can tell that you are price-gouging the hell out of the bagel and cream cheese lovers of America. What is our world coming to?