I understand that the grasshoppers will always want the ants’ food, but now the ants have little left and what the grasshoppers are still skimming isn’t filling them (inflated dollars). Without massive increases in entitlement payments, those people can’t gas their cars or take as much home from the supermarket.
People on fixed incomes (social security, pension, welfare payments, etc.) are the hardest hit because the inflation is being deliberately understated to keep those costs down; “Obama’s people”, like many of us, are worse off than 3 years ago. The ones I know are a demoralized lot, publicly praising him while privately wondering what the heck is wrong.