[DiogenesLamp]

The real reason they don’t count food, energy, taxes, insurance or medical costs is that a substantial amount of what the government pays out is, by law, supposed to be inflation adjusted. If they made those adjustments then the very act of making them would cause a further increase in inflation. This creates a positive feedback loop and would crater the dollar’s value in short order. So, they cook the numbers.

I have a better explanation. That lazy, ignorant, stupid, mouthy affirmative action "Fuhrer" we have now has ordered the FedGov to deliberately lie about the statistics because his disastrous policies have produced such horrible numbers, they have to lie to help the Propaganda agents in the Media hide the fact that his policies are so disastrous.

Chicago Mafia crap. That's all the FedGov inflation/employment numbers are any more.

[Gen.Blather]

“Chicago Mafia crap. “

I’d love to agree, but this actually started under Nixon. Nixon took us off the gold standard because LBJ had simply printed money to fight the Vietnam war and also have his Great Society at the same time without raising taxes. Charles De Gaulle realized this and started buying dollars and turning them in for gold. If Nixon hadn’t taken us off the gold standard France would have owned all of our gold. If you’ll recall inflation was at an all time high of 4%. Something had to be done! We got wage and price controls and a tweaking of how they counted inflation. The tweak has gotten worse and worse as time went on. Now, a correction would be politically unthinkable. So, the lie continues.