Zero percent inflation? Clearly some people don’t buy their own groceries!
Which do you beleive / Your lying eyes , or the 'truth' commoning out from the most "transparent administration ever" ?
Is a /s even necessary ?
No kidding!
“Zero percent inflation? Clearly some people don’t buy their own groceries!”
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.
Just so. The OFFICIAL rate of inflation is zero, but that is a big, fat lie. Anyone who has to buy groceries, clothes, or pay the rent knows that inflation has been steadily flying upward. Most people are getting to the point where they can barely afford to live.
There has been AT LEAST 110% inflation (total) since Odumba$$ took office.
In 2008 my average grocery bill was about $150. It was that way for years, same buying pattern, same average price.
Now, with the exact same buying patterns, I am lucky to get out of the store without spending over $300 or $400. For the same groceries.
I have even gone over $500 occasionally - that’s over HALF A THOUSAND for you people edumicated by common core.
Zero percent inflation? Clearly some people don’t buy their own groceries!
No kidding. I can’t see how anyone can say we have zero inflation with a straight face. And that fact that Social Security is not getting a raise is a crime. I am FAR from Social Security and probably won’t get any but there are many elderly living on it and buying the same groceries we are, replacing the same water heaters we are, replacing the same roof we are. It is absolutely a sin that we are not giving a few dollars to SS for them. We really don’t treat our elderly well at all.
“Zero prcent inflation? Clearly some people don’t buy their own groceries!”
That bears repeating, and repeating, Kartographer. Paid over a $1 for a small bottle of off brand bleach at the cut rate grocery store the other day. Used to pay that for the brand name, large container of Clorox not that long ago.. Multiply that by everything you buy and we are in a world of hurt.