[CurlyDave]

...Here in Minnesota, the per pupil investment in our public schools has increased by 23 percent over the last ten years. This while Social Security COLA’s have increased by only 15.6 percent...

All this really tells you is that letting government calculate inflation is like letting the fox guard the hens.

My personal inflation rate has vastly exceeded the government figures, and so has that of everyone around me.

[Vigilanteman]

Kids were forced to run up mountains of debt to pay for diplomas, many of which are worth only slightly more than the sheepskin they are written on.

That number (slightly more) is vastly inflated by the degrees which are actually marketable, engineering, science, business, nursing, etc. If just the lefty indoctrination degrees are counted, the sheepskin is actually worth more.