[sparklite2]

Can’t raise prices? You’d never know
it from complaints running ten to one
in favor of “grocery prices are over
the moon!”

[pierrem15]

But the US government is telling us there's no inflation, so Social Security recipients won't get a COLA.,P.You can be sure that government employees will get their COLA's.

To make a counterfactual argument: if the Republicans had a brain, they would tie COLA's and raises for government workers to COLA's for Social Security recipients-- gov workers get no raise higher than what Social Security recipients get.