[itsahoot]

Any cost of living adjustment is usually eaten by medicare increase, who are they trying to kid with the fake cost of living calculation anyway. Most people don’t seem to notice that they excluded food and energy cost from the cola calculation long ago. Beef in my store is up about 100% and so is gasoline, less than #2.00 under Trump, nearly $6.00 now, 8% indeed.

[daniel1212]

Justified or not, it is more complicated than that statement infers:

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-food-and-energy-costs-excluded-from-the-core-CPI

http://www.bondeconomics.com/2021/03/does-cpi-exclude-food-and-energy.html