such a fake system
“giving” cost of living raises at about one-fifth or one-sixth the actual increase in cost of living
this is, however, not limited to USA
it happened in the Soviet Union, too, as their retirees, many of them, wound up having to beg in the streets
same or similar lies and fake statistics
RIPOFF!
i never got a cola at all when i was working. maybe 2 or 3 times in 45 years.