The current economy resembles the world of “The Hunger Games”. A ruling elite in D.C. and NYC accumulates ever more wealth and talks about how wonderful the economy is doing. Meanwhile out in District 12, the average Joe is trying to hang onto his job and pay for increasingly expensive food and fuel; which the official government statistics discard when measuring inflation.
And they lie about inflation for two main reasons:
1. Political/Selfish - (it would make their own sorry rear ends look bad if the economy were really bad, and that could endanger their own cushy jobs)
2. Money - if they acknowledge the real inflation rate, they would have to pay more to Social Security recipients, DoD doctors, FBI agents, military retirees, etc.