Originally Posted by
jcountry
Wrong....
The govt pulls trickery with those numbers. Started under Bill Clinton.
The real inflation number is much higher:
Alternate Inflation Charts
The new (fake news) way of calculating inflation takes into account entirely imaginary things like "value of innovation" and excludes many commodities
Our actual family budgets see around 3 x as much inflation as the govt's imaginary numbers.
"I reject your reality and substitute my own."
You can find anything on the internet to support your own views... I would say you subscribe to the fake news.