If you believe that there is high inflation in the United States, you are just imagining things. That is the message that the U.S. government and the Federal Reserve would have us to believe. You might have noticed that the government announced on Wednesday that the cost of living increase for Social Security beneficiaries will only be 1.5 percent next year. This is one of the smallest cost of living increases that we have ever seen. The federal government is able to get away with this because the official numbers say that there is hardly any inflation in the U.S. right now.
Of course anyone that shops for groceries or that pays bills regularly knows what a load of nonsense the official inflation rate is. The U.S. government has changed the way that inflation is calculated numerous times since 1978, and each time it has been changed the goal has been to make inflation appear to be even lower. According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, if the inflation rate was still calculated the same way that it was back when Jimmy Carter was president, the official rate of inflation would be somewhere between 8 and 10 percent today. But if the mainstream news actually reported such a number, everyone would be screaming and yelling about getting inflation under control. Instead, the super low number that gets put out to the public makes it look like the Federal Reserve has plenty of room to do even more reckless money printing. It is a giant scam, but most Americans are falling for it.
Meanwhile, the prices of the things that most Americans buy on a regular basis just keep going up. The following are just a few examples of price inflation that we have seen lately...
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The people who call themselves leaders, in the words of a late friend, would rather walk 20 miles and lie than stand still and tell the truth. If they actually told the truth, i.e., inflation is 10%, or we can't pay 17 trillion dollars back, or the world thinks we are printing worthless money, or "terrorism" isn't the nation killing boogeyman we say it is, or unemployemnt is at depression era levels, or your health care costs are going to bankrupt you, or the Constitution doesn't apply any longer, the people might get a bit angry and restless. Hence the continuous, unabated, and blatant lies.
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