:...lying bastards...”
Oh, you must be talking about the top 1% of the critters.
The rest are food for the guillotine, and I eagerly await them encountering their fate.
I don’t know who or what entity in government is calculating the monthly inflation rate. However, without doubt they are a pack of lying scoundrels. I judge the inflation rate on a small package of consumer items important to me. At the top of the list is green coffee (I roast my own). The price of coffee has moved more than I could imagine over the last three months. I was recently in a grocery store and the clerks were re-marking all the coffee for sale. The increase was greater than ten percent across the board. I’m sure that others have similar tales.