” FOOD AND ENERGY are NO LONGER INCLUDED in the CPI “
For years, the CPI (and other Gummint-issued indicators) have reflected only what the Government wants you to - ignoring the evidence of your lying eyes - believe...
Yeah, according to the government $812.04 cents now buys what $100. bought in 1954 when I was ten years old. Now it should follow that since my father the carpenter was paid about $100. every TWO weeks back then and somehow supported all of us then a man should be able to support a wife and family now if he is paid $812.04 every two weeks, right? Truth is it would take a financial genius to support them on $812.04 for ONE week right here in the same area. The CPI figures are cooked to pieces. Back then our electric bill never went over eight dollars a month, usually less than seven. You can’t even have a meter for that now! If you use no electricity at all the minimum monthly bill is double what we used to pay. I am sixty six years old and I can easily carry a hundred dollars worth of groceries into the house unassisted in one trip. In 1954 you couldn’t put a hundred dollars worth in a pickup truck bed unless you had wooden side extensions. It’s all a lot of bullcrap. We used to grow cantaloupes and sell them wholesale by the pickup truck load for six or seven cents each, top price we ever got was eleven cents for cantaloupes bigger than some supermarket watermelons are now. That would barely pay for the gas to haul them now. If our government tells the truth about anything it is purely by accident.