My position is that every ordinary person goes to the store and knows what the prices are and how much they have gone up.
If anything, food processors are keeping prices lower than what they would rise by shrinking the packages. Paying more for less.
U.S. Companies Shrink Packages as Food Prices Rise - DailyFinance
Democrats rely on stupid ignorant people. If they tell the public that there is no inflation, no matter what they experience, they will believe what they are told.
So having bailed on the "inflation was at 0.8% in March" position, NOW you're switching to a "damn the numbers, I know what I know" approach and you call people who call for some evidence to support wild claims as "the ignorant ones."
Which seems to confirm the opposite of what you are trying to claim.
I'm not saying a "deny the facts - go with your gut" campaign won't work - I'm just saying that I'm not buying in - sorry.
You can't deny the facts! Not with all the government phony stastistics they can dream up. This is where the government as pimp to whore says "Who are ya gonna believe, me or your own lying eyes?"
Food prices increase most in 36 years - CBS News
Food prices will continue to rise in 2012, says USDA - latimes.com
I would have thought it impossilbe that people could pay these prices and then deny they are paying them because the democrats said so. PT Barnum had it wrong. It's not that a sucker is born every minute. It's a democrat born every minute.
When you see these statistics they are phonied up! The goods used to figure the Consumer Price Index are not fixed (they used to be but they aren't now). They are chosen to deliberately lower the statistic.
Why The Consumer Price Index Is Controversial
Over the years, the methodology used to calculate the CPI has also undergone numerous revisions. According to the BLS, the changes removed biases that caused the CPI to overstate the inflation rate. The new methodology takes into account changes in the quality of goods and substitution. Substitution, the change in purchases by consumers in response to price changes, changes the relative weighting of the goods in the basket. The overall result tends to be a lower CPI. However, critics view the methodological changes and the switch from a COGI to a COLI focus as a purposeful manipulation that allows the U.S. government to report a lower CPI.
John Williams, a U.S. economist, described his view of this manipulation when he was interviewed in early 2006. Williams prefers a CPI, or inflation measure, calculated using the original methodology based on a basket of goods having quantities and qualities fixed.
David Ranson, another U.S. economist, also questions the official CPI's viability as an indicator of inflation. Unlike Williams, Ranson doesn't espouse the viewpoint that the CPI is being manipulated. Instead, his view is that the CPI is a lagging indicator of inflation and is not a good indicator of current inflation.
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Why The Consumer Price Index Is Controversial
When you go to the store and see how much the prices have gone up do you really think that the government says prices haven't gone up so they must have stayed the same?
Even if you desperately want prices to not go up, they have.
Grocery Price Check | Ground beef, bacon both rise | WCNC.com Charlotte
The biggest increases have been in milk, cereal and ground beef is up again.
Last month consumers paid $4.99 a pound for ground beef and on Thursday we found it at $5.29 a pound.
Something else that continues to break the bank is bacon. The name brand we bought was $6.99.
Corn Flakes cereal remained steady this month at $4.45 a box, but keep in mind that box went up 20 cents last month.
That box of cereal just doesn't have as much cereal in the box as it used to either.
