Have you ever noticed that inflation does not exist,

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

except when they are talking about increasing federal programs like defense?

How come they deny inflation when it comes to consumer prices and such, but insist on "inflation adjustments" for defense spending?

[Kierkegaard]

1. When consumer prices out distance average income

that is called inflation. I don't give a republican's ass how they spin it.

[Katherine Brengle]

2. Amen! n/t

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. well, actually, you have to have a devalued currency

also... so they are technically right.

[Kierkegaard]

4. Yes, adhering to the clinical definition, you are right.

But, citizen 'A' has no concept of world currency. Only how much of it he has in his pocket and what it will buy him.