Trump Nominates Jan. 6 'Bystander' to Produce Better Job Numbers

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1. Manipulating the employment numbers is bad enough, but

this will quickly escalate to manipulating the inflation numbers.

THe inflation numbers are already rigged to be artificially low. This is baked into the cake because both parties understand a true reporting of inflation would be devastating for the entitlement benefits that are based on CPI, and all the federal contracts that include inflation protection for the contractors.

So the CPI we report is based on a "market basket" that is heavily weighted towards food items that are essentially price-controlled by the various Dept of Agriculture payments that go to farmers every year. We all see inflation on many goods in the 10-25% range, even before the effect of tariffs.

( I am literally typing this post from a restaurant where I just got my bill for the same thing I get here every time -- a chef salad and iced tea. A year ago, that bill was a few pennies short of $15. The last few times, it was around $18.50, and now it is $21.50. That is over 40% increase in a year, folks, and it is the same story at every restaurant.)

So the bogus market basket nature of the CPI has always been a problem. But we are now in a situation where that market basket should show something like 8% annual inflation (the producer price index just showed about 10%), but Trump's lackeys will falsify even the bogus market basket numbers to claim they are in the 2% range.

And that means anybody on Social Security will be screwed. Anybody working under a CPI-protected contract is screwed. Basically we are all screwed as this tsunami of inflation heads our way.