INFLATION: Focus on the 20%

Prices are up nearly 20% since Biden took office. The lion’s share of living expenses — energy and food aren’t even included in the core Consumer Price Index. How deceiving! Just who are these expert statisticians? Are they the same folks telling us our southern border is secure, Biden was sharp as a tack, the Afghanistan withdrawal went like clockwork, men competing on women’s sport teams just makes sense, not to worry about a $35 trillion national debt, massive freebies and ”pathways to citizenship” for illegals show compassion, climate change is man-made (hurricanes included?!), Israel should negotiate with Hamas (kinda like a chicken trying to negotiate with a skunk!), bad is good, wrong is right? And on it goes. Let’s focus on 20% inflation.

My experience is real and personal. For instance, Halloween candy, footwear, a package of screws, sheets of plywood, a gallon of paint, fertilizer, dog food, quart of oil (gasp!), insurance, a lowly shrinking snickers bar… And on it goes. Could the 20% inflation number come from items we don’t use or need?! Baffling! My conclusion is Democrats have, are and will continue lying. Period! Most everything they accuse Republicans of doing, they do themselves! And with straight faces. A few more topics. Please, please no more articles on hateful deplorables of North Idaho. Just look in the mirror and leave the rest of us alone. Also, those shouting it’s a woman’s right to murder her unborn baby should thank their Moms they didn’t! Allowing cellphones in classrooms makes no sense. Maybe the kids ARE in control! One last thought — I wonder if someone left off a zero and it really is 200%?! 

MARVIN GEORGE MILLER 

Coeur d’Alene