Well of course, our standard of living have declined every year since the seventies. We take a pay cut every year because they changed the way inflation is measured to understate it, the old measure averages 5 to 8% a year just by 2008 while the new measure is like 2 to 3%. It is a compound fucking that just by 2008 would have seen your average Social Security check be worth $1,300 more a month. It really is like that. Numbers Racket, Harper’s Magazine, 2008.
That said the rate of compound fuckery has obviously increased under this President as we all knew it would.
Well of course, our standard of living have declined every year since the seventies. We take a pay cut every year because they changed the way inflation is measured to understate it, the old measure averages 5 to 8% a year just by 2008 while the new measure is like 2 to 3%. It is a compound fucking that just by 2008 would have seen your average Social Security check be worth $1,300 more a month. It really is like that. Numbers Racket, Harper’s Magazine, 2008.
That said the rate of compound fuckery has obviously increased under this President as we all knew it would.