April 22nd, 2010 12:38 pm
Labor Department Says Cost of Living Fine, Excluding Food and Energy
According to the Department of Labor, the cost of living in America is humming along at an affordable rate, so long as increases in the price of food and energy are ignored. You read that right: food and energy. If there is a third category that every American uses more on a daily basis, let me know. Ignoring the continuing increases in the costs of food and energy to claim the economy isn’t worsening for everyday Americans is like calculating unemployment to exclude people who don’t have a job and stopped looking. Oh, wait…
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