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Jerry A, you know what causes the high cost of living increases? Let me give an example:
Labor union demands much higher salaries and benefits from companies and government. E.g. Those jobs working for Burger King or for any fast food places have demanded a $15/hr wages. When this happened, the price of the burger also gets higher. When the cost of overhead goes up, the company losses. In order to offset the loss, the prices of the burger also is raised. This is true to all business that hire people to work.

Another cause of inflation is government spending of more than what it could afford. Lack of prioritization of spending.
Extravagant spending of those in power, and without prioritization of where to appropriate the budget first. The personal interest of those in power is given more importance than the public service. Politics is put ahead of the people who they are supposed to serve.

Another cause of inflation is our national debts. Again, government spends more than it could afford to pay. Expenditures are not prioritized and thus those that need the budget most are not given preferences.

Too many handouts, more than the earners. Since 2009, social services had increased so much that consumptions has outpaced productions. There are more demands for needs than the providers who feed.

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Jerry A, you know what causes the high cost of living increases? Let me give an example:
Labor union demands much higher salaries and benefits from companies and government. E.g. Those jobs working for Burger King or for any fast food places have demanded a $15/hr wages. When this happened, the price of the burger also gets higher. When the cost of overhead goes up, the company losses. In order to offset the loss, the prices of the burger also is raised. This is true to all business that hire people to work.

Another cause of inflation is government spending of more than what it could afford. Lack of prioritization of spending.
Extravagant spending of those in power, and without prioritization of where to appropriate the budget first. The personal interest of those in power is given more importance than the public service. Politics is put ahead of the people who they are supposed to serve.

Another cause of inflation is our national debts. Again, government spends more than it could afford to pay. Expenditures are not prioritized and thus those that need the budget most are not given preferences.

Too many handouts, more than the earners. Since 2009, social services had increased so much that consumptions has outpaced productions. There are more demands for needs than the providers who feed.

Radience3: You blame labor Unions demands for higher salaries and benefits according to the businesses and corporation profits for the high cost of living increases, you are WRONG. The cost of living increases and the devaluation of the U.S. dollars started in 1970, when our U.S. Congress passed the law to removed the U.S. dollars from the GOLD standard and President NIXON signed into law to allowed the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank to print daily fake U.S. dollars paper to paid for the Federal Government debts. Now only 6% of american workers have UNION representation because the big U.S. manufacturers moved to 3er. world countries looking for cheap labor, and no I.R.S. taxes with the help of the majority members of U.S. Congress creating the economic catastrophe we have, the high unemployment, and a Federal deficit of more than 18 trillion $$$$ dollars, and now everything is made in China, Mexico, India, Africa, Japan, Vietnam, etc. etc.

Radience3: You blame labor Unions demands for higher salaries and benefits according to the businesses and corporation profits for the high cost of living increases, you are WRONG. The cost of living increases and the devaluation of the U.S. dollars started in 1970, when our U.S. Congress passed the law to removed the U.S. dollars from the GOLD standard and President NIXON signed into law to allowed the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank to print daily fake U.S. dollars paper to paid for the Federal Government debts. Now only 6% of american workers have UNION representation because the big U.S. manufacturers moved to 3er. world countries looking for cheap labor, and no I.R.S. taxes with the help of the majority members of U.S. Congress creating the economic catastrophe we have, the high unemployment, and a Federal deficit of more than 18 trillion $$$$ dollars, and now everything is made in China, Mexico, India, Africa, Japan, Vietnam, etc. etc.