The same people who told us to appreciate saving $0.16 on our July 4th BBQs last summer are now taking the official position there is no massive food inflation. [DATA HERE]
Those skyrocketing prices you think you see at the grocery store are not real. Those announcements of forecasted price increases by the food producers, well, those are not real either. So sayeth the United States Dept of Agriculture (USDA).
In their update to the USDA pricing forecast and analysis dated January 25, 2022, the USDA claims: “2021 retail food price inflation continued at same pace as 2020 but varied among food categories.” Oh, but it gets even more stupid:
“USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) researchers project that prices for food-at-home, or food purchased typically from grocery stores or other food stores, will increase between 1.5 and 2.5 percent in 2022, lower than the 3.5-percent increase that occurred in both 2020 and 2021. Forecasts for all food categories for 2022 are available in ERS’s monthly Food Price Outlook data product, updated January 25, 2022.” (link)
If there was ever an argument that every single institution in the U.S. government was corrupt, manipulative and ideologically bent, this claim by the USDA would be a case study in the supportive evidence.
Apparently, if you are to follow the outlook of the USDA – and reconcile their institutional hypocrisy, Joe Biden increased the rate of food stamp assistance by 25 percent for some unknown reason. Because according to the Dept of Agriculture, “Retail food prices increased by a mere 3.5 percent in 2021, equal to the rate in 2020.”
3.5% ?
You just cannot make this up.
Beef has doubled in price. Bacon has gone up by 30% in the last quarter. Milk has gone up by 40% in the past two months. Fish, eggs and poultry are between 30 to 60% higher than a year ago. Fresh fruits and vegetables still rising in price. Food producers have announced price increases in products from 8% to 60% in the next few months. Beverages and sports drinks are rising 20% beginning in March. Kraft Foods announced processed meat (lunchmeat) price increases up to 30% in a few weeks. However, according to the USDA, these are not the droids you are looking for.
We are living in a parallel universe, a true state of propaganda pushed by the institutions of government.
Count all the people with COVID as having died from COVID to maintain the fear. Hide the ships further offshore, and the port backlog disappears. Don’t count the imported goods, and our domestic economic activity is great. Ignore the prices at the grocery store, and there is no food inflation…
It would be funny if the reality of our situation was not so serious.
Have a relative who works for the USDA says an analyst works up a spreadsheet and doesn’t make sure the formulas are correct said it’s incompetence
That was my experience working with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac back in the day.
Yep. Had a govt employee excuse me of Fiduciary mismanagement of govt funds on the very large contract I was Program Manager of. I don’t take attacks on my conduct or ethics lightly so fistacuffs ensued. After a big meeting with all the bigshot govt bosses, all the lawyers, the finance people and myself….it turned out the idiot was using the spreadsheet wrong; formulas were done incorrectly; money that had never been put on the contract was listed on his SS as being provided to us. Govt fin and legal people looked at mine and went Oh shit. Individual was fired from the govt and walked out of the building. Govt apologized. Me and stupid dude cross sued each other…he lost. I took his house and most of his money.
woo hoo! happy ending
It’s intentional… Not incompetent. Honest analytics do not survive in the government vacuum. It took me a long time to understand that.
I’m completely convince you are correct. They purposefully put people in operational positions that they KNOW are incompetent for the sole purpose of creating chaos so that they can spend more and hire more to keep fixing endless problems. It’s a metastasized political cancer.
the surest way to get a raise in paygrade is to fix it so you supervise more people and/or have to hire lieutenants to split the load under you.
Thomas Sowell briefly worked for the Bureau of Labor Statistics as a young man. He said seeing the real-time cooking of data is what convinced him to quit being a socialist and embrace capitalism.
It’s intentional to hire incompetent people, then promote them. Cuz it’s impossible to fire them. This gives cover to the diabolical ones who fabricate evidence and deceive as part of their job description (ie., Michael Horowitz, Kevin Clinesmith).
Next report coming from the DOJ: There is no crime. The 2020 election was the most secure in history but you have to pass the ‘voting rights’ bill to save democracy.
I buy the same items once per month. My bill has gone up $100 since last month. That indicates inflation to me.
Stop the madness…..
You need to change what you buy until you get get everything for the same price you were paying. See how easy that is. I can think like a Democrat.
Like any of those, that is, whose numbers comprise 85% 0f the Left side of The Bell Curve.
“Indicates,” being the key: the educated; word.
starting around the first of the year I am getting sticker shock every time I check out at the super market
Not to mention that it’s become a scavenger hunt for groceries & household goods again, just after shortages were subsiding.
Yep, once again my eyes are lying. I hate it when that happens.
The government has a plan for that too, just pluck out your eyes and believe everything the government tells you is the truth, You will never see otherwise then!
Why won’t they do it when looking at the bathroom scale. Doh! 😉
So now they’re telling me I need new glasses, so I don’t see what I see.
No problem in schools or crime in Democrat run cities either.
Keep telling us to eat cake, Biden…
It’s not a pound of bacon anymore. Now only 12 oz. and more expensive.
Known as Shrinkflation.
I went to H‑E‑B today.local grocery store I ate as. Been sick withcovid for 2 weeks and finally was le to go.
The shelves were literally bare, WTF in 2 weeks!
Also was denied monoclonals twice, too white to guess. My Dr said he hasn’t been able to gets t for anyone. Said you have to be “ in n the top of the list”, bone marrow transplant . I told him BS, I’m 70, had cancer, overweight, diabetic but most importantly I’m white. Twice in got a te they had to cancel me due to lack of supplies.
The stuff is cheap to make,they are Trying to kill us
Maybe they’re trying to make Social Security solvent by the only way they know how.
Oh, that’s a distinct possibility.
Look at the future of solvency of Social Security & Medicare, with importing illegals earning unreported, untaxed income, no FICA, Medicare, etc.
Completely fooked.
Well, killing off the young (18–49-year-olds) is not going to make Social Security solvent 🙂
The old are dying at the same rate, the young are dying at a higher rate. Disability rates will probably increase for the young too.
These are the same people who can’t count votes, can’t count COVID deaths, can’t count vaccine injuries, can’t count Americans abandoned in Afghanistan.
Everything gubmint at all levels touches goes to sh!t.
If you haven’t gotten the memo…”we’re on our own.”
Dollar Tree raising its price by 25 % must be an illusion too. LoL
$100 Dollar Tree.
The USDA must have used common crude math and perhaps are shopping at stores that cater to those of the elite, politburo, modeled on the old USSR soviet class stores. These stooges are so far removed from our common reality it makes me sick.
At Stater Brothers Market in Socal, 1 quart of canola oil was $2.58 two weeks ago. Today it is $3.99. A bit more than 1 1/2%.
It is up 54% but close enough for government work.
My Tapatio hot sauce went from 95c to $1.58 in one year. I don’t know what it is today, because I stopped buying.
all children are under the age of 16 are now 16 years old
Thus they MUST be given the vote, says AOC.
At this rate I’m expecting the government to soo. announce that “The chocolate ration has been increased to 20 grams a week.”
Washington, District of Potemkin.
Over the last two years my family has not changed our eating habits. Our grocery bill is up by around 40% – and there are a few items we are not buying any more due to cost. I keep reading news stories about poor families who can no longer afford groceries – and unlike a lot of news, those stories actually make sense. But we are so used to our politicians lying to us that most people won’t be outraged over this story, it will be “here they go again”.
But we get to vote again in November. Will the outrage happen before then or will we vote to keep the same sad group in power. Or will the people COUNTING the votes keep them in power?
If you still have the machines, your vote is useless.
Never Ever vote for an incumbent!!! Sure he/she is a good guy and always brings it home for your state/district…
Nevertheless Vote Them Out!!! The next guy will also bring home the goodies as well.
Send A Message!
FJB
Why would we believe anything that comes from the White House? Obama is Biden’s puppet master an a liar.Biden is brain dead and a major league crook. Between Biden and Hunter they have amassed over several billion dollars from the Chinese Government.
China Owns the Biden’s
ozero is and never was that smart or able. He is a puppet. Who is pulling his strings also pulls bite me’s strings.
It is against the law to manipulate or alter federal government data. Yet the alphabet agencies do it at will and have been doing it for years because they get away with it.
We watched as NOAA, NASA GISS and other agencies manipulated temperature and ice data for over 30 years to sell their Global Warming scam. NOT A SINGLE FRAUDSTER HAS BEEN CHARGED with manipulating data and statistics.
Now, the rest of the agencies are getting in on the act.
None of this will cease until people are prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
I’m not American, but if I was, I would vote for the person who commits to a tough justice department who will prosecute these evil bastards and openly say so. “As Attorney General, I will come after all of you who have politicised your agencies.”
We did. And the Dems stole his victory.
Sometime during the Crimson Kenyan’s puppet-show residency congress subpoenaed NOAA to release their ‘adjusted’ climate data, which they simply refused to do of course.
No consequences either for anyone, naturally.
I’m reminded of an interview I saw a few years ago online with Thomas Sowell.
He recounted his early days (still a Marxist – this following account converted him) working for the US government in Puerto Rico on the sugar industry. At some committee meeting, he proposed a very simple inquiry that would elucidate the path forward in order to fix an unemployment problem. His proposal was met with nervous silence as all in the room knew his proposal would obviously work, and then eliminate the need for his committee’s existence.
The institutions of government were never there to solve problems. It looks like they’re progressing along their natural evolution, from operating by “lies of omission” (pretending not to know how to solve problems) to operating by “lies of commission” (outright lies) as well.
Wonderful news! Chinese New Year has now begun. It will officially take 5 months for American businesses to get their goods if they order right now! Walmart is going to be destroyed! https://titoma.com/blog/chinese-new-year-affect-manufacturing
Did the USDA account for the downsizing of products? I bet they didn’t, so the lie is even worse.
Major bs promoted by a degenerate polluted administration along with their accomplices, all who dine on their plantation’s filet mignon while the “slaves and peasants” must eat locusts after paying high prices for the critters.
I’m of the opinion Biden and his cronies want a war so that they can ration food and gasoline.
Duh, I should have known that grilling those parts off my car for dinner were the real reason my monthly food bills went up.
Yes, and the announcement coming from Heinze just a few days ago raising prices 30% was just a joke …right?
This sounds like part of their tactic to get the public to think the skyrocketing prices are being not inflationary, but rather being done by “other people”, like the mean grocery store people -They’re the one’s gouging us purposefully… there by keeping us very mad and angry at each other… just like the fear porn kabuki with the masks..
…. fascist-Marxist feral gummint’s official position is that there is no “food inflation” …..
FACT: There is no “food inflation” as actual inflation is measured – not by the prices of a being-constantly-corruptly-adjusted basket of goods (manipulated to and lagging weeks behind Actual Inflation — and currently running between 17.5 and 20%) — but by the number of Dollars vs the quantity of available goods. Any stop at any gas station and/or supermarket tells any of us with even half a brain that this year’s $100.00 is last year’s $75.00.
I saw an article from a liberal rag yesterday strongly criticizing “elite Ron Johnson” for being against $$$ credits and handouts to struggling families.
Don’t you think all of this is tied together: artificially engineer a crisis, putting the squeeze on struggling families (with children!), to make it harder and harder (impossible) for families to be self sufficient or dig themselves out, and then come to the rescue with $$$ credits, making people dependent on government handouts and vilifying anyone who suggests this is a bad direction for the country.
I’m so tired of this….. tired of being jerked around by the politicians. My entire working life, and I’m nearing retirement. It has all been way harder than it ever needed to be. I may be tired of it, but I’m also furious about it.
Our truckers could close down DC if we organize just saying.
YES. We always seem to be waiting for someone else to go first into the fray. News Flash: Canadian truckers HAVE. So what’s the reason for the USA delay?
It’s not just that the price on the packages have gone up, a lot, ut’s that they are playing packaging tricks too. I’ve noticed cheese slices getting thinner and the count went from 12 down to 10 in the packages I buy for sandwiches. I’m sure you can find other examples.
They probably use data on items few people buy like pigs feet, sauerkraut, brussel sprouts,(my personal opinion on items, lol) etc. Or they focus on items that are over produced and undersold.
Wont be long till a pound is 14 ounces
I keep saying it but to few want to accept where we are. Our government is not benevolent, there is no team good vs team bad. The Neochristian progressive Republicans are not any different or less guilty than the progressive liberals.
It’s wholly “us” vs the ruling class.
The human brain has great difficulty in accepting reality but get it into your heads… You DON’T outvote this. At best you’re simply looking at how fast it slow we go off a cliff.
Federalism has failed a century ago. Prepare for the results.
And yet, social security recipients received 5.9% cost of living increases as of 1 January 2022!
What’s a good name for this problem?
Foodflation?
Starveflation?
Bidenlation?
Anyone?
Bidenomics?
Joeflation?
I read through the last release for the inflation numbers and noticed that methodology for data collection is still suspended for coronavirus fear and personal visits to collect prices have not occurred for some time. They use the phone and get pricing info online. Or most likely just make it up knowing the numbers are going to be massaged anyway and real data is not necessary when the narrative takes precedence.
Given the level of corruption in our government, I have no faith in any numbers they generate or especially forecast. Under perfect data collection methodologies, I am not sold on the fact that the particular numbers or Keynesian national accounts are as useful or valid as many economists seem to think and journalists believe to be sacred. When so many focus on only a few indicators and those indicators are inaccurate or worse, subject to fraud and manipulation, then much can be hidden. Hidden on paper anyway. The grocer is unlikely to accept an offer of 2.5% more than you paid last year.
I think 3.5% is too high when you figure in all the free food shoplifted and looted. When you steal a lobster, it’s “free” and offsets the higher price that chumps like the middle class have to pay. If only Soros could plant DA’s in more cities, then you’d start seeing negative inflation.
Here in Morgan Hill CA, 1 lb of 92% lean ground beef…$10.49.
I work for the Forest Service, part of the USDA. I can confirm with absolute certainty they are continuing to promote complete morons into senior leadership positions. They are doing it on purpose. They lower the qualifications and experience necessary to do the job, then pick whatever diversity candidate happens to make it through to the final list, which is made easier by the lowered standard. The hiring panel does all of the work and is handcuffed by the lowered standard and rules that value diversity over qualification. The hiring manager does not get to pick who they want, it goes to an “Executive Leadership Team” to decide. Those people have zero idea about the candidates resume, interview performance, background, experience, education, knowledge or past performance. It is 100% guaranteed they will pick in this order: minority female, then a minority male, then any female. A homosexual or trans-gender known to the agency is also a bonus hire. If none of those are on the final list, they often start over and re-fly the job until they get the right flavor of person. White male need not apply. They do not want “boat rockers” or people that understand the problems and have solutions. This creates too much work for them, points out their failures and in general might make them look like the incompetent fools that they are. I’ve been here 13 years and saw this happen for 8 years of Obama and now Biden. Trump wasn’t in office long enough to make lasting change. The government no longer attracts people who want to serve and make the country better. It attracts people who want to advance based on their skin color and genitalia; people who know they cannot succeed in private industry and people who know they will not be held accountable for their decisions and performance.
happened to me many times. I was not picked and the person picked over me was less qualified, less experience, but was cultural marxist “diverse”
It doesn’t really matter, it’s not him doing this, anyway. It’s the Obama acolytes.
All planned. The supply chain crisis can be solved in one day by removing the emissions requirements. They don’t want it to end to make everyone depend on the government fro everything. Democrats are pure evil.
Numbers don’t lie… unless the mathematicians needs to cover their ass.
Don’t spend it all in one place…
I worked for the Federal Government as a nuclear engineer for 3 years. My 3 degrees are in Structural Engineering. I transferred into Civil Engineering dept. and for another 3 years ran circles around the young college grads who had no experience and a mechanic that was pulled into the dept as a engineering tech. He was terrible and a braggart that people could not stand. I left them after 7 years. The jealousy, backstabbing, and clicks if time wasters was more than I could stand.
Liars gotta lie
The BIG LIE is that America even has a government!
Playing the Goebbels Playbook all the way!!!!!
High prices compounded by empty shelves!