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.
Somebody should tell Powell do the Federal Reserve doesn’t have to raise interest rates! LOL
We desperately need normal rates, if only to serve as a risk – o-meter.
Pensions are all broke, all over. SS is broke. Medicare is broke. Govts must STOP BORROWING.
Anyone who has been to a food store or restaurant knows that they are telling a lie. They have no respect for the American peoples intelligence.
They can lie all day long, because the Fake News covers for them. An honest press and they wouldn’t get away with it.
Been going on since time began but these heathens (Bush,Ovomit,etc) brought it to the next level and nobody called them out for it. Now we reap what we sowed. I had complacent optimism……and I’m as guilty as anyone even though I stopped watching TV in the late 80’s due to the commercials.
Guess I was on to something but I just hated those stupid commercials. Now I know why; thanks to Mr. SD and all the wonderful folks who have kept this site ALIVE!
FREEDOM CONVOY……FJB……and lets get our own convoy started. Millions of vehicles clogging DC (the scum of the Earth) could make this illegally installed gubment see that WE THE PEOPLE are not giving up.
Let them sent out their warlords (FIB,CIA,NSA, etc). We will PREVAIL!
IMHO, its safe to conclude THEY don’t give a rat’s rear end whether we know they’re lying or not. THEY simply insist their lies are the truth and our truths are lies. It’s a standoff although we have the numbers but THEY have the larger bullhorns (TN news, the brainwashed pop culture, and academia ) plus most of the print media, so we are always fighting uphill.
As you know GB the rules are simple:
“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.” – Attributed to Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
EDIT: That should have been “TV news” inside the parentheses in my post
They have no dignity and no shame.
No common decency.
You know, I think the in your face lying by Biden, the Generals, the Fauci and NIH, the CDC, the AMA, Homeland Security, US Dept. of Agriculture, the CIA, FBI, State Dept., etc. and the echo chamber media is bad for the Government. They behave like “the boy who cried wolf”. If they ever tell the truth they won’t be believed.
If even one part of the US Government was still sane, it would be the US Agriculture Dept.
And now it too has gone insane.
Not insane – they’ve gone fully corrupt and bought off by the corporate Big Ag multinational globalists. Just like Big Pharma has bought off the FDA and CDC etc.
Our federal government is now completely, entirely corrupt and operating far outside any constitutional principles our founders designed.
AG has been part of the corrupt globalism for a long time. We weren’t paying attention.
Agreed! The corrupt deal which combines foodstamps for the commies with subsidies for BigAg has been in place for a LONG time and is the very basis of the Dept of Ags funding and existence. It is totally a creation and a tool of the deep state.
Remember Pigford, I and II? Shirley Sherrod? Yep.
He’s partly right because it’s Commie-Speak. I went to the grocery store for a few items today, and there are many, many, many, items not available to inflate.
Yes! I went to three CVS stores looking for throat spray. Never found it and just gave up. Cold, flu, sinus meds are nowhere to be found here in North GA. (Again, I’m sorry for Warnock and Ossoff).
For a sore throat try a spoonful of honey. You can also make hot lemonade, boiling hot water with lemon and honey. If you have fresh ginger, grate and steep in the hot water first then add lemon and honey.
Yes the ginger works fairly well, with the lemon and honey.
I gargle with straight lemon juice, sometimes I heat the lemon juice, add raw honey and a shot of whisky but after I gargle I just swallow it, not FDA approved but it works for me.
Thumbs up on the whiskey part.
Pine needle tea. Any White or Eastern Pine trees in your neighborhood?
Not real hard to see; Satan is the father of all liars. Call them what you want, the current crop of globalist puppet masters are above all else, LIARS
None of these people do their own grocery shopping. They can’t possibly.
On the bright side, this will bury them. Every single person who does their own grocery shopping will know they’re lying through their teeth.
GW Bush lost a debate to Bill Clinton when he couldn’t tell the Debate Moderator how much a gallon of milk cost.
(Disregarding Bill Clinton likely was tipped off that the question was going to be asked)
Two demons of the same alliance. Now we know. Now we know.
Do you honestly believe that old reptile Bush was actually trying to win the election ?
He threw it to Clinton.
These are the people who got triple vaxxed, came down with Covid, and swear the vax works because the “experts” say so.
Don’t just assume they will be convinced by the price tags they see with their own eyes.
Nobody can possibly be that friggin’ blind, ignorant, and stupid. Even the triple vaxxed have to shop for groceries!
It just hasn’t occurred to many, that very soon EVERYONE in America will qualify for food stamps. This is what they want. CONTROL. Don’t give it to them. Get savvy!
Phew!!! So glad the rulers cleared that up. I was getting a wee bit concerned there. I can use another sixteen cents of savings…
“Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.” Antonio Gramsci
Unfortunately for Antonio.
1). There is one God and antonio is not HIM.
2). That one true God is still in charges of the universe.
3). Jesus Christ already rose from the dead. There is no reversing that so there is no destroying Christianity.
“Upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall NOT prevail against it.”
I just came from the store.
There is massive food inflation.
The government is lying.
Again.
It’s much like Global Warming/Climate Change white cultural marxist “racism”, etc. It exists to them but not in reality. Here its reality, but it doesn’t exist to them. Its the opposite. Orwell said everything is the opposite with them.
“In an age of Universal (liberal) deception, speaking the truth is a revolutionary act”
What a relief – I never saw eggs for $5 a dozen this morning after all.
Under Trump eggs were $1 a dozen in many places.
$1.99 a gallon gas or less with PDJT
You better figure out how to dress up cattle corn real quick, at least while it is still affordable.
Coyote looking good around here as a second food source……..Oh wait…..make that #1. Forget shootin’em.
Traps are the way but you gotta know your terrain. Yip, Yip..
(Antonio) Gramsci viewed churches, charities, the media, and schools as organizations that needed to be invaded by socialist thinkers.
https://fee.org/articles/antonio-gramsci-the-godfather-of-cultural-marxism/
And Pete Buttigege’s father was the founder and Prez of the Int’l Antonio Gramsci Society.
But my sister in NJ laughs off my reports of our price increases and thinks I’m crazy to stockpile (prepare). Says there are no issues in NJ? ($5.00 for four quarters of butter here!) She thinks I’m nuts to lay out a vegetable garden with plans to can the proceeds.
Who is going to be crazy when she comes asking you for food?
Sic your dog on her….It’s the real American way.
If she is in North Jersey, ask her what her property tax theft is by the Democrats. NJ is bankrupt and is the worst state by debt
It is not a government, its a criminal cartel. Keep in mind, NJ has casinos, race tracks, toll roads, and criminally high property taxes. Where does all that revenue go? (hint:not where its supposed to go)
THE FINANCIAL STATE OF NEW JERSEY
A new analysis of the latest available audited financial reports found New Jersey has a
Taxpayer BurdenTM of $65,100, earning it an “F” grade based on Truth in Accounting’s
grading scale. New Jersey’s overall financial condition worsened by seven percent from the
previous fiscal year, despite a prosperous economy.
New Jersey’s elected officials have made repeated financial decisions that have left the
state with a debt burden of $208.8 billion. That burden equates to $65,100 for every
state taxpayer. New Jersey’s financial problems stem mostly from unfunded retirement
obligations that have accumulated over the years. Of the $242.4 billion in retirement
benefits promised, the state has not funded $98.8 billion in pension and $91.8 billion in
retiree health care benefit
https://www.truthinaccounting.org/library/doclib/NJ-2018-2pager.pdf
I wonder where they shopped? Wasn’t in any stores around me. Maybe I didn’t notice it, but I don’t remember significant inflation in 2020. I wonder if they took the inflation from 2021 and put half of it in 2020. But even that wouldn’t reflect what I am seeing.
Their lies are flying in the face of what our eyes can see.
Yes, but you should never believe yer lyin eyes over the gubmint. The gubmint would never lie to you…ever. But yer lyin eyes? They don’t call ’em lyin fer nuffin.
Common core math means they can put the decimal point where they feel it belongs, and all you bigots returning shellshocked from your latest grocery store adventure can just shut the hell up.
Denial does not negate the truth. As the weekly family shopper – I can tell you exactly what has gone up and how much. The fact the government or a political party paints a different picture, when I know the facts only angers, creates even greater divisiveness and is an insult to my intelligence. At 82 years old, I can also give you a replay of past administrations – those that failed miserably and those who made America shine — those that failed almost totally – were Liberals and were then voted out by the Conservatives. Jen Psaki and her nasty sarcasm makes the dirty economy calls even worse.
My Mom is just celebrated her 90th, with a new knee 4 months ago and she has told me the same.
Raggedy Ann should go home and tend her thing before the REAL AMERICANS rain hell on this ILLEGAL joke of a government.
1984 is now.
Complete unabated lawlessness. Straight from the pits of hell😈😈🔥🔥🔥!!
Guess what, I’m 19.
This illegitimate regime is out of their freaking minds.
It’s unbelievable how glibly the Biden adminstration lies.
And even more unbelievable that the democRAT base believes those lies.
If they don’t wake up to what’s going on, this country is doomed.
🦹♂️Batman Movie🦹♂️
Hope it will End .. And the Good Guys Win !
Every US govt. dept and it’s head are rotten to the core…There are not certain aspects of DC that are swampy…It’s all swamp!
Is it not a crime to knowingly falsify a government report?
These people need to be prosecuted once this criminal regime is removed.
By whom??
The USDA claims SloJoe was lying when he told the story of hamburger going from $4 lb. to $5lb. in the last year.
Once upon a time I was an economist for ERS, and like so many of my colleagues, my research and projections reflected reality, not political lies. Unfortunately, USDA, like other government agencies seems to now be ultra-political, and one-sided as well. They are no longer serving the public, but serving their political masters. It both angers and saddens me to see what has become of a once honorable and respected group of economic researchers.
This is truly embarrassing.
Does this mean we can just pay the old prices at the checkout stand and tell them if they want to collect the difference, go take it up with the Biden administration?
Waking more and more people up everyday.
Sum Tin Wong? LOL
Ting
Ho Lee Fok ………
NO no no…..this can’t be true. The gov. says inflation is going DOWN, not UP. Why would you believe otherwise?
“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. “
Those massive price spikes at the store don’t exist. Anyway its all due to greedy corporations and anti-vaxxers who, if they only got shot, would be allowed to deliver my food, my pelaton, and the healing crystals I ordered from Xianjiang. And those Canadian truckers. And the rail companies letting their cars get hijacked. And the long waiting ships ordered 60 miles offshore so we wouldn’t be able to see the back-up from the beach, so there’s no back-up now. Gov just printed another $5 trillion, how could there be a lack of money? Now shut up, put on your second mask, stay in your basement, and let me get back to my post-partum vacation. What are you, racist?
OK. I can’t do this anymore.
This was written on the wall a long time ago. Pretty soon restrictions and limits will be the name of the game at grocery stores everywhere. But the admin will continue to lie because they think if they lie enough, it will become fact.
There are two types of people regarding this: the sheeple who idolize the admin in office or the ones that can see beyond the bullshit that is being spewed out of the mouths of politicians. Those that can discern see what is coming and have prepared for this in way or another. The sheeple will blindly do what their leader says.
“and when the sheep died…..from starvation, from experimental mRNA in their blood, from stupidity….GOD smiled and said
“NOW THEY’LL REALIZE THEIR STUPID GLOBAL WARNING AND THEIR BLM AND ANTIFA TRIPES AND THEIR STUPID LOVE OF MONEY WAS ALL PUT IN THEIR STUPID HEADS BY LUCIFER”……OF COURSE WE’LL STILL HAVE FEW HANGERS ON LIKE JOE, BARAK, ETC BUT THEY’LL GET THEIRS. COME ON AMERICA, I’M COUNTING ON YA TO GROW A PAIR LIKE YOUR NORTHERN NEIGHBORS. JEEEZ!
In northern Westchester, NY we are starting to see some empty shelves in the smaller grocery stores where I shop. The food prices seem to go up every time I stop in with no let up in sight.
Meanwhile- the truckers’ Freedom Convoy is the army of the free world. At some point we are going to need to follow their example.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thom. Paine
ICYMI. . .
Kid Rock
“WE THE PEOPLE”
Know why our government continues to lie?
It’s safe for them to do so. No concern citizens will give recourse.
We cannot vote THEY out.
We cannot negotiate with THEY.
We cannot reason with THEY.
Our elected representatives do nothing.
We can surreptitiously donate some lead projectiles to the cranial cavity.
Tell me more of those sweet lies Billie Bob! More lies; More please! Even a brain-less idiot would know they’re lying and spawn of the Devil, so maybe, just MAYBE, they may not vote for these Satanists again; EVER! People can be REALLY stupid, but I’m hoping they get some self-preservation sense and reject these Satanists
This is exactly what you’d expect were the Federal Gubmint attacking the American people, which is what’s happening.
I wonder if the nameless bureaucrat that wrote this could be found through a FOIA request? It would be good to see a Congressional hearing where he or she were asked a few questions about this report. There would seem to be much of interest in how it’s conclusions came about.
Or perhaps the nameless, faceless bureaucrat could be given an 0bama Freedom Award for their efforts on behalf of progressivism, globalism, socialism, and communism?
This reminds me of the post a few days ago, where the CBS anchor was questioning why the voters were worried about the economy. The one women said that she couldn’t afford bacon for her granddaughter.
If you eat chicken feet, meal worms, tofu, and chitins for every meal, I suspect they are right. But if you want non 3rd world food, then you are SOL.
And I guess O’biden got 81 million votes.
CNN, MSDNC, ABC “News”, and CBS “News” all said so… Why would they lie?
Procter & Gamble warned that they will be raising prices on all product on avg by 8%.
Kraft Heinz says 30% increase.
Producer price index says 9.8% increase.
Wallet says USDA is full of BS.
As Bob Uecker would say = ‘Just a bit outside’.
Keep in mind this is the same government that swears the various Covid vaccines are “safe and effective”…
Do you “get it’ yet?
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell
No inflation. No border invasion. No crime wave. No supply chain problems. No fraud in elections. No dual system of justice.
Thank you, Joe Biden!
Sad to say, there are actually people who believe this. To prove this, ask your neighbor how much they pay for electricity? heat? gasoline? All I have to say is that the majority of females in this country have no idea what they pay for anything…
Why are they going after the greedy meat conglomerates and other price gougers. Everything is good.
Are we now beyond any hope of fixing this mess without xhitcanning everything?
The “dumbing down” of America continues.
The liberals can’t help but screw things up.
They raise the moochers food stamps 25% to take care of the food inflation then blow right past it.
How long before they slide in another raise?
I’m damn sick of feeding other people, their kids at school (or Zooming at home), etc. I’m just a milk cow.
“You just cannot make this up.”
They just did.