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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 959953" data-attributes="member: 2189">That&#039;s an increase of around 7% and inline with real inflation <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150726090717/http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts" target="_blank">if you calculate inflation the way we use too</a>. Now it&#039;s true you can blame Obama (Congress not blameless either) to some extent but I&#039;d blame the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve which in truth Obama and Congress really have little control over.&nbsp; Ron Paul, Alan Grayson, et al proved that even the Congress has no real power to audit the Federal Reserve (or don&#039;t have the stones) so there you go.&nbsp; The only function the Congress and President serve to the Fed is to codify the risk burden of monetary actions onto the backs of present and future tax payers. Why does a faction of voters decry at all corners the acts or attempts at privatization of gov&#039;t functions and yet in the case of the Federal Reserve they never utter a peep and even scream murder when any attempts are made to force transparency on this privatized monopoly organization?&nbsp; And they scream about monopoly but where are they when it comes to the monopolistic, cartelized energy industry who literally owns the regulatory arm of the gov&#039;t thanks to regulatory capture?Instead of doing any real thinking, I guess it&#039;s easy to resort to the mindless training of school daze where you pick up the pom-poms, wave your school&#039;s colors and sing the fight song while the other side does the exact same thing all the while being to damn stupid to realize we&#039;re all getting screwed!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 959953, member: 2189"] That's an increase of around 7% and inline with real inflation [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20150726090717/http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts'][COLOR=#ff0000]if you calculate inflation the way we use too[/COLOR][/URL]. Now it's true you can blame Obama (Congress not blameless either) to some extent but I'd blame the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve which in truth Obama and Congress really have little control over. Ron Paul, Alan Grayson, et al proved that even the Congress has no real power to audit the Federal Reserve (or don't have the stones) so there you go. The only function the Congress and President serve to the Fed is to codify the risk burden of monetary actions onto the backs of present and future tax payers. Why does a faction of voters decry at all corners the acts or attempts at privatization of gov't functions and yet in the case of the Federal Reserve they never utter a peep and even scream murder when any attempts are made to force transparency on this privatized monopoly organization? And they scream about monopoly but where are they when it comes to the monopolistic, cartelized energy industry who literally owns the regulatory arm of the gov't thanks to regulatory capture? Instead of doing any real thinking, I guess it's easy to resort to the mindless training of school daze where you pick up the pom-poms, wave your school's colors and sing the fight song while the other side does the exact same thing all the while being to damn stupid to realize we're all getting screwed! [/QUOTE]

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