They've also rigged the inflation numbers for decades - to conceal real inflation. If it's a government-produce number, it's manipulated. I just went to the grocery store for the first time in a few weeks. I was stunned how much the price of EVERYTHING has gone up. An average size box of Mrs. Stouffer's lasagna was $10.89 when I know the same box was $4 less than a year ago. That's more than 100 percent inflation. And you can add 10-percent sales tax onto that price. You can only conceal or ignore this real inflation for so long.