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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: TimF who wrote (264118)5/14/2008 1:08:36 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Man, if only every citizen would share your trust of the government, the politicians would be able to milk the public so nicely and never have to worry about justifying their existence!

No it is not about government giving more weight to what people are buying more of. You are sounding very dumb when you say things like that. What it was really about was the government *lowering* the weighting of items that are no longer as affordable and then using the new formula to show there is little inflation.

Here is another fine example of government number crunchers at work. Message 24583795
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