I’m not sure why, but my culture is having a crisis of critical thinking. And perhaps of morals. It shouldn’t be possible for someone to go to work with the intention of deceiving, but that’s where we are with the BLS and their ever-fraudulent inflation statistics.
Exhibit A:
While harmful to everyone depending on a COLA adjustment keeping up with inflation, the monthly fraud is really more of an annoyance than a major problem.
If you want a really huge disaster, then you’ve got to turn to the lack of a coherent energy policy for the US and a very strong strain of coping going around that advances the idea of oil being abiotic in nature.
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