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the best way to lessen income inequality is to balance the budget.

Soon a great leader will show up on the scene with promises to balance the budget, end wars, eliminate poverty and corruption. And before he is done he will demand the worship and obedience of every human being on the planet. Sadly most will give him just that.

Revelation 13:16-17

https://sukwan.substack.com/p/sunday-strip-what-happened-to-the-efd

https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/make-america-affordable-again

Food and consumer goods are still expensive AF and keep going up.

Food and consumer goods are still expensive AF and keep going up.

What most pundits miss is that Democrats handed Trump an “affordability” katana— and he’s now swinging it around, with gusto.

Everyone focuses on money printing as the big driver of Bidenflation. And absolutely, that played the starring role. But the chart at the top of this post tells the other untold part of the story: regulations themselves quietly ratcheted prices upward. Biden’s team made everything more expensive on purpose. Trump is now dismantling that machinery— and racing down the political highway at 90 mph.

Cutting suffocating regulations is the lowest of low-hanging fruit, and Trump is shaking the whole tree.

Democrats might regret turning “affordability” into their rallying cry. It just gave Trump the political cover to bulldoze one of their most cherished regulatory temples—and hand working families cars they can actually afford again.

The Real Cost of Living Increase Index
It exposes why middle-class Americans — salaried workers who are given routine pay hikes and retirees who depend on annual increases in their corporate pension and Social Security payments — can’t maintain their standard of living. Plainly and simply, the Index shows that their income can’t keep up with their expenses, and it explains why they increasingly have to turn to the government for entitlements to bail them out.

It’s because salary and benefit increases are pegged to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which for more than a century has purported to reflect the fluctuation in prices for a typical “basket of goods” in American cities — but which actually hasn’t done that for more than 30 years.

The middle class has seen its purchasing power decline dramatically in the last three decades, forcing more and more people to seek entitlements when their savings are gone. And as long as pay raises and benefit increases are tied to a false CPI, this trend will continue.

The myth that the CPI represents the increase in our cost of living is why the Chapwood Index was created. What differentiates it from the CPI is simple, but critically important. The Chapwood Index:

Reports the actual price increase of the 150 items on which most Americans spend their after-tax money. No gimmicks, no alterations, no seasonal adjustments; just real prices.

Shines a spotlight on the inaccuracy of the CPI, which is destroying the economic and emotional fiber of our country.

Shows how our dependence on the CPI is killing our middle class and why citizens increasingly are depending upon government entitlement programs to bail them out.

Claims to persuade Americans to become better-educated consumers and to take control of their spending habits and personal finances.

PCE reported today for September 2025 and it is 2.8% (annual inflation).

We were promised that prices will go down, not keep going up at 2.8%.

We were promised that prices will go down, not keep going up at 2.8%.

"We were promised that prices will go down, not keep going up at 2.8%."

We were promised that prices will go down, not keep going up at 2.8%.

Eric Holder says

We were promised that prices will go down, not keep going up at 2.8%.

Gas and egg prices are lower than what they were in the Birdbrain Biden regime.

Check our Panama City Beach rents such as Hathaway Townhomes and they are at 2021 levels.

So Trump has helped to keep costs down, but I'm not sure he can help us fully recover from the disastrous policies and legislation of the Birdbrain Biden regime.

2 to 3% annual inflation is likely the outcome. Still is a lot better than Biden's 9% annual inflation in 2022.

August 9, 2024 (Bozeman, MT rally):“Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.”

• August 14, 2024 (North Carolina rally): “Prices will come down. You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.”

• August 17, 2024 (campaign speech):
“Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down and we will make America affordable again.”

This would've happened regardless. Donnie did nothing basically. And he DID promised that prices will go down.

Donnie did nothing basically. And he DID promised that prices will go down.

RWSGFY says

Donnie did nothing basically. And he DID promised that prices will go down.

Deporting illegals is deflationary.

This would've happened regardless. Donnie did nothing basically. And he DID promised that prices will go down.