American Thinker,
by
Luis Gonzalez
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Mercedes44
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8/10/2026 6:13:11 AM
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The grocery receipt is where inflation arrives. It is not where inflation begins, and any politician who tells you otherwise is either innumerate or lying.
For millions of Americans, the economic debate has been reduced to terms even Washington cannot obfuscate: the price of food, the mortgage nobody can qualify for, the insurance premium that arrives like a subpoena. The distance between a paycheck and the obligations waiting for it has been shrinking for four straight years while the people responsible insisted everything was fine.
It was not fine. The reason has a name, a date, and a price tag, all of which the last administration would prefer you forget.