Mark Knows It All

I have always found it interesting how the government calculates inflation.  They simply remove the items that are going up in price from the formula.  It is more than a political ploy.  Government entitlement increases are based on the rate of inflation giving Uncle Sam a vested interest in officially declaring there is no inflation.  So much for my Social Security increase!!!  It also doesn’t take into account the inflation you can’t see….shrinkage.  Have you Golden Oreo lovers noticed there is something askew about those nifty new sticky top packages?  The number of Oreos per pack has shrunk.  Shrinkage!!  How about the full size Reese’s Cups in those big orange packages.   Today’s full size Reese’s Cup is now the size of a Junior Mint.  If they shrink anymore, you will be buying the wrapper. Shrinkage.   The same goes with a Hershey Bar.  The jumbo size now is equal to the regular size years ago.  ...

America is finally coming to its senses.  The collapse of Iraq and the children immigrant fiasco along the southern border are proving to be a bridge too far for the American public. Barack Obama's poll numbers are now officially worse than George Bush's post-Katrina. Even Chuck Todd of NBC News declared the Obama presidency over.  A progression of not-so-phony "phony" scandals has knocked the new Messiah off his pedestal notwithstanding the efforts of a supplicant press to shore him up.  Now the press is left scrambling trying to salvage liberalism itself and Hillary Clinton's presidential bid.  Even more onerous for Obama is the ever so slight but growing possibility of impeachment.  Ultimately it will be a political decision within the Democratic Party and the liberal press.  When the powers that be reach the conclusion that continuation of his presidency would destroy the chances of a Clinton presidential election victory in 2016, Obama will b...