I TOTALLY understand your frustration at seeing what, to the thinking person, is such an amazingly obvious assault on our futures...but that so few people seem to care about. The "cult of personality" is more important these days than simple, objective reality.
It's why people sit around talking about "the game", and reciting statistics and "important facts" and praising "their favorite players" while telling you their entire financial and statistical history...and honestly believing that this is "some great accomplishment." All the while, they don't know how to collect a seed from a simple strawberry, they don't know how "fiat currency" completely replaced "money" in the 70's, or how it is created, or even what it is.
Using the same 'tater chip basis...I remember when a 235 gram bag of chips used to have 400 grams of chips in it, as well. Bag hasn't change over here, either...and they also added "contents may have settled during shipping" as well as the "We add the same USDA choice, Grade-A, Investment-Quality air as Wall Street Bankers do...to protect the contents from being crushed..." Yeah...uhmm...sure...if it was about crushing the chips, they'd put them in BOXES. (Good thing we ain't smart enough to figger that out, huh?)
I also remember when they were under $1.00 a bag...and I just snagged them "on special" for "ONLY" 3 for $8.00 ($2.67). Earlier this year, they went "on sale" at 2 for $6.00 ($3.00 per). End of last year, they were 2 for $5.00 ($2.50 each). Couple years back, 3 for $5.00 ($1.67) was what you saw on the shelves.
Even COUPONS aren't as good as they used to be. The good ol' A&W used to have a special of two teen burgers for $4.00. Last year, "the deal" went to two for $5.00...and then went to two for $6.00. This month, "the deal" went to two for $7.00...so now, even "a deal" is twice as much as it used to be.
Keeping in mind that I'm on the other side of the border, it's fairly clear that the Canadian dollar is being eroded at an equal or faster pace to the US dollar...and it's not going to be able to continue this way for much longer before the whole system breaks down.
For those who don't understand yet, this is the simplest possible explanation that I can think of for WHY prices for EVERYTHING seem to keep going up exponentially:
Essentially, there are advances in everything, at all times, in order to cut costs and streamline operations. Advances in science, technology, manufacturing, farming, production, processing, shipping and transportation, warehousing and storage, materials, engineering, etc, etc, etc. ALL of those advances ALL lower costs. So why do costs keep going up, at ever-faster rates?
Also simple: The banking fraud, the closer it gets to the end, accelerates at a faster pace than all potential advancements which result in cost reductions.
Put even more simply, the greed of the international bankers ALWAYS outpaces all of the most brilliant minds on the planet...and it ALWAYS results in currency crises, once the people finally catch on.
This is why it is IMPERATIVE that EVERYONE stock up on essential items NOW. There may not be another decade left "to plan for what might possibly happen." The banking fraud is UNSTOPPABLE by any means other than a complete financial crash, and it's coming. It can no longer be stopped. It COULD have been completely avoided in 1980, when the value of all gold in US vaults surpassed ALL DEBT...it could have been COMPLETELY eradicated...but it wasn't.
Once you understand that EVERYTHING that is happening in the world today was specifically designed to play out EXACTLY as it is playing out now...if you don't prepare for yourself, there aren't going to be any "wonderful agencies" to step up to do for you what they weren't even smart enough to do for themselves while they KNEW full well what they were doing to you!
And silver just went up about a buck over the last three days. Sure is a good thing we don't have silver in our currencies any more, huh?
Just to add another frame of reference...when I first learned how to operate a car, "The Gas Wars" were on...and my old '75 Buick Regal with it's 18 gallon tank cost me $5.00 to tank it from BONE DRY. Today, a piddly little 12 gallon tank costs $70.00.
The evidence that the bankers' fraud is accelerating is EVERYWHERE. It's sad how few people care about it at all, because they're simply so busy worrying about the symptoms, to do anything at all about fixing the problems that caused them.
Two things that I've been recommending people get, and that most people have completely ignored, over the last decade or three: Gold, (which is now too expensive for the majority of people to be able to afford), Silver (you can get about 60 ounces for the price of ONE ounce of gold today), and SEEDS. Specifically, "heritage" or "heirloom" or "landrace" seeds, that have been around for at least 30 years, have been acclimated to local planting conditions, and which have NOT been "GMO'd", so that no corporation can come into your garden later on and say "Sorry...we invented that plant (an absolute scientific impossibility outside of a courtroom ANYWAY)...so you owe us for XXX plants worth of licensing fees..."
At least here, people are more open to seeing the truth. Let's hope that some people listen, while there is still a limited, and shrinking, window they have left to protect themselves.
Most won't. They "simply can't be bothered."
(sigh...)