I always thought that stagflation meant high unemployment and high inflation rates combined with decreasing productivity and income. Since unemployment is so low, as is inflation (a 1.4 percent increase in prices isn't what I'd call high. 14 percent or more, now that's high!), I wouldn't describe our economy as in stagflation, especially when compared to the economy of the 70's. But then again, I'm not a MSM economist.

 stagflation(I wasn't born yet but have read what it means) that isn't even actually occuring with our country. But they are ignoring the real reasons inflation is occuring.

Lets see you MSM government educated idiots(not you NBers):

Ethonal- farmers are rapidly selling thier corn and other ethonal producing produce to oil companies. Why? Because they are government mandated to include 10% ethonal in all gasoline now. You also can not count out E85(which is also now being produced in more and more quantities). All because global warmers want to feel good. Yet they ignore the facts that ethonal produces more CO2 than regular diesal and gasoline. This is also on top of the fact that CO2  is not a pollutant. Since oil companies can spend more on corn and other produce the farmers of course are going to sell it to them rather than food companies. So to compete food companies must increase prices to buy the produce. Add this to higher transportation costs and <poof> inflated grocery prices. Do you think grocers and manufacturers are going to aborb the costs? NO, you the consumer will and are going to do so.

Taxes- I can't speak for other states but  here in VA we pay Fed income tax, State income tax, plus the other payroll taxes, state vehicle inspection fees, double vehicle registration fees, property taxes on the remaining value of your vehicles every year, inflated real estates taxes, sales tax, restaurant taxes(yes as consumers, and no even if you get food to go you  pay), city tax in the form of a sticker you put on your car(funny thing is they discontinued the sticker but still require you to pay every year), luxury tax on toiletry items(virginians look closely at your receipts), and utility taxes. There are more but I think you get the picture.

Mortgage crisis- I particularly love this one. Lenders were pretty much forced into making subprime loans to people who otherwise would never qualify by special interests groups and now these people can't pay. Not to mention the idiots who don't read what they sign(or ignore the attorney or broker that is required to be present by law at closing) on loans such as 3 or 5 year ARMS or interest only loans. This is not a crisis...this is the industry cleansing itself of morons and overspenders. They get what they deserve.

Credit crunch- when you have a slew of generations that don't  understand that real cash is needed to pay off that magic plastic in thier wallets you get high debt and what is occuring right now. This is just the light shining on government education. Nuff said.

Oil/Gas- lets see OPEC sets prices...OPEC sees that demand is high-->price of oil goes up...hmmm seems like the system works to me. Libs are preventing the US from drilling for its own oil which would put us at the top of oil producers in the world, which in turn would get us a main voice at/in OPEC, which would influence prices, not to mention that world inventory would go up....which would drop prices on its own. The libs would never go for that though. Instead the government could easily drop taxes on gas..which would drastically reduce gas prices but the libs won't do that either.

The fear mongering caused by the lack of information put out by the media is causing a problem. Coule this with the constant crying of wolf...and you get what we have today. Limbaugh used a good poll yesterday 86%  of the people surveyed believed that we are in and economic crunch, but when asked about themselves less than 42% said they were affected personally...which means the media has people scared into this mess.

“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter”  - Thomas Jefferson

I always thought it was hunters stretching the truth about how many points their buck had, you know Stag inflation.

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.