American families are now battling a 2.7% inflation rate this year.

Inflation jumped 1.6% just this week. Have you bought gold yet?

This was the biggest drop since 1990. The administration is saying the consumer spender will lead us out of the recession.

With 15.3 million unemployed, the jobless consumer spender? With a 2.7 percent rise in the consumer price index? With energy prices during this cold winter shooting up 18.2% – the biggest rise since ‘79?

Though as Theresa Bryan told the Assoicated Press when they asked her how she had been affected by inflaction, “”I don’t notice anything because I’m so broke.”