People can just ... wean themselves off food, like countries can wean themselves off fuel, right? /s

 "Prices climbed 8.5% in March, compared to last year, amid growing fears of economic slowdown."

WaPo reports. 

Just a few months ago, officials at the White House and Federal Reserve hoped that inflation was starting to tick down month by month. But those projections were quickly dashed by Russia’s invasion, covid shutdowns at major Chinese manufacturing hubs, and the bleak reality that inflation continues to spread through every crevice of the economy.

“One cannot escape it, even if one wanted to,” said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM. “This is going to continue for a while.”

Tough love, courtesy of the Democrats, to force needed changes in society to help save the world?  (Please voters:   save us from our policymakers.  Anyone who's ever lived under the thumb of a Democratic-controlled city or state understands "throwing money at the problem" only enriches the bureaucratic class at the expense of the working taxpayers.  Sadly, their answer to the demographic problem now that Americans refuse to have children they can no longer afford to support?  Let in more non-citizen workers to compete -- without any worker rights really -- and help end our labor shortage.  Open the borders then...  Christians will do all we can to help others, but at some point, Andersonville conditions will be overwhelming, even/especially for the simplest of us.  As a people, we're not ready for that, and should be preparing, not pretending reality away.) 

Monuments of Andersonville:  An angel hovers over
two POWs:  one who has hope and one who despairs