Already stratospheric, inflation is likely to lurch upward as a result of the $740,000,000,000.00 Inflation Amplification Act spending blowout, which includes laundering hundreds of $billions through green energy boondoggles. But we had no choice but to spend vast amounts of money that we do not have, because otherwise, Mother Earth would be angry with us. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi explains:

We climbed a long way from the days of malevolent rulers throwing sacrificial virgins down volcanoes to the Constitution of the United States. Then we slid back down again. Now, it’s our money they throw into a volcano to placate weather gods.

On a tip from Kevin R.