I am From Peru and remember a long time ago when Ex president Garcia went back from exilium after a disatrous government, that had a 6 number inflation in the 80's.
This was the year 2001 if memory serves me well a Journalist (Bayly) took him to his show and put basic food needs on the table to graphicly show the audience who this man was so he put a Kilo of Eggs at Garcias crazy soles was 2 million soles, and then went to Bread, Chicken etc etc I thought this was so graphic that many people really remembered and Garcia lost that election, afterwards in 2006 he got elected but some lessons were learned and he is not doing really that bad, BUT THE POINT IS that I made a research using the same concepts and found very interesting things like Democrats have lower inflation terms than Republicans http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Inflation
then I went on to try to see how much was gas in 2000 found out that it was $1.66 galon, so the difference is $2.34 so I went on to see what you could buy then with that money interesting enough you could buy tomatoes, bananas and apples 1 pound each I would like Obama to start up a campaign what could you buy now with $4 so to all the friends I have ideas for commercials an youtube stuff but not the technical expertise a nice presentations showing a gallon of gas with Bush economic plan side by side with 8 years ago the same gallon of gas plus tomatoes, chicken , milk you name it whatever was possible to buy with the $2.34 my source for the vegetable thing was this http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aib790/aib790.pdf Because there is something the Obama is not saying and that SHOULD BE SAYING INFLATION IS THE WORST TAX YOU CAN IMPOSE TO A POPULATION AND THE REPLUBLICAN HAVE ALWAYS GIVEN THAT TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY THE POOR GETS POORER WITH THIS TAX AND YET OBAMA IS NOT KILLING THEM FOR THIS WE NEED TO PUT THE WORD OUT REPUBLICAN = INFLATION = TAXATION TO THE POOR THE RICH DOES NOT GET AFFECTED BY INFLATION ONLY THE POOR.