Most people seem surprised that inflation has gotten so wildly out of control, but the truth is that this should not be a surprise to any of us.  We have been warned for years that this was coming.  Whenever our corrupt politicians in Washington authorized trillions more in spending that we couldn't afford, we were warned that this would eventually cause extremely painful inflation.  But it didn't happen immediately, and so most Americans didn't take the warnings seriously.  And as the "experts" at the Federal Reserve kept pumping trillions of fresh dollars into our financial system, we were warned that there would eventually be severe consequences.  But those consequences did not arrive immediately, and so most Americans didn't take the warnings seriously.  But now a day of reckoning has arrived, and conditions are only going to get worse from this point forward.