Wage increases always lag cost increases due to inflation.

The only remedies are either deflationary spending cuts (which absolutely will not happen) or the passage of time.

The Democrat election wins show how short sighted and economically illiterate a democracy's electorate can be...with a desire to "do something, anything," trumping reason.

We will have serious inflation soon, worse than we have already had, once we decide that the least damaging way to handle our debt is to monetize even more of it. The only issue that remains is timing, and therefore which party can effectively, but incorrectly, blame the other.