Cost of living going up is natural my friend. There is nothing but hard work and effort that can combat that. No use pointing the finger. Waste of time and effort and nobody is listening to us anyway. There hasn't been a politician in decades who has fixed the problems or addressed the concerns. Clinton won't do it, and Trump sure as hell won't do it.

BTW, my band-aid as you call it has me living very, very comfortably. I didn't need Obama to do it for me, my local government, my mayor, my mailman or my next door neighbor.

Here's where you have me wrong. I don't accept it. I do something about it.