The legislation passed by this administration was the federal budget. The Federal Reserve (independently run) is in charge of paying for this insane budget so they keep printing money and devaluing the dollar. Everything is bought and sold on a global economy so when the dollar is weak, our stuff costs more.
Well the exchange rate of dollars per euro peaked in July 2008, at $1.58 per euro. Right now it's at $1.32 per euro.
Now, for sure, the Chinese Yuan is a lot stronger versus the dollar than it was in June 2005 (it's 6.35 per dollar versus 8.27 in June 2005), but while that does mean all the junk we buy from China is more expensive, it also means that American manufacturing is more competitive, and that it's easier for them to buy stuff from us.
If you wanna talk about why FOOD costs more,
that's got everything to do with Goldman Sachs bundling food commodities into a single bond that people buy on the assumption that the price of food will go up...which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. As with the housing crisis, it was Wall Street that screwed us over, not the federal government.
As for government once-fired brass getting turned into scrap, the government plan to do that was quickly killed when it popped up in early 2009. The scrapping is going on now, but that's because ATK/Alliant Tech Systems, the company that runs Lake City Arsenal, goes and buys the once-fired brass directly from military bases and then destroys it on site, and pays the military bases then and there. The officers in charge of the bases are the ones who sold you out, not Obama and Pelosi; you were sold out to Alliant Tech Systems, not anti-gun activists.
Here's the ATK/Alliant flyer for the program that destroys all the once-fired brass that would otherwise be sold to the public:
http://www.progunleaders.org/ammo/SCSBrassRecycle%28small%29.pdf
Page 11 of the ATK/Alliant .pdf
here says the same thing. "Keeps military-grade brass from being reloaded by unauthorized users."
