No increase in COLA for social security recipients next year

How come low gas prices are being touted as the reason for no COLA for social security recipients when energy and food prices are always excluded from the CPI numbers when determining the effect of inflation on consumer prices??

How can the con men have it both ways?  They just make it up as they go along.  What a joke.  The moral of the story is clear: if you are counting on government to take care of you in retirement then you better go back to school and learn to count.  The butch always has his thumb on the scale, especially for retirees since government doesn't need them anymore since they are no longer working and adding to the production of the herd.  In fact, government wants them to die off ASAP so that they can cut of medicare and social security and then grab inheritance tax too!

What a one sided pile of $hit.