Comment by csours

> "The government needs to just stay out of it."

0) Elect people who claim they can make the voters' existing lifestyle affordable.

I agree that sometimes nothing or not very much is the best thing for the government to do, but a crisis is a very bad time to say that, because the other side will just claim they will fix things.

After all, deflation is not good, but claiming that you will bring down grocery prices does seem effective.