Posted on 08/27/2014 5:33:40 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Food prices continue to go up and consumers are feeling the pinch. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the price of food has spiked to its highest rate since September 2011. Consumers are now paying more for such staples as ground beef, chicken and turkey, eggs, bacon, citrus fruit, coffee, peanut butter, and margarine. Normally, politicians would try to alleviate this financial strain on American families. Yet, this administration seems to want to make food more expensive.
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Obamanomics.
I see my bell pepper plants as money trees. Each pepper is a shiny new dollar bill. Same with our watermelons, cabbage, beans, tomatoes and all the other garden stuff.
And then there are the 11 eggs our hens lay every day. They are technological wonders. They turn ticks and other bugs into eggs. Don’t ask me how they do it, and they aren’t talking, but it explains their smug look.
On purpose to get more people on welfare programs....and dependent on the government.
EVERY SINGLE decision by the Obama administration is INTENDED to hurt America.
Yeah, so what? It’s obviously not bothering anyone enough to change how they vote. I don’t know what it takes to wake people up, but it certainly isn’t high prices.
” Now what? Should restaurant owners simply place a big-gulp sized salt shaker on each table with a placard that reads “please add more salt, you’ll need it!”
I’d be willing to bet that Moochelle is working on a way to force restaurants to remove salt shakers from the tables, perhaps sugar and butter too.
Just like they did to the fast-food burger doodle places. You no longer can expect a package of salt in the bag to put on the fries, you have to ask for it.
The sooner that fat-a$$ed food Nazi chokes on a pork-chop bone, the better the world will be.
“It’s obviously not bothering anyone enough to change how they vote.”
This is all about changing how people vote. The impetus behind regulating food prices into the stratosphere is to force more Americans onto Food Stamp and other government programs where they will be compliant Progressive voters. This is also why farmers markets and small farms are facing absurd regulatory scrutiny.
The same thing is true of Obamacare - they use regulations to force massive increases in the cost of health insurance, and then provide subsidies, as long as you don’t let those evil conservatives win any elections.
Your average dem voter doesn’t pay for their food out of their pocket the govt, you and me, pays for it or they are wealthy enough the price of food is irrelevant.
“I see my bell pepper plants as money trees
Same here, Fall gardens are being prepped and planted.
When people don’t have any money left to spend on their “wants” after spending all their money on their “needs”, the economy is going in the tank.
Sad state of affairs that people go that route when they don’t have to. Hard to see a good result for the country.
I believe the greatest damage Obama has done to this country is the vast increase in the scope and power of the Leftist bureaucracy under his administration.
The EPA, IRS, OSHA and all the others are now nothing less than a hidden dictatorship.
Even if we can get conservatives into Congress and the White House it will take years to get these people out of power.
Once the economy becomes so burdened with free stuff from the government it will collapse, that is what Obama and his friends are pushing for, then they can truly remake the government of the US into a true Socialist state.
This runs parallel with jacking up energy prices.
The “elites” don’t want us using THEIR resources or eating THEIR food.
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