Posted on 02/19/2014 6:02:47 AM PST by BlatherNaut
The Missus and I have found the 99¢ Store actually has the best produce. Better than Fry’s, *way* better than Wal-Mart.
It sounds like the same policy he’s applying to health care: Uninsure the insured, so they have to buy back their coverage at a much higher price to subsidize people who don’t want insurance.
Nope.
There is no perfect diet.
Your diet depends on what you are doing and the environment, hot/cold, you are doing it in.
I buy most of my produce there and when it’s just me I can eat really well. I don’t require alot of meat. When I am home hubby’s requirement for meat absolutely kills our budget.
Seems like the pattern - take from those who “have” (because they are responsible and pay for their own needs),
charge them a lot more to get back what was taken from them,
and make sure those that “have not” (because they choose to have not, or by their choices, they have not) get it for free.
Housing, food, utilities, health insurance, cars, gas...
I read last year people in the UK found it cheaper to burn old books than to burn coal.
A sack of old paperback books was cheaper than a sack of coal.
Headline indicates CBS News is just jumping on board with the Hike the Minimum Wage campaign.
Has CBS News ever *not* been on board with the liberals?
“He wants people who actually pay for their own food to pay a LOT more,”
That’s something people better wake up to.
The belief is Americans have too much food at cheap prices so Americans waste food, denying the rest of the world food.
I believe the idea is “Sufficient Food” will be pushed as a universal right by the UN, and “food taxes” will be leveled against the food producing countries.
Something along the line of for every 10 tons of food produced, 1 ton will go to the UN to distribute to “needy” countries.
Thus destroying the indigenous agrarian economies of said "needy" countries. I read a good article the other day (I think it was from Sultan Knish) about the "Aid Economies" of some African countries (it's not limited to Africa). Dumping tons of free food on these countries are wiping the farmers out.
Ethiopia used to be a net exporter of food, until the government started employing selective famine to control the population. The photos of starving people went out, and huge amounts of food were shipped in, wiping out the entire agricultural sector of the economy.
The problem is substitution: it causes technology products’ inflation to be overstated, and basic necessities’ inflation to be overstated.
For the same $200, you get a crazy-better TV than you did 20 years ago. The flat-screen, 35-inch TV that now costs $300 would have then cost $15,000.
But on the other hand, as people retrench from delicious steaks to reprocessed factory gunk, their paring back isn’t reflected in their inflation, either.
The government, aware of both issues, says, “Meh: even wash.” But really, do we have a better society because our lower-middle class watches awesome TV as they dine on cheap crap?
Years ago a friend of mine did a lot of oilfield work in Africa.
At the time there was a famine.
He said as long as someone is willing to feed them they will not lift a finger to feed themselves, and they will let as many people as necessary die so there is enough food to feed those remaining.
Women would starve their children so they could eat since children can be replaced.
He told me how planes would drop food, they couldn’t land because they would swarm the plane, and the next day people were sitting in the same spot waiting for more food to be dropped.
To get the people to move to where it was easier to feed them, the plane would drop the food a mile or 2 away and make them walk to the food.
Basically it was akin to getting a duck to follow you by dropping bread as you walk.
for the shoppers out there: look at the price for a can of tuna....a few short years ago, I could occassionally get a buy for 3 cans/$1....now, its advertized on “sale” for $0.89 a can...
let her eat dog poo....
Whatever you say....
I just wrote three articles on Survival Podcast detailing how to grow food plants inside your house using dwarf food plants. I will be doing this. (I also have a container garden on my deck and containers sitting on dirt.)
Humblegunner, these articles are long so I won't post them here, but you know that website is not a blog of mine so I'm not trying to get people there just to get hits.
Two of these articles are the last two articles on this page, then go to the next page for the last one:
http://thesurvivalpodcast.com/forum/index.php?topic=24168.510
No need to coddle 'em, back when I was raising midgets I mostly fed 'em store-brand dog food and some weeds for variety.
Just kidding.. scoping out your articles now.
Thanks, Marcella.
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