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I just Got Back From The Grocery Store($4 For A Gallon of Milk)

Posted on 05/15/2011 5:13:18 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

The meats were like a bad joke gone bad. $7-10 for a small package of chicken breasts. I got enough food for a week and it was $107. The cashier lady told me some woman (when she noticed) milk at $4 a gallon asked if there was s milk shortage. Are people this stupid?

I am truly afraid for this country in so many ways and as the cashier lady said she told the ditz lady it will get far worse before it gets better. And the cashier was in her 20's and she figured this out- so there is some hope this age group knows to vote out Impeach Obama NOW!


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; Gardening; Government; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: afford; bernanke; depression; foodprices; fubo; gasprice; grocery; hwyrobbery; impeachobama; need4jobs; obamasucks; qe2; store; waiting4reagan2rise
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
i try not to listen
161 posted on 05/15/2011 6:43:44 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: ErnBatavia; mass55th; alicewonders; SilvieWaldorfMD

We were in East Berlin before the wall came down.
Their “housewares” were cheap junk that wouldn’t pass for toys here.
Window displays were filled with one item to give the illusion of plenty...so many cans of palm hearts or something else equally useful.
As I see empty shelves, sloppy stocking, long shelves filled with one item...to give that illusion... and the decreasing variety, and etc. It brings East Berlin to mind, and it gives me the creeps.
I am not blaming Walmart for poor business practise. They are a good indicator of the health of our economy.


162 posted on 05/15/2011 6:43:48 PM PDT by WestwardHo (Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
At $4 a loaf of bread we began to bake our own. A little while ago I noticed the yeast we use went from $5 to $8 in a short period.

Un freakin' real.

163 posted on 05/15/2011 6:44:40 PM PDT by Caipirabob ( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Jackalope Hunter
California milk control board started to keep the price artificially High,

I've been googling a bit and I get the impression that California keeps our liquid milk artificially high and strives to keep out other states milk.

That would raise California prices and lower other states prices because they have one less market for their milk, is that correct?

164 posted on 05/15/2011 6:45:07 PM PDT by ansel12 ( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
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To: Walkingfeather

The brown laying hens are selling well on craigslist.Whoever invented craigslist is genious. As local papers are charging an arm and a leg to post jobs; so craigslist is THE paper.


165 posted on 05/15/2011 6:45:13 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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To: Red_Devil 232
Thanks Red.

I could live on peppers and onions, and before Obama is through with us,I just may have too.

166 posted on 05/15/2011 6:46:20 PM PDT by mware
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To: McLynnan

Never tried blackberries but blueberries freeze very well.


167 posted on 05/15/2011 6:47:46 PM PDT by mware
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To: Walkingfeather

Brown egg laying hens I meant. Sorry typo I typed too fast.


168 posted on 05/15/2011 6:48:32 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Oh, the depression hit me all right.

Lost that nice paying job. The one that could afford the wife’s car payments. The one that could afford a weekly date night. The employer provided health insurance long gone.

I paid over $2k in doctor bills last month for myself out of a rapidly diminishing savings.

I feel damned lucky I found another job. Paying me just barely over half what the other was. NO BENNIES. Longer commute.

We don’t go out. WE DON’T DO ANYTHING.

Except go grocery shopping once a week.

We have to make that count.


169 posted on 05/15/2011 6:49:13 PM PDT by bigheadfred (Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
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To: ansel12

Thats how it started. it appears by looking at current milk prices that they have been behind the curve for about a year. Dont know why but i did notice back on 4-4 they allowed a slight price increase but nothing since. Heck I dont live in Cali. just one of those crazy things that a person learns about thru research. someday I will need to delete a few files out of my head of useless stuff else the harddrive fill up.


170 posted on 05/15/2011 6:49:44 PM PDT by Jackalope Hunter (Happiness is a belt fed weapon, Heaven is some good Enfilade.)
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To: Caipirabob

Bread thrift stores. Day old bread is as good.


171 posted on 05/15/2011 6:49:53 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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To: A_Tradition_Continues
Ahh... the "Nuremberg Defense"... "I was just following orders"

Yes, I agree with Palin that it is stupid to continue to print money and devalue our money.
172 posted on 05/15/2011 6:49:57 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: mware

I llove blueberries but blackberries are heaven to me.


173 posted on 05/15/2011 6:52:57 PM PDT by McLynnan
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To: ohiogrammy

Has anyone noticed the price of a candy bar? $1~now that is highway robbery!
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On the contrary, you can still buy quite a nice candy bar for $0.10, a single dime.

Of course there is a catch - it has to be a silver dime like they were still minting back in the 60’s. They are worth over $2 these days. It is The Fed and it’s endless expansion of the money supply and the resulting debasing of our currency that is the root cause of that dreaded $1 candy bar.


174 posted on 05/15/2011 6:53:10 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (w)
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To: bigheadfred

Sad. Your story mirrors MANY. I am truly saddened that this has hit where you live. The crappiest thing is employers are lying and saying misconduct so people can’t get unemployment money we fricking paid into. Health Ins. is so sad. It is a joke if you have it and sad when you don’t.

I Despise Obama. FUBO!


175 posted on 05/15/2011 6:54:31 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Well, Helicopter Ben Bernanke says inflation is “transitory,” and we shouldn’t worry about it. Obviously, he doesn’t eat or drive.


176 posted on 05/15/2011 6:55:25 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

So far it seems that California milk is gamed to be MORE expensive to the consumer, that was funny about the scanned receipt though wasn’t it.


177 posted on 05/15/2011 6:55:34 PM PDT by ansel12 ( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
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To: McLynnan

Can you freeze blackberries too?


Yes


178 posted on 05/15/2011 6:55:52 PM PDT by deport
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To: InterceptPoint

The Dollar General is the only place to afford candy bars.OR Ben Franklin’s where they haven’t closed.


179 posted on 05/15/2011 6:56:22 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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To: McLynnan
We have lots of wild blackberries around July.

By next month mulberries and raseberries will be out. I get my full of them when they are fresh. Hard to image they would freeze.

My mom and grandmother use to can but I never got the knack for it. With these times I better learn how to.

180 posted on 05/15/2011 6:56:41 PM PDT by mware
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