Posted on 03/13/2011 10:52:38 AM PDT by Nachum
What’s in your wallet?
Not much — especially after a trip to the supermarket.
At the checkout counter at the D’Agostino in Hell’s Kitchen, retired ballerina Carol Sumner shook her head over the increasingly steep price of her weekly grocery bill.
“It’s outrageous,” said Sumner, a senior citizen who was making a pit stop to buy soda, ice cream and cake for a party she was throwing.
“I feel like I am getting fleeced and taken advantage of. I don’t buy meat anymore. I can’t. It’s too expensive.”
The price index for groceries is expected to surge 3 to 4 percent nationally this year, according to the US Dept. of Agriculture.
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..makes me think about how Russia banned Grapes of Wrath, 'cause their citizens who saw it got jealous, "Hey, looky there,. . folks in America got their on truck!"
Buy 50 pound bags of rice at Costco for $17.00
And of course she has health issues, or will.
What bothers me is seeing a train of 3 shopping carts packed with groceries and invariably a Latina using a EBT card, she is buying groceries for a house full of people, but to the State, she is actually a single mother of 4 children or what have you.
Sterotype?
Yeah, maybe, then when she piles the groceries into a brand new Explorer or other SUV it bugs me that “I” have to dig lint out of my wallet to buy my meager amount of supplies.
While I don’t necessarily disagree with the “we burn what makes those” point, I think as a side note, that the government has already pawned off “School lunch” on us and is pushing further school breakfast and even school dinner and summer meals. I believe it’s probable (it’s a gut feeling based on historical precedent) that there is a coordinated effort to get all U.S. Citizens to be on government food aid, from food stamps (60 million and climbing), and free school lunch, breakfast, etc.
Soon, there will be political strings attached (as there already are in a roundabout way). If we took corn subsidies away, the costs of all these items would rise anyway, which I don’t necessarily think is bad anyway. I should qualify that to mention, that the U.S. pays very low costs as a percentage of total income compared to the world, and the world has been subsidizing our spending. If we truly cut entitlement spending and stop living off of the world’s subsidies to us (buying our debt while we spend TRILLIONS we don’t have) and had to live within our means it would shatter our way of life.
I personally believe that food costs should reflect true price, without government subsidies to the corn farmers of any type, and without foreign countries subsidizing our debt. Call me crazy, but I know that in the end, self reliance and the confidence and freedom it brings are worth more than all the luxury and apathy that money can buy.
I know others will disagree, but I’d like to see freedom from debt, even if it means the ticket price of food goes up. People can grow gardens, and charity will undoubtedly grow as our tax burden diminishes. Prosperity comes from industry and Divine Providence, hence our country has been on a downward slide for 60 years. The world was forces to buy from the U.S. after WW2 not because we made high quality merchandise (although we did) but because the rest of the industrialized world’s infrastructure was bombed into oblivion. Well that’s changed. The unions took over (most manufacturing), making lower and lower quality goods. At the same time, taxes increased and politicians commited treason allowing “free trade” to export American labor, without taxing and tarriffing incoming goods. Thus, the rest of the world built their manufacturing base, and the citizens of foreign countries are starting to realize their industry is worth more than the pennies they have often been paid.
The world, and U.S. in particular are poised to face a correction of magnitude, and it’s been a long time coming. Americans need to pull together, and through the oppression off. We were once industrious, innovative and providential. If we are to become that way again we’ll have to throw off the regulatory gorilla on our back, institute tariffs on incoming goods, and actually reap what we sow, and we’ll get back to being the greatest, thriving economy in the world.
I end with the prayer: May God bless America, and her people as they seek His will, and conform to His laws, may He lift them up and hold them in the palm of His hand, set to be a city on a hill, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
When we remodeled, I positioned the bathroom shelves to fit two stacked rolls of toilet paper exactly. Today, there is a good inch gap between the rolls and the next shelf. Another FReeper pointed this out a few weeks ago and yes, I see there is about a 1/4” difference from a previous purchase to some I bought the other day so they’re still shrinking. Look at how much excess room there is on a tp holder rod to see how much they have shrunk. Same thing with the paper towel holder.
0Bummer’s agenda continues unabated.
Prefer the 25 pd cubes tbh, they stack and store better than the bags do, space at a premium it is a concern.
Cooking oil is also a really good thing to store.
My only real exception to the must stack rule is Toilet Paper bought at paper supply warehouses, 300 rolls for 40 bucks..hard to beat that price.
“Supermarket Prices Soar In Manhattan”
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of Libs.
now that you mention it......
I’m waiting for Il Douche to accuse supermarkets of “price gouging”.
***$10.00/pound bread is coming to your supermarket soon!***
LOL! I remember back in the late 1960s when bread went up 2 cents a loaf and the NY unions went into berzerk mode calling for a boycot of bread till the price went down.
LOL! Hey, what's so strange about that? I do it regularly. ;-)
There's something special about attending Christian services in what used to be one of Saddam's palaces.
Cool! If you get it, I'll put it on my homepage.
***Surprise! One can isn’t enough for a couple of sandwiches anymore. It’s all the way down to 5 oz. It used to be near 7, if I recall.***
I opened a can of Tuna not long ago and found more water than tuna in it. Definitly not like it used to be!
Agreed, there’s more water than tuna now days. But the cat is pleased.
Where exactly do I find that deal?
With all due respect, you’re missing the price of diesel in every step in the manufacturing chain. The $200/load is assuming it’s one load of 200 gallons of gas the entire life of the good. If it’s a crop, it must use a tractor, be shipped somewhere to be processed, be shipped somewhere to be distributed to be made into something, must be distributed to a warhouse, and then distributed to for just in time delivery. Add to that a lot of other factors, such as that same process for packaging added in at the last steps. An additional factor is gas for purchasers. Gone are the days for many to just “run to the store to pick up _____” for me that’s a $5-$7 trip in fuel (depending on the store), up from the $3-$5 just a year or 2 ago. Not that I mind, I just don’t run to the store. But I am just trying to note that you’re missing MANY steps that require one to add the cost of energy in at various stages. Food for thought.
Wow your Costco must be cheaper than mine and have larger bags of rice. I paid $16.99 for a 25 lb. bag of rice.
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