Posted on 10/10/2011 7:11:20 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
“Again, inflation caused by government. Federal law limits peanut farming and imports. Peanut farmer Jimmy Carter is smiling all the way to the bank.”
He won’t be able to keep so much as a penny of it when he goes.
We bought a six-pound container of Peter Pan for just under $8 at Sam’s about a week and a half ago. Wish we had bought more. Ran into a neigbor while we were there and told her about rising peanut prices and she made sure to get some too.
We bought a six-pound container of Peter Pan for just under $8 at Sam’s about a week and a half ago. Wish we had bought more. Ran into a neigbor while we were there and told her about rising peanut prices and she made sure to get some too.
The deal is, though, that those on the dole probably won’t eat peanut butter.
Why do that when you can buy pre-packaged pre-prepared food on your EBT for your “babies”?
My 4 year old got happy with the mouse.
If we can't produce them, then import peanuts. Ooops, the government won't let us.
Texas can't supply all the nations oil either, which is why we import it. So import peanuts.
Yeah, but it’ll really bite those of us who pay for those on the dole.
I like peanut butter much better now that I’m older; I wasn’t a fan when I was younger. Vegemite is disusting.
The quantities of all of these products are shrinking, while prices rise; soon Wal-Mart will be the only store/supermarket left (they undersell our chain supermarkets with most products). I see no reason why an improvement in the agricultural situation would bring any relief; we’re paid with Monopoly money that continues to lose value as we fund entitlements, the teachers’ unions, wars, bloated government, etc.
Usually at this point countires would junk their paper $1 and $2 for coins, as they have the value of a quarter from a few years ago; just about every vending machine now takes paper money where they used to take strictly change a while back.
I was in a bar where the jukebox accepted credit cards; that is more scary than McDonald’s taking them, in what is says about the economy and the American consumer.
I tell myself that if I had lived in heavily-rationed,
post-war Britain and experienced malnutrition, maybe I would like Vegemite.
In my town, most of us choose to buy meat and produce from the local employee-owned store. The quality is just superior.
Most of us make a monthly or bi-monthly trip to the nearest town with an Aldi’s and a Sam’s to stock up on things that are so much cheaper. I actually try to avoid going to the grocery too often. I keep a list and when we are desperately in need of something, I go. Otherwise, I make do. If I go shopping routinely, I overbuy. I container garden for some fresh produce.
I have seen high prices come down in the past due to production increases, so I won’t say it can’t happen. It won’t be soon, though.
Yes, our money is devalued and we, as a culture, see nothing wrong with using credit for 5 minutes of music and it is alarming. Somehow, though, the PTB have convinced a majority that everything is just fine, even as we live on our national capital and our society is hollowed out like a rotten tree.
I grew up on nutella so the thought of pb&j sandwiches grosses me out. Peanut butter tastes great with chocolate and baked goods though!
Good points, though I don’t think they’ve convinced a majority that everything is fine. The desperation shows in the elections that have cost the Dems in the elections from 2009 on, and is even more pronounced as the left voices its discontent (see Occupy Wall Street and similar groups). With a few exceptions (some politicians, and the public employees who have survived the layoffs), just about everyone else is worse off and they know it. The 2012 election cycle is going to end a lot of political careers, including that of the incompetent token president Obama.
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