Posted on 11/11/2012 5:42:54 PM PST by huac
"...Gerry Mak and Sarah Magida sauntered through a small ethnic market stocked with Japanese eggplant, mint chutney and fresh turmeric...Magida, a 30-year-old art school graduate...she’s used her $150 in monthly benefits for things like fresh produce, raw honey and fresh-squeezed juices from markets near her house in the neighborhood of Hampden, and soy meat alternatives and gourmet ice cream from a Whole Foods a few miles away..."
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
“You revealed yourself as an anti-American today “
Indeed. Pointing out to any federal retiree - On a Federal Holiday, no less, that his pension is not likely to be paid as expected is tantamount to heresy. Treason even.
I think you should pull a few strings turn me in to the postal inspector, or his excellency the Postmaster General.
more than likely it will be paid even if you have to give up a couple of sequoia trees.
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “If you don’t work you die.”
The proposal is that we, in kindness, give him $3/day and the link in my tagline.
I saw an EBT sign at a CARWASH in Los Angeles.
Based on personal observation, we lost about 1/3 of the crops this season.
Is it enought to hurt, and possibly higher food costs because of supply and demand? Yes.
Is it going to put the USA into starvation mode? No.
We won’t starve for sure, but it puts another stressor on the system. The crunch will come during any financial dislocation that causes the EBT system to flash ERROR for even a few days. That will throw the road flare into the match factory. It won’t be a problem of food supply, but food delivery.
It won't take "a few days". Within an hour of people realizing that they can't get the "stuff" they are "purchasing" via EBT, they'll freak out and start fighting each other.
Exactly.
Think I might have to try this myself:
Found this recipe for homemade tortillas (and chips)
http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/tools-and-techniques/how-to-cook-tortillas-and-beans2.htm
Also found this recipe for refried beans
http://mexicanfood.about.com/od/savorysides/r/refriedbeans.htm
Although I think epazote might have to be found in an ethnic market - can’t recall seeing it at the local supermarket.
On the other hand, you are answering a post where I had already looked at the Drought Monitor maps, and had done so several times this year and last, and Travis hadn't ~ I then posted a link to the Monitor, Travis' next post changed its tone.
The Great Droughts in North America have been worse at times, and mild at others, but they are widespread and clearly linked to solar cycles.
Outside of pre-history, the worst one I know of occurred in the second half of the 16th century, and lasted 70 years in parts of the East (Spanish NA from New York to North Carolina) and during one 17 year period, it appears to have not rained at all in what is now Virginia's Tidewater ~ from the Capes all the way to Great Falls and possibly East to the ocean.
More study is required on that one ~ could be it reached all the way to the West Coast ~ and could have been part of the climate disasters that made Spanish exploration of that area so difficult until the mid 1700s. Fur Shur, by the time they got into California the Indians were in truly pitiful shape.
On the other hand, you are answering a post where I had already looked at the Drought Monitor maps, and had done so several times this year and last, and Travis hadn't ~ I then posted a link to the Monitor, Travis' next post changed its tone.
The Great Droughts in North America have been worse at times, and mild at others, but they are widespread and clearly linked to solar cycles.
Outside of pre-history, the worst one I know of occurred in the second half of the 16th century, and lasted 70 years in parts of the East (Spanish NA from New York to North Carolina) and during one 17 year period, it appears to have not rained at all in what is now Virginia's Tidewater ~ from the Capes all the way to Great Falls and possibly East to the ocean.
More study is required on that one ~ could be it reached all the way to the West Coast ~ and could have been part of the climate disasters that made Spanish exploration of that area so difficult until the mid 1700s. Fur Shur, by the time they got into California the Indians were in truly pitiful shape.
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