Democratic Strategists in 2014 Are Like French Generals in 1940

Townhall.com ^ | March 18, 2014 | Michael Barone

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Gen.Blather:" She reports a McDonald’s small burger, fry and soda is $10. She said the food was grossly overpriced...
She said, “the irony is, so they’re making a living wage, but they have to live in a world where everything cost several times what it costs here.
So how much did the gain from this living wage?”

My daughter , who works as a schoolteacher in Melbourne came home for Christmas, and her lugage was purposely loaded down with gifts for everyone stateside.
On the return trip, her luggage was loaded down with clothes , cosmetics, toothpaste, and female necessities
all of which was available stateside at less than 1/3 the Aussie "living wage" prices.
I can't even imagine what a challenge it would be to be on a "fixed income" there !!
Incidently , they put 'sliced beets' on all their hamburgers there in Oz ; what's with that ??

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Gen.Blather :" ..She said the food was grossly overpriced. "

My daughter has "zero expierience" at gardening, and she shares a three-person apartment with two other teachers.
The roomates are talking about putting in a garden for vegetables and herbs to cut their food costs ,
and supplement their diets with more veggies.
The expense of meat there , other than sheep , is almost cost prohibitive , so most of their diet is veggies and grains .

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Not to belabor the point but that was the wrong war.