Posted on 03/26/2022 3:12:01 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR) said that the U.S. already faces a food shortage due to supply issues making food more difficult to find at the grocery store and increased prices for food.
Crawford said, “I was just in our grocery store, literally half an hour ago, and we do have a food shortage. I mean, if you can find meat, it’s more expensive. The shelves are a little bit more bare on essential items like beans and canned vegetables and things like that. So, yeah, that is reality for us here in America, but probably not for President Biden. But for the rest of us, it is a reality.”
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The Democrat’s plan is coming together
Liberals must be giddy over this.
They will be until they, themselves can't get the stuff they want.
I hope Republican representatives read Free Republic because I want to tell them to save there fake virtue signaling. Where have you been until now? It’s election season so you crawl out from your rocks to do the least possible to keep your seats. Not this time. You should have fought for Trump as YOUR CONSTITUANTS have since the 2020 election was stolen from US. And now you complain about Biden’s America??? You are not virtuous or honorable and do not deserve the place we put you. Let me tell you, I am not voting for any encumbents. Not locally, regionally, or nationally. Rot in hell. I’d strip you of every penny We The People paid you and... your retirement if I could. What a waste.
It’s terrible out there. A guy came up to me the other day, and said he hadn’t had a bite in two days.
So, I bit him.
I’m here all week!
Will blame Trump. It’ll be great to hear the whining from them when they can’t get their non-GMA organic food and will have to eat what the rest of us do; that is if they’ve not stocked up (called us hoarders/survivalists).
GOP’S FAULT, they helped get rid of trump
Arab Spring, Anerican Mid Terms?
No we don't. We have a shortage of food at the price you want to pay now.
Hope y’all have been stockpiling...
I have taught economics for almost thirty years, and know what a “shortage” is. I have also thought the shortage talk was overwrought since 3/20. But the last couple of weeks the empty spaces on the shelves, while still few and nothing like Soviet shelves, at least where I live are growing.
YMMV, but the next time you go to the store I encourage you to take notes and report back on what you find. If it’s essentially indistinguishable from pre-COVID, count your blessings.
I’ve noticed the shelves of our store are fairly (Note I said fairly) well stocked, but prices are higher than a cat’s back!
Plus there is less in each can or bottle.
Dry Dog food was about $22.90 for 50 lb a month ago. Now it is 44 lb and $29.00
The pitch is “ 44 POUNDS! NOW 4 MORE POUNDS THAN 40 LB!”
wet cat food could not be found.
Pudding cups were $1.00 for a 4 cup package. Now the come on is “Two packages (eight) for $3.00! Up a dollar and a half for one package of four.
Reminds me of the old commie method..”Chocolate is now increased from 30 OZ ti 20 OZ!
You don’t think there is a difference between a ‘food shortage’ and a shortage of brands or specific items you would prefer?
Hope you all have got your spring planting planned and your seeds ordered.
And there have in recent weeks (as in the early months of CCP-19) been times when brands of things that I regularly buy are not available for several days.
Again, it’s not waiting seven years for a Soviet Lada. But the scope of genuine if short-term shortages has gotten noticeably worse in the last few weeks. We will have to see how the interruption of fertilizer supplies from Russia and Ukraine plays out.
I have long (justifiably) used supermarkets as an example of well-functioning markets writ large. You want something, it’s always there, even if the price is higher than you expected. Gasoline too; even after major shocks like 9/11 or the invasion of Kuwait prices go up, and within days the panicky lines disappear. Price deregulation in 1981 brought this about.
For gasoline that is still true. But for some grocery items, there really are in my observation shortages, which take days to resolve and then only intermittently.
But they're sure the gov't will bring them what they need.
Around here if you shop the sales and avoid packaged food, there isn’t a big difference. We live in a big agricultural area with tons of farms and meat-packing facilities, so that probably helps us out a lot.
Wet cat food is my biggest complaint.
But I will be gardening and canning this year, like last year. Every little bit helps, and putting up food during your local growing season, when food is relatively inexpensive because it isn’t getting tangled up in shipping, is the way we always used to do things. Its a good way to cut costs in the winter when home heating costs become a budgetary factor.
I’m in central Iowa. No shortage of any kind of food here, thank God. Price is another subject.
There are a few empty shelves at places like (slightly upscale Hy-Vee) and low-end Dollar General, but nothing missing from Aldi’s.
At my local Shop Rite here in NJ a sirloin steak was going for $16.99 a pound.
I’m not touching that.
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