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GOP Rep. Crawford: We ‘Have a Food Shortage’ Now
Breitbart ^ | 03/26/2022 | Ian hatchett

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crawford; food; foodshortage; gop; shortage; shortages
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1 posted on 03/26/2022 3:12:01 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Democrat’s plan is coming together


2 posted on 03/26/2022 3:14:32 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Liberals must be giddy over this.


3 posted on 03/26/2022 3:16:13 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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Liberals must be giddy over this.

They will be until they, themselves can't get the stuff they want.

4 posted on 03/26/2022 3:19:13 PM PDT by Mogger
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


5 posted on 03/26/2022 3:23:53 PM PDT by ShawnShawntheLeprecaun
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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!


6 posted on 03/26/2022 3:34:17 PM PDT by Not_Who_U_Think
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To: Mogger

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).


7 posted on 03/26/2022 3:36:45 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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GOP’S FAULT, they helped get rid of trump


8 posted on 03/26/2022 3:59:54 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Arab Spring, Anerican Mid Terms?


9 posted on 03/26/2022 4:36:18 PM PDT by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable )
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GOP Rep. Crawford: We ‘Have a Food Shortage’ Now

No we don't. We have a shortage of food at the price you want to pay now.

10 posted on 03/26/2022 4:55:33 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hope y’all have been stockpiling...


11 posted on 03/26/2022 4:58:19 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (I'd rather have one king 3000 miles away that 3000 kings one mile away)
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I was at a major grocery store today. There are numerous items for which I would’ve paid the listed price, indeed more. But they weren’t on the shelves.

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.

12 posted on 03/26/2022 5:02:56 PM PDT by untenured
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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!


13 posted on 03/26/2022 5:12:36 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (No dog in the Unraine war, but we still root for the underdog.)
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You don’t think there is a difference between a ‘food shortage’ and a shortage of brands or specific items you would prefer?


14 posted on 03/26/2022 5:20:50 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

Hope you all have got your spring planting planned and your seeds ordered.


15 posted on 03/26/2022 5:22:27 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (Hope for the best, prepare for the worst)
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To: jjotto
I don’t, actually. Different brands made by different companies are in my language different goods, with different suppliers and different demanders. So if even one manufacturer cannot, as it always could in the before times, get enough to stores to keep the shelves stocked for one or more of its offerings. that’s a shortage in my book.

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.

16 posted on 03/26/2022 5:34:54 PM PDT by untenured
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To: Mogger
They will be until they, themselves can't get the stuff they want.

But they're sure the gov't will bring them what they need.

17 posted on 03/26/2022 5:36:13 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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To: jjotto

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.


18 posted on 03/26/2022 5:36:18 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (Hope for the best, prepare for the worst)
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To: BlackAdderess

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.


19 posted on 03/26/2022 5:50:05 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

At my local Shop Rite here in NJ a sirloin steak was going for $16.99 a pound.

I’m not touching that.


20 posted on 03/27/2022 12:32:58 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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