While the feds are not responsible, they would certainly have us believe they are, until bad stuff happens.
People complaining about the price of essentials, is not whining. Myself and many others, truly resent the words and manner in which Mr. Gramm spoke. It truly sounded elitist and very out of touch with what is happening at the common folk level.
This is how they have handled things, ever since we stopped handling things ourselves.
The joke is that we are still looking to them to solve anything...
People complaining about the price of essentials IS whining, unless they are trying to do something productive about, like force congress to stop blocking domestic production, and stop shopping at Wal-Mart, who has put more small independent business on the unemployment line than any other U.S. company.
Americans are stupid.
They expect low prices and high wages. These things don't go together. They expect good government, which is an oxymoron. Americans are not able to survive their own ignorance...