http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3185216Oh my.
The skidmarked underwear primitive in eastern Iowa, the primitive who several months ago expressed a hope that political dissent in this country be physically suppressed, that political dissidents be bullied into silence.
Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-20-08 08:31 PM
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How much longer can you afford $3.50/gal gas to drive to a minimum wage job with no benefits?
We haven't even gotten to the point where we are talking about paying the mortgage or rent or buying milk at $5/gal. or bread at $3.50/loaf, or meat at $4-$5/lb for what used to be the poor cuts. Oranges at $.90/ea., apples at $1.58/lb (that would be 1.5 apples in that pound), or potatoes at $5/3 lb. bag? God help if you get sick and need a doctor.
Are you hurting yet? We are.
Well, if it was any other primitive, I might feel some sympathy, but it's the skidmarked underwear primitive, who likes the idea of political dissidents being bloodied and jackbooted.
chimpsrsmarter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-20-08 08:35 PM
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1. i bought a loaf of wheat bread today, not fancy just some Sara lee and it was $4.18
"holy shit! are you kidding me?"
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-20-08 08:39 PM
Response to Reply #1
6. Try checking out some locally-baked bread.
Here, I am seeing really great breads are now priced pretty much the same as label stuff.
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-20-08 08:35 PM
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3. We haven't seen $3.50 gas in a month.
$4 today.
Things are hard, here.
But I can make do on two or three $11 bottles of wine and be fine for the day. Nice thing about living right by Wine Country is the price of decent wine.
But I'm getting tired of rice.
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-20-08 08:46 PM
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13. Hey, I've lost 25 pounds since October.
Actually, I lost that much between Oct-Now.
Plus the 135 pounds I lost when I moved out of my house in January.
And I do not miss her one bit.
speedbumpspeedbumpspeedbump.....
elocs (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-20-08 09:12 PM
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21. As far as the price of food goes, lets be real here:
in the U.S. we pay less for food as a percentage of our income than anyone else in the world.
"Americans Spend Less Than 10 percent of Disposable Income on Food"
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/july192006/food_pric...
"The U.S. consumer is spending a bit more of their disposable income to purchase food than the previous year, but they still enjoy the cheapest, most abundant food supply in the world, according to new statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) has recently released food expenditure statistics for 2005. They show that Americans are spending, on average, 9.9 percent of their disposable income on food.
That's up slightly from 9.7 percent in 2004 but very consistent with figures over the past five years. The percentage dropped to single digits for the first time in recorded U.S. history in 2000.
Twenty years ago, American consumers spent 11.7 percent of their disposable income on food. Thirty years ago, that figure was 15.1 percent. Going back in history, Americans spent about 20 percent of their income on food about the time today's baby boomers were born. In 1933, the figure was more than 25 percent."
I am sure that higher food prices as well as higher fuel prices hurt the working poor more than the rest of us, but overall we have some of the lowest food and fuel price in the world. I only take home less than $16000 a year and although I live very thrifty, but better than most of the rest of the people of the world, high fuel prices have not hurt me much.
The typical selfish narcisstic primitive response:
Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-20-08 09:14 PM
Response to Reply #21
24. I don't live in the rest of the world, so?
It's not relative to me and my buying food HERE!
elocs (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-20-08 09:28 PM
Response to Reply #24
27. Well, I don't live in MA so it's not relative to me and my buying food HERE!
Now isn't that special?
My point is simply that I live better and more cheaply than most of the rest of the world so I appreciate what I have and don't feel the need to bitch too much. Not only is my food cheaper, but I make more money to buy it. Simple concept.
Hmmm. It looks like to me the eloise primitive might merit promotion from the
unterprimitiven, the lynch mob, up past the third-tier and second-tier primitives, into first-tier primitivery.
But the selfish narcisstic primitives aren't buying it:
Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Apr-20-08 09:34 PM
Response to Reply #27
29. I got your point but it doesn't matter, I live here and have to deal with 'here'.
I'll bitch all I want! Prices are high and times are tough for many!
I think I'm going to keep my eye on the breezy primitive; he looks interesting for a Freudian case-study.
WhinsChap (7 posts) Mon Apr-21-08 11:19 AM
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40. the repukes are starting to blame it on Congress
Got an email from BIL this morning (who is always sending me right wing crap). They had a comparison of what things cost before the democrats took congress last year. I was so mad that I deleted it before I would reply with something that I regretted. He's a good BIL, who always helps us out when needed; he just has his head mixed up. He goes to some big 1st Baptist church who preaches nothing but right wing this and that, nothing but hate if you ask me. Now I wished I would have kept that email so you guys could see what kind of hate these people are sending out.
Well, I dunno.
In April 2006, six months before the mid-term elections, the Democrats promised that if they won control of Congress they would bring down gasoline prices.
What's up with that?
