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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on February 11, 2012, 09:25:53 AM
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Paper Roses
Wait until you go to the grocery store this week,. I thought I'd faint.
This days shopping experience was the worst yet.
I shop circulars and have 3 stores nearby from which I can buy sale items.
Today was the worst experience I have had yet.
Prices have taken a huge jump since I last shopped. I chatted with many other shoppers and we were all upset.
I am alone and buy for myself. My first thought was to wonder how a family with children can hope to put a weeks worth of food on the table.
I shop every 3 weeks or so, do not buy junk stuff, only things that are 'food'. I wonder if and when this ridiculous escalation of prices will slow.
I hope those who have no jobs or are on a very limited budget can find a way to cope.
I live on Social Security and do not have funds to squander. For those without even this benefit, I feel for you.
Who the heck in Washington is watching out for the 99%ers like me who have to eat in order to survive.
This whole thing really stinks.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002295621
This can't be, I keep reading on DU how 0bama has fixed things, unemployment is down to record lows of 8.3%.
The Blue Flower
1. I think a lot has to do with weather
When things were so bad last year, they told us to be prepared for rising prices.
Global warming errr climate change.
JDPriestly
35. Yes. We go to the 99 cents and Dollar stores.
I'll watch this week. I just bought a few fruits this morning at my local green grocers. The produce is mostly local and the prices good.
I bet they pay their employees minimum wage, how can you support businesses that do that?
redqueen
4. And with the price of gas rising,
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this is only going to get worse.
Relax, unemployment is down to record lows of 8.3% life is good.
onethatcares
6. here's the deal
anything made with grains are going to go up amazingly because of the floods last year through the breadbasket of the country.
anything having to do with beef is going to go up amazingly because of the droughts in the southwestern part of the country (which led to the wild fires in Texas too).
This year, the grains will be lower due to lack of rain fall and drought in the same areas that suffered from too much the last year.
and of course we know, climate change is not happening.
BTW, I live and work on the west central coast of Floriduh, friends here fish for sharks for sport, this year they are already catching them in Tampa Bay as of this date, usually the sharks show up in march. the water temps are higher now than they have been for a long time at this date.
I thought weather for one season wasn't enough to prove or disprove climate change. Ohh that only works if the evidence points away from what you believe in.
southernyankeebelle
9. According to the republicans anyone on food stamps are freeloaders. I know some who are on
it and working and they wish they wouldn't have to be on it. Many people who have never been on food stamps before like now realize what the working poor are going through. I have a large freezer. During the holidays when turkey or ham are on sale that is when I but them and have them throughout the year. We jut happen to hit a sale on spiral ham costing less then $10.00 ea. I bought 3 hams. I still have 2 turkeys. I always buy meats on sales. I also buy the store brand of foods. You know one of the main staples like peanut butter has gone outragously high. I give to food banks. They really need it to help the poor.
Not everyone of food stamps are freeloaders, however it is a sad situation that under 0bama people who need them has risen.
And yes, there are plenty of folks who are freeloading and there always will be, as long as democrats send them money.
jeanpalmer
11. Of course they're just lazy
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They're are millions of jobs out there that go wanting only because of the laziness of the poor. That's the right wing line. These idiots can't do the basic math calculations that if there are a million jobs available but 20 million people looking for work, by simple math 19 million people will remain unemployed. There really is a stigma attached to people desperately looking for work who as a result of the math of it all simply don't stand a chance. And there are no politicians who will stand up for these unfortunate victims.
Once again unemployment is down to record lows of 8.3%.
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Now wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Didn't Pedro Picasso only yesterday (Friday) tell us that things are getting better, that there's lots of good news for the Magic One?
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Now wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Didn't Pedro Picasso only yesterday (Friday) tell us that things are getting better, that there's lots of good news for the Magic One?
Yes sir, that is why I keep saying unemployment is at record lows of 8.3% to remind them of their claims of how Barry has saved us.
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jeanpalmer
11. Of course they're just lazy
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They're are millions of jobs out there that go wanting only because of the laziness of the poor. That's the right wing line. These idiots can't do the basic math calculations that if there are a million jobs available but 20 million people looking for work, by simple math 19 million people will remain unemployed. There really is a stigma attached to people desperately looking for work who as a result of the math of it all simply don't stand a chance. And there are no politicians who will stand up for these unfortunate victims.
Amazingly enough, the number of illegals doing the jobs Americans won't do is about equal to the number of Americans that don't have to do those jobs because of the government freebies.
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And who are they going to vote for?
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Now wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Didn't Pedro Picasso only yesterday (Friday) tell us that things are getting better, that there's lots of good news for the Magic One?
Yes he certainly did, but you know DUmmie logic can twist any situation to their benefit or excuse.
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Amazingly enough, the number of illegals doing the jobs Americans won't do is about equal to the number of Americans that don't have to do those jobs because of the government freebies.
Could you imagine if, to be on welfare or food stamps, you had to commit to volunteer work, like mowing the grass along the interstates, or digging ditches?
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Paper Roses
Wait until you go to the grocery store this week,. I thought I'd faint.
This days shopping experience was the worst yet.
I shop circulars and have 3 stores nearby from which I can buy sale items.
Today was the worst experience I have had yet.
Prices have taken a huge jump since I last shopped. I chatted with many other shoppers and we were all upset.
I am alone and buy for myself. My first thought was to wonder how a family with children can hope to put a weeks worth of food on the table.
I shop every 3 weeks or so, do not buy junk stuff, only things that are 'food'. I wonder if and when this ridiculous escalation of prices will slow.
I hope those who have no jobs or are on a very limited budget can find a way to cope.
I live on Social Security and do not have funds to squander. For those without even this benefit, I feel for you.
Who the heck in Washington is watching out for the 99%ers like me who have to eat in order to survive.
This whole thing really stinks
PR had the start of a good bouncy, all they had to do was add a so, a cop, a conversion, and some applause.
At the very least PR could have engaged the cashier with some tale of how the Republicans were to blame, getting a reassuring nod and a smile.
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Somehow this just has to be Boosh's fault.
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My first thought was to wonder how a family with children can hope to put a weeks worth of food on the table.
We don't stress about that too much in our family. Depending on the sale ads and the coupons (which have sucked since that stupid Extreme Couponing show), we can get out of the grocery store around $100 for two weeks worth of food. We used to only spend $80 for two weeks of food for the three of us, but with Obama, we knew prices would go higher.
My motto at the grocery store: If it's not on sale and we don't have a coupon, we don't buy it.
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Who the heck in Washington is watching out for the 99%ers like me who have to eat in order to survive.
What a stupid statement.
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grasswire (32,840 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
84. How long are we all going to take this quietly??
Every week we recoil at the new prices, and we adjust our menus, and we go without, and we don't speak our minds in any way that will make us heard.
It's almost as if we give our tacit permission for this thievery.
While we pay up at the checkout, either cheerfully or grimly or quietly, entities like Kroger report earnings up 20 or 30 or 40 percent for the quarter. (And we know they aren't passing any profits on to their employees!)
I suppose we could each make a point of speaking to our local store manager and asking about the rise in prices. What is the reason? What does the store intend to do about it? What is the store's profit margin?
And we could encourage our local media to report on the cost of food.
Any other ideas?
I'm going to start speaking to the store manager when I see that something has jumped dramatically and unprecedentedly. Walnuts, for example. Went from $5.99/pound to $7.99. 100 tablets of store brand ibuprofen went from $2.98 to $4.19.
We may not be able to affect policy, but we can at least let them know at the local level that we are not happy.
:rotf: Yeah, that's going to make the pie lady look sane.
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84. How long are we all going to take this quietly??
Every week we recoil at the new prices, and we adjust our menus, and we go without, and we don't speak our minds in any way that will make us heard.
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Any other ideas?
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I dunno Asswire - maybe you could whip up some Butter Bean Chili to save some cash ??
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What a stupid statement.
Those lucky one percenters, they don't even have to eat to survive :wink:
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But-but-but The Great Obamessiah and his ministers assure us that there is no inflation! How can this be???
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(*Of course, the most common measure of inflation to which the vast majority of wages, benefits, and entitlements are indexed is the CPI, which specifically EXCLUDES the cost of food or energy, using goods you might replace only once every five years or even never). :-)
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Kroger report earnings up 20 or 30 or 40 percent for the quarter.
Show me, DUmmies. Put up a link.
Oh, and while you're at it, show me the average profit margin of a grocery chain or stock (hint: usually around 1 percent.)
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Any other ideas?
Yeah, don't vote for Obama!
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Its the gas prices. Every time gasoline goes up, so does everything else associated with it.
cause and effect. Not that I would expect the DUmmies to figure that out
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Its the gas prices. Every time gasoline goes up, so does everything else associated with it.
cause and effect. Not that I would expect the DUmmies to figure that out
Hell... I wouldn't expect dummies to figure out how to get out of bed in the morning let alone cause and effect of gas prices.
Funny thing though... they all want "green energy" and then bitch when prices "necessarily skyrocket".
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Its the gas prices. Every time gasoline goes up, so does everything else associated with it.
cause and effect. Not that I would expect the DUmmies to figure that out
The last time I saw the MSM blaming an individual for high gas prices, it was President Bush's fault according them. Is it still his fault?
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Its the gas prices. Every time gasoline goes up, so does everything else associated with it.
cause and effect. Not that I would expect the DUmmies to figure that out
Obviously, President Boosh is helping out his robber baron oil buddies by.... wait.... oh.
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A weak dollar, a weak economy, and a weak president.
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Show me, DUmmies. Put up a link.
Oh, and while you're at it, show me the average profit margin of a grocery chain or stock (hint: usually around 1 percent.)
True, for foodstuffs, but health and beauty aids (H&BA) about 10 to 20% on average.
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Grocery chains have always operated on a razor-thin margin, but DUmpmonkeys hate them because the margin is an honest profit.
I wonder why they don't protest the huge margins their drug dealers enjoy.
And even the DUmmies' crack dealers would envy the return Skimmer's making on his investment in the DUmp.
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Its the gas prices. Every time gasoline goes up, so does everything else associated with it.
cause and effect. Not that I would expect the DUmmies to figure that out
We don't eat gasoline! /DU mode
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We don't eat gasoline! /DU mode
Who needs oil? I ride the bus! /DU mode
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The production of ethanol doesn't help corn prices either.
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The production of ethanol doesn't help corn prices either.
It's a complete consumer, and taxpayer ripoff.
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Grocery chains have always operated on a razor-thin margin, but DUmpmonkeys hate them because the margin is an honest profit.
I wonder why they don't protest the huge margins their drug dealers enjoy.
And even the DUmmies' crack dealers would envy the return Skimmer's making on his investment in the DUmp.
Some years ago, when George Bush was still president, I did research into inflation of the price of marijuana.
The the time (2006 or 2007, whenever it was), the price of groceries, gasoline, and energy had doubled since 1981.
Much of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush prosperity was helped along by little or no inflation; only 200% in 25+ years.
But to hear the primitives bitch about food and gasoline prices, one would think we were enduring hyperinflation.
In comparison, from 1981 until that one year (again, 2006 or 2007), the price of marijuana had increased 800%.
This, despite that (a) the supply had substantially increased and (b) the risks of doing business had substantially decreased (relaxation and non-enforcement of drug laws, those sorts of things).
Usually when the supply of something increases, and when it becomes easier to supply the market, the price of the item goes down.....and not up, certainly not 800%.
I never heard a peep from any primitive, about the high cost of drugs, about the windfall profits of their drug dealers.
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Those fairness taxes and regulations must be kicking in.
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Those fairness taxes and regulations must be kicking in.
Don'tcha just love it.
When Obama and crowd were talking about sticking it to the rich, the DUmmies didn't realize they were talking about them..... :lmao:
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Some years ago, when George Bush was still president, I did research into inflation of the price of marijuana.
The the time (2006 or 2007, whenever it was), the price of groceries, gasoline, and energy had doubled since 1981.
Much of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush prosperity was helped along by little or no inflation; only 200% in 25+ years.
But to hear the primitives bitch about food and gasoline prices, one would think we were enduring hyperinflation.
In comparison, from 1981 until that one year (again, 2006 or 2007), the price of marijuana had increased 800%.
This, despite that (a) the supply had substantially increased and (b) the risks of doing business had substantially decreased (relaxation and non-enforcement of drug laws, those sorts of things).
Usually when the supply of something increases, and when it becomes easier to supply the market, the price of the item goes down.....and not up, certainly not 800%.
I never heard a peep from any primitive, about the high cost of drugs, about the windfall profits of their drug dealers.
Rolling this about in my memory's of friends in the late 1970's up to the late 1990.
Lets see, back then people bought stamp holders those little paper holders to deal in nickle and dime bags. Just enough plant for one pin joint or two. Then I think a half OZ. went for less then $25.00 bucks. Stuff they were smoking was home grown and skunk stuff, no additives, just pure natural grown stuff.
Then when sometime in the 1980 the government began to become in electric and water consumption, the home growers began to buy from the outside that had amped up the plant with all kinds of hormones and additives. Cost to grow and transport a simple weed doubled.
Daughter house sat for a family for 6 months, the 2 floor she never went into but the upstairs toilet began to run and after 5 months the police showed up at the door with a search warrent to find out why all that water was being used.
When the microwave became normal in homes then the growers cured the plant in them for fast distribution and the buyers could not use any seeds to plant their own in a window as the seeds were sterile.
Some where in there Hydroponics became a fad, just for home growers, and the natural stuff was back on the plate for just family and friends, but people talk, unless one lived out in the country with their own well for water, or a back 40 for corn with a few acres planted in the middle, home grown was dangerous for city or urban growers.
So with anything that has to be imported the price of a plant went sky high, sort of like when home stills for corn liqueur were clamped down on, no PGA in the area, have to buy out of state.
Don't know what the cost is today, and see how the home growers are kept from finding a seed or two that will be viable for a------excuse the pun---a potted plant in the window.
It does make me wonder how our laws have kept people into buying from the blood soaked stuff that comes in from Mexico.
People will drink and brew Booze, people will smoke a natural weed, it is up to the people to decide if they wish to make bath tub Gin or corn squeezing. So I can go dig dandelion greens dry them out and get high.------- this is the choice of the people, If I have no interest in paying Pharmaceutical Company's, will I get arrested for sucking on the bark of a Aspen tree????
Follow the money, who benefits from the illegal drug trade in this country. Not the users or the sellers, it is those in Politics and the law that make a fortune keeping it illegal.
As long as people enjoy something, that is the time to make it illegal so the price to do so goes through the roof.