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/1002295621This 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%.
