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Look at it this way, because evidently the power elite do, you can NEVER be too skinny or too rich. You're going to have ONE of those really soon.
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love, 99
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29 September 2010
destitute americans about to go on a crash diet
[click image].
Look at it this way, because evidently the power elite do, you can NEVER be too skinny or too rich. You're going to have ONE of those really soon.
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love, 99
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I’ve been pulling my punches, and my progressive colleagues have been pulling their punches, because we’re rooting for this administration to succeed. But honestly, if George W. Bush did what they’re trying to do, we’d be camping out in front of the White House. Goodwill only goes so far when tens of thousands of children need food.
ReplyDeleteWe are dooooooooooooooooomed if this guy is a progressive. I see him and his friends are just like the elite in that let the poor die. This isn't going to end will and I hope Amerikans will check out what happening in ero world.
jo6pac
Well, he's definitely NOT a progressive, but then, not that many who call themselves that really are. It's easy to be anything you want to call yourself until you are charged with the responsibility to act on so-called principles. THEN is when the mice get separated from the men, so to speak. Despite my certainty that Obama would be assassinated if he didn't do this shit, I can't dis him hard enough for expecting everybody ELSE to die instead of him. No one in that office can escape the knowledge that this is precisely the operating principle, and I'm sure they console themselves that their deaths wouldn't change anything, but... yes... they... would.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how the food stamp rate in California compares with New York, nor the cost of food in those two areas, but $4.50 per day per person for a week adds up to about 50% more than my weekly food budget.
ReplyDeleteSo you eat 100% food-flavored plastic? That's not healthy.
ReplyDeleteNo, no
ReplyDeletePork - whole loin roasts around $2.00/lb - stock up when on sale, whole chickens - less than $1.00 when on sale - I cut them up myself, it takes about 1.5 minutes and I save the backs in the freezer for soup stock, an occasional rump roast or other cheap chunk of beef, potatoes, apples, pears, grapes, misc. vegetables - broccli, corn and green beans, kidney beans, 2% milk, whole grain bread, pasta, tomato sauce & chopped canned tomatoes.
Then I whip stuff up from scratch. Make my own bread once in a while when I get ambitious. Even a pie once in a while.
Must just be me here in billion-dollar produce land. ONE green bell pepper is nearly four bucks. The despicable poison in the frozen food isle is all anybody can afford.
ReplyDeleteI eat Foster Farm boneless skinless breasts and frozen string beans from China, and blueberries from Oregon, and bananas and that wild Cream of Rice gig I do that is sort of like an Orange Julius... only hot.... I'm sure there are more items I could find betimes that are clean food, but it's like finding needles in a hay barn and my impatience and exasperation start to boil and I gotta bolt outta the store. So I end up just going for what I know. Plus, I gotta stay skinny or the apnea thing gets bad and I feel like total crap from not getting enough oxygen to my brain. Only thing more urgent to me than eating is having my mind alert.
Well, and it IS much more expensive to feed one than four... per capita....
ReplyDeleteThis is true. When I make spaghetti sauce I get the huge can - enough to make a gallon or so - cost about $.75 more than the large can and has 4 times as much sauce.
ReplyDeleteMost other stuff I just watch for sales and stock up - portion out and freeze the meats. Pastas, rice and dried beans I buy mega packs and store them in big jars - a 3 lb bag of noodles I can get at the warehouse store for little more than the cost of 1 lb at a regular grocery. Fruit and veggies are what ever is cheap that week.
Probably a workable scenario for most food stamp people who are not homeless and live somewhere this is feasible... but... that isn't really the whole picture. I knew a homeless guy who used to trade food stamps for meal certificates at McDonald's. Even those in encampments run into tremendous difficulty with food stamps, and those who live alone or couples whose income is pounded by pharmacy costs and rent are very close to completely fucked. Life is insanely hard for these people as it is, and they're going to be dying off fast now.
ReplyDeleteI keep remembering when Reagan cut Medi-Cal benefits for the aged when I was a teenager. Within a week all seven old people on Medi-Cal at the convalescent hospital where I worked were dead. In one sense, this was a blessing for them, but in another... of course... it's pretty fucking cold. That coldness has since reached down into the able-bodied useless eaters.