Nearly half of Americans say food prices have caused hardship
Are you better off today than you were 8 years ago?
86% of Americans say the economy is getting worse.
73% of consumers in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll citing higher grocery bills as a concern, and nearly half saying food inflation has caused a hardship for their households. 80% percent of those polled also noted energy prices as a concern.
Sam’s Club is now even rationing the amount of rice you can buy.
I spent $6 for 4 tomatoes the other day. It’s bad. i’m OK but I know there are people working their ass off and barely getting by. It’s been a helluva decade so far and for many, it’s getting worse.
But don’t worry…
John McCain said that under GW Bush, “…there’s been great progress economically.”
How do you suppose gas prices will do under McCain? Since first running for the Senate, McCain has received at least $549,712 from the oil and gas industry, with over half coming in the last two years alone. McCain’s signature tax cut plan would deliver $3.8 billion to the five largest American oil companies. They definitely need more profit, right? More $400 million CEO pensions.
This may shock and surprise you William, but George Bush is not on the ballot this year. Sorry.
This is the most asinine post ever at Tennesseefree.com. Congratulations, I guess.
Hippies try to scare everyone with the “Earth is burning” lie. Government listens to hippies and invokes the “Ethanol solution”.
Food prices soar worldwide and idiot hippies ask if we are better off than we were eight years ago?
No, there are more hippies. So we are definitely not better off.
Pay attention, corn should end up on your plate not in your gas tank. You hippie idiots invented this problem and now the rest of us have to fix it.
Could you possibly just go away? Or at least do less harm? Or just be silent?
Save yourself, the rest of us don’t need your help. We are to busy cleaning up the messes you made for the last 40 years.
Number 9:
Dude, you really need to explain why someone offering up a bad solution is somehow evidence that a problem doesn’t exist, or isn’t worth solving. Until then, I’m not sure why you keep blathering on about ethanol.
And for the record, even without ethanol, corn doesn’t really wind up “on your plate,” so to speak. Most of it as used as feed (mainly for animals that shouldn’t be eating corn in the first place), and another large portion winds up in the form of high fructose corn syrup — all corn ethanol does there is make junk food more expensive.
Now, to our immediate south, the rising corn prices are a more legitimate problem. But you can’t blame the current increase in food prices entirely (or even mostly) on corn ethanol.
From the Washington Times:
The next paragraph lists the other factor in food prices and all prices for that matter.
Gas is high mainly because of the price of crude oil, which has risen because of increased affluence in places like China and India. It is also high because of the weak dollar, which is mainly the result of loose monetary policy by the Fed. Geopolitical factors also affect the price of crude. In fact a lot of people feel that crude oil is artificially high, or in a bubble. Damn sure wish it would burst. It will burst though as the world’s economies slow down.
Glen:
It’s not just demand for energy (largely from India and China) that’s driving up food prices; it’s demand for the food itself from India and China. As their economies grow, and as their demand increases, we can expect food prices to continue to rise; something we could expect even if it weren’t for corn/soy ethanol or an increase in fuel costs.
Won’t argue there. Those folks are switching to a more protein based diet. There will be solutions in the future though. Expect the potato to make a big surge in popularity. You can do a lot of things with a potato.
You can do a lot of things with a potato.
Oh, please… not another perverted Republican sex scandal…!
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1. As long as McCain is hyping war and supply side economics, Bush is on the ballot.
2 Corn subsidies were an economic and environmental disaster before ethanol came along.
3 The food crisis/shortage/whatever is also driven by weather problems such the Australian drought, which people outside of the rightwing nutballsphere believe might be influenced by the global warming hoax.
Clark, are you still calling yourself a conservative?
maybe Harold Ford Jr. will get Obama or Hillary to give everybody $5,000,000.00 oh, wait he said $5,000.00 …. Yes Sir, I want me some of that Free Bubble Up and some of that Rainbow Stew.
Feel sorry for the rednecks that drive those big pickup trucks and suvs everyday to commute. And when it comes to food… if it’s here, a truck brought it here… and diesel is over $4 everywhere. $5 gas by this summer.
vote for change
Number 9,
I know you’re bitter. I’d be bitter too if I were an old redneck clinging to a failed president who keeps looking worse and dragging down his party.
Not bitter — delusional. Bitterness comes later, when reality can no longer be denied.
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Glen:
I don’t call myself anything these days but I’m not sure which item on my list is unconservative
William:
The price of gas and diesel is almost certainly going to increase no matter who wins the election; and if Clinton, Obama or McCain genuinely wish to deal with global warming, that’s going to raise gas prices even more.
As their economies grow, and as their demand increases, we can expect food prices to continue to rise; something we could expect even if it weren’t for corn/soy ethanol or an increase in fuel costs.
Nice try T. It sounds good, but the Ethanol scam/scare is the proximate problem. We have to decide, corn for food or fuel.
And we wouldn’t have to decide if it wasn’t for your new religion. Please stop trying to save the Planet, the people are more important. The Planet is very resilient. It has been hit with a planet size object, which created the moon and a big asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. It is a tough Planet.
People, not so tough.
Face it; you are screwing up the world. Stop trying to help.
Number 9:
Pretty please, with sugar on top, give me a reason to take you seriously. Because so far, you haven’t. Instead, all you do is demagogue the shit out of subjects you barely know anything about. And all the while, you don’t even have the common decency to stop holding me accountable for shit I don’t even support.
Does ethanol make the food price problem worse? No doubt. Would eliminating ethanol subsidies completely cure the food price problem? Hardly.
Of course, you won’t touch Clark’s remark about corn subsidies being a problem long before ethanol came along, because that’s substantive, and you avoid substance at all costs.
All you want to say is blah blah blah religion blah blah blah liberals blah blah blah blah. Whatever that would sound like if it were emerging from one’s ass instead of one’s mouth.
Clark:
You’re right about fuel prices. Demagoguing those is a fool’s errand, since they’re inevitably going to get higher and stay there, especially if we do all the right things. Of course, as traditional energy prices skyrocket, alternative/renewable energies become more price competitive, so maybe it’s a problem that solves itself.
Sheesh. Light blogging week. Allows such inaptitude as this to go forward without challenge. I blame teh holiday.
But, William, you are full of shit.
Happy 60th Serr8d