Well, yeah. If you're a Sun Times Journalist.
Posted on 10/21/2007 2:28:17 PM PDT by shrinkermd
NEW YORK -- THE CALCULUS OF LIVING PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK IN AMERICA IS GETTING HARDER.
What used to last four days might last half that long now. Pay the gas bill, but skip breakfast. Eat less for lunch so the kids can have a healthy dinner.
Across the nation, Americans are increasingly unable to stretch their dollars to the next payday as they juggle higher rent, food and energy bills. It's starting to affect middle-income working families as well as the poor, and has reached the point of affecting day-to-day calculations of merchants like Wal-Mart, 7-Eleven and Family Dollar.
Food pantries that serve the needy report severe shortages and reduced government funding at the very time that they are seeing a surge of new people seeking help.
While economists debate whether the country is headed for a recession, some say the financial stress is already the worst since the last downturn at the start of this decade.
Merchants have adjusted their product mix and pricing. Sales data show a marked and more prolonged drop in spending in the days before shoppers get their paychecks, when they buy only the barest essentials before splurging around payday.
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
Soup line.
The media is creating a picture of a bleak economy that only electing Hillary and a majority of ‘Rats to congress will save it. Bastards.
You wouldn’t think that from the proclaimed “Obesity Pandemic”. I suppose this might just quash that little dilemma...
I do see a problem along these lines, but I doubt it’s as pronounced as the Chicago Sun Times says it is. Still, costs of fuel have skyrocketed and a number of necessities have been impacted negatively.
Now, would Hillary be able to do anything about this? Well, yes. She could lower taxes. That could give immediate relief, but she wouldn’t do it.
As for energy costs, that’s something that Hillary isn’t going to have control over. And so demagoguing this issue shouldn’t gain traction. Knowing the media, it will.
Keep using our food to make ethanol and act surprised when the cost of food goes up.
Morons.
If clinton gets elected with a dem majority in both houses she will implement wage and price controls. Why? Because she is a socialist. The majority of the sheeple in this country will think that it’s a great idea, and shortly thereafter, wonder why we have shortages of this and that.
Well, yeah. If you're a Sun Times Journalist.
Higher gas prices combined with higher food prices can fell families really quick.
Well the Iraq war theme has died, time to moveon, so the media now has to create -— It’s Bush’s recession. The media is just a series of tragedies up until the 2008 election, then miraculously, if a Democrat is elected President, all the flowers will bloom, soup lines will disappear and our troubles will melt away.
But elect an evil Republican ..... or even worst, A CONSERVATIVE, and doom will be upon you.
That is, if the media is still in business by 2009.
All of the leftist major media outlets at pimping this, this week:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913749/posts
And despite all the press ethanol has recieved more corn is burned in corn stoves then is made into ethanol.
I can see that happening.
Yes, ethanol is at fault, and so is printing more money (inflation). The Republicans are reaping what they have sown with their big spending ways and their embrace of nonsense like ethanol and more big government programs. If the Democrats win big, the Republicans have no one to blame but themselves.
The story also lumps Walmart, Seven-Eleven, and Family Dollar together, which means the story is written to the Sun-Times stereotype reader, an urban resident receiving government assistance, who has never been further out of the city than a CTA buss pass will allow.
If this story appeared in the Tribune or Daily Herald, the stores would be Jewel, Dominicks and Aldi.
Who’s the lobbyist for working families? There isn’t one.
Tough. To bad. Politics aint bean bag, Republican and Democrats and farmers play for keeps.
Working people, Americas’s sucker class.
(sorry, but it’s true)
With the world's demand for ethanol farmer's are getting twice the amount for corn they were getting last year. That's not moronic; that's capitalism.
LOL, probably true. I did find it humorous that the paper was trying to claim these concerns were lowing their prices in consideration of the hardship.
WalMart couldn’t lower their prices any further. They sqeeze ever cent out of the product before pricing it. It’s rock bottom now.
Still, it is a corporation so it must be vile in some manner.
I’m not a big fan of WalMart, but when it is taken to task like this I think it’s absurd.
Funny story , kept looking for the Scrappleface tag.
I wonder if the ‘food’ from the srticle is frozen or just canned?
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