Posted on 12/11/2023 9:25:40 AM PST by george76
A 300-pound person requires more food to maintain their weight than a 150-pound person. Maybe they have enough money to maintain a 150-pound weight.
Weighing 150 pounds should also reduce their healthcare expenditures.
I was going through my expenses and the cost of doing this has gone up just under 50% since 2018.
This is not high priced premium stuff. Most of it is store brand.
“I have zero sympathy for folks who own or lease luxury vehicles and then complain about their need for food.”
What percentage of the people in line can afford food but will take any free food they can get simply because it’s free. If you build it they will come.
Yeah. Yellowstone has DO NOT FEED THE BEARS signs for a reason.
“cost of doing this has gone up just under 50% since 2018.”
That sounds about right.
What would be interesting is looking at your 2018 general ledger (or old checkbook register) and comparing ongoing costs for things like utilities, insurance of various kinds, property taxes and any other routine purchases the business makes.
I’ve noticed.
The price of eggs is up again, and laundry detergent is ridiculous.
I always suspected there was something off about that phrase, and how it was identified. Self reporting?
I am all the time opening the pantry and refrigerator and not finding anything I want to eat. I never realized I suffered from food insecurity. Of course, that also means every teenage boy is food insecure. "Mom, we don't have anything to eat."
Insurance has gone up about 20%. Utilities have only gone up 8% because in 2019 we invested in insulation, led lighting and some other things. My biggest expense has been in employee costs. That has gone up slightly over 40%. No more employees then before and I have been working extra shifts to keep it that low.
No complaints as they are great employees but the price of health insurance, workman's comp, unemployment insurance and all the rest has just kept going up.
That is not bad—it is interesting how inflation varies so widely across goods and services and location to location.
Someone was arguing with me once about if there is a 30% rise in inflation that everything should go up exactly 30%. That is not the way it works at all.
In fact it is possible for the price of some things to actually go down and inflation over all still rise.
Borders wide open food banks struggle who knew it would happen.
/s
. "The food that we bought just didn't last and we didn't have money to get more." Was that often, sometimes, or never true for you in the last 12 months?
98 percent reported that the food they bought just did not last and they did not have money to get more, which refers to whether 5.6% of households ever faced this during the past year, yet how just how long does "did not last food" cover, and how much of the food is in mind? Any family can claim that the milk, eggs, bread and other perishables that cost maybe $30 got used up, and over the course of 12 months it is not hard to find a time when you did not have money for shopping.
But by such contrived findings we see headlines such as
"Study finds nearly 25% of Americans are food insecure." (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-in-four-americans-food-insecure/)
And,
Almost 30 million Americans didn't have enough food to eat .(https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/us/food-insecurity-30-million-census-survey/index.html)
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