Forget the stock market. I'm standing in the Stop&Shop and looking at the milk prices: $4.29 a gallon.
This is the kind of hard number that matters. Consider: milk $4.29 a gallon; eggs $2.29 a dozen; orange juice (on sale) $3 for a half gallon. It adds up too quickly.
Of course, you can save some cash on prepackaged stuff, but that makes eating healthy (or is it healthily?) that much more difficult.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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Interesting. Perhaps now you might want to forgo the gooferment\’s price supports and price controls on stuff. Remember WashingtonDC\’s solution of energy forever by gasohol out of corn. (A political payoff to ADM and the Farm states.) Think that might have some relation to food prices skyrocketing? Feed prices go up with food prices. Cost of milk goes up. Gas and diesel go up so the price of things carried in trucks goes up.I can\’t wait for the gooferment\’s solution to \”save\” us from these problems!
The problem is that the free market lunatics have deregulated as much as possible and privatized like crazy so that predatory capitalists like ADM can get their way at everyone else\’s expense. We need stronger regulations to control these predatory sharks who would sell their own mothers to make a profit. Of course the rising price of gasoline plays a large role in rising food prices. The GOP is always blathering about limited government, personal responsibility and lowering taxes. Government has done nothing but grow and become more intrusive under GOP rule. Lowering taxes for the rich but increasing spending and skyrocketing deficits is their hallmark. Actually Reagan and Bush 1 raised taxes. Bush 2 is a borrow and spend maniac. As for personal responsibility, that\’s for the lower classes the billionaires can do whatever they want. Right wing free market goofonomics is the problem especially when they gain control of the government.