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Post by Rockoonz on Aug 11, 2013 16:51:40 GMT -5
Wow, this explains a lot.
Lee
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robsrockshop
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Post by robsrockshop on Aug 11, 2013 20:06:59 GMT -5
Yeah that guy is a bum. Although I disagree that if the dollar wasn't spent on him it 'would be used to help the real needy'. More like the gov't would waste on pet project crap. As far as im concerned the **** starts at the top and rolls down hill. I'm also in full belief that the US is in 'managed decline': www.lewrockwell.com/2011/12/david-redick/the-phases-of-an-empire/We just can't have a bunch of out of work hungry people roaming the streets that's bad PR.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 11, 2013 20:19:01 GMT -5
Man, this sort of thing pisses me off! My wife and I were married when we were both still college students. We both worked multiple jobs to pay rent, groceries, tuition etc. We ate a lot of hamburger, beans, peanut butter and fish I speared. Couple of laggards down the hall BBQ'd steaks on the hibachi on their almost adjacent balcony every dang night it seemed. The smell of them steaks cooking used to drive me nuts. I found out from one of them later, they were all bought with food stamps......Mel
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robsrockshop
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Post by robsrockshop on Aug 11, 2013 22:49:34 GMT -5
LOL Mel, when my brother and I got our first apt when I was like 20 I think we had no money left for food but both worked fast food. One night my brother actually stole the steaks off a neighbors grill that we didn't like. They were pretty damn good to. I never would've had the balls to do that but I sure wasn't going to sit there and watch him eat it all either.
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phoenix1647
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Post by phoenix1647 on Aug 12, 2013 20:33:50 GMT -5
It is on very rare occasions that my wife and I can afford a good steak. We don't eat out very often either. We live on a limited income and have never thought about going on welfare or foodstamps. We have been married 43 years now and will never be "rich" but we do get by. We believe that life is not about money or what you own. We help those in need when and how we can. This country is headed down hill fast and has no brakes left. God help our grandkids....
What this country really needs is a revolution to get us back to the Constitution.
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robsrockshop
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Post by robsrockshop on Aug 12, 2013 22:52:51 GMT -5
I used to cook steaks.........a lot. Gota be a hella sale nowadays not hard to spend $20 on one my as well go eat one out.
Pork steaks are cheap. For now. I suspect they'll come up with some bs they always do: "Pork quadrupled overnight as more people can't afford beef and switched and has strained pig farmers all over midwest who were already bogged down with high feed prices and adverse weather condtions" blah blah blah these bastards never quit.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 12, 2013 23:09:40 GMT -5
Feed prices are kind of weird around here. Cattle pellets have gone down a buck a bag but man oh man, hay is expensive. We're filling the barn in preparation for the winter. I suspect a lot of corn is being diverted for ethanol production instead of stock feed and probably a lot of land that might have grown other feeds is being planted for fuel crops too. Easy to see feed shortages will arise driving meat prices up.
All these alternate energy programs come with a price we all have to pay. Just read a recent study that now they figure windfarms kill something like 1.4 million birds and bats per year now, and of course, our hypocritical government has not prosecuted a single windfarm for killing endangered or protected species.....Mel
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garock
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Post by garock on Aug 14, 2013 10:02:29 GMT -5
Back in the early 70's, I was bringing home about 72 dollars a week, paying rent, groceries, utilities, and car payment. Once day at the grocery store I purchased my weekly stuff. Did not have expensive meats, could not afford them. A person ahead of me at checkout had high end steaks and other high end foods and paid with food stamps. This really bothered me alot. Here I was working could not afford the high end groceries and this person (family} and what really got me was they got into a brand new car. My car was an older one. Just did not seem right ! It was not right !
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Post by jakesrocks on Aug 14, 2013 10:17:37 GMT -5
Feed prices are kind of weird around here. Cattle pellets have gone down a buck a bag but man oh man, hay is expensive. We're filling the barn in preparation for the winter. I suspect a lot of corn is being diverted for ethanol production instead of stock feed and probably a lot of land that might have grown other feeds is being planted for fuel crops too. Easy to see feed shortages will arise driving meat prices up. All these alternate energy programs come with a price we all have to pay. Just read a recent study that now they figure windfarms kill something like 1.4 million birds and bats per year now, and of course, our hypocritical government has not prosecuted a single windfarm for killing endangered or protected species.....Mel Mel, you need only look at the fields around me. Corn and soy beans as far as the eye can see. Every bit of the corn is headed for the ethanol plants, and every bit of the soy beans for bio diesel. Not a single bushel for food. They say that the corn mash is reprocessed for cattle feed, but I don't know how much nutritional value is left in it after being cooked for ethanol.
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