SchoonerPete

Read more...http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/02/17/Food-Prices-Skyrocketing-Since-2011-Wages-Stagnant

cold iron Loc: White House

Most of the US is on food stamps, they don't give a shit.

wnd45acp Loc: Galaxy uno

Food, gasoline/diesel/ heating costs by any source, electric bills, property taxes while home values fall and the list goes on and on .. while ecomony is stagnant .. force us to pay more for less until they bankrupt us... but all the taxes go up and we are forced to pay for outrageous teachers salaries and benefits to shut their mega power unions up and the same with any government worker from the street crews to the office personnel at all levels of government. Don't get me started.

Dave Loc: Upstate New York

Wait until the impact of the water shortage in the Central Valley of California - which supplies a large portion of produce to the country - hits the grocery stores.

Obama and his envirnmentalist friends, however , have made sure the snail darter is safe - seems bait fish are more important than people - as long as they can successfully convince enough morons that these problems are Bush's fault it works for them

Kevyn

Yup, those filthy rich school teachers are driving the cost of food and energy through the ceiling, you have a brilliant understanding of economics that escapes the rest of us.

Dave Loc: Upstate New York

When energy costs rose with Bush in office it was his fault. When the same thing and worse happend under Obama, it's those nasty energy corporations. To the left, root cause analysis requires evaluating who's in office because to them it is always who's the problem, not what's the problem - completely unaware of how much of the problem is due to their policies.

Kevyn

Much of the cause of high energy prices is caused by commodity speculation. If investors in energy actually had to take delivery of product you would see a fallin and stabilization of prices. In this instance government regulation would go a long way toward solving the problem.

Winter Solstice Loc: Salt Lake City

What can anyone say, inflation is getting higher and family income is getting lower. It looks like we all will end up in poverty and in the soup lines.
Now the Federal Reserve has started shrinking the money supply and that willl make things worse, far, far worse.

Kevyn

Why worry? remember you will be able to live like a king on those super generous food stamp allotments. Chateaubriand and Lobster Thermidor every night! just like the lazy welfare folks.

bobgssc

Wait till the true impact of Oblabbacare kicks in. We are tending to see the cost of government subsidies but who do you think will bear the cost of the employer footing their portions of that insurance? Not the employers! We the consumers are the only answer a rational person can come up with. How many here on the board would do otherwise? Not me! If I suddenly had increased costs forced on me, I would simply raise prices to cover those costs (and most would pad that a bit). While some might say that they would go elsewhere for their products, remember that in this case EVERY employer now has those costs so it will be universal in costs increasing. And, how many farmers, ranchers, manufacturers, etc are not also employers?

wnd45acp Loc: Galaxy uno

Where I live the teachers make very high salaries and are tenured in 2 years... and their pensions and salaries and health care coverage cost s them 0 .. plus the state of Ill passed a law years back exempting them from social security payments.. so the taxpayers take it on the chin for everything and they don't even pay SS for those paying for them. Every time they are asked to pay something into all their expensive benefits they go on strike.. unfortunately I've been told by clients in other states they have the same problem and the teacher's union in Illinois and many states are very politically powerful and there is no chance to fight them. It not a bash on teachers per se, more its their unions and those that work with the unions to keep them where they are at the cost of the taxpayers. Our property taxes skyrocketed to over $16,000 this year and 81% of that goes to the education taxing districts and that goes into the benefits package and pensions - they all have the Cadillac heath care plans with medical, dental and optical free for the family and they can also cover the inlaws on both sides for a small fee. Couple years back a package deal was offered for Lasix eye surgery and one point 30% of the teachers in teh district were out on medical leave having free lasix surgery on the taxpayers.. if that was you having to see and pay all this you'd be angry and frustrated too.

Dave Loc: Upstate New York

Government regulation worked wonders for California - and government regulations under Carter did wonders for natural gas - no matter how many times liberal ideas fail the liberals have a childlike faith they'll work the next time.

As to speculators, I'd offer two comments:
- speculators win and lose - if they are responsible for price rises they are also responsible for price declines
- and, the liberal hero, George Soros, is the biggest speculator of them all.

Dave Loc: Upstate New York

Sure - foodstamps for everone - don't worry, somebody out there will produce no matter how hard we make it for them to do so - even protect bait fish while holding back water for farmers.

Kevyn

Public employees that do not contribute to social security do not get social security in old age, this saves the community's that pay them from making SS payments that they then are then supposed to put into pension plans. In the not so recent past most full time employees received decent benefits, job security and a pension in old age. Perhaps fighting to get those things back for the American worker rather than being envious of those who have maintained a middle class standard of living is what we should strive for.

Loki Loc: Georgia

They are only generous when you are an illegal with 10 kids.