I just started playing a sort of instant citizen poll at stores. It began a week or so ago at Sams’ Club:
I was in one of THOSE lines and ended up chatting with a well dressed middle aged woman with a cart half full of grocery items.
I made mention of the fact that while I didn’t normally make the hike to Sams’ that with prices going up I figured I had to make the effort.
She exploded: Prices are sky high, she’s feeding three kids, eating store brands and sale items but can’t afford to stock up, on and on.
Then the lady in front of HER piped in: if prices keep going up she doesn’t know what she’ll do, their budget is already at the breaking point, trying to keep a daughter in college, off she goes.
Then a man in the next line over heard them and HE jumped in: this is ridiculous, Washington is killing us, economy broken, he’s off to the races.
I thought maybe this was just a coincidence, so I’ve started the same conversation in store lines twice more in the past week and it’s exactly the same: people are frightened and EVERYONE wants to talk about it out loud.
The interesting thing to me is that everyone used to be very reluctant to speak out in public against Obama. You were always afraid some leftie whackjob would hear you and tear into you. You know what I mean.
But now the gloves are off, people are freaking out and Obama can raise FIVE billion dollars for his campaign and organize until the cows come home and call everyone in the country a racist until he turns blue but it’s not going to convince anyone that they’re not paying an arm and a leg for half a cart worth of food.
There is no more basic thing to people, and it’s off the hook.
Related – No inflation unless you eat, drink, drive or fly (h/t Rockyt)
the latest I heard, the oil companies were making about 5 cents a litre profit and governments were making 30 cents a litre.
You heard wrong. That’s what the retailer makes per liter. The oil company that owns the well and the refinery and the distribution network gets about $1 per liter.
But, but, but Obama is borrowing $188 million dollars an hour to help these people out! What a bunch of ingrates eh….
Just look in most Canadian or American cities. The stores doing the best business are thrift stores or Used stores.
Look how the Value villages have sprouted everywhere.
Obama is a disaster, but the decline started well before he came along. Big Government has been expanding for decades.
>> M.Peltier: “the oil companies were making about 5 cents a litre profit and governments were making 30 cents a litre”
What IS a cent? What is a dollar? It doesn’t matter how much “who” makes, if all the money is fake and losing value anyway.
http://sgtreport.com/2011/03/what-is-a-dollar/
>> Philanthropist: “But, but, but Obama is borrowing $188 million dollars an hour to help these people out! What a bunch of ingrates eh…”
You say “Borrowing”… FROM WHO?!?!?!?! They’re not BORROWING anything. Borrowing means someone has it, and it lending it out. A “borrower” requires a “lender” They’re CREATING it OUT OF THIN AIR. They’re PRINTING IT. That’s why it’s dropping in purchasing power faster and faster, and the price of everything is going to the moon.
…and it’s not just this 188 million… Every dollar ever printed is an unbacked worthless piece of shit paper you’ll be able to wipe your arse with pretty soon.
http://sgtreport.com/2011/04/rick-ackerman-abandons-30-years-of-deflation-mantra-defecting-to-hyperinflation-camp/