Michelle Malkin » Food crisis, global depression worsens

Food crisis, global depression worsens

By see-dubya • July 18, 2008 02:30 PM

Not only are people cutting back on organic food, but now NPR reports that some people can’t even afford meat:

So Nunez and her daughter are mostly stuck at home.

The rising cost of food means their money gets them about a third fewer bags of groceries — $100 used to buy about 12 bags of groceries, but now it’s more like seven or eight. So they cut back on expensive items like meat, and they don’t buy extras like ice cream anymore. Instead, they eat a lot of starches like potatoes and noodles.

It’s one thing to hear that on the radio, but it’s another to see it on NPR’s website:

Perspective.

I’m telling you, it’s getting hard out there.

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{Post by See-Dubya. A tipster tells me Jonah Goldberg linked this first.}

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#401

On July 21st, 2008 at 8:02 pm, Concerned Citizen said:

On July 21st, 2008 at 7:39 pm, Irish Rose said:
She should be applauded for this, not condemned.

Applaud her for not having kids to increase her leech income. That’s a different way of looking at it. Using that logic, we should be thanking rapists for not killing their victims also.

Thank you, Irish Rose, for only irritating me instead of completely pissing me off.
#402

On July 21st, 2008 at 8:49 pm, atxcowgirl said:

On July 21st, 2008 at 7:39 pm, Irish Rose said:

Quite the diatribe. I won’t bother picking it apart for inaccuracies in the actual article and your version of it that you are trying to promote and defend. It would be too exhausting. Maybe you should go back and read the article again and please take off those rose colored glasses this time.
#403

On July 21st, 2008 at 9:34 pm, AlohaGuy said:

Here in the West, our poor must for the most part subsist on a diet of highly processed, high sodium, hi fat, chemically laden foods if they’re going to have something to eat at all.

Why? I linked Kroger’s ads for the store where these ladies live and they had chicken, ground beef, fruits and veggies all at reasonable prices. Someone here linked to a couple that lived on less than the amount alloted for food stamps and found the food nourishing. People here in the west may make those choices but you should check out what that couple ate. They give lists and costs. You’d be surprised.
I don’t know these ladies or their personal problems, but I know NPR and others of their ilk have no trouble pimping the pitiful (using tax dollars) to try and bring about their goals.
#404

On July 21st, 2008 at 9:36 pm, Rob said:

Irish Nose PROMISED: “My last post on this subject.”

’nuff said…
#405

On July 21st, 2008 at 9:53 pm, MtsEdge said:

If you respect Michelle, you might try dialing your ugly anti-fat bigotry down a notch.

Look, IR, my point was simple. You seem to be drawing moral equivalence between the scenario you describe as your own situation, where you say that you suffered so greatly and yet rose above, vs. the situation of these two individuals who have nothing to show for years of existence on the public dime. Not an effort to better themselves, but rather excuses made.

Please do not accuse me of “anti-fat” bigotry. You obviously missed the point of my earlier post.
#406

On July 21st, 2008 at 11:32 pm, atxcowgirl said:

I promised myself I wouldn’t say anymore, I just can’t help it.

Irish Rose said: My last post on this subject.

One can only hope.

Irish Rose said: I will say on the way out that Michelle is taking a real hit on her crediblity, because of the way that some of her commentators are behaving on this thread… there are links to this discussion all over the place.

Granted, this is Michelle’s site but it was posted by see-dubya in case you didn’t notice. Furthermore, of the 8 trackbacks, if you bother to follow them (which I did), only one has the opposite view of the majority of commenters on this site. And Surprise! Surprise! that one follows your talking points to a T.

As far as credibility, I’d vote for Michelle and see-dubya any day.
#407

On July 22nd, 2008 at 12:34 am, CO2 Producer said:

Sheesh. 400+ comments. ~~Bush’s fault.~~

At least one of the trackbacks links to a blauthor* who thinks Michelle wrote this post. see-dubya needs to put his name in bold, flashing, 128-font letters at the beginning of each of his entries, apparently.

I’d say this is my last comment on this thread, but I ain’t promisin’ nuthin.’

*I thought I just made up a new word, but I see that Google has 631 references to it already. Dang. Maybe I’ll be 632.
#408

On July 22nd, 2008 at 1:06 am, CO2 Producer said:

To atxc: You and I were referring to the same trackback. Would’ve helped if I checked before I last commented.

Is there a point to be made by putting our trackback observations together? No, there couldn’t be. No.
#409

On July 22nd, 2008 at 4:29 am, a crapweasel said:

On July 21st, 2008 at 6:09 pm, Concerned Citizen said:

I heard these two decided to start a hunger strike to protest for an increase in food stamps.

It lasted fifteen minutes.

I heard they ate the food stamps because it said food on it.
#410

On July 22nd, 2008 at 8:26 am, mytake said:

I want to live in a country where the poor people are fat. No, obese!
#411

On July 22nd, 2008 at 9:28 am, Weary Citizen said:

Guys, (oh, sorry I am probably being a biggot to women per our resident leberal troll irish rose), don’t even bother with rose. She claims she is a true conservative but look at all her posts on this board. SHe has yet to post anything any sane person would consider conservative. In fact, I think she is a liberla living in a conservative body. 95% of all her posts end wiht her calling everyone on this board a “fascist” “biggot” or “racist”. And the occasional “neo nazi”. Just look it up. She is about as conservative as grahmanesty or mcamensty (heck I even give mccain credit for being more conservative than her). Frankly, rose exemplifies everything that is wrong with the GOP these days. That proverbial “tent” was opened a little to much.

Finally, she sits around compalinging about “how hard it is” for her. However, as pointed out, she has internet. I bet she has cable, video consoles, and a big screen tv too. Yet she complains about how hard it is to feed her kids. Its called prioritizing. People like her (oops biggot again) are irritating to no end.
#412

On July 22nd, 2008 at 9:34 pm, MtsEdge said:

WC, et al., someone shared this with me, and I thought I’d pass it on regarding your comments ‘cuz it seems relevant.

“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.” (Prov. 26:4)

Kinda reminds me of this thread with IR.
#413

On July 23rd, 2008 at 2:49 pm, taylork said:

From the trackback that Irish rose says is bad mouthing MM

That doesn’t include recreation money, no DVDs or CDs, no movies, no drugs and alcohol, no dating expenses, no dinners out, no subscriptions to periodicals

I can’t believe they don’t have enough disposable income for drugs and alcohol. what a horrible, insensitive society we must live in.
#414

On July 27th, 2008 at 9:04 pm, jwm said:

I just want to know why are the poor people in this country, the only ones in the world that are hugely fat, own cars and live in houses. Can we trade the poor people in Ethiopia, Dafur and India for our fat, lazy and stupid poor people? Please? I’ll give one of them a job, I promise.