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Title: 29% Of Americans Say It's Difficult To Afford Food
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Published: Jan 6, 2011
Author: http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2011/0
Post Date: 2011-01-06 22:49:41 by tom007
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29% Of Americans Say It's Difficult To Afford Food The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released their year-end survey on December 15, 2010. Their pollling revealed that for the public, a tough year ended on a down note. Consistent with the mood of the nation all year, 2010 is closing on a down note. Fully 72% are dissatisfied with national conditions, 89% rate national economic conditions as only fair or poor, and majorities or pluralities think the country is losing ground on nine of 12 major issues. Pew's survey results are not surprising, and I would cover them in depth if it weren't for some rather important information that was buried in the next to last paragraph. The survey finds that a majority of the public (57%) says it is very difficult or difficult to afford things they really want. About the same percentage said this two years ago (55%). And for many Americans, affording basic necessities remains a struggle – 51% say it is difficult to afford health care, 48% say the same about their home heating and electric bills, and 29% say it is difficult to afford food. I just quoted Pew, and you read the quote, but I want to make sure all of us truly absorbed what it says. So let me repeat the information as a series of bullet points. •Affording basic necessities remains a struggle. •51% say it is difficult to afford health care. •48% say the same about their home heating and electric bills. •29% say it is difficult to afford food. Why isn't this information Front Page News? Can you see the headline? I can see it, splashed across the top of the front page of the New York Times— 29% of Americans Say It's Difficult To Afford Food Why haven't we seen this headline? Or this one? 48% of Americans Say It's Hard to Pay Their Heating And Electric Bills January 3rd, the first working day of the new year, is an excellent time to call out those in the media, our elected representatives, those setting policy at the Federal Reserve, others making hay Inside The Beltway, and many, many right-thinking economists—tell me again what a great country this is. Tell me again we're all going to be OK. Tell me again that this isn't an Empire in decline. Tell me again about the "business cycle" and recessions. Tell me again that wealth inequality is nothing to worry about, or something that need not be discussed. Tell me again how monumentally important the Big Banks are, about how we had to save them to save ourselves. Tell me again that my life would be impossible without Goldman Sachs. Tell me again that the rising stock market is good for us all. Tell me again how soaring corporate profits made overseas are making life better and better for all Americans. Tell me again how making iPhones in China is part of the best of all possible worlds. Tell me again about how Trickle-Down Economics works. Tell me again about why the 99ers can be written off, if you haven't already forgotten who they are. Tell me again that rising oil and gasoline prices don't matter. Tell me again that there's no food inflation, that the rising cost of groceries is all in our heads. Go ahead, tell me again. The obvious problem is that anything these media-types or politicians or policy-makers say would be rendered meaningless by these headlines, which is why we don't see them. The gap between the Official Story and day-to-day Reality could hardly be larger. Isn't it shameful that nearly 3 in 10 Americans find it difficult to afford food? That nearly half of them find it hard to pay their utility bills? If it's not, then what is it? Just a minor bump in the road? If you're in the media or Inside the Beltway, and you're shoving this news under the rug—and of course, most of you are doing just that—you yourself are part of our National Shame. Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
That would be around 87 million people.
I have personally seen the degradation of the customers coming into to our shop over the last three years - and it does seem to me to be real.
Those in D.C. have no clue that ****storm they have created. Close to a hundred million people that are desperate, pissed off, armed is enough to scare those whom are sane. There is no army on Earth that could reign in that many people. Nothing short of nukes would even slow down that many people. You do not want to see that many people go into 'survival' mode all at once. It is not going to be pretty. Those in power use rules and the threat of violence to maintain their power. But such tactics only work on a limited scale, and can only be done so many times before they lose effectiveness. In the book, "The Prince", it is summed up well. It may be better to be feared than loved, BUT NEVER LET THE PEOPLE HATE YOU!! Because that will lead to resentment and revolted.
That is no army on Earth that could reign in that many people. Nothing short of nukes would even slow down that many people. Wise men in government, if we had some, would recognize the danger warning you are saying. I, myself, are worried about the notion of poor, deranged, desperate people robbing stores and possibly killing the clerks for the paper in the registers for food and drugs as this situation becomes more critical.
Wait until the food shortages start to hit. That's when it really hits the fan. It won't be a matter of affordability, but starvation.
I want either less corruption or more opportunity to participate in it. Ashleigh Brilliant
That's what the bioweapons are for. Don't forget that the forefathers of our modern day globalists gave small pox to the American Indians. Starvation, malnutrition & disease can even take the wind out of a true warrior class. Most of the sheeple feeling the pinch right now don't know how to properly resist, much less where to effectively direct their anger.
2. Starvation, malnutrition & disease can even take the wind out of a true warrior class. 3. Most of the sheeple feeling the pinch right now don't know how to properly resist, much less where to effectively direct their anger. 1. Bio-weapons are the worst type of weapon because when the wind shifts and you are screwed. And what happens when that bio-weapon leaps over international borders. Do you think that foreign governments are just going to stand by a watch as their people die without retaliating with military action. Small pox is deadly, but anyone who has studied history knows how to inoculate people from Small Pox. It has been done that since the American Revolution. 98% success rate even two centuries ago. You use the puss from a small pox victim and expose that puss to the blood stream, through a cut back then, though a needle would probably work now. 2. Starvation is a quick was to lead to a revolt because the people have nothing left to lose. 3. Do not mistake silence for ignorance.
PaulJC, Perhaps in your immediate locale you folks have got things together. Good ! But for most worldwide, that ain't the case ... and it will never be. Look at NOLA post-Katrina, look at Haiti, look at NYC after the last snow storm. Most people have been conditioned to expect someone else to fix their problems. Having experienced 11 hurricanes/tropical storms and over 20 sub zero winters, I know that few people properly prepare themselves and their families. The rest are simply "dependents". And when services are cut off, they'll turn on those in their area who had the foresight to make preparations. when the wind shifts and you are screwed. That comment is just silly. Advanced, weaponized biological agents do not need wind to affect disbursal. Small pockets can be hit and burned out quickly. Small pox is deadly That was just an example utilized to illustrate the mindset of the past (and present) ruling class. There's no need to run off on a tangent. Starvation is a quick was to lead to a revolt Against whom, exactly? Starving millions in Chicago, Los Angeles or even DC do not have the ability to project their limited force into somewhere such as Davos, or wherever the elite happen to be at the moment. At best, most will simply begin looting and then burning down their own neighborhoods - ala the Rodney King riots. Do not mistake silence for ignorance. Don't assume that the majority have the intelligence, the will, or the fortitude to direct any action at those ultimately responsible.
2. That comment is just silly. Advanced, weaponized biological agents do not need wind to affect disbursal. 3. That was just an example utilized to illustrate the mindset of the past (and present) ruling class. There's no need to run off on a tangent. 4. Against whom, exactly? 5. Starving millions in Chicago, Los Angeles or even DC do not have the ability to project their limited force into somewhere such as Davos, or wherever the elite happen to be at the moment. At best, most will simply begin looting and then burning down their own neighborhoods - ala the Rodney King riots. 6. Don't assume that the majority have the intelligence, the will, or the fortitude to direct any action at those ultimately responsible. 1. Lets look at Katrina, everywhere along the coast except New Orleans got out and survived. The only reported looting and death was in New Orleans, and almost no where else along the ravaged Gulf Coast. The fact of the matter, the populations of large cities are the ones whom don't have it together. Almost everywhere else does. 2. It is a comment meant to point out that bio-weapons have no containment, they spread like wildfire. 3. I am pointing out how small pox has been protected against for centuries. 4. Go read history. People targeted those in power, government, industry, anyone whom still had wealth and a full stomach. For example the French Revolution and the Wiemar Republic. 5. The riots in the large cities will be nothing compared to the rebellions in the rural areas. 6. Everything I have seen so far is the majority has the intelligence, the will, and the fortitude to direct any action at those ultimately responsible. It is just the majority don't live in the major cities.
29% Of Americans Say It's Difficult To Afford Food The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press released their year-end survey on December 15, 2010. Their pollling revealed that for the public, a tough year ended on a down note.
#2. To: PaulCJ (#1)
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#3. To: tom007 (#2)
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I have personally seen the degradation of the customers coming into to our shop over the last three years - and it does seem to me to be real.
#4. To: PaulCJ (#3)
This in D.C. have no clue that ****storm they have created. Close to a hundred million people that are desperate, pissed off, armed is enough to scare those whom are sane.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#5. To: tom007 (#0)
29% Of Americans Say It's Difficult To Afford Food
#6. To: PaulCJ (#3)
Nothing short of nukes would even slow down that many people.
#7. To: Buzzard (#6)
1. That's what the bioweapons are for.
#8. To: PaulCJ (#7)
#9. To: Buzzard (#8)
1. Look at NOLA post-Katrina,
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