Comments on: Snapshots Of Struggle In The Food Line

Economy Driving People Who Wouldn't Have Imagined They'd Be Struggling To Desperate Measures

[ramos937]

Sorry, folks but it is going to get worse. My predictions are (1) we will be paying over $7 per gallon by 9/01/2008, (2) While we will not be using wheelbarrows to log money around to buy bread, the dollar will be devalued a lot more. Some places in the world do not even accept dollars anymore. (3) we are spending over $15 billion monthly in Iraq with funds we have to borrow. Some day, we will wise up and start spending that money here. (4) the absolute worse thing will be when things get really tough and countries like Saudi Arabia, Dubai, etc. will offer us
foreign aid. When that happens, well off fat cats like Limbaugh, Hannity, Gibson, etc will ridicude these offers but the ordinary folks will not. Just think what it took to get us to that point.

We can work ourselves out of this mess but to do that, we will have to bite the bullet and make tremendous sacrifices. We are not at that point yet.

[rleary1234]

I saw this CBS news feature about 15 minutes ago. o.k. I need to be careful for asking this but it really really puzzles me. All of the people standing in the foodlines were morbidly obese. That really bothers me for some reason. Not that you have to look starving but it just looked like a "what''s wrong with this picture" moment. I think one of the ladies said that people are giving up their cellphones and food for gas???? Nobody needs a cellphone. I don''t understand that either. I don''t have one, don''t need one, and I''m struggling to feed my family. I also watch my weight. Anyway, someone explain to me about everyone in the foodline being morbidly obese. It just doesn''t make sense to me.
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