The fiscal cliff isn't the only thing that needs legislative action by the 31st: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...4daacc-4ba2-11e2-9a42-d1ce6d0ed278_story.html
The "milk cliff" - $8 gallons of milk?
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You can add the cost of beef as well as many other groceries to that list. Thanks to the cost of gas and many other difficulties, groceries and any type of food or beverage sustaining life continues to rise in cost. Milk is rising with gas, and I did just pay over 5 dollars a pound for hamburger meat.
It is because there is the farm bill mixed in with all this other crap and if they don't pass the bill they are saying it will impact the price milk.
That is the problem with doing bills this way so much is added to them and never agreed upon they stall entire bills such as the one being fought over now.
Stuff like this needs to be presented in a better way rather then trying to get ones way by adding a tiny little thing hoping it will get over looked.
IMHO it needs to be outlawed and if someone wants money from the budget for something it needs to be addressed either individually (which I know is near impossible), or they split them up in a more organized fashion.
That is the problem with doing bills this way so much is added to them and never agreed upon they stall entire bills such as the one being fought over now.
Stuff like this needs to be presented in a better way rather then trying to get ones way by adding a tiny little thing hoping it will get over looked.
IMHO it needs to be outlawed and if someone wants money from the budget for something it needs to be addressed either individually (which I know is near impossible), or they split them up in a more organized fashion.
Staying healthy and eating healthy is getting harder and harder.
I find in today's society those of us who are just above the poverty line do not have the money to eat healthy. If they continue to raise the prices on essential things like Milk. people are going to stop buying it because it is not affordable and then the price is going to raise higher because the demand isn't there. And unfortunetly the people that are going to suffer is our kids. They are the ones that are going to go without because their parents can't afford it or because by the time they are old enough to be buying their own groceries the prices are all going to be insane.
I find in today's society those of us who are just above the poverty line do not have the money to eat healthy. If they continue to raise the prices on essential things like Milk. people are going to stop buying it because it is not affordable and then the price is going to raise higher because the demand isn't there. And unfortunetly the people that are going to suffer is our kids. They are the ones that are going to go without because their parents can't afford it or because by the time they are old enough to be buying their own groceries the prices are all going to be insane.
I look at this situation as a case of inflation by the Federal Reserve. If you want to get a sense of how bad the consumer price index is then take a look at this chart: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Inflation.png
$8 milk? Better get read for $16, $20, $35 and $50 gallons of milk in the future if Ben Bernanke gets his way!
$8 milk? Better get read for $16, $20, $35 and $50 gallons of milk in the future if Ben Bernanke gets his way!
This has little to do with inflation. Did you read the link I posted? It has to do with subsidies. And that CPI chart is misleading or wrong- for one part of it is an [overexaggerated in my opinion] estimate. The other thing is that CPI isn't the best measure for inflation to begin with because of the noise due to volatile goods included in it.
Of course, why should I be surprised? Milk prices were gradually going up, so it's got to be the product affected by something like this.
I guess we'll soon find out if what super-preachy vegans say is true - that it's affordable to live healthily without milk. I don't personally believe it, as I have barely any money and have tried, but I would love to be proven wrong. It just sucks that it's everything good for people that keeps going up in price. We live off chemicals as things stand anyway..
I guess we'll soon find out if what super-preachy vegans say is true - that it's affordable to live healthily without milk. I don't personally believe it, as I have barely any money and have tried, but I would love to be proven wrong. It just sucks that it's everything good for people that keeps going up in price. We live off chemicals as things stand anyway..
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