I went to the grocery store today and heard this

[babylonsister]

from a cashier, I was told that she felt really fortunate because she found gas for $2.43 a gallon. I agreed, but reminded her of the good old days, from a year or two or three ago. Now that's acceptable, I guess.
And funnily enough, I was complaining about a head of lettuce that now costs $1.10, milk for $2.49/half a gallon, etc. We get used to higher prices eventually.

[AuntPatsy]

1. Well in all honesty we have no choice but to accept it, or not buy it.

[babylonsister]

3. True, and this was predicted. Now $2.43 /gallon looks like a real

bargain, but awhile ago? Not so much...
Nevermind food. :scared:

[EFerrari]

2. Prices seems to be going up evey week. One of my friends is a grocer

and every time I go into the store, he has a new story about a price hike.

I'm worried about people who are living on the edge this winter. :(

[rodeodance]

4. Bush seeks cut in LIHEAP, threatens veto (dead elderly this winter)

Forum Name General Discussion
Topic subject Bush seeks cut in LIHEAP, threatens veto (dead elderly this winter)
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2092695#2092695
2092695, Bush seeks cut in LIHEAP, threatens veto (dead elderly this winter)
Posted by usregimechange on Fri Oct-19-07 09:33 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 30 million low-income American households who will need help paying heating bills this winter from a U.S. government program will be left in the cold because of a lack of funding for the program.

The poor, already digging deep to pay for expensive gasoline, also will face much higher heating fuel costs, especially if oil prices stay near record levels.

Consumer groups and state energy officials have sounded the alarm, saying a federal program to help poor families pay heating bills will have nowhere near the money needed to cover those expected to seek assistance...

Still, the administration did not back away from its threat to veto legislation to boost funding for LIHEAP to levels it has called too high.

LIHEAP has an interim annual budget of $2.16 billion, but the White House wants to cut the program to $1.78 billion for the 2008 spending year that began on October 1.

The House of Representatives has passed legislation to boost the program to $2.66 billion, while a Senate committee has cleared a bill keeping LIHEAP at its current $2.16 billion budget.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071019/pl_nm/poor_usa_winter_dc_1

Tell congress to pass/override or ask FEMA for body bags.

[EFerrari]

8. I saw. What's next? Unplugging babies' incubators?

BushCo sure is seeking new lows.

[Usrename]

5. I don't think this economy will hold together until Christmas.

Things are getting more grim day by day. I have noticed it too, and it is accelerating quickly.

This must be what it feels like when one starts circling the bowl.

[Blackhatjack]

10. I tend to agree with your assessment... Christmas is going to be difficult this year.

[rodeodance]

6. the news norms are the commonsensecical now

[Lint Head]

7. We are constantly being conditioned to pay more for everything

that is a necessity. To put it in simple terms prices are adjusted so the wealthy 1% can maintain there lifestyle. The economy is as phony as science can get. That is what you eventually learn when you obtain PHD in economics. That is unless you are not paying attention because daddy bought your degree with a wing of the university that has his last name on it. :dem:

[Beerboy]

9. $2.43 sounds cheap, mine was $2.69/gallon yesterday in MN;

that's still pretty cheap though. I save a ton of money doing vehicle mechanical maintenance on my cars w/ my own labor and tools, I save a small fortune.
As for outrageous food prices, it's got a lot to do w/ midwestern U.S. Senators propping up Big Corn and Big-Failure Ethanol.

[Booster]

11. $2.69 sounds cheap to me. I just paid $3.09 here in CA.

[babylonsister]

13. But what were you paying two or three years ago? nt

[Beerboy]

27. Almost the same,

with less inflated dollars.

[Lugnut]

18. $2.799 here yesterday

$3.00 for a loaf of wheat bread.

[Hekate]

26. $3.15/gal. on the "cheap" corner; $3.35/gal. on the other corner.That giant sucking sound you hear

...is the contents of your wallet going into your gas tank.

Hekate

[Beerboy]

28. No one is Forced To Drive;

most of the money for public transportation taken from stupid car-buyers goes to we who use light rail. We got lots of money when their bridge fell down, but I'm not trying to suggest anything!:evilgrin:

[Hekate]

31. No light rail here, pal. Just freeways, which I did not build nor vote for. nt

[Just-plain-Kathy]

12. babylonsister, You know what I like about you?

You bring great news articles to the table, and you not only start enjoyable “conversations”, you participate in other poster’s threads. ...You seem like a really nice person.

...As far as grocery prices, if the prices didn’t go up, we’re getting a lot less for the money. ...It wasn’t too long ago that you could change a roll of toilet paper and it would be too big to easily turn. Now, the rolls are still 1000 sheets but the roll is more narrow and the sheets are much smaller.

[babylonsister]

15. Thanks. I get too rowdy occasionally so I'm cutting back, but

when I comment, I mean it. This mind warp we're going through is intriguing. Now gas, at $2.49 or close to it, is A-OK? Or are we just supposed to suck it up? Same with the food, but that's why it's costing more.

If the price of gas ever goes down (I know, not likely), will the price of food? :think: I'm stumped.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

20. Once these tycoons see that the public is willing to pay these higher prices,

I can’t see prices going down. ...Tonight I bought cheese to put on my family’s chicken casserole, one pound cost close to seven dollars. ...That’s when I get into my “It takes an hour to pay for this if you work for minimum wage” speech. ...It’s getting harder and harder everyday to feed the family.

Here in Orange county NY, the cheap gas is over $3 a gallon. ...I remember this talking head once saying that “Americans are suffering from sticker shock, in Europe gas is over $5 (or was it $10) a gallon”.

[babylonsister]

22. No, in Europe it's s litre. It's been expensive a lot longer than here.

I don't know what's going on there now, but know my DH hates Paris because we walked along the Seine on a Friday night that was 'getaway day' for the French, and it wasn't pleasant.

[Usrename]

16. I hadn't noticed that about the toilet paper, but I'm not surprised.

I'd should pay better attention, toilet paper is pretty darned important when you think about it.

[Bozita]

14. Kroger regularily had "on-sale" cheese for $1.00/8 oz. brick. Big sale now is 3 bricks for $5.00

That's a 67% increase.

I now eat whatever the store is selling as a "get 'em in the door" sale item.

I ain't fussy. But, I do get hungry.

The biggest joke in govt statistics is the one that awards Social Security recipients a 2.3% COLA increase.

[babylonsister]

23. That's criminal given the economy. I did hear that, but we have to fund the war! nt

[Bozita]

24. But we're NOT funding the war. Bush is putting it on the credit card.

See the dollar falling?

Our grandchildren will pay it off with cheaper, inflated dollars.

Devaluing the currency for debt repayment purposes is not a new trick.

[babylonsister]

25. Gotcha! We 'are' funding the war.

This hit me tonight, like a ton of bricks:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2091964#2092789

[Liberal In Texas]

17. Old story: You put a frog in boiling water, it jumps out.

You put a frog in cold water and gradually raise the heat, you have boiled frog.

[lastliberalintexas]

30. Pretty well sums up our last decade or so economically

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Well my shoping habits have changed, you may even argue radically

[lovuian]

21. The American Consumer has been royally screwed

look at the packaging and you will see we have gotten less paid more for it over and over again

[Toots]

29. Jan 20th 2001 gas was nationwide average of $1.45 per gal

And Republicans had a field day comlaining about how Clinton let things get out of hand..I guess we will never ever ever see such (high prices) as $1.45 again.