$4.99 for a gallon of milk...what is wrong with this picture?

[Hubert Flottz]

And the Bushco/Organized greed cartel claims..."nawwww there ain't no such thing as INFLATION in America." Your dollars ain't worth a dime, but the lying liars play like inflation don't include your food or fuel...try living without either of those and get back to me Dumbya!

$4.99 a gallon milk and crude oil hit a record high yesterday, the dollar continues to decline in value, but the GOPers say everything is rosy...Bush and his merry band of lying GOPers has put reality on Ignore.

They think America can't handle the truth about ANY issue I guess.

[depakid]

1. "They think America can't handle the truth about ANY issue I guess."

And for the most part, the past 7 years have proven them right.

It's going to take a LOT more than that for the sheeple to wake up and smell the coffee.

[Hubert Flottz]

13. Matt Liar is on Good Mornin' America pushing the GOP line of

BUSHIT! We're outnumbered in every direction you look on your dial.

The TV news is about as reliable, informative and honest, as reading the funny-papers used to be when we were kids.

I trust L'il Abner or Steve Canyon a hell of a lot more than I trust the corporate pimps on TV news.

The problem is that some people in America haven't figured how full of shit their TVs have become.

Why would a household with a 4 hour boner and blinded by delight, worry about the festering of America?

[depakid]

14. Like I alluded to- it's going to take an economic collapse

Americans have been fat, "happy" and propagandized so long that nothing less than the disaster that's coming will wake them up.

Peak Oil, dollar devaluation and the effects of climate change will eventually take care of that- and I expect that it's going to be a very rude awakening.

[Hubert Flottz]

20. I think you are exactly right.

The American "dream" is becoming more of a nightmare every day. Sad to watch...hard to admit, but you're right, it is going to get real bad I'm afraid.

[Red Zelda]

25. Great post!

These TV wooden heads are all vapid comedy from morning to night.

[gatorboy]

35. I wouldn't trust L'il Abner too much.

Al Capp became a vicious conservative. :P

[Hubert Flottz]

37. The Shootniks may attack us any minute if you don't mind George!

[mediaman007]

2. Now consider the people who get "cost of living" increases in pay...

It's a another way to rob the lower and middle classes. Yet the Republicans claim that Rangel's tax bill is class warfare. Not including gas and food in the inflation index is class warfare!

[lonestarnot]

28. Raging class warfare blown by the bushitler wind.

[Uben]

3. Oh crap!

Now they will invade Minnesota to take control of the milk cows!

[Maggie_May]

12. Thats a friday laugh

Thanks! But if you think about it they would if they could.

[rox63]

18. I guess I'd better head north to Cow Hampshire and grab me one as well

:rofl:

[raccoon]

21. I thought Wisconsin was the dairy state. nt

[Le Taz Hot]

30. Let me be the first to give you the good news:

http://www.cdqa.org/facts/

Minnesota is safe. For now. :evilgrin:

[AndyA]

4. The only thing good about this is that it will be even worse come November 2008.

That should put a few more nails in the GOP coffin.

Of course, at this point it would seem the Democrats are only marginally better than the Republicans. :(

I hope the Dems in Congress prove me wrong between now and then, but Nancy and Harry are lousy leaders—both major disappointments.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. "major disappointments."

I feel your pain Andy...Pretty soon Impeachment will be the only thing America can afford to put on the table.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Its Clinton's fault ... er, ah, ... its the illegals fault ... no, its Pelosi's fault

Yea, thats the ticket its Pelosi's fault.

Don

[KharmaTrain]

7. It's Healthy If You're Invested Off Shore

If you have money invested in Euros or other foreign currencies, the dollar's plunge is money in your pocket. Yep, life looks great if you see your investments grow despite the American economy.

What the corporate media avoids discussing is the rampant inflation that is hitting millions in this country. The trippling of oil prices in the past 5 years has driven up prices on everything...and its starting to have an affect on the overall economy...making things worse. People are spending an extra $100 a month on gas and then higher prices on anything that is manufactured by and distributed with oil.

The credit crunch grows worse...the next time bomb to explode. Meanwhile more money and jobs go off-shore.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. And the GOP still preaches that things couldn't be better!

False prophets to a man, or woman...the GOP.

Our Dollar is sinking faster than our freedom and liberty.

[Maggie_May]

8. Its not that America can't handle the truth

The GOP doesn't want you to know the truth. The average American can't make their paycheck go any further. We are in a recession and soon headed for a depression. My husband and I both work making a decent money but after the house payment the car payment food fuel utilities credit card (HomeDepot) there isn't much left. I remember before when we were making less money (thats before Bush) we could pay are bills and least have a little extra at the end of the month. Now its getting harder to make that happen we have even cut the little extras in our life. Well, anyway hate to whine but sometimes just get so frustrated with this economy.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. It's hard to be nice to the folks next door when they vote for more

republicanism.

[Maggie_May]

11. What I really can't understand

I live in the southern part of Ohio just moved because of course this wonderful economy of Bush's made me because of job transfer (corporate down sizing). Well, anyway its a small town not much money in the town at all and these people voted republican. I don't get it they have nothing they two are losing jobs losing school funding ect ect. What makes these people vote this way? How far in the gutter do these people have to go before they wake the hell up!

[Kokonoe]

15. People don't vote. Software does everything for us.

it's quick and easy. No mess, no fuss.

[EnviroBat]

23. Maggie

I'm well familiar with the southern Ohio region of the state, and unfortunately, stupid is just a predominant way of life down there. But it goes beyond that. You'll find many of the "folk" down there are fed a constant supply of shit wrapped in "patriotism", and they're happy to eat it. Best of luck to you in the land of the simpletons.

[Vinca]

16. Quit whining, Flottz. Why do you hate America?

Pick yourself up, man, and find a second - or third - job ("Want fries with that?"). The American economy is good. In fact, it's great! That mortgage thing is just a blip - it'll pass. Why, what we need is more tax cuts for rich people. The more taxes we cut, the more revenue we bring in. You know that, don't you? Now buck up, pay that $4.99, and thank the good Lord George W. Bush is your president. (I don't believe I just wrote that without spewing breakfast on the screen.:rofl: )

[RandiFan1290]

17. I saw $6.09 at Publix

a few weeks ago. It was a regular gallon of milk too. I get it from Walgreens for about $3.89.

[bcool]

19. Low inflation....right!

I wouldn't be surprised when (if) we get a more ethical administration in place and they revisit the inflation numbers they find that inflation was actually quite a bit higher than what's been reported. With all the lies and fabrications by the current gang in office, it wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out they've been making up the "low" numbers to make themselves look good.

Nobody is going to tell me that inflation is under 10% - I know that at least my grocery bill has gone up 50% over the last 5 years, not to mention my natural gas, automobile gas, etc.. Oh, yeah, I forgot - they took gasoline out of the inflation calculation...even though it's a large part of most people's budget.

[Hubert Flottz]

22. Yes but we did get lots of GOP "Morality and Family Value"

with this "deluxe model" GOP leadershit. Bush is the best the GOP has...that says a whole lot!

$4.99 a gallon milk and you ain't even safe from peeping pubbies spying eyes when you set down to take a crap! Things are reely nice!

[RB TexLa]

24. How much of increase is that? What is the normal price of a gallon of milk?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

27. Last year, I could easily find a gallon for $1.99 at several stores around town...

The cheapest I've seen lately is $2.99.
If I get it at the little convenience store down the street, it's just over $4.

:mad:

[havocmom]

31. Wow. Last year you saw it at $1.99? Been YEARS & YEARS since I saw that price

Dec, 2000 was the last time, to be exact.

[RB TexLa]

33. Thanks

[northzax]

26. welcome to the wonderful world of ethanol

farmers are marking out just fine this year, especially corn farmers. When there is competition between corn for food and corn for fuel, the price of both goes up.

[NNN0LHI]

34. Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner n/t

[PATRICK]

41. To be fair

I think farmers dumping cheap milk in protest as middlemen continued to milk their dwindling profits is part of what has finally come due more than excessive greed. Cows aren't oil wells and oil burns more expensively these days to ship their milk.

There was a certain understanding, a benchmark of price comparisons. A newspaper, a first class stamp, and maybe it was a gallon of gasoline(milk?) were supposed to be the same price. Call me greedy but as a postal worker maybe stamps($.41 and resented) should come into their due so I can buy that second yacht.

[Xithras]

55. That's part of it, see#54 n/t

[Sparkly]

29. I'm noticing produce getting more and more expensive

I use soymilk, but fruits and vegetables are getting expensive. Even worse, the cost of home gas is going through the roof for the third year in a row -- it's just astronomical.

[Hubert Flottz]

32. Bush has ruined America.

I think he set out to do it from day one. How could ANYONE be stupid enough to vote for more of this globalist SHIT?

[WGS]

38. I didn't know

that the US economic model was based on the price of milk......:eyes:

[Hubert Flottz]

42. No, it's based on lies and bullshit under the GOP's watch!

[tabasco]

46. Have you checked the price of oil lately?

You're all over the place with your rolling eyes, aren't you?

I suppose things are just rosy in your Bush-world, aren't they?

Victory in Iraq, booming economy, Bin Laden captured, Taliban destroyed.

Man, what a great world you live in! Too bad it's not the real world.

Enjoy your stay, be careful or you might learn something.

[taught_me_patience]

48. The price of milk is a symptom of the real problem

INFLATION. :eyes:


Do you believe there is no inflation or do you believe that high inflation is not a problem?

[Eurobabe]

36. That's pretty fucked, we pay .79 euro cents a liter

[Parche]

39. Milk

its $6.99-$9.99 in Hawaii..........


Thats udderly insane......:hi:

[Javaman]

40. Pfft! I live in cattle country and a gallon here it 5.79. consider yourself lucky. nt

[opihimoimoi]

43. Its the Insanity of it all...that the Insane gets to rule over us...fuck Truth, Reason, and Sanity

To FOOL is to RULE and the American peeps have been FOOLed...this is why we are fucked...we have let a madman in there and now what? We gatta wait for 1.5 more years to et rid of him....maybe??? And Bushies Pals wanna continue the madness....???

Oh My... have we plunged into the rabbit hole....?

[Hubert Flottz]

44. More like the shithole!

Up to our ears in it!

Bush is the cream of the GOP's crop too. Rudy and Freddy could prolly do even worse!

[opihimoimoi]

47. No NFL Team would have a Head Coach losing 6 years in a row

Its been all losses...not even a real Touch Down anywhere...The Cheerleaders in their realm are the "Winners"....via , gasp, THE PHOTO OPs....yes, that is their version of a TouchDown...a friggen Photo Op....

What a Waste...and What a Tragedy.....

None of this shit woulda happened if Gore was the Man...instead, we let a dude/and his GOP, cheat/lie/steal his way into office///

If ya go with Fantasy...ya get Insanity...if ya don't believe it...take a hard look at Reality

[Hubert Flottz]

57. The Bullshit production has never been higher!

The Pubs pump out enough bullshit that there ain't much need for bovines anymore. The Talibush has ruined everything they have laid their sticky fingers to and that covers about everything of any value at all. There is no stone you can turn over that you cant find slimy evidence of the evil brought on by the mark of the bush. Greedlock rules Washington and organized greed has taken over our government and our media. The Have More Mob(the GOPer Goons)"Contract On America" his just about wiped out our country. The Terrorists couldn't ask for a better plan to wipe out democracy in America than to let the GOP run the place for a few years without any adult supervision or oversight. Trust the GOP? Only if you hate America and what America stood for, before 12/12/2000 BG(Before George)

[opihimoimoi]

59. There are a few that think its all a diabolical Plan to prime this Nation for a takeover

by them NeoCons and PNACers...with the hidden Forces out there, they think they can rule the World...such is Fantasy/Insanity..

Are Americans that Ignorant/naive??? Apparently so....

Its Germany 1932.....Same tactics...different Players......

Fascists Rule when allowed.....

[Hubert Flottz]

63. The GOPers can't even run their own lives worth a shit...

let alone mine and yours. Ruling the World is for guys like Dr. Evil or some made up crazy bastid. The GOPer master racists want to rule the world and have instead ruined it!

[opihimoimoi]

65. GREED/SELFISHNESS has its own downfalls...they apparently ignorant of this

[Hubert Flottz]

72. Bush breaks every commandment in the book and the faithful fools

still think he walks on water. Some people NEVER learn. If Gawd is Bush's Co Pilot he'd better bail out ASAP, before Shrub wipes him/her out like he has everything elese he's ever put his prehensile paws on.

[opihimoimoi]

73. His Peeps are PUB Zealots...mindless ZOMBIEs who follow the First Fool

[KamaAina]

58. Hey, maybe we could all wear paper bags over our heads

as Saints fans used to do, back when they really sucked, to express their displeasure.

"Who dat say dey gonna stop dat war? Who dat?"

[opihimoimoi]

60. Kama, we need to find ways to stop that Delusion Drink they been swallowing by the Gallons

[taught_me_patience]

45. I guarantee you'll see the 60oz gallon

soon. I've noticed smaller packaging on many items that I buy. However, it's still the same price.

[madinmaryland]

49. What part of the meme did you not get?

Things are booming here in amurika! If you are a millionaire!

[itsrobert]

50. It has to be more than what's the current rate for a Gallon of Gas

So the corporations can say gas is cheap compared to the price to a gallon of milk.

[librechik]

51. Milk has to be brought long distances to market, nowadays

since everything is consolidated into corporate hands. Naturtally the fuel crisis will make everything that is shipped in (and everything is shipped in) cost more.

[Xithras]

54. Nah, that's not it. Here's the real reason why prices are actually going up.

I live in one of America's dairy capitols, and literally have a dairy across the road and a few hundred yards down from me (free roaming, thank goodness, so it doesn's smell much). I can go to a store and buy milk less than a day after it comes out of the cow. Still, I paid $4.95 for a gallon of milk last night. A year and a half ago it was $2.25.

The actual reason for the peak, as my neighbor will tell you, is a reduction in supply. There was a massive overproduction in milk five or so years ago that caused milk values to drop below production costs. When that happened, many of the open range dairy farmers lost money...a LOT of money. Some of them even went bankrupt. The remaining dairy farmers had to cut costs to survive, and many did so by either cutting their herd size, or completely switching to something else (like beef cattle). This reduced the amount of milk on the market AND increased the percentage of milk coming from dry-lot dairies and industrial producers who depend heavily on outside feed sources.

Here's where things get nasty. At the same time as production dropped, the ethanol craze kicked in. Silage and hay costs shot way up as many existing fields were converted to corn and other bio-fuel crops by farmers hoping to cash in on the ethanol craze. The dairy farmers who needed that silage and hay saw their operating costs increase dramatically, and had to pass that price increase on.

Did I mention that milk demand has gone UP over the last few years?

So we have reduced supply, increased demand, and a spike in production costs. Milk prices have NOT yet hit their ceiling.

[librechik]

66. thanks for the info, Xithras

used to be the Fed bought any excess milk, dehydrated it, (or made it into cheese) and gave it away to poor people. It was a price-support plan I could agree with!

I suppose that sort of thing is down the memoryhole.

[NashVegas]

52. I Take It You Don't Buy Organic

Prices have remained steady on Organic Valley, my brand. More expensive than factory farm milk, but at least prices haven't gone up in the ethanol craze.

[Hutzpa]

53. One for you

good post.


:kick:

[TimBean]

56. War in Iraq+Bank Bailout+Endless Entitlements+Farm Subsidies+Trillions in Debt

Priting off money around the clock to support insane spending will obiously result in major inflation.
100$ oil coming soon.

[Ghost in the Machine]

61. I live 12 miles from the Mayfield Dairy and just paid $5.75 + tax for a gallon of milk.

The clerk cracked up when I said "I guess Scottie Mayfield needs a new lake house". Sometimes I *have* to buy the Mayfield brand because the store is out of the store brand. The store brands average $3.99 - $4.99 around here, but sometimes we get it 2 for $5 or 2 for $6.

[Hubert Flottz]

62. @ $5.75 a gallon you'd think it was magic milk or something.

Or maybe "Dragin' Milk"(from short legged cows)

And if you eat the cow now days it's Mystery Meat...No wonder we have mad cows!

The world gets more crazy every day with the GOPers running the show.

[Mountainman]

64. Everything is rosy if you a Bush billionaire.

[Hubert Flottz]

71. RIGHT!!!

The only people who got a break of ANY kind from the Talibush was the rich and filthy who paid Bush/Cheney's way.

[stirlingsliver]

67. It's Bush and All His Thugs

Bush has to pay off all his thugs and enablers before he leaves office.

Look for prices on necessary commodoties to SOAR between now and the time Bush leaves office.

Oh, How I fervently, ardently wish that Impeachment procedings would begin BEFORE we are all (except Bush and his thugs) are totally bankrupt.

[kestrel91316]

68. Who gives a damn about the cost of milk? At least the gays can't marry.

Thank Gawd for THAT.

And besides, soon we're gonna Bomb Iran, Bomb Bomb Iran!!!!

[SoCalDem]

69. Milk will go out of fashion here, I predict.

Don't worry though, Coca Cola has your back...watch for them to make a milk flavored soda any day now.:sarcasm:

seriously..
I am SO glad my boys are grown & out on their own.. We used to go through SO much milk when they were all still at home..

[Hubert Flottz]

70. I think kids are going to go out of fashion soon.

The kids can't afford to eat well to stay well and now they can't afford to get sick. Who voted for this CRAP anyway? "Family Values?" Right To What Kind Of Life?

[opihimoimoi]

74. Family Values is code for Family ClusterFuck...them Pubs Hate ...

They Hate anything that gets in their way...Ambitious beyond the Norm...dedicated/obssessed with EGO POWER and (Larrys/Vitters/etc case) LUST....

They go about PLOTTING how to spoil the Parade....

Like Abusers/Bullies....they love to make trouble....then stand by to WATCH...they get off on this Crap...You see um in every job, every office...the Bullies who spoil the shop, the Office....they go about targeting innocent Peeps...they denigrate...then they WATCH....WTF is wrong with this crap that it still goes on today...

Is it Infectious???