A recent study spells out what ALL Americans already know. An issue requiring no study. The issue: Groceries are expensive!
Some of the facts and numbers in the study interesting, however: Groceries are most expensive in California, Florida is ranked #5 on the most expensive list, Miami the most expensive city nationwide.
Breaking costs down on a family basis: The average American family spends $270.21 at the grocery store per week, more than $1,000 per month. Households with children spend more. An average of $331.94 a week, 41 percent higher than households without children.
Some in the U.S. are taking North Korea more seriously. Justified.
Some U.S. experts fear an attack by North Korea on South Korea, Japan and Guam. Any or all would bring the U.S. into the conflict immediately.
Something to be concerned about.
There are two major contributors to the Key West housing shortage, not one. The well known are vacation rentals. The other military rentals. The government pays top dollar for rent. The rents are timely paid. An important consideration for a landlord.
Military rentals are crowding the market. They should be housed on base. Such would be a major contributor to rent decline and availability increase.
“Texas will not surrender.” Words spoken by Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton after the Biden administration announced it will give Texas till wednesday to stop blocking U.S. Border Patrol agents access to several miles along the U.S.-Mexico border following the migrant drowning deaths of one woman and two children last week.
Texas insanity running on a parallel to Florida’s: Better that political figures, the Governors and Legislatures in both States, get their way than “justice be done,” lives protected.
Today’s podcast some 6 years old. Titled: Woe The Web We Weave When First We seek To Deceive.
Abolishing the penny is under consideration. Not much can be purchased for a penny today. In fact, is there anything?
There was a time a penny had value. In 1900, the New York Times cost just a cent. Today, the paper costs $4.00.
Making a penny involves a significant cost factor. Costs 3 pennies to make one. In 2022, the U.S. spent $93 million producing the coin.
Studio 54 was a hell of a place in New York City in the late late 1970’s. Fun time, big time.
Owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager made it what it was. They also made a ton of money for themselves.
Unfortunately, they developed a feeling many extremely rich persons have. They hated paying the big taxes that accompany huge earnings. On this day in 1980, they received sentences of 3 1/2 years in prison and were fined $20,000 each for tax evasion.
Satanism is on the rise.
A Satanist gave the opening prayer at the Washoe County Commission meeting in Reno tuesday. The invocation ended: “Hail the eternal rebel.” Part of the opening prayer asked the Devil to bring his “guiding actions of nobility and justice to the decisions made in the chamber.”
Christians nationalists nationwide are joining forces to recruit swing-state, MAGA leaning churches to help elect Donald Trump in 2024. A brazen effort to transform religious congregations – which technically are supposed to keep electoral politics out of the pulpit – into a campaign powerhouse for Trump.
It’s back! Lasagna at Brady’s Irish Pub. A wednesday night special. I tried it last night. A meatless three cheese dish. Excellent! The sauce especially.
Lasagna returned because Brady’s has a new chef. It stopped serving lasagna when a former chef left. The new one cooked chicken parmesan instead. As good as the lasagna it replaced.
I do not know for certain, but would bet the new chef is of Spanish extraction. As were his predecessors. Italian chefs in Key West appear to be a dying breed.
Sat next to Tony and Candy again this week. Learned more about Tony’s fisherman work. I thought he had a small boat he took out daily with 2-4 fishermen. Not so. He is a sometime captain, sometime mate on a much larger boat. One that can carry up to 55 people.
Carola gave me 3 Irish sconces she had made. I ate one for desert. Took the other two home for breakfast this morning.
Enjoy your day!
Lot’s of people are trying to smear the Democrats and particularly the Biden administration for high inflation, siting grocery prices as a big example. But the government doesn’t set those. They are set by the rich fat cat industrialists, almost all HUGE diners to the Republican party and other right wing causes – Like the JENKINS family in Florida. They get richer EVERY time we by food, way out of proportion to what is real and reasonable.
Biden does however have more effect on Gas prices, and they are pretty low at the moment, although the Saudi’s want Trump in office so expect them to try and make Biden look bad with those soon, too.
…and that’s not mentioning our dysfunctional MAGA Republican congress, who are much more interested in being a clown show circus and trying to either shut down the government, somehow embarras Democrats or just be stupid – than help American citizens cope or survive difficult times
High inflation is most often a result of an abused economy. That can happen in several ways, one way is where corporations are allowed to purchase new companies in such a way that by manipulating things can then sell their products to the public (or back to the government) at enough inflate prices, to cover the cost of the purchase price.
Roark Capital buying Subway Sandwiches, where a sandwich that sold for $5.99 is not $15.99, is and example of that. The consumer is actually paying for the purchase.
That’s capitalism. But capitalism taken too far can be harmful and if nobody buys a sandwich now, well, Roark looses and will need to get bailed out by the government. Looks like the consumer citizens everywhere) will be the looser.
We need better government to keep this from happening. Corporations should not be allowed to do just ANYTHING they want. We need some regulations, and that ain’t gonna happen with Trump or Republican Governments.
…and Republican Fat Cat Industrialists were able to slip this kind of legislation under their own MAGA base without them knowing they too would suffer.
Can’t Fix Stupid