> I pay less the $200/mo for food. Never really thought about food > costs being high. Of course no one is this household is obese. And we > eat steak twice a week. Chicken, pork and fish make up the other days.
I didn't say that food was expensive. I said I pay more on the 2 items that we consider to be essential to living, food and shelter, than to what we consider the very expensive 3rd leg, medicine. I do this fairly easily in a relatively expensive city to live in. That food, which uses a mixed but largely free market system, is so cheap and plentiful that even the poor can easily afford it, is lost on the socialized medicine proponents. > I agree that housing costs are through the roof. No pun intended. But > I blame the banks mostly for this. I too blame the banks, the central banks that is. Funny how political interference in the housing market to create "affordable housing" ended up creating a pig-sty free for all that only caused housing prices to rise out of reach for all but the wealthiest. To add insult to injury, we now have a political class that considers these inflated housing prices to be so sacrosanct that they must be propped up at all costs. Again, the irony will be lost as to why things cost so damned much. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
