my post 2 above - 69 mCastros On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:42 AM, mex sara <[email protected]> wrote:
> i am not sure how many Castros i just spent in the last post > > hope that there hasn't been a quota system introduced > > though I guess it would take a while to spend one whole Castro > > mx > > > > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:28 AM, Bruce Johnson < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Oct 5, 2011, at 9:05 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> > mex my want to re-evaluate the assertion that 1 in 5 Americans live >> below the poverty level: >> > >> > < >> http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/10/hunger-hoax-perpetuates-dependency?utm_source=10/5%20Washington%20Examiner%20Opinion%20-%2010/05/2011&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest >> > >> >> "Burgers, pizzas and the like cost more than food that you can buy at a >> store and cook yourself. If you can afford junk food, you can certainly >> afford healthier food." >> >> Wrong on most levels. When burgers cost $1, they are cheaper than the >> equivalent food >> >> For someone like Sowell, yes, it's certainly true that healthy fresh food >> costs more than junk food, but he clearly doesn't live in the 'food deserts' >> that characterize a great deal of the landscape of poor America: >> >> <http://www.cdc.gov/features/fooddeserts/> >> >> (by your constant denigrations of the poor, I can pretty well assume you >> have little direct experience. I've had to shop in the kinds of slum grocery >> stores they're describing and yes, there's a significant difference in >> costs. Just a tiny, petty example: in one (NY Food Lion store circa 1990, >> istr it was in Tarrytown) I went looking for some canned tomato sauce. IN >> the stores you or I shop in we have a choice, often three or more brands, >> and small, medium and large cans, with significant quantity savings for the >> large cans. >> >> In the slum store there were two sizes of cans: the 8 oz size you or I >> would call 'small' and a ridiculously tiny 4 oz size. The prices were the >> same as for a medium and small cans in the much nicer suburban store 15 >> miles up the road. >> >> The vegetables looked like they were the ones swept up off the floor in >> the produce warehouse and were exorbitantly priced. >> >> I've seen this pattern reproduced again and again. Even Wal-Mart does it >> this way. >> >> Also, he completely discounts the time it takes to do that cooking; these >> are not his fantasy 'Father Knows Best' 1950's households; there is usually >> no one with the time to do this cooking, let alone possessing the skills and >> in many cases, even the most minimal of equipment. >> >> And finally he's just as patronizing as any of the rest as he scolds these >> people for not cooking more of their own food. >> >> Finally, Francis (Wouldn't want expend TOO many milliCastros of my free >> speech allowance on the subject!), don't link to opinion pieces by partisan >> hacks with no links to actual data to support his theories and pass them off >> as 'fact'. Doesn't work that way. >> >> (And I won't EVEN getinto the hackery of "the poors, they have the TeeVee >> sets and the Air conditioners so they're not poor!" Do your REALLY need to >> be taught the trajectory of technology costs over the last fifty years! >> >> (post length 35.4 mCastros) >> >> -- >> Bruce Johnson >> University of Arizona >> College of Pharmacy >> Information Technology Group >> >> Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "StrataList-OT" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en. >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
