You know what it's like, the day after Thanksgiving, so what do you do? Head to the stores in search of great deals, or something like that. You probably headed off to Macy's, Harvey Nic's and Tiffany's to find a great bargain. Me? Brookshires and Walmart to find cut price rib roasts. You see, what happens is this. After Thanksgiving these place discount all their leftover roasts and you can snap 'em up cheap. Good call, right?
No, epic fail. All the affordable roasts were missing, someone must have looted them, so I contented myself with Walmart's own brand "Sliced Swiss," it's not bad, stupidly cheap white wine, also not bad, and what claimed to be free range eggs, along with some 90 cent candles.
Black Friday foray over, I fell back to the Compound to contemplate the mission. Yes, a success, but what if I'd bought beef? Failure and bankruptcy, and here's the thing. 47 keeps telling us the economy's booming, how very awesome and I'm sure it is. But why, then, is the cost of groceries up, and up, and up? Like beef, which has what, tripled in price? And everything else.
It's as though there's a financial gap between White House pronouncements and life as we live. To put it simply, we're not getting any more money and everything costs more. I put this to Ma LSP and she replied, ever sharp, "You do understand the people saying these things don't actually buy groceries." Well yes, there is that.
Who knows, perhaps tariffs, abolishing income tax and deporting millions of third world welfare savages will provide relief. Regardless, maybe next week's a better time to check for discounts.
Vaguely on topic, can any of you recommend an air pistol for backyard plinking/pest control? Serious question.
Your Pal,
LSP
2 comments:
Beef prices continue to climb for several reasons.
One is that the Biden Administration destroyed whole herds due to the suspicion of diseases like hoof-n-mouth, not tested, suspected. Just like they did with chickens. But it takes years for herds to be rebuilt.
Another is the continued increase in feed costs. Though that should taper off due to lower fuel prices.
And, of course, fuel prices.
Then there's the 4 major meat packers that have a monopoly on processing and that needs to be addressed.
Did you know the Bureau of Land Management cut off water and grazing rights for lots of ranchers? Of course that had an effect on everything, too.
Then there's the takeover of ranching lands for solar and wind projects. Partially done by the EPA (all that toxic runoff of cow pee and poo...) and the departments of Energy and BLM and and and, hammering ranchers and forcing them to stop... ranching.
Here in Florida, where you can run high-capacity ranching because the ground's so fertile, right up north of Gainesville is a former cattle ranch that is now a giant eye-sore solar farm. Great...
I have no problem putting solar panels on buildings, or even covering over roadways with solar panels, or other places, as long as it isn't done on the public's dime. But good farm and ranch lands? Fugedaboutit.
Expect meat prices to start dropping next year, late next year.
economy: doing fantastic - the stock market's been on a tear upward. who cares about the peasants?
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