"Giusi" > wrote in message
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> "<RJ>" ha scritto nel messaggio
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>> When did the 5lb sack of flour
>> jump up to $3.29 ? ( southern AZ )
>> Seems like it's been a buck and change forever.
>> ( with holiday sales pegging at 99 cents a bag )
>> They can't say they're using it to make Ethanol....
>> When you couple that with the cost of beef,
>> maybe it's a government plan to put Americans on a diet...
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> I've just returned from the US where I did a lot of shopping and cooking
> and I found prices so cheap I worried about what might be wrong with the
> food!
>
> There are those of us who have been saying for years that we are all
> bidding for the same resources, and no one wanted to understand it or hear
> it. It's true. The dollar is worth so much less that it takes more of
> them to buy whatever thing it is you want. European countries buy that
> wheat using euro, the US buys it with dollars. There is no way the farmer
> will take less from you because he feels sorry that you only have dollars.
>
> Gas for the car there costs about 1/4 what we pay here. I find it hard to
> feel sorry for people who pay $2.35 a gallon for it, who can buy whole
> fillet of beef for $5.99 and chicken breasts for $1.89.
>

Too bad not everybody in this country makes enough to afford even those
prices.

Ms P