Load Up the Pantry

Tell that to the folks in this article. There isn't a real crisis there either...but.

Source: http://continuitycentral.com/news03874.htm

Brazil offered us ALL the ethanol we wanted, cheaper than we could produce it. But since it is a sugar based industry, we can not use it at that price.

 

you're making excuses now LOL. You just wanted to see how long it took to use a gallon

 

It will ferment into whatever ketchup turns into before I get half way through.

 

Ok, maybe I'm one of those "doom-and-gloomers", but I only have SO much space on our truck for supplies....2 weeks, MAX. And since we LIVE on our truck...well......Ya got room and enough provisions for 2 adults, a dog, and ummm my 16 grandkids, too???

 

I have been through tough times in my life and have spent many days eating oatmeal for dinner and living off of PB and J sandwiches when I was growing up in a house with 7. I lived through 21% interest and getting as many as 5 jobs in a year because of lay-offs.


What we're going through now (maybe my perspective) is a "walk in a park" compared to what happened in the 30's and in the 70's.

Basically, it's tough all around but it's not that tough that people are doing without everything basic. So you might not be able to go to Starbuck's as often or go out to the movies as often as you would like. But I would rather be broke in this country than anywhere else. At least we have opportunities to make it, even if you have to scrape by every now and then. We're still better off than the Chinese or the Mexicans for example.

 

You are absolutely correct, Ron-MARS!

We've lost sight of the difference between "wants" and "needs". We're being deprived of a few of our "wants" and we're howling. It could be much, much worse...

 

yep yep yep yep

 

I well remember the 70's. But we were so poor, it felt like the 60's to us. No differance. 3 kids and a single mother providing as best she could.

But I learned something. Plan ahead...even if it cost you a few dollars now, and be willing to do without. It may mean the differance between eating or not.

And yes... my kids and my wife think I'm nuts. But none of them have EVER gone hungry even once.

 

There have been times in my life that my children have lived on beef-flavored water (1 boullion cube per 1/4 gallon water) with a slice of bread in the bottom of their cereal bowl. For weeks on end. BECAUSE, the child welfare system deemed us unnecessary of help. We didn't visit "Starbucks", nor go to the movies, nor eat at McDonalds. The things we did without WERE the basics....MAINLY, AFFORDABLE,SAFE housing....then you add into the equation gas for heat and/or cooking,water,(for cooking/and/or/bathing),soap, (for bathing), soap,(for clean clothes) **IF you were lucky enough to live where you had access to clothes washers*** IF not, you washed clothes in your bathtub**,
...the BASICS that we did without would confound you....even with all the "opportunities" you THINK are available for U.S. children and families.

These just BEGIN to say what BASICS people lived without in the 1980's, 1990's, and even TODAY.

And YES, I am privileged...I have the money to buy a computer, pay for intrenet, and interact with you....you have the same. BUT, however YOUR life has been, this has been a long, HARD road to travel, and my PERSONAL experiences to get here were HARD, for myself, but most especially, my children.