Inflation – Has it arrived?

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[quote=SD Realtor]Scaredy why don’t you educate yourself about hunger in the US. Here are some numbers for you. There are 49.1 million people in the US that are considered food insecure. There are over 17 million people who live in households that were determined to have very low food security. Here are a couple links for you.
http://www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_u…

http://feedingamerica.org/faces-of-hunge…%5B/quote%5D

Sorry, scaredy. I just couldn’t resist.

SDR, scaredy has seen it all, over and over. I have no doubt that he has had MANY clients over the years who have been arrested for Petty Theft with a Prior (PC 666). These men and women (very often parents) were busted by store managers for trying to steal diapers, formula, milk, bread, hotdogs . . . you name it, for their hungry families at home. He has to defend them vigorously, for under CA’s infamous “Three Strikes Law,” this parent will be facing mandatory time at the Big House.

One of the more controversial sections of the California Penal Code are the consecutive Sections 666 and 667; Section 666, known officially as petty theft with a prior — and colloquially, felony petty theft — makes it possible for someone who committed a minor shoplifting crime to be charged with a felony if the person had been convicted of any theft-related offense at any time in the past; and if the person so charged has two previous felony convictions (listed as serious or violent felonies [“strikeable” offenses]), this can result in a 25-years-to-life sentence under the state’s three strikes law, which is found in Section 667.

The inclusion of felony petty theft within the three-strikes law, and for that matter, the three-strikes law itself, have sparked much debate both within and outside the state, and even beyond the United States. In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the California three-strikes law against constitutional challenges in two cases where the third strike was a nonviolent crime — Ewing v. California, 538 U.S. 11 (2003), and Lockyer v. Andrade, 538 U.S. 63 (2003).

(emphasis added)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Penal_Code

SDR, how much do you think it costs CA taxpayers for this parent to have to possibly leave their jobs and parenting duties to check in for an extended stay in one of our State’s finest “inns,” such as, Chowchilla, Frontera, Tehachapi and R.J. Donovan, etc?? Oh, and then there are foster-care expenses for their children ($540 mo per child + Medi-Cal, free bus passes and free school lunches).

None of us can stand on a soapbox and tell Piggs with scaredy’s experience what he doesn’t already know, live and breathe, every working day of his life :=]

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[quote=SD Realtor]No I don’t win.

Why is the point so hard to understand? What is the problem here? Jeez I have repeated myself over and over and over. You can stretch a dollar in many ways, you have displayed plenty of them. At some point it doesn’t stretch anymore and that point varies with each family, with each old person, with each of us.

If inflation increases and wages do not keep up then those with less get screwed more. Why is that such a hard concept to fathom?[/quote]

My first-hand experience with inflation is that that those in the middle lose the most relative to what they had in inflationary environment. Those at the top use the government to placate the masses by providing the minimum required for survival.

Those who already have very little and spend everything on food and shelter continue to have very little and continue to spend everything on food and shelter. The middle rung joins them and gets to enjoy the same benefits of subsidized energy, food stamps and public transportation.

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[quote=SD Realtor]No I don’t win.

Why is the point so hard to understand? What is the problem here? Jeez I have repeated myself over and over and over. You can stretch a dollar in many ways, you have displayed plenty of them. At some point it doesn’t stretch anymore and that point varies with each family, with each old person, with each of us.

If inflation increases and wages do not keep up then those with less get screwed more. Why is that such a hard concept to fathom?[/quote]

My first-hand experience with inflation is that that those in the middle lose the most relative to what they had in inflationary environment. Those at the top use the government to placate the masses by providing the minimum required for survival.

Those who already have very little and spend everything on food and shelter continue to have very little and continue to spend everything on food and shelter. The middle rung joins them and gets to enjoy the same benefits of subsidized energy, food stamps and public transportation.

[all]

[quote=SD Realtor]No I don’t win.

Why is the point so hard to understand? What is the problem here? Jeez I have repeated myself over and over and over. You can stretch a dollar in many ways, you have displayed plenty of them. At some point it doesn’t stretch anymore and that point varies with each family, with each old person, with each of us.

If inflation increases and wages do not keep up then those with less get screwed more. Why is that such a hard concept to fathom?[/quote]

My first-hand experience with inflation is that that those in the middle lose the most relative to what they had in inflationary environment. Those at the top use the government to placate the masses by providing the minimum required for survival.

Those who already have very little and spend everything on food and shelter continue to have very little and continue to spend everything on food and shelter. The middle rung joins them and gets to enjoy the same benefits of subsidized energy, food stamps and public transportation.

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[quote=SD Realtor]No I don’t win.

Why is the point so hard to understand? What is the problem here? Jeez I have repeated myself over and over and over. You can stretch a dollar in many ways, you have displayed plenty of them. At some point it doesn’t stretch anymore and that point varies with each family, with each old person, with each of us.

If inflation increases and wages do not keep up then those with less get screwed more. Why is that such a hard concept to fathom?[/quote]

My first-hand experience with inflation is that that those in the middle lose the most relative to what they had in inflationary environment. Those at the top use the government to placate the masses by providing the minimum required for survival.

Those who already have very little and spend everything on food and shelter continue to have very little and continue to spend everything on food and shelter. The middle rung joins them and gets to enjoy the same benefits of subsidized energy, food stamps and public transportation.

[all]

[quote=SD Realtor]No I don’t win.

Why is the point so hard to understand? What is the problem here? Jeez I have repeated myself over and over and over. You can stretch a dollar in many ways, you have displayed plenty of them. At some point it doesn’t stretch anymore and that point varies with each family, with each old person, with each of us.

If inflation increases and wages do not keep up then those with less get screwed more. Why is that such a hard concept to fathom?[/quote]

My first-hand experience with inflation is that that those in the middle lose the most relative to what they had in inflationary environment. Those at the top use the government to placate the masses by providing the minimum required for survival.

Those who already have very little and spend everything on food and shelter continue to have very little and continue to spend everything on food and shelter. The middle rung joins them and gets to enjoy the same benefits of subsidized energy, food stamps and public transportation.

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Funny story. My mother saw a class about how to save money on everyday living expenses. She called them up and asked if she could come for free and when they said no she asked for a senior discount. They asked her if she wanted to teach the class.

[sdrealtor]

Funny story. My mother saw a class about how to save money on everyday living expenses. She called them up and asked if she could come for free and when they said no she asked for a senior discount. They asked her if she wanted to teach the class.

[sdrealtor]

Funny story. My mother saw a class about how to save money on everyday living expenses. She called them up and asked if she could come for free and when they said no she asked for a senior discount. They asked her if she wanted to teach the class.

[sdrealtor]

Funny story. My mother saw a class about how to save money on everyday living expenses. She called them up and asked if she could come for free and when they said no she asked for a senior discount. They asked her if she wanted to teach the class.

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