On Monday, October 23, 2017 at 2:19:08 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 4:48:54 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 10/21/2017 4:55 PM, wrote:

Can you imagine what I feel like standing in line at the grocery store when a lady with two children has to pay $15 for a SMALL package of hamburger meat?

Hmm. I just checked the package of lean ground beef we bought two days
ago. 1.2 pounds, $7.66. I hope her small package was at least two pounds
of meat.

So you have two kids and are going to live on 1.2 lbs of hamburger meat for a month until the next welfare check. Or for two weeks until the next minimum wage check. You always show such compassion for people other than yourself. I suppose that's why you spent 1/2% over "the average charitable donations".

What do you suppose Frank or Jay do around these people?

Hmm. Tell her to shop at a less expensive store?

And as usual you do not remember that I shop at the cheapest place in town. Unless you want to shop at a Mexican market where people are getting rotten mean and vegetables that the FDA is banning because of insecticide contamination.

Or I could adopt the right wing strategy: tell those out of work that
eventually, prosperity will "trickle down" to their recently-laid-off
level, if we give tax breaks to the corporate heads who make big bucks
by laying them off.

But in actual fact, I give more than the national average to charity,
and that's just the documented amount for which I have receipts. Some of
my recent donations to hurricane relief, etc. were just cash, no receipt.