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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (736362)9/1/2013 3:01:40 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578250
 
Tenchu, that was during the Great Depression. Depressions usually include deflation. So that is a pretty dumb comparison.

Cheap, processed foods are typically more calorie dense than more expensive food. During the 1980s in West Texas a lot of the very poor lived on canned biscuit slathered with lard. It was very cheap, but...



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (736362)9/2/2013 10:54:51 AM
From: SilentZ  Respond to of 1578250
 
>Today, a "living wage" includes having a car, a very comfortable home or apartment, quality day care (if you're a single parent), and enough food to make them overweight.

Really? In most of the country, $15 an hour doesn't really get you those things. Except for the latter, because the cheapest food also is the stuff most likely to make you fat.

-Z


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