Because you know how you’re having to mentally tally everything up, and then figure out what you’ll have to put back on the shelves before you head to the checkout line?
Birth control! They are coming to take your diaphram away!
You know how you’ve been forced to clip coupons, even though you hate them, and even eating meatless several times a week doesn’t tame that supermarket total?
The Republicans are conducting a war against women!
You know how you’re shopping with a clipboard, and planning each trip to the grocery store as if it were a landing on D-Day?
Racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobes!
Who are you going to believe?—me, or your lying checkbook?
As one of Prof. Reynolds’ readers once put it, “a Democrat who frightens women cannot win anything. Period.”
Help your neighbors and relatives to get in touch with their feelings this summer and fall; those emotions are there. Tap into ‘em. Don’t let a bunch of non-issues muddy the water. And, for the thousandth time: there is no “birth control” issue. There is a religious freedom issue, but that’s the bass line: the melody has to do with household budgets.
This coming election is about food, gasoline, housing, and unemployment. It is about the high cost of living, in an age wherein our resources are brutally, cruelly scarce.
In short, as one particularly sharp politician once formulated it: “it’s the economy, Stupid.”
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hammer. nail.
we are dying out here. the amount of money it takes to feed my family, for instance… we couldnt have foreseen it in a million years.
man cannot live on contraceptives alone.
Well, as a young person whose employer doesn’t cover the entire cost of her health insurance, and who has to work a second job to pay for it: it’s also an economic issue. I do NOT want to pay more money to insure myself against the astronomical costs of treating cancer, or the several thousand that an appendectomy would cost, simply because Sandra Fluke is a 30-year-old almost-lawyer who is too dependent upon Big Daddy Government to buy her own contraception.
Ask anyone who is trying to buy their own health insurance after losing their jobs, or being underemployed, and you’ll get people on board with needing access to stripped-down plans that cover the basics.
The goal is to make everyone a pig at the trough. and to eliminate competition in the marketplace (ie. the Catholic Church)
Gee, I seem to remember someone warning us about this problem long ago…
http://powip.com/2010/11/palin-pops-a-persistent-meme-bubble/
But that’s impossible! How could an ignorant, snowbilly, hoochie, what never went to an elite Ivy League university ever have the acumen, foresight,or, oh, the je ne sais quoi to be so prescient?
People with their heads on straight have been waiting for this shoe to drop-so to speak. One can only debase the currency so much and not see the effect on the basic commodity prices. And while chairman Bernanke and his colleagues can go on about the risks of deflation, the only real deflation is occurring in housing, and is masking the larger inflationary trend in our overall economy.
Of course, energy prices fluctuate for other reasons as well, but make no mistake, it is primarily dollar weakness that is driving oil prices on the world market, and the concomitant effect on gasoline prices is having a ripple effect on the economy as a whole.
This summer at all of your social gatherings, if some try and polish Mr, Obama’s badge-so to speak, I suggest you dust off a golden oldie by Ronnie Reagan and ask them, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Because unless you live in the DC metro area, or are a federal employee, most likely the answer will be negative…