Breakfast Staples See Price Hike At Supermarkets

ABC News:

On top of the financial pressure from rising gas prices, Americans are also feeling the pinch at the breakfast table.

A simple trip to the supermarket for breakfast staples can be downright daunting.

"I don't even want to go," says Manhattan mother Linda Miller.

She says food for her family costs nearly double what it did a year ago -- even though she buys the exact same amount.

Some of the hardest-hit foods are breakfast staples -- including milk, which costs about 20 percent more than it did a year ago; eggs, up 19 percent; coffee, 16 percent; and bread, 11 percent. The cost of wheat to make bread is at an all time high.

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Comments

[Sundialsvc4]

" ... and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. And I heard a voice say, 'a measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.' " -- Rev. 6:5,6.

I'll skip the prophecy-stuff: the principles described symbolically here are familiar to human history: war-mongering on a global scale, inflicted by the rich who become richer thereby, while causing economic collapse. People are left hungry for essentials they can no longer afford, yet they continue to prize them: "and hurt not the oil and the wine."

That which makes such books compelling is writ into the very heart of man. We must not forget them. As long as the vitality of this country is "borrowed away" to the tune of $96,000.00 a SECOND, this metastatic cancer will take the food out of your own mouths.

Are you finally ready to start impeaching? You have several dozen cases to do, just for starters. If it's "off the table," then it must be on the floor, in the dust-bin, maybe the filing cabinet. You see Ruin in front of you: a black horse, accompanied by war and pestilence. Prophetic or not, these eloquent and compelling symbols are indeed this nation's fate if this nation will not lift its mighty(!) hand to prevent it.

[MilwaukeeDan]

So, they haven't figured out how to get those Chinese hatched eggs here before they rot. This is nothing new. Most of my bills have doubled over the last 10 years(yours have, too) but my wages are stagnant. Yet, the government kept telling us how great everything was and to shop more. The Manhattan mother could get a second job, you want to live in Manhattan, you got to pay.

[MajorKong]

Sure glad there's no inflation.­...

[Podewumun]

...and no recession, either!

[JohnFromCensornati]

When American morons hired Chimpy and oily buddies, they weren't thinking about how he'd jack up the price of oil & gas, much less the price of breakfast. They wanted to have a beer with him.

[montemalone]

'cept now they can't afford the beer.

[Podewumun]

LOL! And just when we need a drink the most!