Very on target for what I think is coming next - a grass roots recover after the orange man dies or leaves the scene. There is no one who has the same level of control over people to take his place and it will be the farmers who willl lead the efforts to get things back under the control of real people. Hopefully, the medical field will then follow suit.
We WILL get there eventually. Perhaps after the 1% take off in spaceships and leave us to it.
This is a subject much in need of a state and national discussion. Hannah writes clearly about different ways to approach it, its pros and cons, and I hope her and Emily's venture does well. She and Emily and others like her can show the way, create models that work, change lives. But not without help, and not without buy-in and the leadership to create it.
In a region in the Midwest where I lived for five years, there was a program that anyone could belong to that charged $25 for a bag of food - whatever the farmers happened to harvest - every two weeks. The food available always changed. Recipes were provided for items people might not know how to cook properly. Farms across the region contributed. Unfortunately, it went under, because farmers were going broke; they also had to travel for miles to deliver the foods where volunteers bagged. Many were aging out of capability to farm.
Grocery store prices truly are outrageous: cereal, even humble Quaker Oats or the store brand, at more than $5 a box; eggs at $4 a carton; chicken, which used to be relatively inexpensive, $9.99 a pound, and it goes on. I saw a "special edition" of red, white, and blue M&Ms the other day: $13.99 a bag! Grocery stores are raking in piles of money; profit-making is out of hand, and inflation is worsening it. If price gouging cannot be regulated by store owners, then it should be subject to government policy.
I completely agree: No person should have to go hungry. To do so is not to live but merely eke out existence.
On target comments from Maureen Doallas. Breckbill and her partner have started an interesting experiment. Why does stepping away from capitalism seem so out-of-the-box?
Wow! Thank you for raising these difficult questions and for sharing and daring some answers. Thank you for your work and for your love.
Very on target for what I think is coming next - a grass roots recover after the orange man dies or leaves the scene. There is no one who has the same level of control over people to take his place and it will be the farmers who willl lead the efforts to get things back under the control of real people. Hopefully, the medical field will then follow suit.
We WILL get there eventually. Perhaps after the 1% take off in spaceships and leave us to it.
This is a subject much in need of a state and national discussion. Hannah writes clearly about different ways to approach it, its pros and cons, and I hope her and Emily's venture does well. She and Emily and others like her can show the way, create models that work, change lives. But not without help, and not without buy-in and the leadership to create it.
In a region in the Midwest where I lived for five years, there was a program that anyone could belong to that charged $25 for a bag of food - whatever the farmers happened to harvest - every two weeks. The food available always changed. Recipes were provided for items people might not know how to cook properly. Farms across the region contributed. Unfortunately, it went under, because farmers were going broke; they also had to travel for miles to deliver the foods where volunteers bagged. Many were aging out of capability to farm.
Grocery store prices truly are outrageous: cereal, even humble Quaker Oats or the store brand, at more than $5 a box; eggs at $4 a carton; chicken, which used to be relatively inexpensive, $9.99 a pound, and it goes on. I saw a "special edition" of red, white, and blue M&Ms the other day: $13.99 a bag! Grocery stores are raking in piles of money; profit-making is out of hand, and inflation is worsening it. If price gouging cannot be regulated by store owners, then it should be subject to government policy.
I completely agree: No person should have to go hungry. To do so is not to live but merely eke out existence.
On target comments from Maureen Doallas. Breckbill and her partner have started an interesting experiment. Why does stepping away from capitalism seem so out-of-the-box?