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Few want to sling burgers
for $12/hour when the government’s willing to pay you more than that to stay at
home. (And do you blame them?)
At the moment, there are
over 100 million Americans out of the labor
force. An estimated 6.85 million want a job currently, and a record 94 million
don't want a job.
Why
Your Grocery Bills Are Going Up (And Are Only Expected to Get Bigger)
By Hannah Cox
Americans spent a lot of
money on groceries over the past year—and it isn’t just because they were
eating more meals at home. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, food
prices jumped 3.9 percent in 2020, nearly triple the rate of inflation.
Unfortunately, this trend
seems poised to continue. The US Department of Agriculture estimates grocery
bills could increase by another 3 percent in 2021, while some experts are
betting on even longer-term problems.
“I think food prices are
going to continue to increase for probably a good year, year and a half,” warns Phil Lempert, founder of SupermarketGuru.com.
Shoppers are already
feeling the crunch. Long Island resident John Kermaj recently told NBC News, “We used to buy this stuff for $30. Now it's
$60.”
Diet staples like wheat,
corn, soybeans, and meat are among the products seeing the sharpest price
uptick. Meat shot up 5.5 percent last year, and prices
for fruits like apples, strawberries, and citrus went up by 11.3 percent.
This is no small matter.
Before the pandemic, the
number of Americans experiencing food insecurity had been steadily falling. That trend was reversed last year.
Northwestern University researchers estimate that food insecurity doubled during this time—placing 23
percent of households in danger of going hungry. It is likely this problem will
only worsen as the cost of food continues to grow.
So, what’s causing the
spike? A perfect storm, really. Bad weather, stockpiling, increased demand from China, global shipping interruptions, and inflation
caused by the extreme money printing by central banks all
get honorable mentions. But a significant number of the factors to blame can be
traced back to the government’s lockdowns and regulatory policies.
Meat processing plants were
one of the industries hardest hit by the lockdowns. Many were forced to close for extended
periods of time, and others invested in expensive new equipment and
technology to reduce their in-person workforce. These costs were of course
ultimately borne by the consumer, and the closures led to supply chain
disruptions. Both made the price of meat go up.
These closures not only
affected the meatpacking plants and their employees, but those of many related
businesses in the food processing industry as well. The lockdowns also impacted farmers, shipment and
distribution facilities, companies that produce the containers and plastic
needed to store the meat, and grocers. In a market, one government action can
have a ripple effect across hundreds of other industries, and that’s certainly
what happened here.
The coronavirus and
lockdowns didn’t necessarily cause all of the problems in the
meat industry, but they did exacerbate existing issues. The industry was
already struggling under absurd government
regulations that force farmers to waste good livestock and block them from
selling directly to consumers. Combined with the lockdowns, these policies
began to threaten our supply chain.
Congressman Thomas Massie
called attention to this problem more than a year ago and warned it could lead
to a meat shortage. The Kentucky Republican urged Congress to support his PRIME
Act to repeal these regulations, but his warnings went unheeded.
Other producers in the
agriculture sector have struggled to obtain the workers needed to
ramp up production. Across the country, small businesses have been unable to
attract Americans back to the workplace as many remain on increased unemployment benefits that pay more than
work.
Esteemed economist Thomas
Sowell famously said, “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” This
principle has certainly been put on display during the pandemic, as the
government made many trade-offs in its attempts to mitigate the crisis.
Ultimately, we know that
many of their prescribed solutions—closing outdoor spaces, lockdowns, scrubbing
surfaces with alcohol—were abject failures. But the trade-offs made in
exchange for promises of increased security won’t be fading away anytime soon.
The current food price
spikes, and the resulting food instability issues they have fueled, are only
the latest in a long line of consequences Americans have suffered as a result
of the government’s attempts at solutions in 2020.
Viruses are scary. But the
surge in food insecurity is a reminder that all policies come with
trade-offs—and that panic-fueled government interventions often only make a
crisis worse.
This article originally
appeared on FEE.org right here.
NOTED…
Today's
Headlines
Biden
HIDIN’ after New Job Approval Numbers Reveal the Worst
Kennedy:
If you support defunding police, ‘you have tested positive for stupid’
The Outrageous Benefit Biden’s “American Families” Act Will Give to Illegal Immigrants
Wall Street & the Bolshevik
Revolution
2020 isn’t the first time Wall Street supported Communism!
How long before US citizens wake up to
the lunacy of how they voted?
https://www.voltairenet.org/IMG/pdf/Sutton_Wall_Street_and_the_bolshevik_revolution-5.pdf
The real state of the union finances
2021-we’re in serious
trouble & under Biden, it will get worse. Recall Margaret Thatcher’s ‘The problem w/ socialism is you eventually run
out of other people’s money. It will happen here too!
https://www.truthinaccounting.org/library/doclib/Financial-State-of-the-Union-2020.pdf
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3 comments:
All prices are escalating and you've warned us [few will heed this]
inflation slowly works its way into the financial system in phases.
Phase 1: Raw materials
Phase 2: Factory gate prices
Phase 3: Retail prices
The first stage occurs in the manufacturing segment of the economy when producers are suddenly paying more for the raw goods and commodities they use to make finished goods
No doubt about it-everything is getting more expensive under Biden-especially food n fuel as you predicted!
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