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A Tale Of Two New York Cities: The Rich And The Hungry
New York's apparent success as a financial and cultural center of the world (and anchor for the liquidity flood of the world's central banks via bank er bonuses) has an ugly side. The inflationary impact of the extremely wealthy is squeezing food prices to the point that many low income families simply cannot afford to eat. A dismally real picture of the situation in New York is exposed in a report by Food Bank NYC - One City, Two Realities. As The Daily News notes, many of the report’s findings are truly worrisome. For instance, between 2011 and 2012, the percentage of households with annual income below $25,000 that had trouble affording food increased a whopping 30%, with 70% of these households with kids reported difficulty affording 'needed' food. NYC's unemployment rate remains well above the nation's average and 54% of those are struggling as according to the Food Bank, “low [no] income families are making the difficult decision to reduce the nutritional quality of their meals by purchasing less expensive and unhealthy foods in order to afford the mandatory expenses that would keep a roof over their heads.” Participation in government food assistance programs continues to rise, and demand for emergency food programs continues to intensify as 54% expect to need assistance (SNAP) in the next 12 months.
Food costs are surging in NYC...
and while it is dropping, unemployment remains well above average in NYC...
leaving the divide between those who have and those who strugle to afford food growing ever wider (h/t Banzai)
Via Daily News:
New York City has a well-deserved reputation as the country’s financial and cultural center — and that’s great.
What is not so great is that, for a growing number of its residents, simply surviving in New York has become an increasingly difficult proposition.
As shown by a report issued last year by the city controller, the so-called “Capital of the World” is also the capital of income distribution inequality in the nation.
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Even though the research precedes superstorm Sandy, this year’s NYC Hunger Experience report (below) reveals a tale of two cities, wherein the struggles of low-income and unemployed New Yorkers to keep food on the table have intensified even as the circumstances continue to improve for those who are better off.
“Now, we have the additional hardships brought about by Sandy,” Stampas said.
Many of the report’s findings are truly worrisome. For instance, between 2011 and 2012, the percentage of households with annual income below $25,000 that had trouble affording food increased a whopping 30%, though the total number of city residents who reported difficulty affording food in the same time period actually decreased by 9%.
No less serious is that, according to the Food Bank, “low income families are making the difficult decision to reduce the nutritional quality of their meals by purchasing less expensive and unhealthy foods in order to afford the mandatory expenses that would keep a roof over their heads.”
Not surprisingly, low-income residents — especially Latinos and African-Americans, women and the unemployed — are more likely to experience difficulty affording the basics than other groups.
The picture painted by the report is nothing short of alarming:
- The percentage of unemployed New Yorkers reporting difficulty soared from 41% in 2011 to 54% in 2012. To make matters worse, the city’s unemployment rate continues to trump the national average.
- As of last November, the city’s unemployment rate was 8.8% (approximately 351,000 people), compared to 7.8% (approximately 12.2 million people) in the country as a whole.
- In fact, the report adds, three years after economists declared the end of the Great Recession in 2009, unemployment rates in the city have yet to recede to pre-recession levels. Participation in government food assistance programs continues to rise, and demand for emergency food programs continues to intensify.
Again, not a pretty picture.
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Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don't mind the maggots... [She-doo-bee]
*AGE OF DECEIT* (FULL) Fallen Angels and the New World Order http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjmFm8PIz8M (2:31:33)
Shittier and shittier products and services for all except pigmen.
Ask Timmy
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/geithner-us-economy-close-to-full-recov...
Tyler, you really could have summed this up with the following interaction between a GS banker and a homeless guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JPGyxh9ukE
I don't care. I'm never leaving. New York City is fucking crazy and if it was any different I'd have to go elsewhere.
I live in Brooklyn. The chinese laundry downstairs cleans my clothes for 50c per pound, the jordanian guy on my way to work makes my coffee, my jew landlord collects his rent, I eat at Italian restaurants with my Polish and Hungarian friends, drinking Greek uzo and smoking Cuban Havana's with my Dominican friends. My girl's a boriqua and my stepkid a palestinian-jordanian-puerto rican-dominican beautiful specimen of life. There's nothing wrong with globalization if you do it right.
Wait until the 'replicants' start arriving in town there Rick Deckard...
LOL! Roy Batty and his Nexus 6 pals would be far more humane and civilized than the majority of NY'ers in the city.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzA_xesrL8
New York City: A Tale of Two Cities
Hunger Games Greeting Cards
Great read.
+10 for the Dickens reference.
+20 for the Hunger Games greeting card
Never leaving? Oh well, then you'll go down with the ship.
New York City is a fucking cancer. It's a town full of moral degenerates. If you got rid of those cunts Bloomberg and Cuomo you might stand a slim chance. But that's exceedingly unlikely. You guys have precisely the government you deserve.
Enjoy your (remaining) time in the modern-day Sodom.
Never Leaving is code word for rent controlled apartment. The facists leftists love them. Bianca Jagger, a Nicaraguan communist, had one for many years. The rich through devious means get them and use them as vacation apartments.
Eventually some one ratted the bitch out and the city actually took action. She went to court like a good little leftist trying to hold onto her ill gotten perk at the cost of the little people. She lost.
Hopefully the flesh eating zombies will reclaim those pre-war (code word for big ***king apartment) apartments when the EBT cards start failing.
New York City is a fucking cancer. It's a town full of moral degenerates. If you got rid of those cunts Bloomberg and Cuomo you might stand a slim chance. But that's exceedingly unlikely. You guys have precisely the government you deserve.
Enjoy your (remaining) time in the modern-day Sodom.
Care to let me know where that fuckin cancer is seeing that I live in the heart of the city?
Wouldn't want my beautiful wife and 3 month old daughter to step in it, you piece of shit.
There are those that live here, raise families and do the right thing. DON'T generalize.
Or, are you one of those that deep down....really wanted to have the balls and the nerve to actually 'make it' in the greatest city on earth, but never did? Hmmm?
You, like so many others, talk shit about NYC, think everyone is a banker, and probably never set foot here.
Stay in Flyoverlandia........we don't need you.
People with poor impulse control and inability to tolerate people of different belief and appearance just can't stand places like NYC. It's better that way, when you think about it.
people intolerant of anyone/thing outside of their own very limiting circles, mirrored images usually, are welcome to their small worlds.
although I'm more rural now, I spent most of my life in large, diverse city neighbourhoods, mainly european, and I do miss the opportunity to interact with peoples of differing backgrounds/histories - but I still carry my learned respect for the many ways humanity presents itself.
(that was an eloquent, well-argued perspective you posted yesterday, respect.)
We all do what we can. Someday this war's gonna end.
I really wish all of you transplants would just shut the fuck up. It's comical viewing all of you defending NYC as if though you're these true natives. Half of you are probably "moved and raised" New Yorkers...hahaha....fuckin clowns suffering identity crises.
Shaddap ya whiny little bitch.
Explain to me how you interpret my statement to be "whiny"? I can assure you I'm hardly the
"Whiny" type (If you only knew the things I've been through personally) Anyway, sorry to offend you transplant, but the truth hurts. We up here in the BX don't and will never accept you as natives.
;)
;)
You're too kind. Sodom was The City On The Hill, compared to NYC.
I admit to not being a big fan of NYC, but seeing that the likes of the guys below your comment wouldn’t go near it, I suddenly feel the warm embrace of its open arms. Even Hoboken Frank couldn’t offer a better testimonial.
So, BKBroiler, can you check for me and see if there are still apartments available in Jamie Dimon’s building? I’ve got this pile of cash just burning a hole in my pocket, and I’ve already got the chateaux in Limousin and the ranch in Paraguay. Don’t care much for Boracay, so I guess it’ll be the Big Apple and access to Coney Island to further round out the portfolio.
My only concern is that this Freddie guy probably doesn’t know where his Mom’s basement actually is, and I fear he might be down there in Alphabet City or something and not know it. I’d hate to catch what that boy has, ‘cause I doubt there’s a cure. Hey, maybe that’s what happened to all the old and sane posters?
Dimon's building is a rip off, what we need to get you is a nice rent controlled apartment.
Based on BKbriler's post, I can see where his leftwing mindset comes from. Apparently he doesn't know any Americans. Every one he mentioned is described as a specific ethnic or racial group. Sounds like the cliche that begins "some of my best friends are...".
Aside from that, good for you, BK, enjoy Brooklyn.
'Merka has ALWAYS been a nation of immigrants. There was a time when that was celebrated.
What must really piss you off is that most of those folks ARE "Americans." Just like the Spanish-speaking Tejanos.
This is good. We are very pleased. Very good comment. Remember, America is rich. China poor. Dollah king, Yuan nothing.
Patrick Bateman? I always thought that was Christian Bale!
Anyway, it's a powerful scene.
heckuva job Bloomy
Falling salary and wage income as % of GDP and rising at corporate profits as a % of GDP says it all!
http://confoundedinterest.wordpress.com/2013/01/11/more-housing-angst-us...
WoW, so this is what the economists(?) want to call "CHAINED CPI" ???? Like when you can't afford to eat cat & dog food anymore, you move down the chain to the DUMPSTER! FUCK THE GOVERNMENT!
I don't understand how, with nearly 50M Americans on food stamps, and more welfare programs available than ever before, and with essentially free medical care for the destitute, and public housing available in every major urban area, there are still poor, hungry, homeless people. Are we saying that, even with a multi-trillion dollar budget that goes mostly to help people (whether through Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, free housing, subsidized housing, Obamaphones. . . ), we still cannot help all of those in need? And are we saying that with the hundreds of billions of dollars that are shoveled to charities that feed and house and clothe the poor, we still cannot help all of those in need? Hmmm . . . . It simply does not add up.
Welfare is the political stabilizer for the Fed to keep inflating. Keeping the low skilled eating and consuming is a great way to keep increasing debt which gives the illusion of a great economy. Without welfare, the consumer economy would go tits up because too many people would be broke and unable to eat.
I don't understand how, with nearly 50M Americans on food stamps, and more welfare programs available than ever before, and with essentially free medical care for the destitute, and public housing available in every major urban area, there are still poor, hungry, homeless people.
In Obamaland, everyone is poor and everything is free. Get it? Anyone trying to be productive will be stifled with comments like "You didn't build that" and all the poor will believe him, and like Hollande he will eventually drive all the productive from the country or (hopefully) the country can just split amicably and Obama can be king over the all the poor he creates.
And they will know when they look at their shanty towns "Obama built that".
'Are we saying that, even with a multi-trillion dollar budget that goes mostly to help people'
Which people may that be, the ones on the street or those in the cushy admin positions (with salaries that would not be out of place in non charitable organisations)?
i blame the bernank
I blame the 9 million morons who put their trust in assholes like Bloomerg and Cuomo............
Obama supposedly has an 81% favorability rating in NYC but pollsters and the media lie. Alll they do is lie but morons in NYC love Obama.
You don't need to stretch the truth to get 81% approval. You need only believe in the reality willful ignorance.
If America has a problem with the truth, the East Coast (and California) is downright allergic to it.
Blame the Ashkenazim (can't spell it w/o NAZI) and their evil counting houses of rehypothecated wealth.
I blame small businesses and the middle class. Let's raise taxes on them until they need EBT cards.
Yours Truly,
Warren Buffett and George Soros
It's not the Bernak's fault! He has provided us with plenty of iPads to eat.
Hunger games. Coming up.
Ben Bernanke and his band of governors at the Fed have assured everyone that there is no inflation. In fact, the Fed knows that a little inflation would be good for us. I'm not sure why half of New York residents are confused about this issue.
So quit yer complaining, folks.
Cuomo knows to get the guns now before the food is out of reach.
Guess he is not on board with the concept of pumping as much guns and ammo into society as possible and then letting the supply chains break. Or, maybe the play is not wanting them to kill each other but outflow for mass chaos to the surrounding areas.
And don't tell the good doctor you're mad as hell because you're "food insecure" (lol) he'll report your ass to Big Sis.
Be a good little sheeple...and just suck it up.
When it came to pain medications, did't the old turd tell them to suck it up and suffer?
Can't even miserably die in peace within the veiled comfort of Morpheus anymore having been refused to eat reasonably, feel safe within one's own home or trust in any future glory of mankind.
Pitiful glimpse of our future, today.
Why even the circuses are failing to divert for misery has become the bread.
Interesting to watch rural upstate NY pols mumble their way through Andy's gun, clip, and ammo grab. The upstaters who hunt, shoot, run small businesses generally view anything below Westchester as an insane asylum about to explode in hunger fueled anger. Preppers are now the norm, not the exception - in the last year most everyone has learned the meme, even democrats that "won" with BO in '12.
What the hell did you expect? Of course this is the case. We're not going back to the "old normal", we're moving into the "Newer New Normal".
Cuomo needs to feed his poor voters. Why he's fucking around with gun laws and legistation is beyond me. Perhaps is fraud chef girlfriend Sandra Lee can whip something up for these poor?
Never know what hungry people will do with access to guns. I think Bloomie's whistling past the graveyard.
Cuomo's a tin-pot dictator who is a filthy degenerate punk. His father was a corrupt, mobbed-up shitbag, and the apple didn't fall far from the tree.
On a serious note...
Everything. Absolutely everything will be done to avoid reaching any serious breaking point when it comes to the basics and supply chains for the basics. Talking about bread here. Circuses are easy. Bread is difficult because it is tangible.
And, there is nothing that can be done to prevent those supply chains from breaking... a breaking point being reached at some point.
So, between now and then, systems will be put into place to "contain" and "deal with" the fallout for when the inevitable happens.
Any questions?
Snake Plissken won't give a fuck about anyone's hunger or their questions...
Let them eat Drone............
Bingo, and when Rome legislates that they are entitled to the food from the center and south then its on like Donkey Kong.
The army will not stand with them and their scrip will be worthless.
It sucks so many people, Americans, will starve, but they brought it on themselves. We will be stronger for it
Big-Gulp.
Slur-PEE.
I'm beyond quimsical expectations...
There you go Krugman you Keynesian nutcase. Proof
Inflation gets people very, very angry
Bernanke stay the f*ck away from NYC
Fuck Krugman. He is nothing more than a tool. Not worth paying attention to. Discredited immediately by any argument about the role of banking in creating "money."
That is an insult to tools. Tools are at least useful.
I love both of you nmewn and chump666. I was hoping for a (literary poet) that doesn't know it.
81% of New Yorkers voted for obama, shut up and go dumpster diving where the rich live. It is what you voted for.
I could live with that as long as da man ain't gonna be friskin' us, right?
Good news with that is that it'll all be kosher food...
"81% of New Yorkers voted for obama, shut up and go dumpster diving where the rich live. It is what you voted for."
Only about a third of NYC residents voted at all. I'm guessing the dumpster divers stopped bothering a long time ago. It is a myth that "the poor" voted Obama. They didn't vote because they know it makes no difference. In that regard, they are smarter than the rest of us.
"Un pauvre qui vote ça me fait penser à un crocodile qui se présente à une maroquinerie."
Coluche.
A poor voting is like a crocodile showing up at a leathercrafting store.
Gubbermint Cheese.
Who in the hell would live in NYC if they made 25 grand. Move!
Well, I like excitement.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094743/quotes?qt0235193
I love my walk through the city......it's like the video game Pitfall. The exception is I am jumping over hungry snapping homeless people, instead of aligators, whose bed is a city grate where the only source of warmth spews forth. You literally cannot walk down the street without getting hit up by a change jar rattling vagrant.
They're 'hoping' for your 'change'...
~~~
See? Government DOES work!
too many still post the voters voted them in, diebold and soros owned vote counting co's.. outcomes of the vote have the results programmed in,, nothing more..time to wake up your vote was stolen long ago and is accurate as bls employment data., there is no vote. it is a lie, understand we the people do not vote ..so many examples such as washington state gov elections, you know or who would vote for a corrupt comedy baffoon for senator..time to wake up and see..or go back to eye's wide shut.
I know how to fix this. So basically what we need to do is load a helicopter up with a bunch of $100 bills...
Bloomberg outlawed sugar and salt; what's left to fucking eat???
da alcohjoakic drisnk are all srolll cheap../
empsty bottle.s are like ottum leaves
Early polls are indicating that Manischewitz Wine is still available...
Their "factory" is just one PATH stop away from Manhattan!
Is tungsten edible?
The rich!
At about 80% democrats you'd think they do a better job redistributing wealth. Maybe they don't give a shit about redistributing wealth.
or they just need an excuse to redistribute MOAR wealth.
the poor are just a straw to pull taxes through
the poor barely hold onto any of that and just hand it to the corps.. disposable conduits...
oh they do want to redistribute wealth...your wealth ...not theirs...
Like elevators, redistribution can go both ways. Ultimately, wealth is distributed upward.
If NYC, Chicago, Detroit, DC and San Francisco were nuked to ashes tomorrow, I would say good riddance.
lolmao500...you can add LA to that list.
You can checkmark Detroit off that list.
Cliff Notes:
Big city Blue Zones run by crazed progressives are expensive to live in.
John Galt predicted this would happen.
So did Thomas Jefferson..........
So did Karl Marx
Karl Marx didn't predict poverty .... he lived it .... if he were alive today .... he'd be a SNAP carrying, OWS jerk .... washing windshields with his own urine !
No, he'd be a hotshot derivatives trader, destroying the system from within.
Except that story encouraged economic sabotage that leads to this very situation. That, and it underestimates the power of a government, empowered by disaffected citizens, to halt the damage.
Funny that the projects are dwindling and rents on the rise... Where will they live?
Perhaps some newspaper will print a list of rich folks with their home addresses. Then the poor will know where to go when they want to camp out somewhere higher class than a sidewalk.
These people just want you to go away or die ..You are Not Economically Viable ...
Fuck New York!
"as 54% expect to need assistance (SNAP) in the next 12 months."
you could of said 12 years and everyone would believe it
Anyone know what the ordinate scale is for the first graph: 1.0%? 0.1%? 0.01? Sure would be helpful....
.o1 fortnights per furlong
It doesn't matter, no one read the article. It they did, they would realize that the article talks about households making $25k or less. NYC is one of the most expansive cities to live, you need income of $100k. The same thing could be said about, Tokyo, Honolulu, San Francisco , Zürich or Oslo and on....
Wealth is most readily redistributed at the end of a gun barrel.
You are talking about the IRS, right?
NYC sucks the Big One! I had to work there a few years ago and was told,"There's no crime...Guiliano took care of that."
BS! While there I saw one guy blown away at 10 feet by some crack head with a shotgun and was almost close enough to get blood splatter....however, I was close enough to pee in my pants. And the shooter just walks away calmly as if "all in a days work."
I hurt my ankle playing ball and had to go to the ER...never saw so much trauma and misery in my life....I walked out after three hours without being seen.
I was "mugged" twice at knife point; once in the subway and once in broad daylight.....no one stopped ...they barely seemed to notice.
You can have that there Big Apple. If you are not a banker making $5 million a year, NYC is NO place to be imo.
Don't forget about the blackouts, terrorist attacks and hurricanes.
You are a BS artist. The favorite weapon of choice in the big apple is handgun. A lot of shooting here but exrememly rare via rifle and shot gun, homicide rate is down due to better ER and technology, knives are used mainly in bar brawls and street fights, not robberies.
NYC does suck. EDPs are shoving passengers off the subway platform onto oncoming trains like it's a sport.
Crack is NYC's middle name. I read last week some kid on the East Side got killed because he wouldn't give the thugs his jacket:
A Lower East Side teenager was senselessly slaughtered after he refused to hand over his trendy Marmot winter parka to a gang of thugs, police sources said yesterday....Ward, whose Facebook name was “BloccBoy Tokyo” took one fatal bullet to the chest....
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/les_teen_is_slain_for_this_...
Great place to live, sound slike...
"If a man shits himself in combat, I'm not worried - that's usual, it's the body's way of quickly shifting things around so blood goes to somewhere it's needed more. He's still useful and he'll keep on fighting, although it might make the fox hole a bit unpleasent to stay in; now, if a man pisses himself, that means he's lost all nervous control. You might as well shoot him yourself, he ain't saving you or his fellow soldiers". [Anon]
"If a Chinese citizenism citizen shits himself in the course of soiling the roadside, I'm not worried - that's usual, it's the body's way of quickly shifting things around so nightsoil goes to somewhere it's needed more. He's still useful and he'll keep on working, although it might make the FoxConn sweatshop a bit unpleasent to stay in; now, if a man pisses himself in the course of his 18 hour workday, that means he's lost all nervous control. You might as well shoot him yourself, he ain't saving you or his fellow laborers". [AnAnon]
Horsemeat is the answer known in Ireland as "Beef" as used by Burger King in UK..........
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/17/horse-meat-found-in-irish-beef-burgers/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263628/Horsemeat-supermarket-bu...
This is the end result of the Fed's misguided model to happiness, load the economy up with debt based fiat currency and ever expanding credit to infinity and beyond. It works great at getting the bankers rich, for awhile anyway, but eventually it fails, and everyone gets screwed. This is how civilizations die, witness the fall of Rome happining before your' eyes.
I went there once toanIEEE convention.Stayed in the Hilton in Manhattan. Everything about the place gave me the creeps. Especially having to go everywhere in a fucking elevator. The windows don't open in a high rise and you have to breath the same air as the guy slamming his whores head into the wall at 4 am. For some reason they feel that they need to collect garbage by launching garbage bins into brick walls in the middle of the night. Everything smells like piss and dogshit shit or fumes. All the cops look like they are going to bust ya if you look at the cross eyed.
Now THAT is the true sign of a crappy city --- even the dogshit leaves shit!
(AnAnonymous, eat your Sharpei's heart out.)
The hotel rooms are about the size of a rabbit hutch. I stayed there one night and it was near the airport. I hated it but I hate most big cities.
That's too bad, Freddie. I remember staying at the Penthouse of the Sherry-Netherland, when it was still a hotel, and I had plenty of room on each of the floors. Had some friends over, room service....good time. I guess you should have studied harder in school, eh? You're sure lucky you weren't born in Bangladesh or somewhere where society doesn't just hand out opportunity to the less than capable like the America of your youth did. Whole different ballgame, and Darwin rules. And damn, there's a Moslem in EVERY house, not just the white ones. Not much TV, though, so should fit you.
'I guess you should have studied harder in school, eh?'
I don't know, perhaps Freddie is smarter than he appears to be around ZH (it's the Internet after all) and chose to put his money into better things than an overpriced stay at a hotel.
As for me: sleep is sleep, a bed is a bed, and I know I'd trade in the difference in asking price between the two for more important things than experiencing another stay in some plush hotel.
Mr. Bloomberg over Niagra falls in a 32 oz slurpee.
William Banzai, get to work!
Mine is black. Notice the stone guard on the rocker panels. bb512i that car has rear brake vents. My car is original http://www.cavallomotorsports.com/
Wow. Your trading skills are apparently better than I had imagined.
BTW, I believe that that is the precise babe magnet that Borat was looking for.
Akak I'm middle aged loser. I Use my cars to pick up chicks.
http://www.thecaddygirls.com/
Women are the last thing on my list. Ben there banged that<
Hey, if you own that car and are flying multi-engines, you are almost certainly no loser.
Everyone plays to their strengths.
Ferraries kick ass. ( a clutch in a ferrari 328GTSi) 10 grand. My 928 GTS (1996)clutch was 3 grand. My 1985 single plate into 1986 928s-4 clutch was about 2.7 k, My 1984 928s clutch was the same , but porsche bumped the HP and engine displacement to a full 5 litres, in 86 and went to a single plate disc. I Fryed a few of those. Those were 2,3k a pop.
I won't even go into the ZO^6s I ruined. Anyone that knows me knows what A madman i am.
Get an automatic .... before you slip a disc in your back .... cost $100,000 .... + ! Monedas 1929 Comedy Jihad The Cost Of Slipping In Your Bath Tub On A Banana Peel World Tour
I loveed my 928 it was a pussy machine. That car was one expensive vehicle to fix though. Some soccer mom ran a stop sign and totaled it. Some advice never buy a car with an aluminum body.
ZEROHEDGE : WHAT IS THE "Y" AXIS SCALE? IN THE COST OF FOOD CHART
If you got to ask you can't afford it!
One Day Only NYC: Free Crusts and Gruel(pareve)
Locations: 200 West St. & 33 Liberty St.
Bring your Hongry Friends...No Zombies or ZH Traders Welcome
I wonder how Washington DC (our beloved enclave of the brave, worthy and omniscient gods) stacks up against NYC on this food-dimension? I ran into uber-rich and mooches in both cities. But WDC seems to have a lot of uber-rich-mooches; odd, me thinks.
This is the stste that Andrew Coumo told the country it should emulate with gun control because they were the leaders of the USA. Good job Andy, you are following perfectly in your fathers footsteps.
The day I cant eat is the day bankers will not be safe. Or, I will be dead.
The leftist politicians always have to have a "victim"....the poor is one of them...the poor in this country are very very well off.....go to India..or Africa to see some POOR...
Now go back 100 years.....what did they do then......they survived without all the subsidies...sure they were hungry...but they learned the language..got jobs..saved...and moved upwards and onwards.....I think being poor is a great motivator....getting guaranteed handouts for life is not
Bloomberg for a 4th term, back to Feudalism!
Serf's up NYC ...
That coupled with lowest herd population in over 50 years it is going to get tougher.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100388690/UPDATE_1Cargill_to_shut_Texas_beef_plan...
1st avenue by my apt 'hospital alley' is full of 'zombies'. my belgian roommate is in awe every time he walks down the street. so this is america...
The article didn't mention that:
It says that cheap food is unhealthy. Would that be rice, beans, eggs, and apples?
NYC is the most expensive city in the country and one of the most expensive in the world - what are $25K families doing there? It is like pleading for Lindsay Lohan who cannot afford to live in Beverly Hills anymore - wow, sorry if I do not view it as such a catastrophy. 90% of so called low income families are literally degenerates anyways. How about relocate them to North Dakota where they need people to drill? All these Foodbank and EBT programs subsidize local supermarkets and employers not willing to pay the true wages. Stop all subsidies and only help with relocation out - the rest will see their wages go up, crime levels down, less crazy people and generally a more cordial environment. Hope Bloomberg does it before he leaves.
The answer is simple: eat the rich. sorry.
Cleaning toilets, emptying bed pans, working in food stands, convenience store clerks, etc. etc. etc.
We elites are right wing extremists, but we spend much of our resources promoting progressivism, fascism, socialism, communism, collectivism, and political correctness - not just because they make the serfs more dependent - but also because they slow down innovation. Our conscience is clear because a majority of serfs freely support us in our promotion of all flavors of collectivism.
Innovation must be managed. Innovation can empower the little guy and make him think he doesn't need those of us having superior genes to make decisions for him.
Innovation can make the serfs uppity, in the vernacular, as it were. For example, the Internet Reformation makes many serfs feel like they are just as smart as (or smarter than!) we are! Therefore, we can't have unbridled innovation, or else we might get another Internet Reformation before we can stop it. We have yet to complete our control of the Internet itself, so we certainly can’t allow another black swan event like that.
It is true that unbridled innovation would be necessary to support the exponential growth in serf population, but there were already too many serfs anyway. The earth has limited resources, and only those having superior genes deserve to inherit the earth. Slower innovation will thus reveal the urgent necessity of our final solution, which will thus become more acceptable to those elites and useful serfs who were previously reluctant about what must be done.
Slower innovation is thus a good thing.
The serfs have known that the free market works best for them for at least 400 years, and they still choose to sacrifice their children's future for the short term trinkets we give them. It is their choice.
The free market is an abomination that punishes our superior breeding and rewards that greedy lower class mentality. The free market is anarchy. The success of the common man in the free market is thus proof of his inferior genes. That is why – that government is best, which regulates most.
The serfs have all the information they need to know that we cannot compete in a free market, but they still vote for regulation. It is their choice
When we promise them other people's money, they have all the information they need in order to know that they are those other people. Therefore, if they are blinded by their greedy lower class collectivist mentality, then that is still their choice.
We reveal our plans because everyone must freely choose, and thus our conscience is always clear. We simultaneously offer powerful temptations that will only deceive those who willfully ignore reality and who thus have inferior genes.
We thus respect: those who know that when we are all on the same page, we all benefit, and those who know that we have the right to implement any good idea, and those who know the end justifies the means, and those who accept their place.
Conformity and hierarchy are thus not a necessary evil. They are a necessary good.
Some elites claim that our principles of conformity and hierarchy make us no different than the serfs, who we manage by appealing to their desire for conformity and hierarchy. What these elites seem to forget is that the reason we are superior is because we are smarter. Conformity among the serfs is only wrong because they are imitating those with inferior genes, and hierarchy among serfs is only wrong because they are following those with inferior genes.
Although we are the most highly evolved humans, a new theory posits that conformity and hierarchy are actually the Soul of Animals, and are thus the peak of animal evolution, and that the peak of human evolution is the Soul of Humanity.
Some elites accept these theories, but it does not change our plans because we are thus acting in self defense against the encroachment of the perverse evolutionary course referred to as the Soul of Humanity. Without conformity and hierarchy, the Soul of Humanity is incomplete and would lead to anarchy! One could thus summarize our goal as a crusade to kill the Soul of Humanity, although most of us just see it as killing off reactionary genes.
Some elites claim that the Soul of Humanity is very much like our founding principles, and that we have lost our way. Such elites have obviously been deceived by our own propaganda intended to pacify the masses.
New York, like most major metropolitan centers, produces nothing but consumes vastly. The city lives off of laws that tax the producers in the suburbs and rural communities. Someone once posed the question: "What good ever came out of a high-rise?" Not products, not art, not cars, not food, or appliances, or homes. Just writs, rules, addenda, codicils, tax bills, liens, regulations, graft, and regulations.
Welcome to little Tel Aviv. Serve us or move.
What about that generous Trickle Down Effect?