Shopping List for a Damaged Economy

Shopping List for a Damaged Economy

Has President Bush gone grocery shopping recently? Has anyone who has anything to do with our economy set foot in an A&P or Shop-Rite within the last month?
We all know that prices have been rising, but it seems that in less than a week, on the consumer end, anyway, the price of bread and anything having to do with any kind of grain, frozen foods, and dairy products has shot up into the territory of disbelief. “Sticker Shock” was a term usually used for over-priced cars, not over-priced cornbread.
So when entering a supermarket or market or bodega, you must prepare yourself to make hard choices about whether to buy the orange juice or the yogurt and whether you should do without the extra milk your family likes because this week, anyway, it is not on sale.When you have to cut the basics, then something is basically wrong with the economy. So basic, that it had to have taken such a long time to happen that no one in charge noticed. But we all notice now.