Say NO to a "cat food Christmas"

[Coyotl]

Kucinich may be going out, but not without a bang!

[tularetom]

1. Sorry but our three cats might get a little pissed if we did that

[niyad]

4. was thinking the same thing

[reformist2]

16. New Group: Cats Against Kucinich.

Leave our Cat-Food Christmas alone!

[Sherman A1]

2. I will miss DK

and his perspective on things.

[JDPriestly]

3. This is neither a joke nor an exaggeration.

In London in the early 1970s, the elderly woman in front of me was buying catfood.

The cashier taking her money looked very concerned when it came to my turn. She turned to me and whispered as the elderly woman left the store, "That's for her. She eats that." (not her exact words). I looked at her and asked if she was joking. Dead serious, she said, "No. She eats that."

That is really where we are headed.

Some Social Security recipients only receive a few hundred dollars a month and have no other income than food stamps, reduced price meals at the Senior Citizens' Center and Medicare/Medicaid.

Obama will promise to adjust the chained CPI to protect the most vulnerable. But he will not always be in office. This is not the first change to the method for calculating cost of living increases for Social Security. If we allow our government to go ahead with this one, it surely will not be the last.

The Republicans are chiseling away at the incomes of the middle and working classes. The attacks on the pensions of public servants and on Social Security and Medicare are just the front attacks. They will back this up with even more draconian cuts on everyone.

They are sadistic and cruel and will impoverish and demoralize the poor and elderly first and then attack the incomes of everyone else. A guy like Boehner does this for thrills and profit.

He didn't say anything about the deficit until a Democrat was in the White House. He is a hypocrite.

[tularetom]

6. Doesn't it seem to you that there are cheaper food alternatives available than cat food?

I'm looking right now at a little tin of the stuff that we buy for our kitties. 78 grams and I can generally get them for about four bits. But I can get 142 gram cans of tuna at Costco for about a buck (in bulk of course). In other words about the same price per gram. So why would anybody eat catfood when they can get tuna for the same price?

I have no doubt there are a lot of folks around in the same predicament as this unfortunate woman. But catfood doesn't look like the best choice if you're on a very limited budget.

[JDPriestly]

9. Even sausages cost a lot. Wieners are the cheapest I think.

We eat almost no beef, a little chicken more for flavor than anything. Fortunately, we like vegetables and can grow a tiny bit of them to supplement what we buy.

[FSogol]

14. Exactly. What about Ramen noodles or corned beef hash?

There are much cheaper options.

[durablend]

15. Neither of those are that cheap anymore n/t

[FSogol]

17. Ramen noodle packs are 25 cents each. We can get them for 10 cents in bulk.

Definitely cheaper and more filling than cat food.

[Skittles]

5. they need to stop with the cat food reference already

there's a lot of food cheaper than freaking cat food

[savebigbird]

7. It's symbolic!

It's an exaggerated way of saying that seniors deserve to have their rising health care costs considered when their benefits are calculated. They shouldn't have to downgrade and downgrade again! It may not be particularly poetic and somewhat exaggerated, but republicans need dramatic statements to understand.

[Coyotl]

8. It is a metaphor for starving, and a very good one at that.

We all know that, less one poster maybe.

[JDPriestly]

10. My experience in London which I describe above really happened.

It was not a metaphor. Not at all. And I remember it after all these years.

[sharonj]

11. reply

nice...........

[sharonj]

12. reply

goooooood...........

[Coyotl]

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