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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/4/10/223445.shtml?s=ic
Giuliani Off the Mark on Grocery Costs
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hasn't done a lot of grocery shopping lately -- at least based on his answers about the cost of milk and bread.
I do grocery shopping nearly every week, and I haven't the faintest clue how much a gallon of milk costs, nor a loaf of bread. I occassionaly buy a quart of milk, which I guess is in the 1.50 neighborhood, but that doesn't mean a gallon is $6. I would guess probably in the neighborhood of $3.50 to $4, but I never look at how much a gallon would cost so I can't say that with any confidence.
As for bread, I couldn't even make a ball-park guess. I *NEVER* buy bread. Can't even guess what the price would be.
It's not because I don't shop, it's because I don't buy those things.
What an absolutely stupid, stupid, stupid non-story that is. Not knowing the prices of milk and bread isn't, in my mind, indicative of any damn thing at all.
Just because someone doesn't know the prices of arbitrary food items doesn't mean they are out of touch, it just means they don't buy those things. They may be staples for some people, but hardly for every person. Probably for fewer people than you might imagine. Especially in a place like Atlanta where everybody seems to eat their meals out at restaurants, three meals a day, 7 days a week. And those that don't are generally the immigrants who are going to eat whatever they are used to, not what americans may be used to, and probably doesn't involve either milk or bread (asians certainly don't eat those things, and they represent a sizeable portion of the Atlanta immigrant population). I'd be surprised if the majority of people in Atlanta could have gotten that question close to right...
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The only candidate I see that is even remotely acceptable is Ron Paul. I don't care much for his foreign policy ideas, but pretty much everything else on his platform is solid. You can't always get everything you want, but there's no need to settle for getting NONE of what you want... Which is what I would get with any other candidate that has announced so far.
2008 is going to be a very bad year, and the four years that follow it are finally
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i would like to know if he is familiar with details around wages and cost of living on a national
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I can hope. ;-)
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