Great News: Higher food prices likely "new normal"

Make sure to thank your local Democrat at the ballot box November 2012 by voting them into the long unemployment lines that they have created as well:

This relates directly to my post from April: Good News: US Inflation Actually 10%. I noticed during my weekly shopping trips that cheese went up by at least 20% from just weeks ago. Milk up 10%. Plus gas at almost $4 per gallon. So how is inflation said to be flat? Easy - they changed the way the inflation is calculated to not include either energy or food. Uh - what? How could those two things not be included? Especially energy prices that are the cause for the increase food cost? Also from back in February: Good News: Food spike puts 44 million in poverty. Thanks Obama for this:

All those liberal talking heads that say hyperinflation due to Obama's printing money (aka - quantitative easing) will not lead to inflation need only look at the skyrocketing cost of food, a commodity not taken into account in calculating the CPI.

UPDATE: From WOODTV: Higher food prices likely "new normal"

Detroit Free Press: Keep welfare going so obese Detroit kids don't starve or something

An editorial from The Detroit Free Press: Summer hunger pains, campaign sponsors step up

A brutal economy and cuts in public social programs have taken a huge toll on southeast Michigan, with more than 300,000 low-income children receiving free or reduced-price meals in school. When school is out in summer, those meals are gone, and the twin problems of hunger and poverty become even more critical.

Unfortunately, people's needs often rise when government has the fewest resources to meet them. This year, state government cut programs for poor people and further eroded the safety net communities rely on.

The good news is that corporations are picking up some of the slack for school-age children in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb Counties. The Charter One Foundation, Hiller's Markets, Hollywood Markets, Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car are partnering with Forgotten Harvest and Gleaners Community Food Bank -- Michigan's leading hunger relief agencies -- to raise $500,000 and provide an added 2 million meals this summer.

So is the freep here unintentionally admitting that the private market can do better than the government in meeting the nutritional needs of the poor? YOU BETCHA! If these private entities are doing this good in a time of recession, imagine how well they'll do in times of plenty of the government just got out of their way!

But back to the premise I had in the headline - how is it that the freep is lamenting cuts in food programs when Detroit is known to have overweight/obese kids? It's kind of like this:

From just a few short years back: Fattest cities in USA - Detroit, Houston...

1. Detroit
2. Houston
3. Dallas
4. San Antonio
5. Chicago

As I have mentioned several times before, around 20 years ago when I was a graduate student, I volunteered a lot of time to Focus Hope in Detroit delivering boxes of food to the needy. Two things I learned: 1) Homes owned by old people smelled really, really bad and everything in the homes were ancient. 2) Homes owned by welfare recipients universally had top-of-the-line tvs, stereos and cable tv or dishes. All welfare recipients that I saw were obese. Every. Single. One. So not only were they able to overfeed themselves, but had money left over for many modern conveniences. For the record, starving children look like this:

You will not see such a sight anywhere in the US, a country where having ac is quite absurdly a human right.

UPDATE: Via Instapundit:

THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY: Anti-obesity programs fail, so feds try again.

Related: Tax the burgers, subsidize the peas
 
UPDATE #2: Ask for "The Michelle Obama Special" at the Shake Shack 

Video: ABC On Michelle Obama's 1,700 Calories Of Hypocricy

That's right - 1,700 calories: It's good to be the Queen: Michelle Obama orders 1,700-calorie lunch. A whole day's worth of food for a normal person. The hypocrisy was so brazen that ever George Stephanopolis over at ABC couldn't spike the story:

Indulgence for me, but not for thee. And the first lady of fitness? With that caboose? Good grief.

It's good to be the Queen: Michelle Obama orders 1,700-calorie lunch

The rules only apply to the little people.From the WaPo via memeorandum: Michelle Obama orders 1,556-calorie meal at Shake Shack (the WaPo fessed up to the mistake in the headline - the meal was actually 1,700 cals)

First lady Michelle Obama ordered a whopper of a meal at the newly opened Washington diner Shake Shack during lunch on Monday.

A Washington Post journalist on the scene confirmed the first lady, who’s made a cause out of child nutrition, ordered a ShackBurger, fries, chocolate shake and a Diet Coke while the street and sidewalk in front of the usually-packed Shake Shack were closed by security during her visit.

According to nutritional information on Shake Shack’s Web site, the meal amounted to 1,700 calories.

Obama, who launched the “Let’s Move” campaign to combat childhood obesity last year, has previously admitted to having an “obsession with french fries”...

More on that last part here:Obama: “I can’t stop eating french fries. But eat your vegetables”. Ironically, this happened the same day as Obama said this: ‘Eat our peas’: Pea growers react to Obama remark. More from Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers, The Astute Bloggers, The Daily Caller, JammieWearingFool and The Lonely Conservative. The reality here is that she is denying kids that which she indulges in, typical of ruling class mentality. Her plate is full of things she denies others in regulating what's on your plate. All the while: Good to be the king: Obama wolfs down TWO chili dogs and fries... day after his wife unveils new dietary guide. By the way, it's also good to be the queen: Irony: Anti-Obesity Michelle Obama Feast On Ribs At Ski Resort, 1575 Calories Pers Serving, 175g Fat. Going on a diet is for the little people. Michelle Obama wants doctors to prescribe drugs for fat kids. She wants to restrict what children are allowed to eat. She has even talked about removing parents from the child nutrition picture altogether: Michelle Obama on Child Nutrition: ‘We Can’t Just Leave It Up To The Parents’. As part of the ruling class though, she has an abundance of hypocrisy in her veins. Dietary restrictions for thee, but not for me! Next time she piously lectures on the evils of saturated fats, remember this post. Such a thing isn't the first time that Obama's bitter half ignored her own edict. From last year: Irony: Anti-Obesity Michelle Obama Orders Double Cheeseburger & Fries At Milwaukee Diner (With Video)

UPDATE: Should have linked this too: Audio: Michelle Obama urges black moms to LIE to their children to keep them from being fat

Good grief. Recall what Obama's bitter half said exactly 2 months ago: Michelle Obama on Child Nutrition: ‘We Can’t Just Leave It Up To The Parents’

Obama: “I can’t stop eating french fries. But eat your vegetables”

It's good to be the king. And queen. The rules only apply to the little people. From the Washington Examiner via HAHeadlines:

“My favorite?” Obama said. “Oh, this is a tough one. “It is tough, you know, because if I say something not healthy, people will be, like, you aren’t really committed to health. If I say something healthy, you know — I do — honestly, I like all kinds of foods.”

Obama mentioned Indian food, and then Mexican food, and then said: “No, if I picked one favorite, favorite food, it’s French fries.” The audience began to laugh. “Okay? It’s French fries,” Obama continued. “I can’t stop eating them.” As the students laughed more, the First Lady quickly returned to her role as advocate of health eating. “But eat your vegetables,” she said, to still more laughs. “And exercise.”

Let me put aside that french fries are potatoes and potatoes are indeed vegetables (if Sarah Palin had said this believe you me the media would be painting her as a dumb bimbo for not knowing that). But the reality here is that she is denying kids that which she indulges in, typical of ruling class mentality. Her plate is full of things she denies others in regulating what's on your plate:

All the while: Good to be the king: Obama wolfs down TWO chili dogs and fries... day after his wife unveils new dietary guide. By the way, it's also good to be the queen: Irony: Anti-Obesity Michelle Obama Feast On Ribs At Ski Resort, 1575 Calories Pers Serving, 175g Fat. Going on a diet is for the little people. Michelle Obama wants doctors to prescribe drugs for fat kids. She wants to restrict what children are allowed to eat. She has even talked about removing parents from the child nutrition picture altogether: Michelle Obama on Child Nutrition: ‘We Can’t Just Leave It Up To The Parents’. As part of the ruling class though, she has an abundance of hypocrisy in her veins. Dietary restrictions for thee, but not for me! Next time she piously lectures on the evils of saturated fats, remember this post. Such a thing isn't the first time that Obama's bitter half ignored her own edict. From last year: Irony: Anti-Obesity Michelle Obama Orders Double Cheeseburger & Fries At Milwaukee Diner (With Video)