Food, poverty, and stuff like that

[wombat_socho]

digex unintentionally ignited some bitchiness on Facebook by posting the pic from this article which compares the cost of buying dinner for two adults and two kids at McDonald's to buying raw materials at the grocery store and cooking dinner yourself. It's not really a straight-up comparison, obviously; the home-cooked meals are chicken/roast potatoes/

Comments

[harvey_rrit]

The time and trouble of using "mass" transit (that is, the system granted to the masses by the liberal elite, so we should thank them) needs to be taken into account.

Every measure taken to increase "fairness" to the poor has the effect of keeping them poor. (The "progressive" tax rate is the classic case-- fining people for working harder.)

You have my deepest respect for beating that system.

Bordering on awe. If the system was not designed specifically to keep people down, I have to wonder what a system that had been would do that isn't already being done.

--One of the things that makes Mickey D's unpopular with the Heroes of the Proletariat is that it gets taurine into the diet of kids in the inner city, thereby allowing formation of new dendrite connections so they can get OUT of the inner city. Ray Kroc did more for black people than all the Harvard liberals who ever lived: he sold them hamburgers.

[wombat_socho]

Thanks, although as I said in the OP I have to give my ex-wife a lot of credit for that. Be interesting to see if I can claw my way out again without a wife....although as a single guy with no children, there's not that much to lose in the way of support from the state once I have a decent job again.

Have to admit I'd never looked at McDonald's that way before, but you're probably right.