Friday Stories: Dem 'War' With Insurers; New Jersey Win!; Eating On $36 Bucks A Month

Beans and Rice Rice and Beans and once a week throw in something green.

on Eating for under $36 a month ? I read 4 billion people in the world live in less than $2 a day. So, this could work. In fact ? This budget is LOWER than 3rd world. I see hard clean class division in the US. The super poor and the super wealthy - I don't see much middle class anymore. I think you're either in one category or the other. If in the poor side, good luck - education will be the key. If on the rich side, good luck - education will be the key. Odd how both of those work out that way.

Reading the above article on living off of $36 a month for food budget ? And the link about restaurant sales down 2 months in a row ? An idea came to me - picture this - for a business. The business IS the kitchen - you rack out the kitchen with everything most people can't afford for cooking. People come in ? the place is stocked like a restaurant. you pay - oh, say $20 a head ? or maybe more or less depending on what you use perhaps. People come in and can just go crazy, cook what they want. Saves them the trip to the grocery - rebrands boring menu's and avoids high chef / cook costs for custom foods. Set them up for college crowds and they'll all come in after drinking probably ! Really though, picture a gourmet kitchen, with top stock items. Most people only dream of a gourmet kitchen - Guy from Dallas the TV show, oh, JR, what's that actors name now - HE has one stacked out kitchen indeed. You could have chef coaches too- that would be one of the draws- you get to learn how to do certain things you may never have known about - tricks etc. A far more pro-active dining out experience, plus ? you get to make a mess, and that often makes for a fun time for people anyway ! Heck they do it for stuffed teddy bears ! The bear store or whatever it is. if THAT place can make it ? The GK could work ! Maybe I've lost my mind. Maybe a Chef to your door service, they come and hang out with you in your home and cook with you ?

Regarding the link above: http://www.equitygroups.com/generalstockdiscussion/id__14698/messages/127294.html Showing the graph of coal, solar, energies vs Iraq investment ? I'd replace Iraq WITH Oil. It was only until July 2008 that the western oil corporations, Exxon, Sunoco, Conobo (I'll beep the typo, and I'll keep the typo on beep too) and BP. I could be wrong, but my take on Iraq is it was to protect western oil interests and to GET THOSE PUMPS BACK ONLINE ! And July 2008 ? hey - what timing, TOO for record oil prices on commodities. I wouldn't be surprised if Lehman was working the oil futures and cost it it's own life. I wouldn't be surprised if Goldman wasn't out there pumping oil futures to cash in on Exxon stock either - all the while ? legal ? and hey - why not - like Cramer says - feels good when you do it. Bottom line on that chart, I contend Iraq was about one thing only - oil. Greenspan says this too. So, that chart ? Really should list Oil there instead of Iraq. Maybe I'm having an off day and I missed the sarcasm. Have fun people- big comet hit Jupiter last week - would have taken us out, we didn't even see it coming. Me ? I'd invest more in anti-meteor anti-comet technology, I mean, sheesh, looking back after one hit ? IF we were here to say otherwise ? I think we'd say - gee, not a whole lot mattered in the scope of life on planet earth compared to prioritizing a comet or meteor shield.