The only food people can afford under obamanomics. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-meat.html?ICO=most_read_module#axzz2JhzCdBLs
"Must never make fun of Obama. Must never make fun of Obama. Must never make fun of Obama." Repeat mantra as needed.
Even as a liberal, I am ok with making fun of Obama when it makes sense. That is part of comedy. I like comedy. However, this story has nothing at all to do with him. Nothing. Therefore, there is no joke. I liked the article by the way. Interesting, good to know, and kind of fucked up. Just has nothing to do with Obama.
I'm not sure how politics got involved, but without bring them into this, I am completely okay with the company using horse meat. When you buy a $1 cheeseburger, you should more or less assume that the "quality" is suspect. With that said, I don't know how many of you hunt or have had the chance to skin and prepare a catch, but meats are meats. Different animals have different tastes, but the labels we put on one versus the other are completely cultural and subjective. If you break down where any of our meats come from, the average person would find it disgusting, but so long as the consumer doesn't think about its source, they'll enjoy every last bite of it. So long as the food does not physically hurt anyone, I'm okay with it being offered up as a fast-food "burger." In fact, it sounds like they're wasting less of the animal in this process.
During the worst of the recession, the big movers on the stock market were YUM brands and MacDonalds. That's because the food their is cheap enough for people living on unemployment to afford. It's four years later. About 10M people could not find jobs and gave up looking altogether. Household median income is down almost $2500 since Obama took office. Obama fought hard for a tax hike on the rich for his signature achievement of his second term, so far. It came at the expense of a tax hike on the middle class as the witholding tax cut was allowed to expire. http://twitchy.com/2013/01/04/hope-...hecks-of-2013-stunned-lib-asks-what-happened/ Those obstructionist republicans are preventing Obama from doing anything about it? Utter bullshit. The man got a $800B emergency stimulus package passed, spent another $350B of TARP money approved in the last 3 months of the Bush 2nd term, a permanent $600B hike in the federal budget in a way that doesn't require congress to do its job (pass a budget every year) thus bypassing any possible Republican obstruction, added over $6T to the national debt in 4 years, and the Fed printed another $3T (and $85B a month from now on) that doesn't show up in the debt figures but is spent as if borrowed. Trillions of dollars spent so we can have underwater mortgages, extended unemployment instead of jobs, and even bigger banks (they used govt. money to buy other banks) too big to fail. Oh yeah, the people get food stamps! The stock market is at 14000, though, which is good for... who exactly? So yeah, I think it's plenty fair to compare this BK horse meat story with Soylent Green. The society depicted in Soylent Green is exactly where we seem to be headed. Something for you to think about. That $800B. They could have written 3.2 million people a check for $50,000 a year (pretty close to median income!) for 5 years with that money. That's wage equivalent of over $20/hr. Or at $10/hr (more than minimum wage), they could have written 6.4 million people checks for $25,000 a year for 5 years. People making $50K pay taxes and make their mortgage payments on time. What a contrast to the alternative we've been dealt. All these things I presented are pressures on people to eat at BK. It's what they can afford. "Let them eat horse meat!"
