{"id":60417,"date":"2016-09-28T05:30:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T10:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60417"},"modified":"2016-09-25T08:41:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T13:41:05","slug":"60417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60417","title":{"rendered":"Brown Bag Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/business\/wp\/2016\/09\/20\/lunch-is-too-expensive\/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories-2_lunch-720a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\">The Post makes a discovery<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s2\">.\u00a0 About 20 years behind the rest of the nation, but yeah, lunch is expensive.\u00a0 How is this possible, since there\u2019s no inflation under the Obama administration?\u00a0 The article doesn\u2019t say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The correlation between price and the decline in visits is a revelation to the Post but glaringly obvious to me. \u00a0Prices have shot way up. \u00a0Three years ago, the Golden Arches offered several value meals for under $5.00. \u00a0Now there aren&#8217;t any, most are in the $7.00 range. \u00a0A 40% price increase is noticeable to guys like Joe Shlabotnik, whose disposable income has not kept pace.\u00a0 So he packs a lunch from home, which pointy-headed economists call \u201csubstitution\u201d but which everybody else calls \u201cthe new normal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">More proof of the utter disconnect between coastal elites and fly-over country hicks. \u00a0We knew about this years ago; they\u2019re just now figuring it out.\u00a0 So who are the real dummies?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Rhetorical question, right, Joe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Post makes a discovery.\u00a0 About 20 years behind the rest of the nation, but yeah, lunch is expensive.\u00a0 How is this possible, since there\u2019s no inflation under the Obama administration?\u00a0 The article doesn\u2019t say. The correlation between price and the decline in visits is a revelation to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60431,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60417\/revisions\/60431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}