{"id":81261,"date":"2022-03-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81261"},"modified":"2022-03-23T06:35:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T11:35:22","slug":"let-them-eat-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81261","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Eat Beans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The defining jape of the current economic contortions may have been a piece from last week by Teresa Ghilarducci at Bloomberg, had some &#8220;advice&#8221; for Americans making &#8220;less than $300,000 a year&#8221; and coping with inflation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Inflation stings most if you earn less than $300K. Here\u2019s how to deal:<\/p><p>\u27a1&nbsp;Take the bus<\/p><p>\u27a1&nbsp;Don\u2019t buy in bulk<\/p><p>\u27a1&nbsp;Try lentils instead of meat<\/p><p>\u27a1&nbsp;Nobody said this would be fun<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ignore, for a moment, that the price of Lentils is apparently outstripping the price of meat:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_2601.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81263\" width=\"326\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_2601.jpg 652w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/img_2601-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and that very few Americans live where buses <em>are<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3614\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3614\">much less get them to where they need to be<\/a>, and that <em>no s**t it&#8217;s not &#8220;fun&#8221;, seeing your retirement savings getting chewed up and spat out<\/em> by the inflation that your party brought on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This particular line needs to be held up against every Democrat, everywhere, this fall.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defining jape of the current economic contortions may have been a piece from last week by Teresa Ghilarducci at Bloomberg, had some &#8220;advice&#8221; for Americans making &#8220;less than $300,000 a year&#8221; and coping with inflation: Inflation stings most if you earn less than $300K. Here\u2019s how to deal: \u27a1&nbsp;Take the bus \u27a1&nbsp;Don\u2019t buy in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81261","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=81261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81265,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81261\/revisions\/81265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}