UK – 5,000,000 Families are Out of money and Out of food!

It is shocking to find over 40% of the UK families are being forced to borrow money just to put food on the family table. In the long term this can not be good for the UK economy, the EU or the worlds long term recovery from a long running recession / depression.

In the UK – the equivalent of five million households used credit cards, overdrafts or savings to buy food during the month of April 2013.

A recent survey, 43% were headed by people between 30 and 50, while just under half had incomes under £21,000 ($34,000.00).
This research found that 55% of those using credit to do weekly shopping planned to cut back on food in the coming months, with almost a third saying they had to borrow from friends or family in order to make ends meet. This study also found that one quarter of people said 36% said they felt their finances were under pressure.

Almost one third, 31% of those surveyed cut back spending on essentials last month, and they were most likely to be women aged between 30 and 49. Our tracker shows that many households are stretched to their financial breaking point, with rising food prices one of the top worries for squeezed consumers.

It’s simply shocking that so many people need to use savings or credit to pay for essentials like food. A spokesman for Oxfam said that millions of people were under pressure from a combination of rising prices and stagnant incomes with their problems added to by cuts to services and safety nets.

Boston Marathon Terrorist Attack – 3 Dead, 130 Wounded

Source Death toll at 3 in Boston Marathon bombing seen by White House as terrorism
Who dropped the ball and allowed terrorist to attack Boston Marathon?

Are the Boston police at fault? Or should we be looking harder at Obama administrations, border policies and the ability of the FBI, U.S. Marshals service, and the CIA to detect terrorist groups within the borders of the United States?

A first responder source confirms that a total of five explosive devices were found in the Boston area, including the two that exploded. Authorities spent the next several hours sweeping the area for additional devices.

Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis said “more than 130 people were injured including up to 10 with amputated limbs”. Davis said “during a press conference that no suspect is in custody.”

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, this woman doesn’t have a clue. reportedly said her understanding it “that it’s a terrorist incident.” Duh, do you think?

Long On Rope, Short On Brains – Man Dies Jumping Off Of Rock Bridge

Source 22-year-old dies while swinging from Utah rock arch
22-year-old Utah man was killed while swinging from a rock arch in a stunt made popular by YouTube.

Grand County sheriff’s officials say Kyle Lee Stocking, of West Jordan, died about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, after hitting the ground below the 140 foot tall Corona Arch near Moab. Sheriff’s Lt. Kim Neal said “the length of rope from the arch was miscalculated and sent Kyle Lee Stocking swinging into the ground as he went under the red sandstone formation.” Rescuers say he was dead at the scene.

Poor math skill’s can kill you.

Senator Harry Reid Uses The Deaths Of 7 Marines To Advance His Political Agenda

Source Reid raises sequester debate after deadly military training accident
Just hours after an explosion killed 7 Marines Senator Harry Reid used the fatal training accident as an opportunity to talk about the potential impact of the sequester on military readiness.
Listening and reading Reids speech would lead one to believe sequester spending was the root cause of this accident.

Senator Reid has demonstrated time after time he cares little about our military, American citizens and he is only concerned about pushing his socialist alined agenda and keeping his fat cat job in the U.S. senate.

In all likely hood, this accident was caused by the failure of apiece of military hardware or ammunition.
The 60mm mortar and it’s ammunition was manufactured years before anyone ever heard the word sequester being applied to a budget process.

Senator Reid should be ashamed of himself even hinting that the Marine Corp would place Marines in harms way with or without cuts in the Marine Corp budget.

Why is common sense so uncommon?

National Parks Have Dirty Bathrooms and Lazy Overpaid Under Worked Employees

Source For national parks, sequester could mean cancelled parades, dirty bathrooms
If National Parks have Dirty Bathrooms it is because the national park service is filled with Lazy Overpaid Employees that believe they are to good to use a broom, mop and sponge to keep restrooms clean.

The whole damn bunch should be fired and replaced with ‘Professionals’ that care about the health and safety of park visitors.

Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation

Montana citizen, Patty Myers said”

Alan Simpson, the Senator from Wyoming calls senior citizens the
Greediest Generation as he compared “Social Security ” to a Milk Cow
with 310 million teats.

Here’s a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS in Montana … She tells it like it is!

“Hey Alan, let’s get a few things straight!!!!!

1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit)
for FIFTY YEARS.

2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I
was 15 years old. I am now 63).

3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other
Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for
decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give
OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus
bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme
that would make Bernie Madoff proud.

4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and “your ilk”
pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors
nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age
65 to age, 67. NOW, you and your “shill commission” are proposing to move
the goalposts YET AGAIN.

5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into
Medicare from Day One, and now “you morons” propose to change the rules
of the game. Why? Because “you idiots” mismanaged other parts of the
economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from
Medicare to pay the bills.

6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes
our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again.
Why? Because you “incompetent bastards” spent our money so profligately
that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now,
you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off
YOUR debt.

To add insult to injury, you label us “greedy” for calling “bullshit”
to your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions
for YOU:

1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during
your pathetic 50-year political career?

2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career,
and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the
American taxpayers?

3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?

4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you
proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual,
have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?

It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called
Congress who are the “greedy” ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase
thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from
millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes and your job
and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed, leech.

That’s right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole
purpose of advancing your pathetic, political careers. You know it, we
know it, and you know that we know it. And you can take that to the bank,
you miserable son of a bitch. NO, I did not stutter.

P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits “entitlements”. WHAT
AN INSULT!!!!

I have been paying in to the SS system for 45 years ?It’s my
money?-give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop
patting yourself on the back like you are being generous by doling out
these monthly check EVERYONE!!!

If you agree with what a Montana citizen, Patty Myers, says, please
PASS IT ON!!!!

Why is common sense so uncommon?

This Weeks Odd and Weird Head Line News Stories

Gas power station activists being sued by owners of plant for $8 million USD
It is well past time to force protestors to man-up and pay for damaged property and loss profits caused by protestors.

Activists who occupied a power station for a week to highlight their opposition to producing electricity from natural gas are being sued for $8 million dollars by the owners of the power plant.

Source Most of the world’s population are out of touch with the natural world At age 86, has David Attenborough gone senile? Placing the saving a Amazon frog or some insect over the health and safety of Humans?

Source Calorie levels on food packaging ‘wildly misleading’ Calorie levels printed on food packaging are wildly misleading and should not be relied upon by dieters, nutritionists claim. Manufacturers’ measurements of energy levels in their food do not include fibre, which accounts for about five per cent of our calorie intake.

Cooking and processing food can alter calorie levels by up to 30 per cent because we burn more energy digesting things which are hard and uncooked, experts explained. Nutritionists recommend that an adult should consume 18g of fibre per day, the equivalent of an additional 250 calories per week.

There are two basic reasons why raw food provide less calories than cooked foods, they are less digestible and also the bits that can be digested cost more to break down. We are talking at least a difference of between 10 to 30 percent. There is a lot of misinformation around calories, and it is crucial for the consumer, whether they are on a diet or not, to have the correct information about what they eat.

Source Only one in three men are at ‘a healthy weight’ 2/3′s of men have a fat ass unhealthy weight. Only one in three men are now considered a normal weight, as the obesity epidemic means the majority are too heavy.

One in four (25 percent)of men and women are now considered obese, with a BMI of more than 30, with the rest classed as overweight. The obesity crisis in children may be levelling off as the figures showed that 31 percent of boys aged two to 15 were considered obese or overweight in 2011, the same as the previous year. In girls, 28 percent were classed as obese or overweight in 2011, compared with 29 percent in 2010.

One in ten (10 percent) of children starting primary school in 2011/12 were classed as obese. The report also revealed that there were 11,740 inpatient admissions with a primary diagnosis of obesity in 2011/12, triple the number recorded in 2006/07.

This report also showed that purchases of fresh and processed fruit and vegetables have been on a downward trend since 2008. To fat and Lazy to Cook! Purchases for fruit were 4.1 percent lower in 2011 compared to 2008, and the amount of vegetables purchased reduced by 2.4 percent, with a 6.6 percent reduction in purchases of fresh green vegetables.

Source Sitting down at work ‘increases risks of cancer’ Sit down and get cancer, diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure. Prof Rosenkranz, of Kansas State University in Kansas, US, said “We saw a steady increase in risk of chronic diseases with the men who sat more. The group of people who said they sit more than eight hours clearly had the highest risk.”

We know people who are more physically active do better with regard to chronic disease compared with less physically active people. It’s not just that people aren’t getting enough physical activity, but it’s that they’re also sitting too much, and on top of that, the more you sit, the less time you have for physical activity.

The study’s findings are particularly relevant for office workers who spend long amounts of time at their desk, as well as truck drivers. This study was published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.

Unemployed Former Navy Seal make’s an attempt to tug at Americans heart string

Source SEAL who killed Bin Laden blasts government, says he’s been abandoned
After quitting just three years short of retirement, he has no health care or pension, he said.

He left the military a few years short of retirement eligibility and now has no job and is not qualified for a pension. He is awaiting a VA disability ruling for neck, back and eye injuries.

Now the rest of the story. This service member served 16 years. He knew well all the rules when he made his discussion to Quit the military short of his 20 year commitment to receive retirement benefits.

He Was Not forced out of military service. He Quit the military service. If he needed medical attention it was available for the asking. It seems he did not seek medical attention while on active duty.

Contrary to what he and a few others want you to believe, this Navy service member was only doing his job, the job he was being paid to do.

He knew well that he would loose his military benefits when he Quit and self terminated his Naval service. He knew his family would loose Naval medical benefits when he decided to Quit the Navy and not reenlist to reach minimum years service to qualify for retirement and continued benefits for him and his family.

This story has a sad ending. But He Knew The Rules Before He Elected To Quit and leave the military service as a member of the U.S. Navy.

Why is common sense so uncommon?

Ignorant People Do Stupid Things – Motorists Stranded On Snowy Roads

Source Storm leaves motorists stranded on snowy roads for hours

New York and other Northeastern states have been warned for day’s before this storm hit it would likely be a bad storm. Governors, state transportation and police agencies have been warning motorist for day’s to travel with caution, stay where you are or better yet stay at home.

How stupid do you have to be to try driving in a blizzard? Better to stay at your work place than be stranded in your automobile, in a blizzard in deep snow on a highway some where.

ObamaCare – What Americans Will ‘Really’ Get

The truth about our uncaring, selfish and cruel NHS
Officially calculated that, between 2005 and 2009, up to 1,200 patients at Stafford Hospital died needlessly.

The creation of the NHS in 1948 was not a scheme for making medicine better for patients. It was a way of taking charge of its delivery by centralised bureaucratic diktat, something which happens in no other country today except Cuba, North Korea and (oddly) Canada. It was therefore designed for the people who produced the service rather than for those who received it. Each extra patient was, from the producer’s point of view, a nuisance rather than a benefit. The NHS’s proud boast is that it is free at the point of use.

Will Super Bowl XLVII Be Canceled?

Chicken Wing Crisis
Will the nation’s chicken wing shortage cause Super Bowl XLVII to be Canceled?

What about hot sauce? After 2012′s droughts and floods will there be a hot pepper sauce shortage as well?

Why hasn’t Obama, FEMA and USDA done more to avoid these national food shortages?

What about fried pig skins! No one can eat them without gallons of hot sauce!

CBS News – Wheat is a “perfect, chronic poison,” according to Dr. William Davis

Source: (CBS News) Modern wheat is a “perfect, chronic poison,” according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has published a book all about the world’s most popular grain.

Source 1 Modern wheat a “perfect, chronic poison
Source 2 Genetically modified wheat
Source 3 Gliadin
Dr. William Davis on CBSnews is doing nothing more than hyping propaganda for his new book.

Davis can not or at least does not site a single scientific fact proven research paper to support his fear mongering book claiming wheat is bad for your health. Davis is totally incorrect in making claims wheat to be an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in the ’60s and ’70s. The truth is the first GM wheat was field tested in 1992. And as of this date GM/GMO wheat is not commercially grown in any country on earth.

At least for the present time, Monsanto decided to no longer offer Roundup-Ready Wheat commercially until transgenic wheat is more widely accepted. Currently no transgenic wheat is used commercially in the United States. Don’t relax to much or count Monsanto down and out. Monsanto to appeal to consumers, transgenic techniques have attempted to increase the gluten content for use in baked goods and to reduce wheat’s allergenic effect among those suffering from celiac disease or gluten sensitivity. Transgenic methods have also been used to promote wheat’s purported health benefits by enhancing wheat’s lignans which may have anti-cancer properties.

To appeal to environmentalists, Monsanto’s transgenic techniques have been touted as having more precision in the way genes are selected, as opposed to mutagenic techniques using radiation or chemicals which may pass uncontrolled and unwanted genetic changes to it’s progeny.

Wait! Stop for a moment. Before you tar and feather me, run me out of town.
Let me say this. I am not a Monsanto fan, nor am I a fan of GM/GMO foods of any kind. GM/GMO foods will at some point become common on supermarket display shelf’s. Already, most corn, rice and soy products consumed are GM grains that have been developed by Monsanto to be so called Roundup Ready crops to be tolerant to Monsanto’s glyphosate based herbicide (Roundup) in it’s many forms.

The only way consumers can stop or slow GM products arriving and being sold by your supermarket is when ‘All’ consumers refuse to buy or consume GM/GMO foods. This is much easier said than done. GM/GMO corn is already in almost every produce you buy from your supermarket. Meat products, livestock feeds are corn based, fresh corn, canned corn, corn meal, corn based cooking oils, corn based sweeteners, corn syrup and so on. It’s even in your gas tank.

Not from the USA. Please leave me comment about your home town and country.

Why is Common Sense so Uncommon?
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Did Walmart Employees Murder Suspected Shoplifter?

Source Georgia police launch probe after accused Walmart shoplifter dies
Accused shoplifter died following a confrontation with two Walmart employees and a security guard.

DeKalb County police said “the man was allegedly pursued by the group on suspicion of stealing electronics from the Lithonia Walmart.”

When police arrived to handcuff the suspect, he was unresponsive and was bleeding from the nose. He later died at an area hospital.

Why is common sense so uncommon?

Thought Of The Day – VOTE

Stupid In America – Multitasking Is Bad For Your Health

Source: Alaska woman falls off 60-foot cliff while texting
Kodiak, Alaska – Emergency responders say they had to overcome the challenges of a cliff as well as an incoming tide to rescue a woman who fell 60 feet onto rocks.

Kodiak Daily Mirror reports Maria Pestrikoff slipped as she was texting on her phone at the same time she tried to toss a cigarette butt over the cliff edge.

Walking, Smoking and Texting, to many task for Maria Pestrikoff to perform simultaneously.

Why is common sense so uncommon?

Americans Waste 40 Percent Of Our Food!

Americans throw away 40 percent of their food
Americans are tossing away 40 percent of their food essentially every other piece of food that crosses our plate or the equivalent of $2,275 a year for a family of four, according to a new report.

Food waste has swelled by 50 percent since the 1970s in this country. A total $165 billion annually in leftovers gets trashed by homeowners and in unsold or unused perishables or scraps dumped by grocers or restaurants, according to research compiled by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Given the drought, rising food prices, and increased food demands we’re looking at as the population grows, having a more efficient food system is going to be a critical for Americans survival.

Trimming waste in the U.S. food supply by only 15 percent would save enough edible goods to feed 25 million Americans annually.

Dated foods: In the U.K. the government has worked to standardize expiration dates on food and beverage products. Many British grocers have stopped including those dates often merely a tool to help store clerks stock their shelves with the older products out front. Instead, they use codes to help organize their goods. And if dates are included, they are truly meant to reflect when the food item is no longer healthy to eat or drink.

In the United States, we see them as safety dates but they’re actually not safety dates. And these dates are not regulated federally for the most part. They are meant to indicate the manufacturers’ suggestion for peak quality rather than anything that would indicate the food is actually going bad. So a lot of people just throw it out after that date, not understanding that.”

Obama’s New ObamaCare Taxes Set To Cost Americans Billions of Dollars

Source Document: Five major ObamaCare taxes that will hit your wallet in 2013

* ObamaCare Medical Device Manufacturing Tax
This is a 2.3 percent tax on medical device makers will raise the price of (for example) every pacemaker, prosthetic limb, stent, and operating table.

* ObamaCare High Medical Bills Tax This onerous tax will hit Americans facing the highest out of pocket medical bills. Currently, Americans are allowed to deduct medical expenses on their 1040 form to the extent the costs exceed 7.5 percent of one’s adjusted gross income. This tax will hit pre-retirement seniors the hardest. Over the next ten years, affected Americans will pony up a minimum total of $15 billion in taxes.

* ObamaCareTax Flexible Spending Account Cap 24 million Americans who have Flexible Spending Accounts will face federally imposed $2,500 annual cap. These pre-tax accounts, are used to purchase everything from contact lenses to children’s braces.

The cap will effects families with special needs children, whose tuition can be covered using FSA funds. Tuition can cost up to $14,000 per child per year. This cruel tax provision will limit the options available to such families, so the federal government can squeeze an additional $13 billion out of taxpayer pockets. Targeting of FSAs by Obama and congressional Democrats is no accident. The socialist agenda hate consumer-driven accounts, which serve as a roadblock in their long term agenda for a one size fits all government tax and spend health care bureaucracy.

ObamaCare Surtax on Investment Income Under current law, the capital gains tax rate for all Americans rises from 15 to 20 percent in 2013, while the top dividend rate rises from 15 to 39.6 percent. The new ObamaCare surtax takes the top capital gains rate to 23.8 percent and top dividend rate to 43.4 percent. This tax will take a minimum of $123 billion out of taxpayer pockets.

ObamaCare Medicare Payroll Tax increase This tax soaks employers to the tune of $86 billion.
Authors of ObamaCare Tax plan wrote the law in such a way that the most brutal tax increases take effect conveniently after the 2012 election. Same reason President Obama, congressional Democrats, and mainstream media conveniently neglect to mention these taxes and prefer that you simply “move on” after the Supreme Court ruling.

ObamaCare Tax Will Increase Health Care Insurance Cost By Thousands Of Dollars Annually

Insurance industry warns of higher rates
Insurance industry reacted to the Supreme Court decision by saying that the ruling will actually end up raising rates even more than they have climbed since the law was enacted.

The Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit research group, has said that the average family insurance premium in 2011 topped $15,000 — a 9 percent increase from the year before, while premiums had climbed just 3 percent a year before the law went into effect.

AHIP counters claims that premiums will decrease. It cited an Urban Institute study that shows insurance premiums for singles policyholders, who are 18 to 34 years old, will increase by $1,400, from $3,600 to $5,000 a year. Policyholders who are 35 to 44 years old will see a lesser increase, by $800 from $4,200 to the same $5,000 rate per year.

Minimum wage Americans net (take home pay) annual income is around $11,500.00. This makes the estimated $5,000.00 annual health care insurance policy 50 percent of a workers annual take home pay. That is not what I call affordable health care insurance cost!

Supreme Court Said “Obamacare Is A Tax”

Republicans claim ObamaCare (Tax) ruling could help push to repeal it
Supreme Court ruled that the so-called individual mandate could be upheld only because it fell within Congress’ authority to tax. However, that is not how the Obama administration originally sold it.

Now that the high court says it is a tax, Republicans say the law will be more unpopular than ever before.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said. “(Americans will) like it even less when they understand it’s a tax.” He cautioned that anyone who subsequently votes in favor of the law in Congress “will do so at their own political peril.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called Chief Justice John Roberts, who sided with the majority, a “genius.” Graham said the law never would have passed if the mandate penalty were presented as a tax, claiming the ruling will redound to Republicans’ benefit.

Republicans plan to rally voters around presidential candidate Mitt Romney as he vows to make repealing the law his Day One priority if elected. On another track, Republicans in Congress will pick up the repeal push even before November starting with a repeal vote next month in the House.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and several other prominent Republicans said the ruling effectively turns back the clock on the political debate which recently has centered almost exclusively on job creation.

“In many respects, we’re back where we were when I ran for office in 2010,” he said. “This now becomes a central issue again.”

Rubio warned that the law would hurt economic growth, in part by letting the IRS fine — or rather, tax — Americans who don’t buy health insurance.

Under Obamas Stimulus Plan – American Families Net Wealth Has Decreased 40 Percent

Decline in the median net worth of American families since 2009 has decreased from $126,400 to $77,300 according to a new report from the Federal Reserve.
The Obama presidency has set the nation back two decades in wealth accumulation.

Obama’s administration has spent $Trillions of Tax Payer dollars in automobile company, bank and mortgage lending company bailouts and Obama’s idea of job stimulus plans during his first 3 1/2 years in office.

Unemployment is still stuck above 8 percent (8.2 percent), new home sales are at near all time lows, home and business foreclosures continue unabated. American workers wages are stagnated or in come cases slipping lower. Food cost is still on the rise. Cities and states are struggling to make ends meet to pay public servant employees. Social welfare programs are being cut and many services are being reduced or eliminated.

Obama’s promised Affordable health care for all has caused many health care providers and medical care insurance providers to double or even triple premiums to their customers. City and states have been forced to increase Tax Rates and fees in an attempt to balance city and state budgets.

I for one can’t afford another four years of Obama ideal’s and change for America.