It is on every web site, TV ad and front page. The economy. Or more like its decline. The front page of MSNBC today had an article about people preparing for the next great depression stalking up on 'beans, bullets and band-aids.' I never thought that my generation, the one of Starbucks, I-pods and camera phones would ever think about going through anything like the great depression.
Sure the bail-out and foreclosures are on the mind of the nation as a whole but
the problems in the economy are affecting me too. I used to spend $35 a week on
gas. No joke when I first got my car. But now it's more like $65. $65! Sure the
prices may have fluctuated some-what to the lower end now, because of the
election, but I know all too well that that will change again as soon as the
next president is in office.
But gas is not the only commodity food prices have increased as well. McDonald's Dollar Menu has gone from a dollar to $1. 05 and is now "considering making some changes to its popular dollar menu -- either by changing the items on the menu or bumping up prices -- saying the cost of selling meat at such low prices might be too high," according to the Boston Herald.
We ran a story on KUJH today about how the economy is not only affecting people but animals too. Now in Lawrence there has been a "15 percent increase in the number of pets turned in" to the humane society because people cannot care for them.
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