This seems like a throw back to old school real world. I'm just hoping they don't have a contrived job that forces them to spend time together and be horrible, horrible employees.
If you're looking to blame investment banks, here's a lead: the World Food Programme says 100 million people who were living on the edge fell into hunger in the 2007-2008 spike in commodity prices, blamed in large part to a massive shift of investment away from financial derivatives into commodities.
"This latest food emergency has developed in an incredibly short space of time - essentially over the past 18 months. The reason for food "shortages" is speculation in commodity futures following the collapse of the financial derivatives markets." [www.newstatesman.com]
I'm surprised and disgusted by the cheeky indifference in some of the comments but I know I'm on Gawker so I shouldn't be... so when breadlines become the new "social networking sites" and we're all there I don't want to hear anyone bitching.
HamNo, that photo is making me feel so much conflict. The kids are cute, hungry, stark, comical, sad, and hopeful all in one photograph. It's just....just apt. I'm sitting here all like, "Aww, wow, that kid just wants food, that one is like look at my pot, the other one doesn't want anyone to know she's there." Sheesh. I can look away at the ASPCA, Arms of an Angel commercial sadistry... this though...heart sick. I may need to sponsor a child so they don't drink livestock-water. Don't we all say that? We all suck.
This report predicted high oil prices. They use "rationing" here as a way of describing the functionality of high prices on consumers. We're a long way from odd/even license plates.
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If it gets bad we can eat the foodstamps.
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@SpyMagician: What they didn't what you to know: [www.mulletman.org]
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