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How Inflation Is Squeezing Working American
Families at Christmas

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Posted By: ladydawgfan, 12/21/2021 12:54:41 PM

Just before 10 a.m., cars begin pulling into the parking lot of the Country Thrift Market, a sprawling former grocery store 40 miles from Pittsburgh. Normally, folks in the area shop for gently used clothing, toys and deeply discounted home goods here. But today is different because Santa Claus is on site along with free cookies, provisions, frozen turkeys and hundreds of brand-new winter coats in every child's size. Most of the cars and trucks that pull in have seen better days, but the children inside them look excited, seemingly unaware they are in need of charity. The families at this event never stopped working during the pandemic, said Justin McAtee,

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I know my own Christmas shopping was kept down, not only by rising prices, but also by the cost of gas to go pick the stuff up from the store. Gee, THANKS Dementia Joe!!

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DVC 12/21/2021 3:35:04 PM (No. 1014673)
I have increased my tipping at my favorite restaurants. Often on a $9.50 bill I'll tip $5. And when the pandemic had closed all restaurants for 6 weeks in early 2020, and they opened back up, I tipped $20 for my $10-is meal for about 6 weeks to help make a bit of a dent in their lost wages. I appreciate folks who do a good job at service jobs, and I am where I can afford to be a good tipper. Besides, I'm not dropping anything in the Salvation Army buckets, so better to give it directly to the folks who do a good job.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: MDConservative 12/21/2021 5:11:41 PM (No. 1014801)
Oh, stop it. I've stood to see the lines of cars in charity food lines...and none of them was belching blue smoke or running on the rims. "Poverty" in the USA is ever-expanding to include those who have figured out the "free shoot" game. It's not just the unemployment bennies keeping people out of the workforce. And in the meantime, we are bombarded with propaganda from organizations that decry the "food insecurity" suffered in the USA? By whom? The schools serve up three squares a day. It can't be the kids. Mom gets her "assistance". Dad, well, wherever dads are these days. And don't forget to serve the poor at your local Comminity Christmas Dinner...
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