Why don't the drive-by media ever ask a Liberal what the price of a gallon of milk is?

Question

Like you'll ever see them in a supermarket.

I should have written a Liberal Politician. Not just a liberal. My mistake.

Answer 1

For those too young to remember, this was a "gotcha" question that some punk journalist asked George HW Bush. Of course he didn't know - he's a rich man who had held high positions in government for many years.

As if Kennedy, Rockefeller, Gore or Kerry would know, either. It was a cheap device that fooled a lot of idiots into thinking the President should know stuff like this. Populist pap.

Answer 2

I will assume you are trying to relate milk to the price of gas.
People do not drink milk like they use to. Now people substitute coke, pepsi products, water, etc. Decrease demand and about the same supply has resulted in no big increase in price. If price has increased, it is probably from the reduction in government assistance.

As far as oil...
Supply/Demand, OPEC, Government have the control on the price.
Supply and Demand: If world market says oil is worth $100/barrel, the Exxon is not going to sell it for $25. China wants more oil now than ever before. OPEC can also have some degree of say because they can turn off a well and restrict supply which will increase the price.

We have not built a refinery in 30 years. Government / environmentalists do not want more refineries or allow us to drill for oil in our own country or off the shores. If they would allow this, then we would not need OPEC/middle east oil and then the price would come down.

Alternative Fuels are not ready yet because it is not economical. Cost to produce it, infrastructure to deliver it, the cost of the vehicle to use it. If given more time, they may become economical and then China could deal with all of the Middle East issues.

Big Oil has little to do with the price. Government (the biggest gouger) makes the biggest profit off of every gallon of gas you buy. And the windfall tax (if ever passed) will just be passed on to the consumer and increase the government's profits.

Answer 3

I had a 3-gallon-a-week habit for about 10 years, skim milk only, recently ended because I'm improving my diet. Milk is off my list as of January 2007.

Nobody can tell me what milk costs in my area. I'm the God of Milk. It varies from $2 per gal to $3.95 per gal, depending where you buy.

I stuck with the inexpensive stuff. Tasted great, too.

Oh, and my cellphone is $50 per year, 500 mins prepaid thru T-Mobile. I haven't used half the minutes available to me.

I own my house, have never touched food stamps, and have never paid a penny in interest. Ever. I pay off all credit cards monthly.

Answer 4

You've been duped. Your question is the result of listening to right-wing propaganda instead of reading a little history and economics and thinking for yourself.

The term liberal is subjective. Politically, it tends to refer to progressives and other members of the political left, but it can also be used to describe other right-wingers. John Kerry is one such right-winger. He ran for president on a platform of, "I can promote the Bush agenda better than Bush" and was deemed to be a cursed "liberal" by other right-wingers who had the same war and pro-business agenda but without any fig leaf being thrown to the working class public

The more accurate terms to use when describing political differences are left-wing and right-wing. These terms came out of the era of the French Revolution and they describe the real divide between the classes. The right-wing is the wealthy rentier and the left-wing is the working class. What divides the classes is quite obvious. The harder and harder the working class (left-wing) toils, and for less and less, the richer and richer becomes the rentier (right-wing).

The attempts by right-wing propagandists to confuse the public on this issue is due to the fact that without that confusion, the super-rich would not be able to hold power in any real type of democracy. Their numbers are a tiny minority. They maintain their hold on power by dividing the left on marginal issues and confusing them on economic ones. One such ploy is the one which you've embraced. They attempt to suggest that the wealthy members of society that rally for a more equitable split between the classes are the dreaded "liberals." While those people may be liberal-minded, they are not themselves members of the working class. They can be demonized by propagandists only because they are a faction who have wealth and you're confused.

Were it not for this political confusion, the majority (working class left-wing) would easily take and hold state power. Instead, we see the super-rich with a firm hold on every institution while the working class goes unrepresented and virtually unheard.

Answer 5

The second guy answering nailed it. It's a dumb attack- posed- as- a- question anyway. As if the reporter would've known before he looked it up. Personally, I can't remember what the gallon of milk I bought a week ago cost. It doesn't mean I didn't go to the supermarket a week ago. Most people probably just buy it automatically every week or two and wouldn't know off the top of their heads.

Answer 6

You'll see them in a supermarket, but what do they care what a gallon of milk costs? That's what food stamps are for. LOL

Okay answer already taken.

Wow! Stephanie, no wonder Liberals want federal assistance, that is 3 times what a gallon of milk costs!

I'd sure like to live wherever the guy that thinks store-brand milk at Walmart is $1.98 lives (it's $3.39 here).

Answer 7

I drink rice milk because the fact is- humans cease producing the lactase and enzymes required for drinking lactose products around the age of 4-5 years old.

The only times humans are designed for "dairy" consumption is during breastfeeding. The end.

Ever wonder why the problem of kidney stones, "lactose intolerance" (DUH), etc. are so prevalent?

But I gather your question was more based in the realm of "liberals being so out of touch with reality they don't know what the cost of a gallon of milk is"
when in reality the converse is true - that knowledge compels people to live more wisely.

Answer 8

Do you mean the name-brand milk, or the house brand that Wal-Mart sells for $1.98? I've been to a supermarket, and I'm a liberal.

Oh, and milk is no longer more expensive than gas.

Answer 9

what's the point. any liberal knows the answer. they can probably even tell you exactly where to buy it at the best price as Liberals are the ones who are fiscally conservative. They have to be. The Bush economy of "real income" going down each and every year he has been in office means that they actually have less money to spend than they did before he took office.

Answer 10

Why doesn't Giuliani just hire a male prostitute to pose as a journalist and ask him staged questions like Bush does?

But don't feel bad. None of the right-wing crackpots at Rudy's $1,000 a plate fundraiser knew the answer either.