Comments on: Chips and Salsa Why America has lost its edge

By: Charles Lloyd

Charles Lloyd — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:05:58 +0000

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By: Eve

Eve — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:55:13 +0000

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By: Charles Lloyd

Charles Lloyd — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:01:18 +0000

Get in there and do it Sam. Cycling is way way fun. All you got to do is go to a bike store and start riding, it free and fun, plus any good bike store you go to all the people there are pretty much hippies anyway :p

By: Charles Lloyd

Charles Lloyd — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:59:22 +0000

The chips and salsa was way too much money, $12 for chips and salsa is absurd. Raley’s is not a high end grocery store, I wouldn’t have anything to complain about if I went to something like Whole Food, where you know your going to pay a premium to eat some East Romanian bananas that were harvested by Sherpas wearing homemade sandals.

I don’t see your point about how chips and salsa costing $12 has anything to do with adding a Snack Czar, also I know how markets and economies work. But if you keep charging people $12 for chips and salsa your pricing yourself out of the market… don’t believe me go ask GM on how they are getting killed in the auto industry by the Japanese, Koreans and Germans.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:40:43 +0000

By the way Charles… Despite our differences on political/economic issues, I’m diggin your fitness and cycling posts. I’ve been looking for a road bike for a while. I might even get one someday.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:20:30 +0000

Right… I get the sarcastic bit about you being “too stupid.” But if you really think we need more government control in our lives then you really are an imbecile. I did read the article, I do know why you bought them. What I can’t figure out is why you’re complaining. You live in one of the most taxed and regulated states in the country. I’m not sure about this, but from a quick online search it appears you went to a pretty high-end grocery store. And then you bought over-priced, name brand junk. And then you whine and complain and wonder how chips and salsa could possibly cost so much. And then, even better, you wonder why I question your knowledge of how markets work.

I tried to come up with an example of government control and regulation so far-fetched that no one could possibly agree with it. I’m still wondering if you’re kidding. Do you honestly believe we need a “Snack & Obesity Czar?” Seriously?

Although I’ve spoken with people who believe in the kind of government control you espouse I still can’t get over how you can ignore history and (here is comes again) basic economics.

You are in pretty sympathetic company in California. Here’s what you should do: Get a state S&O Czar going, enact a bunch of price controls there in CA and we’ll see how it goes. The rest of us will be laughing at how you’ve ruined your economy. Actually, we’re already doing that. We’ll just laugh more… and harder.

By: Charles Lloyd

Charles Lloyd — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:19:00 +0000

No I have ZERO idea how markets work Sam im too stupid to figure that out, I bet you know, but since im not on your level of “smartness” I wont bother to ask because your economic knowledge will clearly be too much for me to handle. If you dont know why I bought them you clearly didn’t read the story. The next time you go to the store offer to pay a 100% premium on everything you buy, that will teach people like me to quit complaining over spoiled milk.

Yeah we do need a Snack & Obesity Czar and more government control on our lives, that is exactly what this article is about, nothing gets past you.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:52:42 +0000

Wow… sounds like we need a new cabinet-level position called the Snack Czar to regulate all snack companies. The snack Czar should be able to fix prices for all snacks at “reasonable” levels so all the “average joes” can buy them and get fatter. And then we should have a Obesity Czar that will regulate exactly how much of the aforementioned price-fixed snacks each individual can have. Yeah… fucking morons. “Straight up greed?” If so, Charles, why did you buy it? Why did you willingly exchange money for it? Do you have any idea how markets work? Do you have any knowledge of basic economics? Now please tell me you know all about economics and that it doesn’t matter because those people are “evil and greedy.”

By: Charles Lloyd

Charles Lloyd — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:27:01 +0000

Something needs to be done Mark this is just straight up BS

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:24:21 +0000

that tends to happen when you buy brand name.