Cat Food Tip #1 Overlooked by the Cat-Food Commission
A lemon wedge can help.
For greater thrift, be sure to cut a lemon into small pieces.
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I post. I comment. You post. You comment. It's DU. We all post and comment here.
Thanks for noticing my post and my comment. And you were even kind enough to link to my OP. Thanks!
It validates me. Now, I'm encouraged to post and comment even more. 
So what up with all the whining? 
Did you have any comment on the original post of this thread, or did you just want to chat with me for some reason?
It beats chasing odors in the basement,
and then spending time composing personal narratives about my adventures,
and posting them to General Discussion at DU.
I've enjoyed our little tete-a-tete, but no matter how enjoyable, it is rude and self absorbed.
I completely agree with the OP.
It is appropriate and necessary to rally Democrats to voice a [font size=3]LOUD opposition[/font] to the offered cuts to the cornerstone of the Democratic Party, Social Security. This should be posted every single day.
Sadly, Social Security will NEVER again be the "untouchable 3rd Rail of Politics".
The precedent has been set, and our Social Security WILL forever be On-the-Table in future "negotiations" until it is gone.
I understand why this would make conservatives and former Republicans happy.
They have hated it since FDR.
Now, as a review for after the Hi-jacking and an apology to the OP, AnotherMcIntosh:
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For greater thrift, be sure to cut a lemon into small pieces.
DURec & Kick for the OP!
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I think I'll give that a try!
A six pack of Raman noodles is like $1.20
8 hot dogs are a dollar...The meme is actually pretty stupid. You would have to pay more to live on pet food pound for pound than other "human" options
You didn't see a bunch of sick old ladies showing up at the hospital with a can of Fancy Feast during the 2007 pet food contamination episode did you?
and for another, ramen noodles are not protein, nor do they have any food value either. Hot dogs are pink slime and its debatable as to whether they are any better for a person than cat food.
All I'm saying is that it used to be on the news once in awhile that seniors were resorting to eating cat food. And it's actually a pretty good meme if politicians are talking cutting social security because that's something that should never ever be done.
Peace, it's just my opinion...
We are spending more to feed our cats and dogs than we are to feed people. Another aspect you seem to have overlooked in your zeal to discount or excuse the inhumanity you support is the fact that rice and beans requires some preparation which can be a bit of a challenge when the power's been cut off.
This constant effort to excuse the inexcusable is what has become tiresome.
He may not be trying to punish you. Cats are very good at getting rid of, i.e. puking, out anything which doesn't agree with them. 9-Lives is stuffed with flavorings and grains which cats do not need and actually is rather harmful. If you get off the big brands and try grain free, or better yet, switch him over to a raw diet (more work, saves $$) you will likely find he can tolerate many proteins. And contrary to popular belief, many cats are allergic to fish and cans of tuna are also not good for them. But any money you think you may be saving for the 9Lives will come back in vet bills later for sure. Just passing on some experience.
A cat in every pot.
JUST KIDDING
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A friend of mine gave me a tin of it as a joke. I tasted it. It's actually a pretty good rub for meat. So, when my wife and I had my friend and his wife over for dinner, I grilled some pork chops, pre-rubbed with that stuff. My friend liked the chops, and complimented me. That's when I took out the tin and said, "Well, I used this. Thanks!"
We all rolled on the floor, and we hadn't even smoked any.
From my days as a Graphic Designer, something I made up for my Redneck clients in the flea market.
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entitlement benefits while largely ignoring a regressive, patently unfair tax code which gives preferential treatment to large corporations and the types of income which mostly inure to the wealthy. A sham, a travesty, a pissing on most Americans, all to maintain the status quo. That's just my opinion and just might not "see the big picture." 
also a major architect of the housing bubble and near calamitous financial meltdown in 2008? I remember Dave Winfield having signed a 7-figure baseball contract which required him to send 25% of his marginal dollars to Uncle Sam. Most Americans probably don't remember that the gipper's/Greenspam's highest marginal rate of 25% commenced at a taxable income of less than $20,000 for a single taxpayer. Thus, a taxpayer was subject to the same rate Dave Winfield was subject to on every marginal dollar long before a comfortable standard of living had been reached: that taxpayer was also subject to a 7.3% payroll tax on every dollar earned and that payroll tax was part of his taxable income, and thus, was subject to income tax, significantly increasing his effective tax rate. But the Dave Winfields of the world paid payroll taxes on only a minuscule/small portion of their income while that poor lower-income schmuck was saddled with sending Uncle Sam effectively 35% of each marginal dollar earned. This financial sodomizing of lower income people while the uber-wealthy and large corporations were gorging themselves at the public teat, has largely continued and is, imo, tantamount to a monstrous malfeasance of office by succeeding Congresses and administrations, causing incalculable devastation to the very fabric of our society.
you city dwellers but it's a source of regular fare for a few folks I know out here in Montana/Idaho. And the meat is normally organic when you think about it. Now that it's legal to harvest here, it's been put into practice by even more folks. It's cheaper than hunting and one elk or deer can feed a lot of people or last a while in the freezer. Butchering is nasty work but for those who hunt anyway, it's easier and doesn't require all that stalking and buying a tag and then fetching it out of the wild... as long as it's fresh enough to use.
Otherwise, the animal is usually hauled off to some dumpster station because the F&G folks don't want bears and wolves and other carnivores getting hit on the side of the road while they feast on the free food.
It's a matter of perspective I guess. I'm not a meat eater these days but I don't condemn those who would prefer road kill to cat food. I have eaten plenty of road kill when I did eat meat, better than store bought. You just have to know how to cook and have something to cook on, a campfire will do in a pinch.
Go ahead and feed it to your cat,
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...and then eat the cat.
Tastes a lot like Possum.
I have some good recipes.
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After reading the above post,
our mouser MonkeyButt expressed his opposition.
He wants us to eat the dog.
The poverty of older women was a huge issue in the 1970s -- at that time they were the single largest demographic living in poverty, because of the increase in divorce rates, because they often had not worked outside the home and they did not have any legal claim on a husband's or ex-husband's pension or social security benefits. They were left with nearly nothing. The Older Womens League was the main organization fighting this at this time, and then the Gray Panthers. But it was a common understanding then that impoverished elderly women were surviving on the meagerest of foodstuffs.
Regarding the Chained CPI in Obama's 2014 budget proposal, "This proposal is a stealth attack on the economic security of older women," Joan Entmacher of National Women’s Law Center in Washington said in a statement. "That is a shameful way to solve our nation’s deficit problem."
Older women are already more economically vulnerable than older men — they often spend fewer years in the workforce because they take care children, the elderly and spouses — and these cuts would leave many of them unable to meet basic needs, Entmacher said.
For example, for a woman who gets a benefit of $1,100 at age 65 — the median monthly benefit of all single women 65 and older — replacing the current COLA with the chained CPI would mean $56 less per month and $672 less per year at age 80, the report said.
"That may not sound like a big cut to some members of Congress — but it translates to a loss of more than a week’s worth of food per month or 13 weeks of food in a year," Entmacher said in a statement. "At age 90, that would mean $87 less per month and more than $1,000 less that year so a woman with an initial benefit of $1,100 a month will lose more than $6,300 by age 80 and more than $15,000 by age 90."
Frankly, in the "good ol’ days" before Social Security, it was actually worse than cat food.
From Time magazine's eulogy to Dr. Francis Townsend who died in 1960:
Townsend led a crusade to secure generous middle-class worthy pensions for all that is credited for influencing the shape and growing generosity of Social Security (for example though passed in 1935, it was not supposed to pay pension benefits until 1942, but this was sped up to 1940 in 1939 partly due to the continuing popularity of the "Townsend plan"
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I bring this up because there is a refrain from some quarters that calling the deficit commission the "Catfood Commission" is so very unfair and mean and unserious. The critics are right, it is inaccurate; we should be calling it the "Garbage Commission."
I hope that you'll consider adding an OP or two.
Here's a photo from a post earlier this year:
http://renegadechicks.com/the-wage-gap-continues-as-more-elderly-women-live-in-poverty-than-men/
and will be including a little something about Townsend. I consider him the father of SS. The picture of the woman is heartbreaking. I'm reminded of the old saying "the more things change, the more they remain the same." 