SAY IT ISN'T TRUE JOE?

Who even knew there was a place one could buy a $16 muffin. They didn’t even look to be as big as the ones from Costco. They are the little ones. Bella Bella (fancy dancy) cupcakes sell for $16 for a half dozen or $2.75 for a single cupcake, I think these might be slightly over priced. You can buy a Hostess Cupcake with that nice creamy filling for under a dollar and you get two in the package. If you buy a bunch you may even be able to get them fresh.

Oh well, this is your tax dollars at work. Lets take some more away from the old people and maybe they will die off quicker. But lets not forget the needs of our congress people some of whom have said how hard it is to make it on $175,000 a year. (I’m willing to try). Maybe it is if it costs $16 for a muffin and $8 for coffee all over down. What’s in these muffins? What kind of Latté, Cappuccino, Foamy, doubt pump, mucho gusto 64 oz. coffee are they buying. For a group that size set out a few coffee urns with normal coffee cups like normal people do. Better yet, serve them bread and water. On some days that’s a treat for those on social security. Can’t someone there make a pot of coffee? People do it in offices all over the country everyday. Can’t they have potluck snacks and everyone can bring a plate from home. That might be too much. But grocery stores have whole aisles of cookies. Some could even be sugar free.

For that price I will be the middleman and buy what they need on the west coast and ship them UPS over night express to Washington if they will buy 250 at a time. I want to know if $16 is the group discount price? Those poor struggling civil servants living just above the poverty line! And they have free health care. Contrast that with how the government defines the poverty line: $22,314 a year for a family of four and $11,139 for an individual.

“(WASHINGTON) Reuters reported: As the U.S. government grapples to find ways to trim the bloated federal deficit, a new report suggests officials might start with cutting out $16 muffins and $10 cookies.

We found the Department (of Justice) spent $16 on each of the 250 muffins served at an August 2009 legal conference in Washington,” said a DOJ Office of Inspector General report released on Tuesday.”

It’s not that I’m angry, bitter or upset, but “)xqzlidp,” why don’t they dig into their own over loaded pockets to help the economy by trying to find a tank of coffee in the big city of price gouging that doesn’t cost more than a tank of gas. We elected you to help us, not have us help you to a lifetime of guaranteed income not based on years of service, but on just being elected.

Don’t get me started.