I wonder what the snobs have to say to the victims of Katrina and other disasters in the near past when they are hungry and broke, maybe, "here have a drink of ethanol", we ran out of corn and wheat for food. Gotta have fuel for the flex fuel bus and the yuppie SUV. Or, maybe "let them eat cake"

That's the tough part of food snobbery. Complaining about paying $22 a pound for cheese when there are more than a billion people starving in the world. Can't you buy some Kraft and send $20 to Feed the Children? As your palate becomes more sensitive, does your heart become hardened?

Oh, please. Spare us. I'm all for contributing to charitable causes, but the cold, hard, fact is that income levels and standards of living are highly relative. If $22 a pound cheese is such an insult to your ethics, should we assume that you: share a studio apartment with five other people; walk to work; eat nothing but beans all day long, and only at the caloric level required to avoid serious illness; wear the same pieces of clothing every single day; don't shower; etc.? And of course, every cent that you spare from these frugal habits is then forwarded to charity?

Given that you're here, using the Internet (which requires a computer, electricity, and an ISP), I'm going to venture that the answer is "no." Which means that, by world standards, you've got a pretty luxurious standard of living yourself. I hope to God you're not using air conditioning and heated water -- think of how many meals that would provide in Eritrea!

'Complaining about paying $22 a pound for cheese when there are more than a billion people starving in the world. Can't you buy some Kraft and send $20 to Feed the Children?'

listen up stupid. some rich asshole buying 22 buck a pound cheese is giving many people a damn good living. you would rather they buy cheese from some faceless multinational conglomerate and let those people you put out of a job depend on your stinking charity?

you are an dumb idiot. and stupid too.

"...is giving many people a damn good living."

Or not. Maybe he's managed to fleece consumers into overpaying for a product he makes for pennies, and is pocketing the cash. I applaud such entrepreneurs; labor cost ought to be minimized.

The rest of your post is basically unintelligible.

Oh, and Fray200: As for what I'd say to the people who lived in New Orleans during Katrina, I have a few things I'd say:

"You were living in a geographic bowl, and nature abhors a vacuum; simply put, you had it coming. Because you won't learn from history, we'll likely go through this drama again within 50 years."

"That you haven't tarred and feathered Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco for their breathtaking idiocy during the crisis speaks volumes about the judgement of the Crescent City."

"Your overrrated city was largely a dump, and likely will continue to be so, massive infusions of federal largesse notwithstanding."

Welcome to the world of irvingchang.

listen up stupid. the previous doofus was lamenting that some rich guy was buying $22 Lb cheese while the pitiful poor were starving. this asshole states that the rich guy should buy some stinking cheese from kraft (bleh) and take the money saved to buy some poor asshole some cheese. thus the guy who produced the expensive cheese is out of a job and now in poverty and dependent upon the rich guy for the cheese he no longer produces. kraft (bleh) no doubt.

you fucking retard liberals don't have a fucking clue as to how trickle down works, do you?

Those liberals may not know how trickle down works - true, but I bet they know how to respond to the proper post.