Food Inflation

[Carey]

I have not tried to answer this, as it did not pertain to the original posting...but since the OP has kept this line up I will address it:

I do not know why UJ has decided to rail against an entire generation (most likely the one her parents belong to) but do want to add a very real local perspective:
many baby boomers that were born in this area of Hawaii:
Had many family members or family friends that served in WWII (Hawaii territory had a very large percentage serving) before they were born
Had family members or family friends that were sent to internment camps before they were born
Had been raised in/near a town that suffered from 2 of the worst tsunamis ever to hit anywhere at the time...in their town
Had repeated shortages due to many problems with shipping to this island
Experienced severe job loss with the total loss of the sugar industry in the 1990's - at a time much of the country experienced spectacular growth the poster refers to....

I was not a Hawaii Baby Boomer, but my cousins were...they had much less than we did, and I was a Baby Boomer from a single parent household...at a time when there were no school lunches or breakfasts, no wage garnishing to insure alimony, no mandated child health care.

perhaps Baby Boomers also GAVE some, in order to fund some of the things that single mothers now can count on....perhaps