The economy

Reading a newspaper article today that says despite the poor U.S. economy, sales of wine an chocolate are on the rise. Who’s surprised by this? Anyone? What’s the first thing you reach for when you’re depressed? Hershey’s sales profits were up 20 percent in the first quarter of 2009 and Kraft reported double-digit growth in the sale of its macaroni and cheese dinners. Of course they did! Where else can you feed five kids for a dollar?!! Sales of gardening seeds were up too. Guess people are hoping to grow their own veggies since they can’t afford them in the grocery store anymore – even the unregulated stuff from Chile! And sales of gold coins are up too. Wonder why. Hmm, maybe because the rich people are sick of losing millions in the stock market so they do their version of stuffing the money under the mattress and buy gold! I guess life really is getting better!