They struggle to earn enough money to bring home the bacon.
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"The problem is that lawmakers have been blinded by their greed tobringhomethebacon in a election year and have forgotten that our nation has a fiscal crisis, " he said.
There is a growing movement of do-it-yourselfers (DIYers) eager not just tobringhomethebacon, but tobringhomethe pork, butcher it, cure it, smoke it and make their own bacon.