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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:25 PM
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CNN: People are Pawning Their Rims to Pay for Gas
Edited on Thu Apr-20-06 02:29 PM by FLDem5
They interviewed a man who cuts lawns for a living who had to sell one of his lawn mowers for gas money.

Wow. It is really beginning to hit home.

The poor are getting poorer and giving up small luxuries for necessities. You should have seen the clip - jewelry, small appliances, boom boxes.

How sad. If the oil companies were cutting their bonuses in a real effort to help curb costs to the consumer, I would feel it was just the way it is. But they're not.

How about those record profits now? Still feel good about those huge bonuses?

Greedy pigs.
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:26 PM
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1. Greedy pigs........
Excellent description!:headbang:
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:51 PM
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20. GOP...
Greedy Old Pigs!
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 03:08 PM
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27. Me likey!
:thumbsup:
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 08:12 AM
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41. Oink!

Lee Raymond (above and below)
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:27 PM
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2. And just HOW MUCH of this scary shit will the MSM really cover?
OMG! Side stories like like scare the shit out of me...and should NOT be side stories.
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sarcasmo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 03:01 PM
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25. Thanks to the Decider we are officially a third World Country.
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:27 PM
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3. That is so sad
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Chiyo-chichi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:27 PM
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4. No kidding.
And as prices continue to climb, more and more people who are barely getting by now will start to suffer.
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:41 PM
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17. This summer is a big unknown for me
I literally don't know how I'm going to make it.

I've never, in my life, felt such financial uncertainty.
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Chiyo-chichi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:58 PM
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23. I hear ya.
My best to you, Mojambo.
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 03:52 PM
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32. Thank you. Others have it far worse, I know
I can't imagine the anxiety of people in my situation that might have children to care for.

Scary.
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 03:12 PM
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28. I'm supposed to move south in 3 weeks
My son was coming up to help me move my camper back down to Biloxi. I have to pay gas for two vehicles, one of which will be pulling my 18' camper. I don't know if I can afford to move now with the gas prices so high. It's gonna take a chunk out of my moving in and getting settled money.
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 03:25 PM
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30. You better do it soon
While you can, it's not going to get any better.
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 03:39 PM
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31. I know. I'm going into minimal survival mode
Making sure I have a good bicycle too.
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TomClash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:28 PM
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5. If Florida had gone for Gore or Kerry . . .
eom
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:29 PM
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6. it did
:banghead:
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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 03:07 PM
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26. Way beat me to it. n/t
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:29 PM
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8. Florida did go GORE
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TomClash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:34 PM
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11. OK, more accurately
If the Dems had put up a real fight in the Florida recount . . .
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annofark Donating Member (100 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:30 PM
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9. Makes me so happy...
That I drive a small car. I don't know how SUV drivers do it.
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:29 PM
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7. Taxes on the very wealthy MUST be raised, and raised a LOT
Edited on Thu Apr-20-06 02:46 PM by Atman
Which Bush knows, too. In the meantime, those millions they've "saved" are earning them more millions in interest, and when the Dems move in to do what must be done, the talking heads will be on all the news shows saying "SEE! As soon as the Democrats get in charge, what's the first thing they do? Raise your taxes!"

I hope Dean and the Democratic leadership are strategizing for this eventuality, and are prepared to shut down the mofo's when they try this shit.
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MikeNearMcChord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:35 PM
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13. Shout from the moutaintops!
ARE YOU BETTER OFF NOW THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO!!! Get James Carville out there and unleash HELL! The GOP will think this is 1929-1932, before it is over.:patriot:
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:30 PM
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10. Well, hang on, it's going to get worse, much worse
This is why the rich and well off don't really care one way or the other about the economy. To them, a recession or better yet a depression is nothing more than a buying opportunity.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:35 PM
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15. "He's picking up some bargains"
"Can't you understand what's happening here? Don't you see what's happening? Potter isn't selling. Potter's buying! And why? Because we're panicky and he's not. That's why. He's picking up some bargains. Now, we can get through this thing all right. We've got to stick together, though. We've got to have faith in each other"

George Bailey
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 03:15 PM
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29. Sounds like my ex's current wife's creed
She saw Katrina as a chance to buy up real estate cheap on the coast.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:34 PM
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12. The guy interviewed didn't give up a small luxury for a necessity...
...he gave up a necessity for a necessity. As far as the economy is concerned, this should be sounding alarm bells like nothing else has in a long, long time. This is not sustainable. We are going to crash.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:36 PM
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16. You are absolutely right his lawnmower was a source of income
He had to cut his business to save a small part of his business.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:35 PM
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14. We have a van, which I go to town in once a week to buy groceries
and pick up other articles. It is used for hauling and longer trips. We'll keep it because it's paid for and if we ever lose our home, we can sleep in it and haul a few bits of clothing and memories around in it. It is our second vehicle, our first is an 18 year old Corolla which needs to make it until I can locate work, but has high miles on it and is good on gas still. Well, I went to fill the tank on the Town & Country (a 6 cylinder), which I do once a month. It cost me almost $55 to do so. Our Corolla is running about $30/week now too. I remember filling that tank for $10 during the 1990s.
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:47 PM
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18. why does this Chappelle scene pop into my head
talking to the classroom full of kids "...and THAT was the first time I sucked dick for crack!"

I have a feeling things are only going to get worse before they get worse.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:57 PM
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22. Holy cow...
I missed that one.

:rofl:
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schmuls Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:49 PM
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19. No AC (central) for me this summer unless I'm passing out
from heat exhaustion! And it can get disgustingly hot and humid in Wisconsin.
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postulater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:53 PM
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21. Wages should be indexed monthly to the price of gas
We'd all get rich quick.
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Mr.Green93 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 06:13 PM
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36. The Price of Gas should be Indexed to Wages
Progressive taxes and Prices.
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newswolf56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 02:58 PM
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24. Simply capitalism in action:
infinite greed disguised as ultimate virtue and the division of all humanity into two classes: rulers and victims. Nothing more, nothing less -- and absolutely predictable.

Also -- though it's far too late -- the resurrection of Marxism.
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savemefromdumbya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 03:54 PM
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33. we have dusted and oiled the bicyles perhaps we should boycott gas
if they can't sell it?
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 03:58 PM
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34. Gannon Pawns his Rim all the time...just ask Bush**
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SupplyConcerns Donating Member (305 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 10:49 AM
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38. lol
zing.
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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 04:01 PM
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35. Drove by the local gas station this morning and
it was too crowded with people waiting in line to get to the pumps(gas at $2.95, so I thought I would stop for gas on the way back from my other chores. Gas went up 4 cents to $2.99 within the hour. I drive a 1990 Geo Prizm which gets very good gas mileage. I feel sorry for those who are filling up their SUVs.

Is it a choice of buying groceries, paying the bills, or filling up the tank?
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SupplyConcerns Donating Member (305 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 10:48 AM
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37. The real problem is peak oil
Not the oil companies, which are acting in the rational way that any company would in our economic system.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-21-06 01:30 PM
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39. I don't agree.
Not all companies don't give back.
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SupplyConcerns Donating Member (305 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 07:41 AM
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40. But expecting companies to act in a way contrary
to our economic system is like banging your head against the wall. Let's find something we can do something about...
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-22-06 09:18 AM
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42. Remember, if it's on CNN, it's designed to get folks to want war for oil
As Steve Forbes said, 'When we invade Iran the price of gas will go down.'
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