Gary KW4Z <kw4z@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 3/10/08 4:48 PM, in article
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"Caesar Romano"
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> wrote:
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>> Gasoline price should hit record Tuesday: AAA
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080310/us_nm/gasoline_us_aaa_dc;_ylt=AnpG
>> 7iSV79yw SuE6n1fQNHis0NUE
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>> When they first re****ted the prospect of $4/gal gas several weeks ago
>> I was skeptical. I thought "no" that won't happen *this* year. Well,
>> so much for my judgment.
>>
>> I guess that's why I'm not rich.
>
>
> I think the whole economy is resting on a very rotted and shaky
> peg-leg foundation and gas increases to +$3.50 are the tremors before
> the main shockwave hits. All the economist claim the economy is solid
> and looks good but that's political pondering and posturing I feel.
> I'm concerned about the future and I'm more concerned that we don't
> have the caliber of leaders and management that got us out of the
> 1930's mess nor do we have a general morality about the people that
> would get us through such times. I think the whole society is a lot
> more fragile than people give it credit for and with the overall
> consensus that many have that life has no merit or basis then anarchy
> and civil distress isn't far behind. Maybe I'm all wet and totally
> wrong, I hope so, but I think IF we see a depression or worse in this
> day and time it will be dog eat dog and the strong take from the weak.
>
> We've taught this lesson very well over the last 50 years removing all
> reference to religion or structured moral leader****p and with the
> promoting of GREED and getting yours at any cost.
>
> Referring to anarchy, IF Hillary Clinton is successful in obtaining
> the Democratic Presidential slot from Barak when and if he gets the
> majority of votes cast and/or the majority of delegates then I fear
> what you saw in 1968 or worse when Martin Luther King was killed will
> appear as a blip on the screen.
>
> $4.00 gas is coming and that's for sure but it's the ripples or
> tsunami that will follow it that concerns me. Cost of goods, Cost of
> getting them here, cost of food etc. Manufacturers will have almost
> no alternatives but to eliminate jobs to keep competitive and stay
> above sinking themselves. CEOs and Management will not eat reductions
> so where will they come? The people that need to be working the most,
> the people that are paying the bulk of the taxes and keeping
> everything else going.
>
> Sorry I'm sounding a bit like Chicken Little.
>
Don't worry, Mc Cain will fix our problems with the no new taxes slogan
and we are doing great in Iraq as we are only wasting 330 million a day.
I think the horse went through the gate a while back while everyone was
celebrating their tax cut prosperity.
In all seriousness it doesn't matter as none of them will fix anything
because most people are sticking to their greed and political ideology.
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