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The energy emergency

These are tough times for Americans and Vermonters. Inflation last month was at its highest level in 17 years.

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Hillbilly
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#1
Jul 22, 2008
 
Drilling for more oil is the answer. Bernie, will you vote for that?

Also, the government receives taxes on fuel that are four times the oil companies profit.
joe
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Jul 22, 2008
 
it's getting bad, people are getting rid of their cell phones, turning off the cable & satellite TV, eliminating their DSL & dialup service, casino's & lottery's are getting creamed, beer sales are diving, tourist industry has been creamed, movie houses going out of business, Disney about bankrupt. Professional ball parks near empty because nobody has any money.

wal-mart is considering eliminating the toy section because people with children can barely feed their kids with the price of food going up, never mind buy them toys.

west coast ports are like ghost towns because volume has fallen off so much.

umemployment is approaching depression era levels.
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Jul 22, 2008
 
joe wrote:
it's getting bad, people are getting rid of their cell phones, turning off the cable & satellite TV, eliminating their DSL & dialup service, casino's & lottery's are getting creamed, beer sales are diving, tourist industry has been creamed, movie houses going out of business, Disney about bankrupt. Professional ball parks near empty because nobody has any money.
wal-mart is considering eliminating the toy section because people with children can barely feed their kids with the price of food going up, never mind buy them toys.
west coast ports are like ghost towns because volume has fallen off so much.
umemployment is approaching depression era levels.
huh? Are you reading(and believing) the New York Times again?
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Jul 22, 2008
 
XXX wrote:
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huh? Are you reading(and believing) the New York Times again?
you don't think we are in another Great Depression ?

it's all over the news that Bush ruined the country, just look at the stock market, oh wait it hasn't crashed, I guess the media is wrong.
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Jul 22, 2008
 
joe wrote:
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you don't think we are in another Great Depression ?
No, and I believe if the Democrat gets elected, suddenly, everything will be as it should be, in the eyes of the gloom and doom media (at least when a Republican is in office).

We are and have been at near full employment, and not just low paying jobs, though in VT it is more that way, thanks to the anti-big business climate. Just South of here there are high paying jobs for anyone with a college degree.

it's all over the news that Bush ruined the country, just look at the stock market, oh wait it hasn't crashed, I guess the media is wrong.
Yeah, I love the Bush ruined the economy moniker. What did he DO to ruin it? The market is still higher than it EVER was for 8 years of bubba. Even with our world war and the constant drum beat that everyone is suffering, though they are not.(gotta love the liberal's "war on poverty" too. It never solved the problem. Why are they not held to account for their failure?) But that is all explained away with inane drivel. My favorite is the "clinton got rid of the deficit" game. It never happened. But alot of people believe it.
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Jul 22, 2008
 
federal debt went up every year even with the theft of the social security money, so there was never a balanced budget or even close to one.

Y2K spending ment hire any idiot that could spell computer and call them an IT worker and pay them big bucks so for a few years record revenue flowed into the treasury.
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Jul 22, 2008
 
Better sell those carbon credits to survive~
joe
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Jul 23, 2008
 
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/bush_to...

it's bad out there, real bad
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#9
Jul 23, 2008
 
Let's face it leftie libtards like Astro Mike and gfnb, you don't belong in this discussion. This place is for red-blooded Americans who don't support wild and woolly theories about changes and alternative energies and bogus alternative this and that. We don't need alternatives, we need to stick to what has always worked. We're certainly not going to let you tax and regulate us to death to promote your changes and weird theories. So get off this list and leave us alone, we'd be happy and in harmonious agreement without your troublemaking. Right Elmer Fudd, Hillbilly, Joe, Brattleboro Informer?
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Jul 23, 2008
 
Lets face it the Democrazies want us to be in a recession/depression to prove their wish list true of a failed economy under a Republican watch. However the facts will be hard to argue, opps -my mistake. No they won't, just watch them plant several MSM talking heads in front of colored, doctored charts and the sky is falling all over again.
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Jul 24, 2008
 
XXX wrote:
Let's face it leftie libtards like Astro Mike and gfnb, you don't belong in this discussion. This place is for red-blooded Americans who don't support wild and woolly theories about changes and alternative energies and bogus alternative this and that. We don't need alternatives, we need to stick to what has always worked. We're certainly not going to let you tax and regulate us to death to promote your changes and weird theories. So get off this list and leave us alone, we'd be happy and in harmonious agreement without your troublemaking. Right Elmer Fudd, Hillbilly, Joe, Brattleboro Informer?
Another total loser PROJECTING under someone else's name....gee, who could it be???
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Jul 24, 2008
 
XXX wrote:
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Another total loser PROJECTING under someone else's name....gee, who could it be???
Here's another Massshole projectile-vomiting on our list. Probably works for the Reformer.
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Jul 25, 2008
 
XXX wrote:
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Here's another Massshole projectile-vomiting on our list. Probably works for the Reformer.
Very childish gfnb...

don't know why it says MA, I am in Bratt
Elmer Fudd
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Jul 25, 2008
 
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Here's another Massshole projectile-vomiting on our list. Probably works for the Reformer.
Showing your more infantile side here.
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