Glad to see my tax dollars at work

[GT40FIED]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040606/ap_on_bi_ge/iraq_cheap_gas_4

:rolleyes: just...just...:rolleyes:

[mylittlecivic]

holy crap i could drive all the way to china if gas was that cheap:no:

[pdiggitydogg]

we're still paying less than people were 40yrs ago
but thats just stupid...

[AzCivic]

they need to hurry up and get that damn oil over here, i'm sick of high gas prices.

[GT40FIED]

Originally posted by pdiggitydogg
we're still paying less than people were 40yrs ago
but thats just stupid...

Regardless of how much we're paying...it's like we're paying twice. And one of those times is for someone else. How about pooling those hundreds of millions of dollar and bringing down prices HERE just a tad and let them pay $1 per gallon.

[pdiggitydogg]

Im sure the cost of wood is pretty high over there though
Drywall too (though even we're paying $9/sheet now...thats almost 1/3^ since march)

[Rob]

I know...this gas thing is really starting to piss me off.......$27 to fill my tank up yesterday........

[JDMFantasy2k]

Originally posted by pdiggitydogg
Im sure the cost of wood is pretty high over there though
Drywall too (though even we're paying $9/sheet now...thats almost 1/3^ since march)

:crazy: WTF does drywall and wood have to do with gas prices? lol

[pdiggitydogg]

the gas is there...thats most of the reason why its so cheap IMO
there is no 'middle-man' for the gas to go through

[GT40FIED]

Actually, like the article says, since Iraq lacks a lot of resources to refine the gas, we're buying at around $1.50/gallon from OTHER countries and trucking it in. $500 million in 3 months. Plus the cost of military escorts to protect the shipments from insurgents...who I'm sure also benefit from the cheap gas.

[pdiggitydogg]

(Just finished the article - watching nba finals = preoccupied)
well son of a bitch...that just sucks
Im beginning to get pissed now

I understand that its a ratio of earnings...but come on

[SolPol]

Originally posted by AzCivic
they need to hurry up and get that damn oil over here, i'm sick of high gas prices.

What would be really nice is if Bush would authorize the release of some of our HUGE stockpile in the reserves. You know, the reserves that we keep for times JUST LIKE THIS.

But no, that would cost him money.

[KwikR6]

Originally posted by AccordinStyle
I know...this gas thing is really starting to piss me off.......$27 to fill my tank up yesterday........
$32 for my del sol..or something like that.

[spoogenet]

Yeah but as the article also states the average Iraqi earns only $1000/year, so $0.05/gal compared to their average yearly income isn't an extraordinary difference from the relative amount Americans pay.

Not to mention the fact that the high prices would only fuel more resentment toward the troops in the area and cause more stability problems than already exist. It's absolutely no surprise that the government is spending so much money to keep cheap gas on the streets, in times of war things need to be done to protect the stability of the area s much as possible.

b

[GT40FIED]

Well sooner or later it's gonna have to stop. So sooner or later they're gonna get pissed (if they do at all). Really no way around it.

[ChrisCantSkate]

so our tax dollars are paying for the gas, then we get to buy our gas with the money i earn? or did i read it wrong

[GT40FIED]

Ummm...no...you read it right.

[V8killimports]

Wow.. how come I never heard of anyone here laining about spending their hard earned money for some crackhead to buy food and get money for nothing?

[GT40FIED]

Originally posted by V8killimports
Wow.. how come I never heard of anyone here laining about spending their hard earned money for some crackhead to buy food and get money for nothing?

Actually I'm fairly sure you've hear me talk about how welfare's a waste of perfectly good money.

[ChrisCantSkate]

um i'll say i dont like welfair. cause i dont. EARN your living.

[SolPol]

How do ya feel about workfare? :banana:

[GT40FIED]

Better...but still not great. At least they'd be working. I won't always knock people on welfare. When I was in middle school I used to hang with a girl who's mom was on welfare. She had a job as a hair stylist but only got commission. No customers, no money. It's not like she wasn't trying...the place she worked at just didn't see much business. That didn't last too long though. i think the majority of people on welfare are honest people...a lot of them just have too much pride and end up dismissing jobs that they feel are beneath them.

[Rob]

Originally posted by GT40FIED
a lot of them just have too much pride and end up dismissing jobs that they feel are beneath them.
Well that's bullshit...no job is beneath no person...I spent 6 years in the Air Force, have my AS, and have 5 yrs experience in my field but after 6 months of job searching to no avail, I am reduced to working a manual labor job (@ $11.50/hr) and Red Lobster (which with tips averages at $12/hr) so between both jobs I'm making approx. $700-$800 week which is what I would make working one job in my field. You do what you have to do to survive.........

[GT40FIED]

Originally posted by AccordinStyle
Well that's bullshit...no job is beneath no person

Oh I completely agree. Wasn't trying to make excuses for those folks. But I think that's why welfare is so prevelant. Americans are taught to think certain jobs are for certains kinds of people and some people won't do what they feel is "stooping down" to take a job to survive when they can milk the government.

[spoogenet]

Originally posted by GT40FIED
Better...but still not great. At least they'd be working. I won't always knock people on welfare. When I was in middle school I used to hang with a girl who's mom was on welfare. She had a job as a hair stylist but only got commission. No customers, no money. It's not like she wasn't trying...the place she worked at just didn't see much business. That didn't last too long though. i think the majority of people on welfare are honest people...a lot of them just have too much pride and end up dismissing jobs that they feel are beneath them.

A friend of mine's mother worked at a bank and used to cash welfare checks for people. Some of them would drive up in a Mercedes.

People I know who have too much pride to take a given job have way too much pride to take welfare. That's not to say there aren't plenty of honest people on welfare, but I question whether the majority is honest or dishonest.

b

[SolPol]

My brother used to work at a convenience store and cash people's food stamps in for lottery tickets. Cashed the welfare checks for them too. He hated it. Can't say I blame him.

On another note, I got laid off about two and half years ago and couldn't find a lot of work. I worked in some pizza places for cash and went on unemployment. That is my money that I put in, so I was ok with it for a while. Only ended up lasting about three months anyway because I found work.

But the bullshit is that they tax you again on unemployment wages. Look up the word kickback and that BS is pretty much it.

The government man. I love it :rolleyes: