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geuss you may have to tone it down some or move to another city that you can afford what will you do just get poor and die? yeah, and there will be exactly the right number of jobs in that "other" city. always. and the costs of everyone moving around, well, that will be so "efficient" you guys with your simplistic worldview are a bunch of assclowns.

I think that was rather insensitive given the proximity of our good friend The Rooster. I'm feeling very under the weather. Where is that rooster? No, really, this is just an ice axe in my hand.

Thats funny impossible to live near your work hahahhahha Really? You think that if everyone who works in Seattle tried to move there, they actually could afford to, and demand would not exceed supply?

yeah, the working class can start buying organic produce from Whole Foods like rich yuppies. it will all work out.

I wasn't speaking about myself, dickhead. People in the bottom 50% are the ones who'll be fucked, and I'll bet Kevbone is somewhere in that group. You sound like the "rich Republicans" you so rail against. Congrats, hypocrite! oh, and if everyone actually tried to live close to their jobs, as some simplistic people suggest, that would actually be impossible

I wasn't speaking about myself, dickhead. People in the bottom 50% are the ones who'll be fucked, and I'll bet Kevbone is somewhere in that group. You sound like the "rich Republicans" you so rail against. Congrats, hypocrite!

You made the choice about where you live. Yeah, everyone has 100% choice of where they can afford to live, and where their job is, and when they have to change jobs, they can pick up and relocate just like that. All the left wingnuts *pretend* to care about the "working class" when it is convenient for them (i.e. to gain *power*) but the reality is they don't give a shit.

You make it sound like I have a choice of cars? Really……I am for the most part poor. I cannot afford to make payments on a car…..therefore was only able to throw down a couple grand on a 98. It gets about 25 to the gallon. I do not have the money to buy a hybrid Honda that costs 25 k. Do you? Welcome to the world the eco-fascists have in store for you. Dance to their tune like a marionette on a string, or die.

I was just adding to your comment, beyotch!

Hookers make $1,000s to go away. Doesn't look like he got his money's worth then. I'd say he did - Spitzer was the one who got them caught with his cash withdrawls. Yeah, but he made too many deposits.

Hookers make $1,000s to go away. Doesn't look like he got his money's worth then.

That's the pot calling the kettle black. Guantonamo, waterboarding, we have more than our share of dirt. Uh yeah..... Yeah, a few hundred terrorists in prison really compares to thousands and thousands of Chinese citizens, dissidents, thrown to rot in prison.

There's nothing better when you are sick than a big bowl of hot chicken soup.

It's not simply that it's bothersome that stuff is made in another country, it's that it's being made in another country solely so that the manufacturer doesn't have to spend more paying living wages to domestic workers, because it's cheaper to pay people poverty wages in poor countries to do it. The idea that this somehow supports the economy in poor countries is nebulous- yes it provides jobs where there once were none or few, but is it really helping a country much having foreign influences control one's economy? Would we think it was helpful to our overall longterm welfare in the US if we all worked for foreign companies, knowing that the company's profits are being invested elsewhere? To me what this appears to do is to both deprive our own economy of jobs (and of course you can argue that "no one here wants to do many of these jobs") while simultaneously setting up an exploitative serfdom of sorts in other countries, under the guise of "helping them", which is pure hyperbole. I think it's also questionable whether outsourcing all our jobs really keeps our goods that much cheaper. Why is it in the company's interest to save the consumer money when they can pocket the profits themselves? This society has inbred immediate gratification to the point that consumers will pay whatever they have to in order to have something they want, and the vendor knows this. you forgot the most important part - we get around environmental and safety regulations by outsourcing. do you think China has OSHA or an EPA? it gives NIMBY a whole new meaning.

Minx high? You're the pothead. STFU, boner.

WTF? Stop the presses! I thought Marxism was supposed to prevent "19th century working conditions and social arrangements" and yet the ChiComms are tolerating, nay, encouraging this widespread practice in their cunt-ry?

and helped pay for guns and bullets to kill Tibetan pilgrams hiking Himalayan mountain passes.

There was an article in Backpacker magazine a couple of years ago about how most (all?) major backpack manufacturing had moved to Vietnam. The workers had no clue what they were making! (or how much they went for in the US retail). And when the author of the piece told them, they were horrified - apparently city folk in Vietnam are terrified of the forest and would never go hiking/backpacking there. The article was enlightening. I don't care if I have to pay more, I'd rather have gear made in the US, and minimize transportation costs and fuel usage. People in China/Vietnam/etc can manufacture stuff for their own markets. The trade balance is so ridiculously skewed right now.

1. passenger vehicles seem to average 16-24 mpg. No improvement in 20 years. Yes that sucks. 2. what proportion of US fuel consumption is caused by passenger vehicles? we move a lot of shit around... there are inefficiencies there. and whatever happened to *seasonal* availability of produce? do we really need to ship stuff in from all around the world 12 months a year for the sake of instant gratification and variety?

I recommend you get some animal protein into your diet. Your brain has been addled.

Amen. I grew up in a well-planned suburb, where I could walk (and later bike) to elementary school, Jr. High, and even High school. The grocery store was within walking/biking distance, as was the library, parks, etc. Our family could get anywhere we needed to for 90% of what we needed within a 1-2 mile radius AND the streets were safe for kids to play/get around on. It just isn't like that up here. We can't even let the kids walk/bike to school 0.6 miles away because they'd have to cross a busy, steep road with speeding cars. I used to eat 16+ oz steaks, etc. It's true that if we cut portions to a normal size, and daily intake to reasonable levels we'd be fitter and it would have a positive impact on farming. But sorry, the extreme of "go vegan" just ain't gonna happen.

Beef, chicken, pork, lamb - they are all yummy. All you vegans can starve yourselves and look all week and sickly, and I'll have a steak on your behalf.

and getting the government to release there grip on fuel profits..... Yes, absolutely...mebbe w/o a BUSH in office that can actually happen! Yes, oil companies will seek lower profits once Bush leaves office. Also, malaria, cancer, and world-hunger will end. There will be no more rapes, murder, or torture anywhere. Utopia will be achieved.

wrong- brilliant bush economics and strategy. a lot has to do with level of dollar. oddly enough in canada the gas did not go up all that much. cool! Then in 8 months prices will all go back down.