Lack of BushCo Funding for Corps and Gas Prices Breaks USA?

[Khaotic]

I really think this could be it.

Nothing to rejoice about ... many of us will go down on the same ship.

This story is just barely unfolding.

Wait till the middle class refugees from NOLA run out of money from the hotels they're in.

Wait till families that had a combined income of more than $100,000 and a really nice home end up in the streets.

Wait till insurance companies duck and dance out of 1,000 of claims.

Wail till images of hundreds of WHITE families sitting in the streets hits the news (if they cover it).

Wait till EVERYONE is paying $4.50 to $5.00 for ONE gallon of gas.

I can tell you what will happen.



SNAP!

Thoughts?

[applegrove]

1. They almost pay that in Europe and have been for years. They get by.

[tridim]

2. Grandma doesn't live 800 miles away in Italy

[applegrove]

4. No. But gradma could if gas were cheap. You face something..

you change your behaviour. That is what the Oil Companies fear the most. What if people thought before they consumed gas? Imagine having a product to sell that people used to use without thinking..and now they have to think about it. Pretty scary for the corporation.

:sarcasm:

[Khaotic]

3. Yeah, but ...

Many over there have universal health care, etc. etc.

Their net income goes a lot further than ours.

They pay a lot of taxes, but they realize that they all live in the same world.

Taxes equal investing in your country, not a burden that you seek to be completely free of.

[Lars39]

5. They have healthcare and public transportation to show for it, too.

[KT2000]

6. Alot of that is taxes

that pays for services we do not have. Of course our behavior will change.

In the state where I live we had a tax cutting ass get a measure on the ballot that cut the transportation budget. They took the cuts on public transportation. The next train of thought from this crowd is that public transportation needs to be self-supporting raise the fares!

I am afraid our changes will be accomplished by sifting out the poor. if gas had been $6 a gallon last week, there would have been even more people stranded in New Orleans.