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I paid 2.78 at Raceway in Morganton yesterday. For years the independent stations were a few cents cheaper than the major stations but the majors have run them all out of business. Corporate greed, care of trickle down economics. The great Republican idea was that if we gave more tax breaks to the rich, it would trickle down in the form of re-investment of their wealth. Seems like things trickled up instead of down. Well, (to coin a Reagan phrase) it sounded like a good idea when the “great one” presented it to us.
I’ve also noticed for years that gas is cheaper in Valdese and Rutherford College than anywhere else in the county. What’s up with that?
A friend of mine whose parents owned a gas station back in the 60’s once told me a great story about the “gas man.” The gas man showed up one day and said that the price of gas would be going up. The store owner was given the option of taking a cut of his 2 cent a gallon profit to one cent. The gas man said that would allow the gas company to only have to raise the price by a nickel instead of 6 cents. The store owner knew that his profit line was so small that he could not survive if he did not keep his current profit on gas. The irony was that his customers left him to pursue the cheaper gas down the road and thus bought their other merchandise there. So the store owner was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t. The gas company soon bought the store for a song, lowered prices to get the regulars back, then lowered them again putting the other independent store owner down the street out of business. Then the gas company bought the other independent store and the price of gas was high again for everyone. I was a young man when he told me the story, and I never forgot it. It was a great economics lesson on how money and power worked hand in hand to rob honest hard working people of a chance at the American dream. Both store owners were manipulated in ways that were out of their control. The rich got richer.
Gas prices are high because Democrats, beholden to the environmentalist wackos, have refused to let us build a refinery for over 25 years. We are not allowed to drill off the coast of Florida, but its OK for Mexico to drill three miles off our coast. Democrats are against nuclear power and coal. Kennedy is suing to stop windmills. Oil companies only make 5.7 cents (9% is average for ALL businesses) profit per gallon. The government (federal + NC) makes 6 times as much profit without providing a service. Democrats like those “free” grants and handouts, but then find out they have to pay for it with higher taxes. This is similar to the Communist’s redistribution of wealth. Liberals don’t like differences in wealth, they want everyone to be poor. The more poor people there are, the more votes they get. What would you do without ExxonMobil, walk to work? Should we shut down “Big Oil” for one month and see what would happen? Everyone is focusing on the oil company’s $8.4B profits but not the $17B in Federal taxes. 70% of ExxonMobil’s profits were earned outside the U.S.
I wonder why liberals never accused the rich of paying too much taxes before they were cut. The Top 50% pay 96.54% of All Income Taxes and the Top 1% Pay More Than a Third: 34.27%. The bottom 50% is paying a tiny bit of the taxes, so you can’t give them much of a tax cut by definition. Yet these are the people to whom the Democrats claim to want to give tax cuts. Remember this the next time you hear the “tax cuts for the rich” business. Understand that the so-called rich are about the only ones paying taxes anymore.
“Most of the rich have earned their wealth… Looking at the Fortune 400, quite a few even of the very richest people came from a standing start, while others inherited a small business and turned it into a giant corporation.” – John Weicher
I’m sure that everyone that votes will remember you saying the “rich are the only ones paying taxes anymore.” Truth be told, the rich own 98% of the wealth in this country. The Republican party would have voted for a yellow dog before considering a vote for a moderate Democrat. You remember the Republican party.
The party whose president tried to give our ports away to Dubai.
The party that is for amnesty for illegal aliens.
The party of the great Medicare prescription benefit fiasco.
The party who allowed the greatest increase in spending since LBJ.
The party whose president hasn’t vetoed a single bill.
The party that used good ole boy cronyism at FEMA.
The party that advocated a war with Iraq with no way out.
The party of power brokers posing as congressmen.
The party with an affirmative-action program for Repub lobbyists.
The party that bought off seniors with a prescription drug benefit.
The party whose agenda comes from Big Business, not from grass-roots conservatives.
I’ve never seen voters so downright fed up as they are today. It’s apparent that things will never get better with the current Republican mindset. Gunner still blames everything bad that happens on the Democrats. Never mind that they are in the minority in Washington and Burke County. Gunner believes the big oil companies are the good guys. Misleading us with figures won’t work this time. Every conservative I know is as mad as every liberal that I know yet the right wingers did it to themselves. Thank you right wing conservatives for getting out the vote the past 2 elections. Now you have to live with what you got all the way to your grave.
The only people that you can blame are the people in charge. The Republican party has run this country into the ground. It will take decades of moderate leadership to recover from the Bush administration’s failed leadership.
BB, how much was your federal taxes this year, zero or negative?
BB, I couldn’t help but notice that you changed my quote. Perhaps there is something wrong with the copy and paste functions on your computer. A word magically disappeared from the middle of my quote.
Your post is riddled with misrepresentations; have you once tried to research your statements? It’s not a question of WHO is right or wrong but WHAT is right or wrong that matters.
1)President Bush never tried to “give away” our ports to Dubai. Even though Jimmy Carter praised Dubai’s handling of ports in the UAE and Bill Clinton was paid $300,000 to help the Dubai government pursue a contract, it was bad timing for the administration to plan to allow Dubai Ports World to run six US ports. It will be better run by Halliburton, the only company large enough to handle such a job.
2)Bush, along with the democratic party, are in favor of amnesty. House Republicans are strongly against amnesty and I predict will vote down the bill passed by the Senate last week. The groups protesting Bush on illegal immigrant amnesty are Conservative Republicans. Senators praising Bush are democrats. It seems that you hate Bush so much, you don’t consider or realize from which side you try to topple him. I suppose it never occurred to you that the Conservatives are equally disappointed in Bush. It’s the middle, such as John McCain, from which he gets his 22% support.
3)Joe Lieberman and the Democrats advanced the notion that we need a homeland security department. Bush originally opposed it. FEMA was placed under homeland security by the Democrats against Bush’s disaproval. Hillary Clinton voted for it, but now she’s against it.
4)”war with Iraq with no way out” This may be hard for a peacenic liberal to understand, but its called VICTORY. Maybe we should e-mail the insergents and tell them the exact time we plan to
surrender“redeploy”. Murtha’s cut-n-run bill was overwelmingly defeated. Iraq has a new government in place as of this weekend. Good news for Iraq = Bad news for Democrats5)”party of power brokers posing as congressmen.” You must be talking about Saturday’s FBI raid on Democrat Congressman William Jefferson’s Washington office after he was video-taped taking a $100,000 bribe.
6)”The party that bought off seniors with a prescription drug benefit.” I suppose if it was the other way around he’d catch hell over that, too?
7)”The party whose agenda comes from Big Business, not from grass-roots conservatives.” Who’s big business, Kerry’s $1,000,000,000 gigolo business? Or Al Gore’s $250,000,000 Google Stock? Interestingly, both Gore and Kerry are polling worse than Bush. A recent New York Times poll has both of them ranking below the worst president in history.
Gu, how much does your head hurt trying to figure out who I am? Careful what you wish for.
Natural-gas prices close at a 16-month low
“It will be better run by Halliburton, the only company large enough to handle such a job.” – Gunner 5/23/06
You don’t need any help from me, you just keep burying yourself. You and the Republican party. You remember the Republican party:
The party that speaks out of both sides of its mouth.
The party that faces indictments for treason.
The party that hates minorities.
The party with a far right conservative agenda.
The party that has run this country into the ground.
The party that starts each and every day by screaming to the rest of their countrymen that the sky is falling.
The party with the dimwit masquerading as president.
The party that you belong to Gunner that despises freedom of speech.
The party that will never shut me up…
I knew if I threw in Halliburton you couldn’t stop yourself from disagreeing with me, ha ha. I just made you admit that Halliburton isn’t the world’s largest company, ha ha ha got you again.
BB, I’d love to see you put just a little bit of effort into telling at least half truths backed up by some kind of news article, not your make-believe fantasy world. Do you even read the news? I don’t think I’ll spend much time responding to you until you can bring some facts to the conversation. I believe the reason you continue to give opinions and false information after I keep correcting you, is that you don’t have anything truthful to counter the argument with.
That is so true insightful magnificent truthful one. I am appalled by my ignorance. I trust you completely Gunner. You would never mis-quote me. I’ll just follow you blindly and let you and the neo-cons make all the decisions for me.
Look how well it’s worked out for me so far.
I can guarantee you that gas prices will go down as the election nears. The Repubs want us to believe that prices will continue to go down after the election to. Rush and his cronies will paint a rosy picture of the economy to appease the elderly who will either vote a straight Repub ticket or stay at home. Locally the Repubs will mail out sickening versions of their own warped reality regarding what will happen if the Democrats are in charge.
Maybe the elderly will take a look at their current Medicare debacle and realize who has been in charge the past 6 years. A problem Clinton tried to solve 14 years ago and the Repubs rejected it because Hillary was put in charge.
We live in a nation that will soon collapse if changes are not made. We need to elect people that understand that it is not a good idea to wait till the damn is about to break before sticking a finger in it. We need politicians with ideas and no political agenda. I suggest we start by throwing the current bums, crooks, and power brokers out of office and trying someone else for a change. If that doesn’t work we can start all over every election. I believe in term limits for every office. Let’s find politicians who will promise to do as we ask and throw them out if they refuse to do as we ask. WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF OUR GOVERNMENT. LET’S DO IT NOW.
Gas in Raleigh Friday 2.59, Diesel 2.77
“paint a rosy picture of the economy”? Expert for extremely high gas taxes in Democrat controlled Raleigh, the economy couldn’t be doing better. Name one thing you don’t like about the economy? Is it unemployment at 4.7%, housing starts, stock market, minority home ownership, growing exports, etc… Just name one thing you don’t like about our booming economy.
“paint a rosy picture of the economy”? Except for extremely high gas taxes in Democrat controlled Raleigh, the economy couldn’t be doing better. Name one thing you don’t like about the economy? Is it unemployment at 4.7%, housing starts, stock market, minority home ownership, growing exports, etc… Just name one thing you don’t like about our booming economy.
Gas costs don’t slow Memorial Day travel
By Kara Rowland
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
May 26, 2006
Nation/world business
U.S. economy soars during the 1st quarter
May 26, 2006
It marked the strongest growth spurt in 2 1/2 years. The upgrade mostly reflected stronger U.S. exports and better inventory building by businesses.
GDP, which measures the value of all goods and services produced within the United States, totaled $11.39 trillion in the first quarter when annualized and adjusted for inflation.
On Wall Street, stocks rallied. The Dow Jones industrials gained 93.73 points to close at 11,211.05.
“Maybe the elderly will take a look at their current Medicare debacle” That sure is a funny way of characterizing free medicine. I thought you libs were in favor of free handouts.
When you are at the bottom you have no where to go but up. When are you going to get a job? I’ll make sure to tell all the elderly that I know that the Republicans say they are getting free medicine.
Price of bottled water hits $16 a gallon. Big water is to blame.
A mixture of gullible americans and spin doctors.
Charlotte Observer
May. 24, 2006
By SHARIF DURHAMS
Several N.C. House Democrats introduced a bill Monday that would cap the gas tax at its current rate of 29.9 cents per gallon. Democratic House and Senate leaders spent months resisting Republican attempts to cut the state’s gas tax.
It’s an election year. Repubs always have handouts during an election year. They know they can make it up between elections.
Not stealing tax money is not a “handout”.
If we gave them a million and they spent it on things that could wait instead of things that we need, well that’s stealing to me. We haven’t gotten any bang for our buck with the gas tax. An investigation into this windfall area seems to root out a few of the thieves every few years. It tells me that none of our congressmen (that includes you Jacumin & Church) have done a good job of looking out for how our tax money is being spent.
A friend of mine who had a brief involvement in how money is dispersed to contractors could not get over how they handed the money out without verifying how it is spent. It has and is a scandel that has perpetuated the very core of our state government for decades. Find me a governor that can lead the state out of this mess, and he has my vote. A congressman that can put a stop to wasteful spending and I will also vote for him.
How do you constantly keep putting your foot in your mouth when it is so easily avoided by doing a little research at news sites?
N.C. Senate OKs cutting ‘pork’
Johnson & Wales, teapot museum among projects that may lose
SHARIF DURHAMS
RALEIGH – The N.C. Senate approved a $18.8 billion budget Wednesday that’s heavier on tax cuts and has fewer funds set aside for lawmakers’ favored projects than most budgets in recent years.
That means no $400,000 grant for the Sparta teapot museum or money for similar projects referred to as “oleaginous pork” during last year’s budget debate. Critics slammed House Speaker Jim Black, D-Mecklenburg, last year for backing the project after accepting political donations from the museum’s supporters.
Jim Jacumin has a plan to save our remaining factories and reopen some of our closed factories putting our already trained employees back to work by passing an “Endangered Manufacturing Employee Protection Act”. He also has plans to make it easier to start new businesses.
Jim has devoted much of his life to serving the people.
He has served 3 times as chairman on the Board of commissioners and reduced taxes each time. At the same time his board built a new courthouse & jail, started the EMS service, started a solid waste landfill, started plans for a Human Resources Building, gave $30,000 seed money for each of the two new high school stadiums, passed the first county-wide water bond and ran water and sewer to Lake James, built a courthouse addition and set aside money for an Industrial Park. These are some of the results of Jim’s leadership in county government.
He headed up the design and construction of the 9500 seat East Burke High School Stadium, the Hildebran-Icard Community Pool and numerous other school and church playground and ballfield facilities. For the past 10 years Jim has headed up the building of the 15 exhibit Waldensian Trail of Faith in Valdese.
Jim’s philosophy on moral issues is, “If God can’t bless it, I’m not for it.”
BB, if you are still looking for someone to vote for that will “put a stop to wasteful spending,” give Jim the opportunity to serve you as your State Senator in Burke and Caldwell Counties, and he will show you what a difference he can make. He will take his senator’s salary and open offices in Burke and Caldwell Counties so that you can get help and have a voice in your state government.
What makes you think I didn’t vote for the lil general?
because you are a socialist communist.
More bad news for the democrats, oil drops below $70/b.
If you had a brain you would be dangerous.
If you didn’t chicken out on that online IQ test, you would have known I have a bigger brain than you.
I knew you would be mad at oil prices dropping, and I was right.
You’re a genius Maxine.
vast right wing chicken conspiracy Jack…
Take the test, Mr. “Opposite from the truth”. You are the one that chickened out. I want to take it. I will even bet you $20 that I score higher than you.
Here are 28 online IQ tests to choose from. I’ll even let you pick.
I miss my little retarded liberal, where did you go?
yeah i like this. good post.