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I saw a homeless person, with a shopping cart, pass by a gas station the other day. Looked up at the gas prices, thumb into the air, clap-clap, smiles, laughter!
Now when the gas prices go up another dollar? A follow-up with jumping jacks, cartwheels?
Misery will always love more company!
Last edited by tijlover; 12-16-2010 at 12:45 AM..
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I work in the public sector. The fundamental problem with public sector finances is lower revenues and ever higher expenditures because of overly generous pay & pension benefits, as well as ever escalating health care costs.
Once again, we must get off this obsessively short term mentality.
We can get out of the short term mentality when it won't completely ruin everyone to take on the long term mentality. yes, short term got us into this financial mess, but right now, you dont' make it worse with a myopic long term payoff, as you won't GET to that long term point. We HAVE to stabilize things BEFORE doing that, like a EMT working on an injured person at an accident scene. You don't start doing major surgery on them THERE, you have to do IMMEDIATE short term care to get the patient to where that long term treatment will actually be effective.
BTW, cheap oil didn't get us here. People making bad loans and wrapping them up and selling them off bundled with good ones is what did it. Making oil expensive might be good at some point, but making it expensive right now is a bad idea.
Standing too close to a ledge is a bad idea and potentially life threatening. But you don't get that person to safety by pushing them over it with a finger tip, regardless of how they GOT to be too close to the ledge. Unless you've already set up a net to catch them befor they reach bottom.
I saw a homeless person, with a shopping cart, pass by a gas station the other day. Looked up at the gas prices, thumb into the air, clap-clap, smiles, laughter!
Now when the gas prices go up another dollar? A follow-up with jumping jacks, cartwheels?
Misery will always love more company!
yeah, 'cause I take all my financial and social advice from homeless people.
I don't, it will only screw the poor/working/lower middle class. It will create more poverty and misery.
Oh, and to all you hippies here, not everyone can bike or walk to work for various reasons. Try biking where I used to live when it's -20*F in January or 110*F in July. You can certainly bike living somewhere like San Diego, but not Kansas City.
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