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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">On top of that in case you haven't noticed the homeless population has exploded in the Phoenix area.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Try ridding the bus-public transportation, with these people who sadly in some cases haven't had a bath </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">or shower in some time.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Its really sad that the American culture has been broken so badly that one has to help others see what </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">is in plain sight. We live adjacent to a state with arguably the worst homeless population in the country.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Have you ever stopped to ask yourself or others what is the cause of all this???????</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">High gas prices.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">unaffordable housing.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">many households living paycheck to paycheck.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">explosion in crime.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">explosion in homelessness.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">recreational drug use on the rise for a civilization like ours and you think this is normal?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">$14 Billion in aid to Ukraine while all this is happening?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Where is that money going?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">How about a hired mercenary army to fight Russia per the refuges from the Middle East. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Why do you think they pushed for EU to take in refuges from the middle East?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">By the way, EU doesn't have children like the previous generations did and thee now </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">know it takes at least 2.0 children per couple to keep an empire alive so these people</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">from Africa and others are nothing but blood and treasure to these neo-cons.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Tech people are usually some of the smartest in a civilization historically speaking.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">As per Thucydides the country that rules in technology rules the world. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Surely the breadth and width of your understanding goes further than these few talking points.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">How about this.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There is a real effort to turn us all in the West into a Socialistic civilization based on Plato's Republic.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Democracy?</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Try a empire ruled by a Philosopher king as he stated in his book. The problem is there is no person </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">on this earth that is perfect and never will be. We have a Republic, not a Democracy in the USA.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Dig a little deeper and try a little harder to understand your world. If you don't find the truth there are</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">many out there looking for the naïve to take advantage of.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Plato's Republic.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Plato's Meno.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Plato's Timaeus.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Plato's Protagoras.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">St. Augustine's City of God.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Aristotle's Ethics.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(88, 102, 126); font-family: Poppins, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; letter-spacing: -0.264px;">Jean-Jacques Rousseau - </span></span>The Social Contract.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color: rgb(88, 102, 126); font-family: Poppins, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; letter-spacing: -0.264px;">Jean-Jacques Rousseau - </span></span>Discourse on Inequality.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, March 17, 2022, 03:35:25 PM MST, JD Austin <jd@twingeckos.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv5891586673"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3333ff;" class="yiv5891586673gmail_default">It hasn't been near $2 a gallon for 1.5 years. </div><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3333ff;" class="yiv5891586673gmail_default"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=AZ">https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=AZ</a><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#3333ff;" class="yiv5891586673gmail_default"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts">https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts</a><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div id="yiv5891586673yqt42382" class="yiv5891586673yqt3083873798"><div class="yiv5891586673gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="yiv5891586673gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 3:31 PM greg zegan <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:gjzegan@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:gjzegan@yahoo.com">gjzegan@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="yiv5891586673gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">Are you kidding?</div><div dir="ltr">just over a year ago it was under $2 a gallon.</div><div dir="ltr">furthermore, who is going to commute to work in Phoenix in the coming months?</div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Thursday, March 17, 2022, 03:22:12 PM MST, JD Austin via PLUG-discuss <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv5891586673gmail-m_671833723553389537yiv0617533599"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,255);">I just paid $4.49 at Costco which was only .07/gallon less than surrounding gas stations :(</div><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,255);">I can only hope our national politicians pull their heads from their rectum and open domestic oil production again soon. </div><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,255);">They're blaming Ukraine, but it was already approaching $4 before Russian invaded. </div><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,255);">If anyone had doubts that overreliance on foreign supply chains could be problematic, the last several years should have made it clear. </div><div style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,255);">I feel really sorry for poor people... how are they coping with these price increases everywhere?</div><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><div><div id="yiv5891586673gmail-m_671833723553389537yiv0617533599yqt98545"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 12:47 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">What is gas going for in arizona? It is around 4 a gallon in florida.<br clear="all"><div><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px;">:-)~MIKE~(-:</span><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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