ot - gas price

[JD Austin]

>
> High gas prices.
> unaffordable housing.
> many households living paycheck to paycheck.
> explosion in crime.
> explosion in homelessness.
> recreational drug use on the rise for a civilization like ours and you
> think this is normal?


All the above are symptoms of the problem: our politicians sold us out to
support foreign countries while pushing their own agendas. Politicians sold
the trade agreements as a way for American businesses to make more money
selling internationally, but they are competing with countries with much
lower cost of living and much less stringent environmental standards. When
politicians started passing laws that forced businesses to fund their
agendas (like health care), the related overhead increase kicked off the
migration of American manufacturing jobs to other countries. Within a
decade, most of the manufacturing jobs left the USA. Politicians didn't
think about 'the little people' and assumed they could just get training
and other jobs; only some of them could. The current regime is really
pushing green energy. I'm a fan of green energy, but it's just not ready to
replace everything that already works. It costs more and doesn't work as
well. Only upper-middle-class and above living in urban areas can afford
green energy solutions; politicians are blind to that and so are a lot of
proponents.

When our politicians created free trade agreements (that weren't fair to
American businesses) almost all remaining manufacturing left the US along
with the related jobs. Every time politicians meddle with businesses
causing their overhead to increase, they cause a shift that hurts employees
and consumers the most. We got cheap, crappy, Chinese goods that just don't
last (made by people they have to put up nets to prevent them from
committing suicide) and the 'throw it away' society that came with it. It
hit a lot of American industries and I'm not sure we can get them back
now.  With costs going up, decent jobs requiring more skill and education,
far fewer places to work for low-skilled workers,and even the so-called
help always has rules that keep the people we are 'helping' poor (make more
than X and you get nothing). it's not surprising a lot of poor people
become homeless, resort to crime, and take drugs. Politicians need to think
about 'the little people' as real people.


On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 4:03 PM greg zegan <gjzegan at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On top of that in case you haven't noticed the homeless population has
> exploded in the Phoenix area.
> Try ridding the bus-public transportation, with these people who sadly in
> some cases haven't had a bath
> or shower in some time.
>
> Its really sad that the American culture has been broken so badly that one
> has to help others see what
> is in plain sight.  We live adjacent to a state with arguably the worst
> homeless population in the country.
>
> Have you ever stopped to ask yourself or others what is the cause of all
> this???????
>
> High gas prices.
> unaffordable housing.
> many households living paycheck to paycheck.
> explosion in crime.
> explosion in homelessness.
> recreational drug use on the rise for a civilization like ours and you
> think this is normal?
>
> $14 Billion in aid to Ukraine while all this is happening?
> Where is that money going?
> How about a hired mercenary army to fight Russia per the refuges from the
> Middle East.
> Why do you think they pushed for EU to take in refuges from the middle
> East?
> By the way, EU doesn't have children like the previous generations did and
> thee now
> know it takes at least 2.0 children per couple to keep an empire alive so
> these people
> from Africa and others are nothing but blood and treasure to these
> neo-cons.
>
> Tech people are usually some of the smartest in a civilization
> historically speaking.
> As per Thucydides the country that rules in technology rules the world.
>
> Surely the breadth  and width of your understanding goes further than
> these few talking points.
>
> How about this.
> There is a real effort to turn us all in the West into a Socialistic
> civilization based on Plato's Republic.
> Democracy?
> Try a empire ruled by a Philosopher king as he stated in his book.  The
> problem is there is no person
> on this earth that is perfect and never will be.  We have a Republic, not
> a Democracy in the USA.
>
> Dig a little deeper and try a little harder to understand your world.  If
> you don't find the truth there are
> many out there looking for the naïve to take advantage of.
>
> Plato's Republic.
> Plato's Meno.
> Plato's Timaeus.
> Plato's Protagoras.
> St. Augustine's City of God.
> Aristotle's Ethics.
> Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract.
> Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on Inequality.
>
>
> On Thursday, March 17, 2022, 03:35:25 PM MST, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> It hasn't been near $2 a gallon for 1.5 years.
> https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=AZ
> https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 3:31 PM greg zegan <gjzegan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Are you kidding?
> just over a year ago it was under $2 a gallon.
> furthermore, who is going to commute to work in Phoenix in the coming
> months?
>
> On Thursday, March 17, 2022, 03:22:12 PM MST, JD Austin via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>
> I just paid $4.49 at Costco which was only .07/gallon less than
> surrounding gas stations :(
> I can only hope our national politicians pull their heads from their
> rectum and open domestic oil production again soon.
> They're blaming Ukraine, but it was already approaching $4 before Russian
> invaded.
> If anyone had doubts that overreliance on foreign supply chains could be
> problematic, the last several years should have made it clear.
> I feel really sorry for poor people... how are they coping with these
> price increases everywhere?
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 12:47 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
> What is gas going for in arizona? It is around 4 a gallon in florida.
>
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