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Default $4 dollar gas and its effects on metalworking

On Apr 13, 12:33*pm, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:12:20 GMT, Eregon wrote:
Too_Many_Tools wrote in news:1527e5cd-f350-40f7-
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Expensive fuel causes everything to become more expensive.


You can thank the various governments (state & federal) for keeping it as
low as it has been for the past half-century. After all, they COULD have
imposed the high taxes that are common in Europe.


I suspect we are at the beginning of a extended period of
hyperinflation.


A repeat of the late 70's?


Closer to the early '80s when the question "How do the folks in Detroit get
15 adults into a VW Beetle?" was answered by "Easy - tell them it's headed
to Texas!"


Wages definitely are not rising.


Wages in many fields/areas were already hyperinflated.


This is/was the cause of much of the "Outsourcing" and the "Offshore
Relocation" mania of the last 2 decades that saw Union jobs replaced by
non-Union jobs.


When burger-flippers expect $10+ /hr. to ask "Do you want fries with
that?" you should already know that the economy is in a World of Hurt.


When Illegal Immigrants earn enough money to buy mid-range homes you should
already know that the economy is in a World of Hurt.


When Welfare pays better than working you should already know that the
economy is in a World of Hurt.


When the Democrat Party was bought by the Peoples' Republic of China over a
decade ago you should expected that the economy would be in a World of Hurt
as the US Standard of Living was brought down to PRC levels.


Well said

Gunner

"[L]iberals are afraid to state what they truly believe in, for to do so
would result in even less votes than they currently receive. Their
methodology is to lie about their real agenda in the hopes of regaining
power, at which point they will do whatever they damn well please. The
problem is they have concealed and obfuscated for so long that, as a group,
they themselves are no longer sure of their goals. They are a collection of
wild-eyed splinter groups, all holding a grab-bag of dreams and wishes. Some
want a Socialist, secular-humanist state, others the repeal of the Second
Amendment. Some want same sex/different species marriage, others want voting
rights for trees, fish, coal and bugs. Some want cradle to grave care and
complete subservience to the government nanny state, others want a culture
that walks in lockstep and speaks only with intonations of political
correctness. I view the American liberals in much the same way I view the
competing factions of Islamic
fundamentalists. The latter hate each other to the core, and only join
forces to attack the US or Israel. The former hate themselves to the core,
and only join forces to attack George Bush and conservatives." --Ron Marr- Hide quoted text -

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And what has the Republican Congress been doing for a decade or two in
the mean time?

TMT