Semisane

So are you trying to classify all of with you so that your wife will have more people she can label "Semisane"?

I really think Head0001 has got most of right - GREED - the wealthier you get the more GREEDY you get and it a common fact fact - the wealthier are getting richer and poorer are getting more poor... Some where I read an estimate when the middle class in America would disappear.... They indicated less than 10% of the middle class would move up and more than 40% would move down - the rest would hang on for awhile and then just disappear.

That's probably about the number in the Senate nowthatmight beworth a crap.

Anybody on here want to give a yearly income figure where the "wealthy" start? My definition is somewhere above what I make. I think that is probably what most think. Take the guy that makes $12,000 a year. I'm sure he thinks that I am wealthy. Or, how about the guy that makes a million dollars a year. Those people don't consider themselves wealthy, because they compare themselves to the guy that makes 5 million a year. Others might consider a person that accumulates "toys" to be wealthy......................maybe take..................guns for instance. OK, each of us needs to go open the safe up and take a count. Sorry, I just had to do that, it was too easy.

So, are the trucks running today or not?

some where running over me when I was going to an job interview. just found out none of the major carries did not do it. dollar beats everything else.

Underclocked I like that idea. Probably a much better system than what we have now even before it became so corrupted.


Head..my dad was a coal miner so I grew up through several of those strikes and I know exactly what you mean. Now i hear so many of the old miners saying "if I can make it another year or 2 I dont care what happens"...that is the mentality that shot the whole standing together thing down...as well as the different contracts for different companies. Greed....thats it...nothing is ever enough..

My trucks are sitting today btw....but they have been sitting for a couple of days anyways. Im between jobs so I dont really count on the stoppage.

While decreasing demand in the US may help for a few years, it will not stop the pain more than a few years. Anyone half familiar with what is going on in China and India knows that their increase in demand is soon going to outstrip any decrease in demand we can muster. Things are bad and, as long as we remain fully dependent upon oil, are only going to get worse.

While I think the oil companies share some blame and disapprove of many of their practices, in the end they are not fully responsible. As for record profits, if they make say 9% and demand in the US keeps going up, and price does, of course they will make higher profits as they are getting 9% of a larger sales number.

Talk about windfall taxes etc beg the issue... we are married to oil, and will remain in this position until things are bad enough that we finally do something about it. Extra taxes, taking profits back, etc won't solve the issue, which is that if China is going to suck up more and more oil we must move to something else as production is no longer increasing.

If a president wants to leave a legacy, they should develop a coherent strategy to encourage development of a new energy source (cellulose-based ethanol is a leader now) to uncouple the US from the global oil war.

The funny thing about China is that we could probably nearly cripple them overnight if we slapped tariff's on their goods like they do ours.

Be one way of paying down what we already owe them.

Yes, it is FAR from "free trade". I've got no problem with globalization per se but not when we start by allowing the deck to be stacked against us.

I define "Wealthy" as the abiliity to buy something you do not realy need. But we all know that does not include a new MZ. That is a need, not a want. Tom.