How much can you squeeze the working poor???

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Shiftless wrote:and some Altoids.
don't worry buddie, your blow-up doll doesn't care what your breath smells like. :D
Yeah, I knew you were going to say that.

Ask Taneytown, I got some nookie last weekend. He has pictures. The other use for Altoids is pretty good but I haven't experienced that one since college.
yea dudes he got the sex! Seen the pics :shock: both him & her look very good wrestling on the bed 8)
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Nortwoods wrote:
The only time I was at Walmart the alarm went off as I was leaving and the ladies at the door stopped me. They really thought they had me. Then I showed them my receipt and the one lady apologized but the other one kept scanning the merchandise and receipt and the first lady was like 'everything is in order doris.....he can go now'......'ok doris, please give the man his merchandise....'

First and last time I ever went there. I enjoy the paranoia free Target environment.
But the cd player you got there was such high quality! It worked for what, 3 months? :D
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My friend Pete did the coolest thing of all time.

He went into Wal-Mart, bought two cans of spraypaint...walked out to the FRONT OF THE WAL-MART and sprayed "Wal-Mart Sucks" in 8 ft high letters.

So ballsy. So great.

I was in Wal-Mart for the 3rd time in my life the other day to buy an air conditioner. I hate a/c but she really needs it, so I caved and bought her one. But I was walking towards one of the registers on the side and no one was there. There was a greeter who was approximately 700 yrs old, but I'm pretty sure I could have outran him to my car...by the time anyone else would have gotten there I would have been long gone.

I didn't steal it though. I set it down on the counter and found the dude outside smoking and asked if he could ring me up. Wal-Mart sucks. That's why it's going to continue to falter. Eventually people are going to be like "Wait, this place sucks." They're like the American car companies in the 60s...because we were pretty much the only game in town, we got really cocky, building shitty cars for too much money and screwing over consumers. So they bought Japanese cars. Same thing with Wal-Mart...only game in town, but they suck. So smart people will find ways to buy better shit from non-evil soul sucking fuckers.

People still don't get it about gas prices. Gas, for Americans, is still cheap. It's still one the lowest prices you can get for gas. People need to wake the fuck up. It's going to get much, much worse. Drilling for oil in Alaska is retarded for everyone but Alaskans...all the jobs it'll create will be nice for them. That's it, though. It's become obvious that we're not willing to find a new solution until we're absolutely forced to, so hopefully the catalyst will arrive soon.

Nortwoods, Doris is a total bitch.
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:idea:Eventually everythin'will be bought over the net!Cause today's main fact is that most people don't like people so it's easier to have everythin'delivered to one's door!
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I think that part of the problem Wal-Mart is having is the same problem that the Bush administration is currently having. That is that the premise and basis of their policies was and is flawed and such is now drawing a lot of publicity, much of it negative. Like the Bush administration, Wal-Mart views their troubles as a public image problem. Rather than deal with the underlying problems they, instead, spend money and time try to convince the public there's not any problems. A few examples:

1] More Wal-Mart employees receive their health insurance via Medicaid and/or taxpayer funded state and county programs than any other similar sized retail corporation in the United States. In Arizona Wal-Mart employees make up 10% of all ACHSS (medicaid) patients. Wal-Mart's excuse for that is that those employees are part-time (20 hours per week or less) and ineligible for company benefits. But compared to other similar corporations, they have almost 3 times the number of employees receiving taxpayer-funded health insurance.

2) Wal-Mart spends more money on attorneys, lobbyists, and public relations fees for the purpose of anti-union activities and supporting anti-regulatory efforts than it provides for employee healthcare and benefits such as vacations, overtime, and childcare. In essence Wal-Mart spends more money attempting to evade providing such benefits than it would to provide them to start with.

3] Wal-Mart is the largest corportate contributor of its kind to GOP candidates in state and federal elections. 97% of their corporate contributions go to GOP candidates.

As to beating-up on the working poor, I think an issue which is more deserving of some scrutiny are the efforts of the current administration to down-size and limit the availability of public health care to the working poor at affordable prices. Hidden in among a number of recent appropriation bills were provisions severely limiting the availability of such care to the indigent and working poor.
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How much can you squeeze the working poor???

you think they're getting close to the end? they're going to keep squeezing forever, right up until either a) something else pays better , b) they run out of poor to squeeze (not likely) or c) they're all blowed up, real good.
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Um funny as no matter who is in the White House we have always had poor people.

Really good one as way back in England before we came here & before we had Rep we had poor over there as well.
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If things are so bad, why is personal home ownership higher than anytime in the history of the country, and without saying, the history of the world?
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Shiftless wrote:If things are so bad, why is personal home ownership higher than anytime in the history of the country, and without saying, the history of the world?
Yea & why is unemploment at 5% pretty low if you ask me.

Good points above my friend.
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Shiftless wrote:If things are so bad, why is personal home ownership higher than anytime in the history of the country, and without saying, the history of the world?
Home ownership is a really misleading statistic. There are more and more people every day, so naturally home ownership is going to be the highest it has ever been and its going to continue to go up. Now the real question is how many people actually own their homes, and how many are going to be paying off that house they really cant afford the rest of their lives. With so many people living beyond their means, there is going to be a huge real estate crash.
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maybe, but I'm talking percentages of course not numbers, and the percentages speak well for themselves. most people are living outside their means and that's of course bad, but we're Americans, we tend to do that.
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Personal home ownership? In the last 7 years home forfeitures and foreclosures have reached an all-time high. In each of the last 5 years they've increased at a rate of 32 - 50%. A good part of the housing boom is people buying homes as short-term investments, and turning around and selling them several months later. These aren't families buying homes to live in; they're speculators trying to turn a quick buck.

It would have been even worse if the GOP draft of the bankruptcy reform law had gone into effect as written, removing homestead exemptions from bankruptcy protection. Maybe things are going great guns for upper middle class yuppies and dot com babies, but the idea that more people own their homes only works if you don't consider the corresponding number of people losing their homes and unable to pay off their mortgages.
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fair enough. well, no more poli-talks for me tonight.

EDIT:
this was just a headline on Yahoo though (not purposely looking for anything) http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/200508 ... msincrease
'sup with that?

Probably just a spin of the conservative media.
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:idea:I totally agree with the issue/question style bein'raised by SHIFTLESS:
If things are so bad, why is personal home ownership higher than anytime in the history of the country, and without saying, the history of the world?
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