High gas prices saves lives...

[F8L]

Originally Posted by galaxee

as credit availability dries up, those folks won't have the credit (that is, what they like to call "money") to buy expensive unnecessary crap they are entitled to own. lots of newly risk-averse credit card companies are realizing that offering someone who makes $20k per year a credit line of $18500 is high risk even though it may be highly profitable if/when they screw up. they are lowering their card limits- and between that and the loss of home equity, people all of a sudden are having to make major lifestyle downsizing efforts.

half the reason those people are so "well off" (when you look at stuff, not at financial health, that is) is because they're stupid enough to buy everything on credit, and because for a long time lenders were about as selective as the streetwalkers in the bad parts of town here...

unfortunately, lots of folks have forgotten what's important and what isn't... my mother once told me that she felt manicures were a necessity when we couldn't find enough money to simultaneously satisfy the hospital and our kitchen. i hung up the phone immediately, i was so disgusted. perceived or real hardships are being reported all over. would you believe that people are quitting use of their gas-powered leaf blowers and opting for a RAKE, i mean what is the world coming to. but what we have is a bunch of panicked, confused, entitled people wondering how on earth they could live without cable tv, hbo, and 4 cell phone lines.

the truly hurting ones are the ones that were smart enough to live within their means in the first place, and are finding those means don't go nearly as far as they once did thanks to the slowing of the economy (which is in part caused by shrinking credit/buying power of the mindless marketed-to masses). while the minority, they are still out there in force. i can tell you from my perspective it sucks.

You know I agree with you.

I was speaking of the actual low income class specifically here, not the laborers, mechanics, and secetaries of the world. I mean the ones with 1 working parent or on government assistance who still choces to buy crap because they have not been truely taught a better way or because their culture tells them they have to have that crap to fit in and be cool. IE. the ghetto kids/adults near my stereo shop.

[galaxee]

Originally Posted by F8L

You know I agree with you.

I was speaking of the actual low income class specifically here, not the laborers, mechanics, and secetaries of the world. I mean the ones with 1 working parent or on government assistance who still choces to buy crap because they have not been truely taught a better way or because their culture tells them they have to have that crap to fit in and be cool. IE. the ghetto kids/adults near my stereo shop.

i know. it started as a reply and kinda turned into a rant.

in the really lower class, undereducated areas is where the effects of marketing are the most serious. the "gotta have it" mentality goes a lot farther there with the worst effects. but the point remains that it's all on credit because you know they don't have the cash on hand to pay for all that crap.

i still have friends back home who never got out of that rut. need low-income assistance to heat their homes in the winter, but sure have a lot of nice crap. and a ton of debt they'll never be able to repay unless they get their act together.

[Sheepdog]

High gas prices saves lives like deciding to not jump off a bridge saves lives.

If no one can afford gasoline to drive then no one dies from accidents, but many starve to death from no jobs and no grocery delivery.

maybe we should all learn about a garden again? a big garden at that~!

[burritos]

Originally Posted by Sheepdog

High gas prices saves lives like deciding to not jump off a bridge saves lives.

If no one can afford gasoline to drive then no one dies from accidents, but many starve to death from no jobs and no grocery delivery.

maybe we should all learn about a garden again? a big garden at that~!

Is there any hard evidence that people are dying cause they can't drive?

Cause there's plenty of hard evidence from vehicular accidents.

[a_gray_prius]

Originally Posted by echase

And if bullets cost $5,000 dollars apiece...

...we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

even if you get shot by a stray bullet,
you won't have to go to no doctor to get it taken out.
Whoever shot you would take their bullet back.

I like Chris Rock.

[Genoz World]

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!tell that to the guy that drove the larger-than-life (behemoth) SUV that tail gated me (i was going 70mph in the THIRD LANE) on the 5 freeway, only to swerve, cut off a semi on the 4th lane and almost caused a chain reaction accident.

i think he had plenty of gas and cash to spend. F-ing, son of a motherless goat moron!

in so-cal, you're not really safe even in the third lane traveling 5 mph ABOVE the speed limit. for the most part, the higher gas prices have not affected the driving habits of people here in california. i wish it did........................

we would all be safer. i do notice an increase in the bicycle riders. i just try to stay out of their ways.