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GM's Wagoner says gas taxes, $4/gallon price floor "worth considering"

Discussion in 'Other Cars' started by cwerdna, Mar 28, 2009.

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  1. jayman

    jayman Senior Member

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    Yep, we're both turning into old coots. I'm old enough to remember a time if you had 20 G's in the bank, you could retire and live off it ...
     
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    Yikes, I guess not only am I an old coot, we appear to have a *lot* of old coots on this forum.
     
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    Yep, once hyperinflation kicks in, a billion will quite literally become pocket change
     
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    DaveinOlyWA 3rd Time was Solariffic!!

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    well, now that he is unemployed, i m sure he has plenty of time to make comments now.
     
    #24 DaveinOlyWA, Mar 31, 2009
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    Wagoner "unemployed" isnt the tragedy a common person being unemployed is
     
    #25 jayman, Mar 31, 2009
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    From email I received a month ago:

    -A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
    -A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
    -A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.


    Wayne
     
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  7. DaveinOlyWA

    DaveinOlyWA 3rd Time was Solariffic!!

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    had an email sent about the deficit. interesting

    no link other than foxnews.com/glenbeck

    look for file "an inconvenient debt"
     
    #27 DaveinOlyWA, Mar 31, 2009
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    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    I would have liked to have banked a dollar an hour by my ancestors for me. Greedy buggers spent my inheritance!!
     
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    Next time I'm out your way, we can dig them up, curse them, and bury them again. I find it very therapeutic myself
     
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