This is the country we live in...and I am ashamed of a story like this.

[BYH]

Sheesh, from reading the thread title I thought this would be about the homeless or something.

Looks like the free market at work to me.

Agreed. I'm ashamed of it. When a "free market" can make people on both sides of the financial transaction act like complete boobs, I am ashamed of the market.

Why are you ashamed of the market? Why are you even ashamed of the people who engage in these transactions?

**** 'em. The more they spend beyond their means, the more likely I am to one day buy their house in foreclosure. Spend away, suckers.

 

[BYH]

This also explains why no one in that part of the country seems to give a **** about the price of gas. If you don't have a car.....hell with mainstream America.

Of course, this thread started with a story about how much parking spots cost in Manhattan. And Yawn turns it into "no one in NYC drives so no one there gives a **** about gas prices."

Brilliant as always.

 

[zeke12]

**** 'em. The more they spend beyond their means, the more likely I am to one day buy their house in foreclosure. Spend away, suckers.

My Country Tis of Thee,

*sniff*

Sweet Land of Liberty...

 

[hockeybeat]

This also explains why no one in that part of the country seems to give a **** about the price of gas. If you don't have a car.....hell with mainstream America.

Of course, this thread started with a story about how much parking spots cost in Manhattan. And Yawn turns it into "no one in NYC drives so no one there gives a **** about gas prices."

Brilliant as always.

Especially when gas is close to $3 a gallon in the NYC.

Oh, and Yawn, I know plenty of city-dwellers who drive.

Please don't try again.

 

[Yawn]

I looked down from my hotel room there multiple times and saw plenty of cabs. I'm saying the vast majority of people there use mass transit....and if you don't have to go to the pump often, it would seem logical you don't give a **** as much as the guy in the burbs who is traveling 55 miles to the nearest work....and in NYC, yes, there are some of those who take the subway to a parking lot then drive a few miles home.

But the elitists who control the messages live in those swank Manhattan apartments and are cashing in on big oil.

 

[Webster]

If there are "elitists who control the messages," they don't care about the price of gas because they are rich, not because of where they live. They probably burn more feul on their rides to the Vineyard or the Hamptons than most people do in their cars a year.

 

[Twoback]

Sorry, I know this was three pages and about 12 hours ago, but I missed how/why Alma feels ashamed ...

Because some people in America have a lot of money.
The horror.

 

[Twoback]

I looked down from my hotel room there multiple times and saw plenty of cabs. I'm saying the vast majority of people there use mass transit....and if you don't have to go to the pump often, it would seem logical you don't give a **** as much as the guy in the burbs who is traveling 55 miles to the nearest work....and in NYC, yes, there are some of those who take the subway to a parking lot then drive a few miles home.

But the elitists who control the messages live in those swank Manhattan apartments and are cashing in on big oil.

This must explain why stories about gas prices are on the NBC Nightly News about four times per week.
Wait.
No, it doesn't, does it?