Then they wonder why stuff is so expensive. Dont you realize how damaging to the US Economy stealing is? Your all stealing free music, programs and movies, and you blame Bush for this economic mess? What a bunch of lazy hypocrates we have become.
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I want to pay for the stuff that I get.  Isn't there a verse in the Bible that says, "Thou (that means YOU!) shalt (Old English for "shall") NOT STEAL"?\n\nIt's a wonder that I never got caught for shoplifting when I was growing up.  It's just not worth the risk to your future.  Plus it is just WRONG!!!
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its called gouging.we as the users have to eat any price they decide to charge and not a thing can do,but pay.or do with out witch we know we cant .got to love our government for all they have done over the years to fill there pockets and there rich friends.
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We're more of an entertainment-based culture. Allot of it probably also has to do with politicians (notice I didn't say which party; they're all at fault). They just want more money for themselves, and they're willing to steal from us and our military to get it.
529879
dont you? They spend millions of bucks to make us think they think like we do.
662559
because then we'd (the 42% paying attention) would really be pissed. cloneton fudged the books to make it look like we had a surplus after the mexico bailout. bush bought us off with the interest at the beginning of his 1st term & ....we're so screwed.
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They are doing it with General Motors cars as well. Televisions from RCA (Thompson Electronics), and I am sure thousands of other things America has given them with our outsourcing. Our trade with Communist China is upside down too with the Republican Administration of George Bush. 3% from us to them, and over 20% from them to America. They have broken Americas trade agreement for years now, and Bush wont do anything about it. They are Communists and an enemy to the United States. They are using the extra revenue to extend their military also. It's a bad deal all around. America is going to try to remove the republicans from our Congress in November hopefully.
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LOL! I KNOW! (^_^) I guess they don't know that 1. Not all produce is picked by hand. The only ones I think that still are, are strawberries and lettuce. Even tomatoes are being mechanically harvested. 2. They don't EARN enough money for their taxes to pay off the amount they are using in gov. aid 3. We don't manufacture many things in the U.S. anymore, ANYONE with a limited amount of education can see that the U.S. is becoming a service based nation. We get our goods from nations like India and China. A lot of the food we eat is now being imported, like sea food. 4. Oil is the major player in setting prices. Cheap labor can be found anywhere in the world. They are not indispensable. Ask the Chinese.5. Even if 30million, which I doubt, go on strike. That still leaves about 270million people who are not. It's just a small percentage overall. 6. Look how long the women's movement took. Look how long the civil rights movement took.7. The majority of LEGAL U.S. citizens are against ILLEGAL immigration and rewarding people who break the law. 8. The U.S. is NOT like France and other countries on the American continent. Protesting isn't going to move the senate as much as you would hope it would. This is a nation of LAWS. We don't change them just because they INCONVENIENCE you.\n\n\nGeneral Wesc: My father was part of a massive layoff, from a company in silicon valley Ca. Many, many people were let go when the dot-com bubble burst. Ford, and other car manufacturers have also let people go. These were people who lost their jobs PERMANENTLY! It wasn't just thousands but TENS of thousands of people, and every year the number is going up. They survived. 1 day isn't going to make a difference. Your point is invalid. Many analysts have suggested that the illegal labor force is actually HINDERING the development of new technology. Just like the cheap price of oil has kept the u.s. from switching over to ethanol, as Brazil has done. We are paying the price now, for some small savings back then, for our oil dependence. The price of oil is only going to rise, I heard it can easily hit $100 a barrel. The cheap illegal labor force will have a bigger negative impact as well in the not so distant future.  There will come a time when it will no longer be 'cheap' labor, but still be from illegals. Do we have the foresight to prepare and solve the problem as we should have done with oil before the consequences are irreversible?
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because no one should have to spend more than 50 cents on that shit\nbut honestly it is a metaphor for change
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Because they're smarter than all of the rednecked narrow-minded...oh sorry, I think I got caught up in some of the crap I've read on here.\nGood question.  I think the person who said it's because they're too lazy to find out who's REALLY in charge of the policies in the US is right.\nIt's this whole "Blame Bush" mentality.  It kinda reminds me of South Park: The Movie, actually, except instead of Canada, it's Bush.  Global warming?  It's Bush's fault!  Kids are doing drugs?  It's Bush's fault!  Gas prices are high, and there was a devastating hurricane that nearly destroyed New Orleans!  It's Bush's fault!  Another ten soldiers died today in Iraq!  It's Bush's fault!  I don't have a job!  It's Bush's fault!  Michael Moore hasn't made another movie!  It's Bush's fault!  Iran is seeking nuclear power?  It's Bush's fault!  WAAAAAAAAAAAH!\nPlease.  Give me a break.  Blame the Senators and Congress.  They're the ones who really run this country.\nPresident Bush isn't perfect, but he's not nearly as bad as he's made out to be, either.\nYou've got it right.  Good question.
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How is the economy going to suffer if they only stop buying stuff for one day they are all just going to go out on either Sunday or Tuesday to get the stuff they needed monday. These people are ignorant if they seriously think this will do anything but damage their cause by pissing off more Americans by waving their da** Mexican flags and pissing all over the American cultures and traditions!
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PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN GEN.PARVEZ SAID AND I QUOTE," NEVER IN THE HISTORY SO MUCH WAS STOLEN BY SO FEW."DONT YOU AGREE WITH HIM. LOOK AT BENAZEER SHE BAGGED MAY BE A BILLION ,THAT IS DOLLARS NOT RUPEES .GEN ZIA AND THE BOYS MAY BE 10 BILLION 2 BILLION ALONE FROM LOOTING OF BCCI BANK,HALF A BILLION SELLING ARMS TO IRAN UNDER THE TABLE.EVEN THE SERVANTS DRIVE MERCEDES BENZEZ AND SERVANTS HAVE SERVANTS.NEVER MIND YAHYA KHAN OR AYUB KHAN,THE SHIT HIT THE FAN AFTER RUSSIANS INVADED AFGANISTAN AND LEFT.THE TALIBAN TOOK OVER THE CULTIVATION OF OPIUM AND ISI BRASS TOOK OVER HEROIN.NOW THAT IS SERIOUS MONEY.MAY BE 10 BILLION A YEAR,OK NOW MAY BE LESS BECAUSE AMERICANS ARE THERE.THE ARMY BRASS COMES FROM BIG LAND OWNER FAMILIES WHY THEY WILL LEAVE ALL THIS TO MULLAH POLITICIANS WHEN THEY CAN HAVE IT WITHOUT ANY PROBLEM.THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!
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"Black Friday" early indicators of the Christmas season, the "cylical" prediction of the state of our economy. Throw on top the cost of a ten fold increase if Chas. Rangel gets his way (he has brought it up for vote before)  and they reinstate the draft. Remember the democrats have gutted our military, our mothballed equipment is cannibalized to keep what we have moving, the bases have been liquidated, overseas bases handed back to those countries that hosted them, and fought against every appropriation for new equipment and new technology to keep pace with our modernized enemies (Isreal went into Lebanaon thinking they had the upper hand of technology and quickly found out their toys were obsolete). The cost of equipping a new army, let alone housing, clothing and feeding it, are immense especially when they just promised to bring overseas troops home, reduce the deficit and not raise taxes before the election. They are not even in control and already spending us into oblivion, plus the dollar is at the weakest point (because we'll have to float a lot of debt, and print a lot of dollars, just like the USSR did to support a massive military) since 1978, because countries have or announced they will be dropping the dollar for the EU, "thanks for all your help and lucrative trade deals, USA". OIf course we are told this will help American exports, if there are any factories left here, and no trade barriers aginst their products as is often the case in these foreign countries we kiss up to. Gold is up, and that's always a bad sign, money is going overseas and out of American investments. My advice is dig up you backyard for a vegetable garden, you may be needing food by this time next year.
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According to TNRIP, the financial cost of this foreign invasion to U.S. taxpayers is staggering! Here is a break down of the annual costs: \n\nEducation: $22.5 billion \nBi-lingual Education: $3.3 billion \nAFDC: $2.4 billion \nSSI: $2.9 billion \nSocial Security: $24.8 billion \nHousing Assistance: $2.6 billion \nCriminal Justice: $2.6 billion \nJobs Lost by Americans: $10.8 billion \nOther Programs: $51.4 billion \nFood Stamps: $7 billion \nHealth Care: $1.4 billion              \n(That Totals $131.7 BILLION Annually Folks) \n\nILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS  violate our laws and Poison our system of Economics by TAKING JOBS  from American Workers, Keeping WAGES ARTIFICIALLY LOW, and Sucking MILLIONS of Dollars of TAXPAYERS MONEY out of our Welfare and Medical Systems. \nNot To Mention The Fact That A Majority Of ILLEGAL ALIENS Live And Work In This Country And Then Send Their Money Back Home To Their Families (Whatever Nation Their Families Live In) Therefore DRAINING The Economy Even Further. \nWhen The US Dollar Leaves The US... Its GONE From The American Economy. \n\n$$39 BILLION Dollars -With a B- That Amount Of  money is sent back to their own nation. ANNUALLY-In effect, they are LOOTING the Treasury of the United States as surely as if they went to Fort Knox and loaded up all our gold bullion on trucks and drove to Tijuana with it.\n\nThese Invaders are causing a BLEEDING in the System. As invaders, they're NOT Playing by the same rules as the Citizens. \nThis leads to a WEAKENING of Our Nations ECONOMY.\n\nThink Of It As "ECONOMIC TERRORISM"\n\nThe American people need to understand that the United States is under attack! No, not by Iraq or Iran, but by MEXICO! \n\nThe MEXICAN GOVERNMENT  Has Been Deliberately and Systematically working To Destabilize and Undermine The very Fabric and Framework of American Society. \n\nMexicos President Vicente Fox Has superintended over the biggest invasion of the United States in our country's history. - That's right, Invasion! \nhttp://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21309\n\n(For The Past 25 Years Or So) The U.S. is being Invaded by People from Another Nation - They Aren't Citizens --They  Don't Pay the Taxes -- Their ALLEGIENCE  is to their HOME COUNTRIES.
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You do have some good points here,however I will have to say that alot of the consumers are greedy because the world has made them this way.If none of us were greedy then non of us would have to work so hard to make ends meet in order to barely survive.Grocery store for example:If the government was not greedy then the grocery stores would not be charged such high prices for the products and therefore we would not have to pay such high prices for food,we would therefore have more to share with others.Now you take the average person that is barely getting by and expect them to share what they do have?I do not think this is greed.Now you take the rich man that takes high dollar vacations or has two,three or more classic cars and still buying but will not donate a cent to the needy.This is greed.Now lets look at some more interesting facts,Some may disagree with me but I am entitled to my own opinion as with anyone else is entitled to their own opinions.Gas companies,The cost of gas has sky rocketed as we all know this.Some say the gas companies are getting rich due to what they hear on the profits of the companies.These profits or dollar figures are based on what the companies made over the last quarter.Is what nobody is looking at is the expenses of the companies.All of these companies are in debt and owe a fortune.Yes it is true that the made billions last year or last quarter but they also spent billions.The problem with this is the government all the way up to the president of the United States and the ones before him and so on.This country is so far in debt to other countries that there is no way to ever repay all the money.Sure,the country pays out alot of money each year but is what is not accounted for until next year is what we are barrowing at the same time.This is not greed either,It is called out of control and no way to recover.So to sum it all up,The only greed that I see is the rich one that thinks they have it all and has never worked a hard days work in their life and thinks they are way over everyone else and refuses to share.\n\nenough said\n\nGood luck and God bless you
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These people are usually thinking about themselves only. They like to spend money, but only for what they want. If they ever buy a present for anyone, out of obligation, they will get the cheapest thing they can find.
1121
They're not hiding those things from all of us, just those of you they want to keep in your menial jobs in order to maintain the economy. If you knew all the amazing stuff that was going on you'd be more dissatisfied and might revolt. Too bad for you.
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it may be because they  are pissed because they have to spend thousands of dollars to have simple things done to they're home because they are to f#*king dumb to figure out how to do it them self. so they have some retard come over visually molest they're wife and empty the bank account.poor dumb b#*#ards but they stay clean so it's ok.