I'm Sick of Getting Taken - Happens All the Time Now

[Mary in KC]

I have two diabetic cats that need insulin. Human insulin costs about $32 a vial. And new animal insulin came out - works a lot better for dogs and cats. It looked like a comparable price until I saw the size of the vial - it's just as tall but a lot thinner so it holds maybe half as much. And you have to buy special needles to go with it.

Seems like everything is that way anymore. The boxes are smaller the coffee cans are smaller.

And gas just keeps going up and up. We were at $2.259 yesterday. It is down today to $2.239 (wow, what a deal).

Amd Missouri just cut off thousands from Medicare.

So will we all just become poor and barely making it. While the other guys are rolling in dough. Kind of looks like that may be the way we are headed.

[mike_c]

1. welcome to the "ownership society...."

eom

[Deja Q]

5. Compassionate conservativism...

It's only compassionate if they told the truth and gave us the option for free lethal injections. Otherwise to make people live in poverty or worse with no REAL hope of prosperity is not compassionate, it is CRUEL.

[iconoclastic cat]

10. Yep. So named 'cause we just got pwned.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. The the destruction of the middle class is the goal of the Bushites

[Mary in KC]

3. I sasw where the supposed New Tax Code would just shift the

burden from the wealthy to the middleclass.

So what happens when there is no middle class. Who will buy the produsts that keep our economy going?

[Tace]

4. Die-Off

Seriously.

[iconoclastic cat]

11. Huh? Please explain what that term means.

Thanks.

[Selteri]

13. I think he means the socioecnomic collapse of the country to where

America dies off to be replaced by corporate city-states.

If things don't change the corporations will eventually own people like slaves and that will happen.

[Warpy]

18. It means they're cutting public health out of existence

and not taking anything seriously, from research into avian flu vaccine to development of new antibiotics.

A lot of us will simply be ignored to death.

[lastliberalintexas]

15. The Asians

Seriously. Corporate America doesn't care if the US loses its middle class, because they have a ton of consumers just waiting in Asia and the subcontinent, many with saved or newfound money just burning holes in their pockets. One of these days, the cheap labor Americans will be making the substandard crap for the Indians and Chinese to buy at their version of Walmart.


And the Bush proposed tax code doesn't just move the burden to the middle class, it also basically kills small businesses by taking away quite a few business deductions too.

[Mel Brennan]

9. Not only the Bushites

but interlocked and interlocking elites worldwide...

[leftofthedial]

6. "ownership society" = corporate feudalism

keep the peasants poor, ignorant, and as stupid as possible.

[ryan_cats]

7. As a cat owner

I'd like to thank you for taking care of two special needs cats.

[OneBlueSky]

8. "The boxes are smaller the coffee cans are smaller" . . .

got that right . . . tried to buy a half gallon of ice cream lately? . . . or a pound of coffee? . . .

[leveymg]

14. None of this shows up in the CPI. The real rate of inflation is twice

what they're telling us. Same with unemployment.

An information economy based on false data is bound to fall apart. This is ultimately more destructive to society than bad policy. Look at the USSR as an example of both.

:bounce:

[lastliberalintexas]

17. Well, it's easy to keep the official rate low

when you exclude food and gas from the calculations.

[Digit]

12. Are they putting filler in our ground coffee, too?

I had noticed the last couple of containers that it took an additional scoop to make the strength coffee I like.

Now, I grind my own and use ALOT less.

[Selteri]

16. It wouldn't surprise me with all the other crap they

toss into everything we consume.

It's all about profit and power, they don't care because they don't have to.

Look at the Netherlands, when employed or even unemployed the income is well higher, the education is something they consider important and their society is generally free. Their market continues to go up through the best and worst of times.

When in America these were the same values, our value went almost only up. When we've devalued education and destroyed the middle class the value of our dollar has plummeted.

This has been constant through our history.

[mojavekid]

19. On the Gas front,

$2.59 a gallon for regular, $2.79 a gallon for supreme in Venice Beach, Ca. this morning.

I agree with your post emphatically. The Stock Market Watch Thread here every weekday, is indispensable if you are interested in the why's of this Mob Economy.

[hector459]

20. If people aren't protesting at the gas pumps, being "taken" is just a way

of life in this corporate system.

Think about it: gasoline prices are up to historic levels but so are gasoline company PROFITS. Now if they weren't gouging the consumer (you and me) gasoline company PROFITS would remain relatively level. God knows they were already making RECORD PROFITS before this last increase in gasoline prices. Ask yourself, why do PROFITS have to increase at these rates if it causes consumers to suffer? No one wants to begrudge any business making profits but profits do not have to incrase at RATes equal to the increases in costs. But noone, not even our Congress seems to complain. Thousands are loosing jobs every week just so companies can achieve RECORD PROFITS!!!! It goes against all Christian and civilized principles in my opinion.