A day in the life of Joe Republican

[Siggie]

Yeah, I'm sorry I included you. You're not that bad - you're just sarcastic. It's really friends of mine and their parents that are pissing me off.

I thought you never apologize?
That's okay. I don't consider myself really a member of either party.
Many people weren't necessarily huge fans of Kerry. They just didn't want Bush again. I was and am angry at being lied to and misled. That was the largest issue for me.

[patlajan]

Awwww what a sweet moment.

[GSTracer05]

Awwww what a sweet moment.

More like someone managing to crawl his way out of the ditch he dug moment. Nice save.

[loseyourname]

loseyourname, dont you think that if we have control of the oil in iraq that we shouldnt be paying $2.90 per galon for it? when we didnt have control of it we were paying $0.99 up to $1.50 the most... but aparently this administration like to make profits and the LA times reports this in the back of the paper editorials where ordinary people wont read it... but the real conservative and the real republican would read it... Exxon, Mobil, and Taxaco have made Record breaking profits in the hisorty of their compnay... the CEOs have raised their salaries but regular workers have not gotten the same raises they used... for example all companies used to give the minum raise which was the inflation factor, but now its half of the inflation factor for the past 2 years...

In April of this year, the average gasoline price in the US was $1.76 per gallon, slightly higher in California and in large cities. In Britain it was $5.38 a gallon, in the Netherlands, it was $5.69 a gallon, in Germany it was $5.01, and in France it was $4.78. Are they paying more because European CEO's are making record-breaking salaries? Nope - they pay more because of their governments tax systems.

As to your question about controlling oil in Iraq, we actually don't import much oil from Iraq. In fact, as of May 2003, the nearest exact numbers I could get, the top five exporters of oil to the US were Saudi Arabia at 17.8%, Canada at 16.5%, Venezuela at 12.8%, Mexico at 12.0%, and Nigeria at 7.5%. A good deal of the raise in price per-barrel of crude oil can be attributed to the civil war in Venezuela, unrest in Nigeria as well as other South American and African exporters, and the rising demand from growing and opening markets in China. Of course, the number one source of high oil prices has always been and always will be OPEC, a cartel that would be illegal in the free-market United States. If I were you, I wouldn't trust anything the LA Times had to say about economics.

[Anonymouse]

If I were you, I wouldn't trust anything the LA Times had to say about economics.

This is the best piece of advice I've heard you give, ever. The rest of you profane in economics would be well served to heed this. Instead I offer a better source of free market economics.

https://www.mises.org

[nunechka]

this is great

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/05/voting.problems.ap/index.html

[nunechka]

loseyourname the la times wasnt giving an economics analysis, what it does along with every other major newspaper, is that it reports in the business section the news about business... for example we had to use the business sections of the NYtimes and LAtimes to pick stocks and measure stock value and essentially come up with our own economic analysis, they provide what is available to everyone for publically traded companies... they give the stock value, the quarterly earnings vs. profits, dividends, etc... and so if you were following these companies earnings and profits, you would see a funny trend that did NOT look good for the people, but it looked EXCELLENT for business (for oil company profits)

just because i said LAtimes it doesnt mean that they are wrong... i dont only read one newspaper, and unlike the president i actually do read the newspaper, and i do excerside critical thought...

i am a business person myself... i was offered a job to work for american express as a value analyst for companies, which means i would be investigating whether or not it was a good idea to invest in a certain company or not... and at this point, if you've got money, then my professional advice is put it in oil and defense... you will be more then a little content with the money you make...

but you see i have a human side and that side tells me that it may not be good for the people of this planet if defense and oil are the larges profitors... anything that has to be made in a company that associates itself with defense 90% of the time will not be good for the people... but then again, looking at it from a business perspective it is one of the most lucritive times of the decade...

latime or nytimes, or the boston globe, or the denver post, whatever, the fact of the matter is that the most objective data in the newspaper is a bunch of numbers in the business section...

you think about it... how come the prices are so high? who is screwing who? well it looks like the american people are getting screwed by american oil companies who just so happen to be best friends from the bush family... do you want to associate yourself with them??? i dont...

[Anonymouse]

loseyourname the la times wasnt giving an economics analysis, what it does along with every other major newspaper, is that it reports in the business section the news about business... for example we had to use the business sections of the NYtimes and LAtimes to pick stocks and measure stock value and essentially come up with our own economic analysis, they provide what is available to everyone for publically traded companies... they give the stock value, the quarterly earnings vs. profits, dividends, etc... and so if you were following these companies earnings and profits, you would see a funny trend that did NOT look good for the people, but it looked EXCELLENT for business (for oil company profits)

just because i said LAtimes it doesnt mean that they are wrong... i dont only read one newspaper, and unlike the president i actually do read the newspaper, and i do excerside critical thought...

i am a business person myself... i was offered a job to work for american express as a value analyst for companies, which means i would be investigating whether or not it was a good idea to invest in a certain company or not... and at this point, if you've got money, then my professional advice is put it in oil and defense... you will be more then a little content with the money you make...

but you see i have a human side and that side tells me that it may not be good for the people of this planet if defense and oil are the larges profitors... anything that has to be made in a company that associates itself with defense 90% of the time will not be good for the people... but then again, looking at it from a business perspective it is one of the most lucritive times of the decade...

latime or nytimes, or the boston globe, or the denver post, whatever, the fact of the matter is that the most objective data in the newspaper is a bunch of numbers in the business section...

you think about it... how come the prices are so high? who is screwing who? well it looks like the american people are getting screwed by american oil companies who just so happen to be best friends from the bush family... do you want to associate yourself with them??? i dont...

How are the oil companies screwing the "American people"? Halliburton is not plural, and 90% of Halliburton has nothing to do with anything related to Bush or Cheney. It's one subset of the company that is involved in all these things, I forget the name.

[nunechka]

http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2003/03/ma_287_01.html

http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2003/08/we_529_02b.html

my favorites just dont forget to turn up your volume:

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/fiore/2004/10/10_200.html

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/fiore/2004/08/08_202.html

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/fiore/2004/09/09_204.html

[Anonymouse]

Two things. One, you are horrible at sarcasm. Two, you were just waiting for someone to disagree for you to post your feminist links. Not that I ever denied Halliburton oil escapades, however, the corporation itself has produced alot of important and productive things. My only point was all this Halliburton hoopla is geared only to one sub company of the entire thing which is in charge of these deals. No go run along with the profane jumping fences, as that is where mindless sheep belong.