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The High Cost of Low Prices
The American Conservative ^
| May 22, 2006 Issue
| Marian Kester Coombs
Posted on 05/17/2006 10:55:50 AM PDT by A. Pole
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To: A. Pole
What a bunch of crap. I skimmed this article, and when I hit the pickle story, I knew this was old, tired, propaganda. Anybody who quotes jeff foxworthy needs his head examined.
To: Alberta's Child
I can't prove that, but it seems like it takes a lot of BTUs to get a barrel of oil from 2 tons of rocks. Then the resultant oil needs a lot more BTUs of processing to be useable. I'll have to do some more calculations.
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posted on
05/17/2006 7:52:41 PM PDT
by
palmer
(Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle)
To: palmer
Yes, but how much are these companies paying for the natural gas they're using? And since they're right there in Alberta instead of thousands of miles away, there's no need to transport it over a long distance via pipeline.
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posted on
05/17/2006 7:56:36 PM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
To: CIB-173RDABN
I can not think of the last time a TV quit working on me. I have replaced them for other reasons, but not because they quit working. I was a little perplexed on what happen, but never gave a thought that we were accually going backward in technology, taking fairly simple and reliable technology, and building it so cheap it will not last a year. The same thing happened to me, two new TVs in a row (different brands). The second one lasted just past the warnenty. Now I have a small color TV that was at least 10 years old when I bought it at a garage sale. So far its been working for me longer than the two new ones combined.
To: MikefromOhio
1.
WalMart is like slavery? In that both capitalism and slavery depend upon the commodification of human beings, yes. Socialism is also "like slavery" in this sense.
2. Are you F-n retarded?
Yes.
3. Human bondage and the scourge that it was in the American South HAS NOTHING to do with WalMart.
See reply 1, above.
4. You aren't forced to shop there
I don't.
5. You aren't forced to work there.
I don't.
6. Go back to DU.
B-Chan
[Freeper] since Jul 18, 1998
MikefromOhio
[Freeper] since Jun 29, 2004
No thanks, n00b. I was here first.
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posted on
05/17/2006 8:18:04 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan Any questions?)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
BTW - your comrade Willie Green has been bannedSo what did he do?
To: B-Chan
LOL
dates don't mean crap.
It's what you type.
And you talk like a DU'er.
Have fun wtih that troll.
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posted on
05/18/2006 8:46:07 AM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(aka MikeinIraq - Woohoo!! I'm on A List!!! yay!!!!)
To: CIB-173RDABN
I can not think of the last time a TV quit working on me. I have replaced them for other reasons, but not because they quit working. I was a little perplexed on what happen, but never gave a thought that we were accually going backward in technology, taking fairly simple and reliable technology, and building it so cheap it will not last a year.
Don't get me started. What has happened to phones is awful. The audio quality on them are very poor. Esp cell phones which are really bad. I've got an oldschool ATT trimline touchtone that I protect carefully, knowing that I can't get anything near that quality today.
To: Dialup Llama
We (the consumers) decided the most important thing about any product is price. Not quaility, not durability, not ease of repair, but price. The invisible hand of capitalism see to it that the collected "we" get what we want.
To: All
Wal-Mart owes its success to being the first retailer to source in a big way from China.
Kind of like Bill and Hillary, but legal.
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posted on
09/03/2007 6:18:00 PM PDT
by
ottersnot
("You cannot negotiate with evil" Ted Nugent)
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