[snugs]

You maybe willing and ready and eager to do so but I doubt the majority of the country are. Why are sales so popular why are discount stores so popular.

I am not having a go at your or anyone who is willing to pay more I say well done.

I realise there is a group that are willing to do so hence the appearance in many main stream shops of fairtrade goods often produced by multinational companies.

However I still say that the majority of people will not want to and it will reflect on whatever party is in power at the time if they have to pay more when re-election comes up.

[Bahbah]

George Will is snarlingly distainful of Fred Thompson. This fact alone may push me into the Thompson camp.

[bray]

Everyone was willing to pay more for gas until they started forking out $3/gal. Easy to say until it hits them and then we start hearing how evil the oil companies are. Notice how the enviromentalists are not taking credit for these high prices, cowards.

Now conservatives are willing to pay more for food, housing and clothing until they have to fork out the money. Economic Depressions are “cathartic” until your in one.

President Bush doesn’t have that rhetorical luxury.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Mo1]

However I still say that the majority of people will not want to and it will reflect on whatever party is in power at the time if they have to pay more when re-election comes up.

You're right again .. majority of voters tend to vote with their wallets

Same with businesses .. most will pay $10-15 for a pair of jeans at Walmart/Kmart instead of $250 for a pair of jeans on Rodeo Drive that thier kids will grow out of in 6 months

[roses of sharon]

It reminds me of the public falling for decades of slanderous ads against Republicans/Conservatives, claiming they want to destroy the environment, poison the water and air, kill the protected animals and such.

Only to find themselves paying $4 bucks a gallon for gas, and THEN bi*ching and moaning about that! And falling for a new round of ads claiming that the evil Bush and his evil oil companies are in a conspiracy together.

Good grief, this nonsensical decision making by Americans come about with a massive liberal “news” media propagandizing serious issues, of which I could name 10 more!

[SnarlinCubBear]

Come on - we pay for their livlihood now in many ways - unseen ways. Mandated by the gov’ment ways. Healthcare being the foremost. We pay for their babies being born, emergencies to ER, food stamps. So we pay 4 cents more for a head of lettuce - so what? I’m fairly sure if the really cheap labor went away someone would invest in R&D to find a MACHINE that would do the job.

You know, it’s heartbreaking too to see them living under our bridges, carrying their belongings around on a backpack. I go into my grocery store at night, and there they are, huddled in the aisles trying to find the beans and tortillas, smelling like campfire.

Then they look you over, up and down and it gets menacing. I watched a group of them hang like vultures in a truck, eyeing a white gal about 18 who was waiting for her ride home from work. I approached her and offered her a ride. Some of these people are not only poor and needy, but perverts as well. They are hiding in plain sight.