I saw that clown in today's paper.
Funny how he can probably afford gas prices at 4-5 dollars per gallon, being a rich columnist.
I, and most others I know, simply can't afford $4 or $5 for a gallon of gas. If my city had a better bus system, I would gladly use it.
I like Samuelson,always have,and he's right on the money.
I probably wasted a gallon of gas this morning on a bunch of meaningless errands and will probably do the same thing tomorrow.
Higher gasoline prices would make me sit up and pay attention.
And not someone living in rural southwestern Virginia (or pick your place of choice) who commutes (with his three or four riders) a hundred miles or so every day.
Yeah, I know what some will say. Living where he does is his choice. He can pack up and move to be closer to his job--just so he can afford to get to his job.
Or, he can become a true individual, a really self-reliant man, by quitting his job, staying put, and going whole hog into subsistence farming and bartering. That'll work.
But, what we really get . . . eventually . . . are whole sections of the country massing on their politicians' front porch, screaming bloody murder for relief. Price controls . . . with all their failings . . . immediately come to mind.
Cheap gasoline at the pump is good for American business.
Samuelson is a Keynsian gas bag.