Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
1. How are rising gasoline prices -- No change: 34%
affecting your ability to get -- Considering finding a job that
to work? is closer to home: 31%
-- Purchased a more fuel-efficient
vehicle: 6%
-- Sharing a ride with others: 6%
-- Changed jobs for a shorter
commute: 5%
-- Using public transportation
more often: 5%
-- Working from home or alternate
location: 3%
-- Other: 10%
Reduced spending on entertainment and hobbies was reported by nearly 65 percent of the respondents. Other responses to high fuel costs include:
Note: Results exceed 100 percent because participants were allowed to
select all choices that apply. _________________ "The problems of today will not be solved by the same thinking that produced the problems in the first place." - Albert Einstein
1. How are rising gasoline prices -- No change: 34%
affecting your ability to get -- Considering finding a job that
to work? is closer to home: 31%
-- Purchased a more fuel-efficient
vehicle: 6%
-- Sharing a ride with others: 6%
-- Changed jobs for a shorter
commute: 5%
-- Using public transportation
more often: 5%
-- Working from home or alternate
location: 3%
-- Other: 10%
Reduced spending on entertainment and hobbies was reported by nearly 65 percent of the respondents. Other responses to high fuel costs include:
Note: Results exceed 100 percent because participants were allowed to
select all choices that apply.
Well, I coulda told em this stuff without the survey. I have pretty much been impacted the same way. We earn the same amount of money as we always did (more when considered the paltry 'raises' we get annually, but its an insignificant ammount) but we find we can not save as much, we are buying less, doing less, go to fewer movies, dinners and the like. The grocery bill has gone up and the gas bill has gone up. Even with changing electric companies and phone companies to save $10.00 here and there we can not amass as large a savings as we could 5 years ago. We find we have to bust into that savings account more often to cover daily living expenses.
Now some of this is our doing. We have doubled the house payment working on equity in the house for a sell in 2-3 years. (hope I have that long left before homes are unsellable and property is still buyable or its not all just taken away by insurgents or emminant domain). But even figuring in the double house payment, the budget does not add up like it once did. We are being impacted right now as we speak. The more they wrangle in the ME, the more we are impacted, without corrective COL raises or anything. So yeah, all pples will be impacted to a degree. Rich pple wont feel it as much as the middle class who wont feel it as much as the poor. I used to consider myself middle class, now I am hovering above poverty. I feel like I cant get enough of what I need when I need it. I find having to not take a summer vacation so we can outfit the kids for school next year really sucks, but this is what I have been planning for so its not like a shock, just highly dissappointing and frustrating. And its only gunna get worse. Kowing this provides little comfort, except the fact I wont be caught totally offguard like many pple will be in the next few years.
edit: Know that we are not spending more money on the house, we have paid off one car and have 3 montsh left on the other, so the double payment is really just a transfer of funds dfrom a car company to the mortgage company. So thats why I say even doubling the payments we are saving 100 bucks buy paying 2 house payments and 1 car payment. In three monthswhen the 2nd car is paid for we will have a few more bucks of discretionary spending power, but that will be taken up by home improvements and other things. Its all budgeted and accounted for, its just does not go as far as it used too. Due to PO. Its impact is real and far reaching, and long lasting I am beginning to suspect.
Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject: Re: Manpower Survey Finds High Fuel Costs Impacting Workers
thethief wrote:
Oil needs to get expensive enough that poors stop using the freeways so much. If half the cars were off the road things we be so much faster.
Yeah, it's always those damn poor people screwing up our fun, right?
_________________ "It's called the American Dream because you'd have to be asleep to believe it."
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject: Re: Manpower Survey Finds High Fuel Costs Impacting Workers
thethief wrote:
...poors...
New usage. Never heard that one before. _________________ "Thank you for attending the oil age. We're going to scrape what we can out of these tar pits in Alberta and then shut down the machines and turn out the lights. Goodnight." - seldom_seen
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