Anyone else feel the same?

[tagyak]

Originally Posted by Drake

Every time I fill my Jeep up for $90 I can't help but think...

Theres a new reel..... theres a new rod.....

I always look at my expenditures in terms of what piece of fishing gear I could have gotten.

I need to start riding my bike more =/

yup, felt the same way each time that i filled up my sequoia. $160 a week and that was when gas was below $4.
since then bought a used prius and loving the new mileage. now only costing me $120 AMONTH and driving more miles too. now with the savings get to buy other chit!!! just don't tell my wife......

PS -Jerry you are the man; you have poetically put my feelings into words

[ful-rac]

Originally Posted by seriola_killer

Jeezus! We could name hundreds of things that our tax money goes to that never seem to pan out. Dept. of Education, Nat'l. Endowment of the Arts, Needle Exchange Programs, etc...

Hey don't forget our tax payer money did go to making a pretty cool music video..! And an all taxpayer paid awards ceremony for said video in vegas!

Taxpayer gas: $4.00=
Fed Employee: $0.00+ Gov vehicle+awards ceremony/vacation+per diem+regular pay=
Federal employees.....God bless'em! They are truly gods people!

[Yakin]

Originally Posted by Devildawgjj

It's more than that....


http://www.api.org/Oil-and-Natural-Gas-Overview/Industry-Economics/~/media/Files/Statistics/gasoline-diesel-summary.ashx

LETS MOVE TO ALASKA AND KILL SOME GAINT HALI!!

[robmandel]

here's the real story ( I teach econ in high school and formerly at local junior college)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/defa...ets/tables.pdf

table S-4

Mandatory spending (soc. sec, medicare, ALL entitlements): $2073 billion
Interest on Debt: $230 billion

Tax Reciepts (all sources): $2303 billion

In other words EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR of tax revenue goes to entitlements and debt service. The paperclips on your congressshit's desk were paid for with borrowed (i.e. printed by the fed) money. The bullets our servicemen are shooting at the bad guys, yep, on the credit card. Etc.

the federal government is simply a middleman between those who earn income and those third parties who claim some part of other's income as their birthright, who've done nothing for it other than demand it. Oh, and vote for "the state", as it has the guns to take it from you and give it to them.

end the system of fiat, debt-backed currency.

I have a funny example of this. I collect/invest in "junk silver", pre-'65 coins with NO collector value. I brought in a 1951 quarter to class. In 1951, it bought almost a gallon of gas. Today, it buys MORE than a gallon of gas. That's correct, a quarter will purchase a gallon of gas. But it has to be a real quarter, made out of real metal. Real money never loses value, it only increases in value.

but of course that would reign in the state. it would end the welfare/warfare state.

one can only dream. in the meantime, I'll try to find time to fish!!

[Devildawgjj]

Originally Posted by robmandel

here's the real story ( I teach econ in high school and formerly at local junior college)

Have you shown your students Zeitgeist: Addendum?

I had to watch it for one of my graduate classes. It definitely raised some eye' brows. I recommend spending the time and watching all of it!

Start a 5:00 and watch it from there....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT-2fenmLnc