Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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What if you work in that grocery store ?? Someone has to... How many hours do you have to work to fill your tank at $3 - $4/gal -- the cost being related mostly to rampant speculation and questionable trading practice in a completely non-regulated energy trading market.

Yes, as the once thiving middle class continues to shrink -- and the ever widening class divide grows, we really are witnessing "the best of times, and the worst of times" -- depending on your end of the class divide... It is Reaganomics run amuck. No system survives without rules. Regulation should attempt to balance consumer protection without stifling business. But some measure of regulation is essential to the success of any system...

When we were kids, my grandmother told us about elderly people who used to eat cat food. We don't hear about that stuff anymore...