$640.00 to fill the tanks...

Good response and on-topic also. Give that man a cigar.

Which is one of the reasons that I hate it when people put the POL
crap in front of the message subject when the thread changes a bit...
I believe that you should keep whatever the original thread started
out as... If we go with the changing the subject idea, we would need
to remove the POL from the subject for the previous reply... Why don't
we just stick with the original subject and leave it that way...

Nothing's perfect. Let's try harder to stay off topic.

Jose
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On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:00:19 GMT, Jose
wrote:

and there is always the
message that capitalism needs to be reigned in lest it go crazy and
crush the weak and weary.

And that is a valid and important message, as Microsoft, Exxon, and Sony
have demonstrated.

Not at all. This sounds like the Elephant and the blind man.
Any system has flaws and be it capitalism or socialism some one or
group will exploit that advantage.

Each of the above has been found guilty of abusing the system in one
way or another and one location or another. In the end, I think
Capitalism will reign in the abusers if enough people speak up.

Be it government, industry, or individual the larger and/or more
powerful the more temptation for abuse of the system.

Currently we are seeing those abuses in both industry and government.



Jose
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

On 16 Aug 2006 06:49:18 -0700, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

Tony Snow, "technical advisor" for our aviation video webpage (Tony is
retired RAF, and has forgotten more about aviation than I'll ever
know), confirmed for me today that it would cost $640+ for me to top
off Atlas -- our Cherokee Pathfinder -- in Great Britain.

Imagine! $640 to go fly! This *might* explain why there are only 9
registered Cherokee 235s in all of Britain, no?

No.

Then you have the costs of your flight briefing, ATC useage fees,
Landing fees, and a very restrictive system on top of the $640.



Not to worry, however. Tony has confirmed that the streets in his
hometown *are* paved with gold, and that everyone eats steak daily, for
free, thanks to the taxes those remaining 9 pilots are paying...
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Any system has flaws and be it capitalism or socialism some one or
group will exploit that advantage.

Yes. This is why we have three branches in government designed to act
as checks and balances. Captialism needs also to be balanced.
Unrestrained capitalism is bad, as is unrestrained government. But the
two together provide a better system.

The OP was praising "unrestrained capitalism".

Jose
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"Grumman-581" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:01:28 -0700, "Michelle Settle"
wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I notice that there's virtually ZERO
self-employed people below the poverty line.

So, if we have an individual who is panhandling on the street or
washing car windshields at street corners for quarters, do we still
consider them self-employed?

Would you consider them self-employed?


Of course, we're not talking about the professional bums who
supposedly actually manage to earn a decent living through their
panhandling type activities...

How about drug dealers? Contract killers?

How about the days past of 14 year-olds that mowed lawns during the summer?

G-581, leave the "blond ditz" role to me -- you fail the basic physical
qualifications.

Michelle Settle wrote:


So, if we have an individual who is panhandling on the street or
washing car windshields at street corners for quarters, do we still
consider them self-employed?


Would you consider them self-employed?

Nope, lazy SOB's.

Would you consider them self-employed?
Nope, lazy SOB's.

Actually, in the Carribian islands, washing windshields and selling
things streetside is a normal (and valued) way of doing business.

Jose
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"Grumman-581" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:50:52 GMT, ktbr wrote:
The war on poverty has been going on for 40 years in the country.
Today there are roughly the same percentage of people living below
the 'poverty' line as there were back then. Has it been a successful
effort?

The definition of 'poverty' is quite a bit depending upon the country
that you happen to be in... You might very well find that the
individuals who consider themselves living in poverty here in the US
still have a TV and VCR... This might be considered someone who is
well off in other countries... It's all subjective...

TV & VCR? Ha! Try Big screen and home theater with a gar with $4000 rims.

"Newps" wrote in message
...


Jay Honeck wrote:



The price may well become unbearable, however. (Although prices here
on all grades of gas have dropped 5% in the last week or two.)
--

Oil and gas are on the way down.


You must remember that Aug 22 is the end of the world so all of this really
doesn't matter.

Gig 601XL Builder wrote:




You must remember that Aug 22 is the end of the world so all of this really
doesn't matter.

Well good, my annual is due by Aug 31st. You just saved me some money.