Surrealness

[RSBDavid]

A lot of people never expected $4.00+ gas prices in the United States. I remember when gas was $1.09 a gallon for unleaded and less for diesel. I remember when you could get a 20oz bottle of mountain dew for 95 cents not $1.49. The housing Market is a wreck. The cost of living in general is astronomical. I mean over 40 dollars a month just for our well water (which is very hard[mineral-wise]). To get an education to afford to cover that is not a walk in the park. I did plan on going to University of Cambridge instead of somewhere here in the states. I am not sure If I can afford the housing, books, and tuition yet.

 

 

 

What is your view on the inflation and all the stuff that is happening around us?

[DUELMASTER30]

I think it is just disgusting what has happened to America, but with tuition, some colleges already do this and more are starting to, but if you make <100k a year tuition books and board are free.

[deloriagod]

I think all these rising prices are total [cabbage]. I've got a year left in high school then I'm going off to college. I honestly don't know how I'm going to make it happen though if prices keep going up. At this point, my parents' business is about to go under, we're filing bankrupcy, and we have no saving account. Last summer I couldn't find a job in my area. This year the "Flood of '08" hit my area HARD. There's a lot of people out of jobs in my area and there's nothing open for me to try to help out my family (though I am currently doing some graphic design for my karate studio, but it's currently not paying anything). I'm really hoping there's a big turn around in the next few years because this country is about to be [bleep]ed.

[RSBDavid]

I think it is just disgusting what has happened to America, but with tuition, some colleges already do this and more are starting to, but if you make <100k a year tuition books and board are free.

 

 

 

Do you mean Colleges in the UK or America? My dad works at General Motors and makes <60,000 a year and we dont qualify for anything like that here in America because we make too much for government grants and too little to afford college... Damn Middle-class-ness

[Da Pirates]

It isn't the 50's anymore, get used to it.

[InkofDeath]

To be honest it's a lot worse in Canada than in the U.S. in my opinion. Comparing tuition fees there's a major difference in price. Jobs? Already taken by immigrants. Honestly you need a sword and good connections to actually get a job. >.>

[deloriagod]

It isn't the 50's anymore, get used to it.

 

 

 

:wall: Go back to 4chan if that's all you've got to say. The past 7 years have been [cabbage] with this worthless war (aside from getting rid of Saddam), rising prices, etc.

[RSBDavid]

To be honest it's a lot worse in Canada than in the U.S. in my opinion. Comparing tuition fees there's a major difference in price. Jobs? Already taken by immigrants. Honestly you need a sword and good connections to actually get a job. >.>

 

 

 

We have a problem with immigrants as well. I heard its a 20 year wait to become an official American for legal Immigrants.

[Shiny]

It is total [bleep] [cabbage]. My family is quite rich, and we live in a very privileged area. I'd say New Zealand hasn't been hit as hard, because we have heaps of opportunities for food, and that my parents can afford to go shopping each week and buy petrol and stuff. But heaps of people here are out of Jobs, it's the elections so there's general chaos here.Not good. I think people should just burn all the coins (well....melt them) and just trade using bartering of objects. Much, much easier. And then there's global warming, the food crisis and oil. Man really does suck.

[deloriagod]

To be honest it's a lot worse in Canada than in the U.S. in my opinion. Comparing tuition fees there's a major difference in price. Jobs? Already taken by immigrants. Honestly you need a sword and good connections to actually get a job. >.>

 

 

 

We have a problem with immigrants as well. I heard its a 20 year wait to become an official American for legal Immigrants.

 

 

 

Here in Iowa there was a factory that got busted for having over 400 illegal immigrants working there.

[RSBDavid]

It isn't the 50's anymore, get used to it.

 

 

 

I am from the 1990's, I am 17 not 58 or w/e.

 

 

 

 

They took our jobs!.

[InkofDeath]

We have a problem with immigrants as well. I heard its a 20 year wait to become an official American for legal Immigrants.

 

True, but 300million to 30million, America has 800k legal, but we get 260k in one place. We're much more pushed around then the U.S. is by immigrants. America they spread out a lot more through-out the country along the eastern side, in Canada it's all near Lake Ontario where they go.

[Agunimon979]

And then there's global warming,

 

 

 

How did global warming affect New Zealand?

[Barihawk]

It isn't the 50's anymore, get used to it.

 

 

 

:wall: Go back to 4chan if that's all you've got to say. The past 7 years have been [cabbage] with this worthless war (aside from getting rid of Saddam), rising prices, etc.

 

 

 

The war has nothing to do with it. Gas prices have nothing to do with inflation, but OPEC. And it's not just the US that's feeling this pressure. OPEC has decided to screw the whole world on oil just to line their pockets.

 

 

 

As for tuitions, that's up to the colleges, which have to adjust to match their spending on expansion. I had to deal with $3000 dollars worth of increase over the four years I spent in school. My oldest sister went to college in the 90's and it was just as bad.

 

 

 

As for everything else, prices rise. The war is not the only factor causing us to have this sort of thing. The housing market got screwed because of legislation and a lack of forethought that happened almost a decade ago.

 

 

 

It's not just the US that's feeling problems. Inflation hits the whole world, you know. All the currencies are so linked that it's a forgone conclusion.

 

 

 

As for gas prices, I remember when it cost 98 cents back in the 80's :P.

[angryjoe]

Gas prices have nothing to do with inflation, but OPEC. And it's not just the US that's feeling this pressure. OPEC has decided to screw the whole world on oil just to line their pockets.

 

TBF, are you saying that you wouldn't do the same in their situation. They have a product with an almost completely inelastic demand, they might aswell get all they can for it.

[dsavi]

AARGH I hate it when Americans complain about gas prices- You have it freakin' easy. 4.09$, That's less than half of what Europeans pay- In Finland it is currently around 11$ per gallon.

[Vincent]

greed sucks. the politicians have cleared the path for the corporations and others to make their huge profits and suck america dry. cant say people didnt warn you.

 

 

 

what do you expect after two bush presidencies. i say people need to stand up and take notice of THE THINGS their government does. but people dont and then they face the consequence of that.

 

 

 

also living in a glutenous society driven by personal wants and needs doesnt help the situation.

 

 

 

pass the buck. it's what everyone does. more to say but, if you're a realist, manage things how they are.

 

 

 

and i dont read the off-topic forum usually because people post outrageous things just to get a reaction and i have other reasons.

 

 

 

Comparing a BAD situation with another bad situation doesnt help things. both are bad situations. Try to focus on solutions.

 

 

 

america is fed spoonful after spoonful of bull feces that postures itself as "news". america isnt alone in that. basically you have a situation and a society that does not look outside its own personal self-interests and does not take the time or make the effort to question the actions or motives of those in power. /post ;)

[Randox]

To be honest it's a lot worse in Canada than in the U.S. in my opinion. Comparing tuition fees there's a major difference in price. Jobs? Already taken by immigrants. Honestly you need a sword and good connections to actually get a job. >.>

 

 

 

Amen to that. There are 2 reasons why I can get a job. 1st is that most lifegaurds go to other provinces or the states to make truck loads of money (the USA LOVES canadian lifegaurds) and the 2nd reason seems to be that most immigrants either don't swim or its not worth their time to get qualified.

 

 

 

That and up here were so bent on gender and racial equality that its near immpossible for a white male to get a deccent job. We have all these immegrints filling up everything (and an awful lot of misdiagnosed cancer patients who had immigrant doctors). Our health care is free but if you wan't surgery in the century your put on the list it needs to be pretty serious, ie vital to your life or livelyhood (such as people who income depends on sports).

 

 

 

As a point of interest, I like the aisans the most. They have an amazing work ethic that absolutly shames everyone else in the country (native and immigrant alike), and they keep there own culture confined to their home. Seriously, in public, when they move to Canada they actualy make a deccent effort to adopt the local culture, blend in and become canadian. Can't say the same for the other immigrants or ... hmph, there is no good way to say that so I will try a different approch. Lets just say there is immense resentment in the english speeking Canada towards one particular province and I expect they feel much the same way about all the english provences (I think New Brunswick is quite neutral in this). I don't know why we resist the separation, I would think we would speed it up and let them find out they won't be working for our fedural government or using our money once they leave. That and the sizeable native american population there would probably size control of the former province just like when they blockaded the borders the last time separation was thretened.

[BlueLancer]

AARGH I hate it when Americans complain about gas prices- You have it freakin' easy. 4.09$, That's less than half of what Europeans pay- In Finland it is currently around 11$ per gallon.

 

 

 

Heh, Finland doesn't even have it THAT bad.

 

 

 

Turkey: $13 per gallon. You'd think that by geographical association, they'd have cheap oil and thus cheap petrol, but they don't.

 

 

 

Seriously, if gas cost as much in the USA as it did in Turkey, the vast majority of american society would collapse overnight. Almost EVERYTHING in society relies on petrol availability at affordable prices.

[Agunimon979]

 

Seriously, if gas cost as much in the USA as it did in Turkey, the vast majority of american society would collapse overnight. Almost EVERYTHING in society relies on petrol availability at affordable prices.

 

 

 

Sadly, that's the end of our world :(

[Stilev]

blah blah blah the world is ending we get this same crap ever 15-20 years, WW2 and hitler, the cold war, communism, the american empire, a nuclear holocasut, there is always some doom's day around the conor, until doomsdays happens, could people stop panicing and acting like this is the end, it has happened so many times its kinna getting old

 

 

 

EDIT: for got to tell you all, the unemployment rate in america is ridicouly low right now, why people freak out about this stuff is beyond me, currently there are more jobs then employess, and illegal immgration has also had drop 18% since last year, and like 50% since 2006

[1_man_army]

AARGH I hate it when Americans complain about gas prices- You have it freakin' easy. 4.09$, That's less than half of what Europeans pay- In Finland it is currently around 11$ per gallon.

 

 

 

Heh, Finland doesn't even have it THAT bad.

 

 

 

Turkey: $13 per gallon. You'd think that by geographical association, they'd have cheap oil and thus cheap petrol, but they don't.

 

 

 

Seriously, if gas cost as much in the USA as it did in Turkey, the vast majority of american society would collapse overnight. Almost EVERYTHING in society relies on petrol availability at affordable prices.

 

 

 

That's so very true. In the Shetland Islands they're only a mile or so away from where the oil comes out of the ground. However, not only do they have to pay the already ridiculous price for petrol, they also have an additional cost because it's difficult to deliver shipments back into remote areas (it has to go south for refining etc).

[Orpheus]

And yet, for some odd reason, my dad is over in Iraq, and he says gas in Baghdad is 30 cents a gallon in USD. OPEC needs to stop charging so much for gas. I guess I won't be moving much.

[Georgelemmons]

This is why I have over 1k miles on my bike :

 

 

 

Tbh, I'm not sure what I'll do for a job... I'm kinda worried :ohnoes:

[bronzewarrior]

I think it is just disgusting what has happened to America, but with tuition, some colleges already do this and more are starting to, but if you make <100k a year tuition books and board are free.

 

 

 

Do you mean Colleges in the UK or America? My dad works at General Motors and makes <60,000 a year and we dont qualify for anything like that here in America because we make too much for government grants and too little to afford college... Damn Middle-class-ness

 

Stanford did something like that. <180k gets some cookies

 

<35k gets the whole jar or something.

 

My sis just finished taking her board exams for med school, not another free day for the rest for the rest of her life. Med schoole every day till graduation, then residency then practicing.