average joe American, probably right. It has been a long time, a time I can't even remember, when we didn't get the shaft for a bone.

Oh more politics. yea  Heh Americans have woke up. Good for the stock holders though as I always hope they do well. But, oh, politics again.

Good info for thewbie. General knowledge for those who have already tried everything else. Note: Food banks, shelters,   food is running out and it takes 1 or more years to get into a homeless shelter as you must get on a waiting list. Section 8 housing is also years in waiting and usually costs more than a low cost ...more

That sounds great. Maube all the unemployed, minimum wage, $12 an hour workers can buy    two   vacation homes at such a reasonable price. Probably cost at least 40 grand to build the dumps. I see the great price of a home here for $64,900 in a real nice crabby neoborhood. Even that would take working 160 per week, ass...more

Don't forget about save the minnow....Let mankind be on the bottom of the food chain...Gotta save that minnow......I wonder how much money those people have to shut down jobs to save that minnow..Oh no, a minnow becomes extinct...But Captain picard, it is a true life form. It has the same right to live as anything else...more

Istarted the same way, but mowing lawns to paper route and started at 10. Unfortunately I wasn't needed at the military due to deafness and yep, my sister got to go to college. I worked and feel the same. Why do you think I named myself idiot man? I should have been a slacker because then at least I would have my healt...more

Yep. Create a society that is 99% dependent on gasoline and then take away the gasoline.  I wonder how many of us realize the real repercussions. We talk about how gas at $10 a gallon will affect us. Darned Hummers? The entire network will shut down. What is the alledged unemployment rate now? Well, at $10 a gallon, mo...more

Well, if the US is stupid enough to let gas get that high when we can pump it ourselves for less all knowing we have at least 200 years worth of oil now, which gives us ample time to convert to hybrids w.o starving everyone and further deatroy the US economy, then it is obviously a planned intentional act and in the en...more

Am curious if Del Monte is selling out to some foreign investor that will take more jobs to their country, impose their country's beliefs on the remaining USA employees, and see more layoffs, more American familes paid off, and help in bankrupting America, all for the good thing called money with no concern for those w...more