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This week's show will focus on two sides of the same issue.
Why Does The Price of Life Suddenly Cost so Much to Live?
Rising prices on everything from oil, gas, food, travel etc., is making us all struggle more than ever, but why is it going up?
The other side of that question is who can change it? The President, Congress, Big Business, Government as a Whole or the People?
Come join us Sunday from 2-4pm at www.VONA.com or in the local Phoenix area at 1480 KPHX.
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Voice Radio Show Sunday 4/6/08
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Posted By: Voice Radio Posted on: Apr. 2, 2008 at 5:02 PM  24 Comments
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Apr. 3, 2008 at 06:28:34 AM
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[This is a reply to comment by Phaedrus on Apr. 2, 2008 at 08:30:38 PM]
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Apr. 2, 2008 at 08:30:38 PM Hmmm? Falling wages. Rising prices. Lenders are cratering. No jobs. Recession. View this Comment Amen. Lets change the course of this ship before we fall off the earth. The world is not flat but the neocons think this world is their instead of all of us. |
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Apr. 3, 2008 at 09:39:44 AM
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| The dropping dollar. The oil market is set against the dollar. The dollar goes down, oil goes up and transportation costs add to cost of goods business ledgers. Increase gets passed along and voila, at least one good explanation. Regulation? Keep drinking that kool-aid and it soon will be the only drink you can afford. |
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Apr. 3, 2008 at 09:58:33 AM
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| Oh thanks Cynthia, I forgot the "Bush Weak Dollar" policy. At record lows against the Euro, at it's lowest against the loony since the 70's, and the lowest levels against the Yen since the early 90's - and Japan is trying their damnedest to keep the Yen low!
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Apr. 3, 2008 at 10:54:53 PM
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| Come on people. You haven’t been paying attention to the confidence game!!
Here are the cliff notes:
The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg: Confidence Alert By AZ Moderate Published: 2008-01-08
Update: U.S. dollar's no good at the Taj Mahal The tumbling value of the US dollar led tourism officials in India to ban the ... American tourists must pony up the Taj Mahal's admission fee in rupees in ...
America The Golden Egg. We emerge unchallenged economically from the Second World War. The Golden Egg hatches. Our money is accepted globally, even though it’s just paper. The whole world has confidence in the integrity and stability of America. The dollar becomes the base currency of the world. We prosper and grow into the Golden Gosling. The world buys our treasury notes. The whole world has confidence in the integrity and stability of America. Our treasury notes become the investment of choice for foreign central banks. We mature as the Golden Goose. ... We lay the Golden Egg. ... We give the Golden Egg away. ... We kill the Golden Goose that laid the Golden Egg. ... We shake the deceased Golden Goose vigorously. ... We serve up the Golden Goose to the Gilded Owners of the farm. ... The owners pick the Golden Goose’s bones clean. ... The owners lease the farm to our creditors. ... The owners sell the farm. ... We pawn the family jewels. ... We are now homeless. ... ... Go here for the detail:
Here is the full refresher course:
Only in America: America Dreamin’ Gives Us Gas.
The Rise and Fall of the American Middle Class: A Faulty Foundation.
The Rise and Fall of the American Middle Class: The Big Idea.
The Rise and Fall of the American Middle Class: The Seeds of Destruction.
The Rise and Fall of the American Middle Class: American Dream a Global Nightmare?
The Rise and Fall of the American Middle Class: Epilogue – A World View
Health of The Economy Inflated by Core Inflation Spin.
Mush You American Consumers, Mush!
He’s Baaaaack! As the Great American consumer fades and the USD sinks.
The Rise and Fall of the American Middle Class
Mission Accomplished: Its Miller Time
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Apr. 4, 2008 at 07:41:10 AM
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| Amen, Mody! Hit'em at the gas pump and even BAA Boy notices but it's really all about jewelry -- each of the referenced articles is a pearl! Doesn't your arm ache from re-casting them again and again? I hope you were invited to participate on this show! |
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Apr. 6, 2008 at 03:20:50 PM
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| On the show today, the panel was discussing oil prices, and what the politicians could do to reduce prices. I called in and told AA that Bush said he could reduce the prices by "jawboning OPEC." His response was that Bush might have said that, but he didn't necessarily say it would work. Here is exactly what Bush said: Mr. Bush in the 2000 campaign said this about the “high” gas prices: 'I would use the capital my administration will earn with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, to convince them to open up the spigot,' Bush said. 'That's where we will get immediate relief.'" [Houston Chronicle, 6/28/00] and this "What I think the president ought to do [when gas prices spike] is he ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots...And the president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price." [President Bush, 1/26/00] 'That's where we will get immediate relief." Where is that immediate relief? |
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Apr. 6, 2008 at 03:25:00 PM
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| The reason we are struggling is because we are being turned into a plantation. The greedy industralists who run this country have managed to have their own puppet dictator installed, and we are reaping the "benefits" of his shovelling most of the money upward to his wealthy thug friends. People like Average who are concerned only with themselves are a large part of the problem. Their smug indifference to any pain other than their own is dragging all of us down. |
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Apr. 6, 2008 at 03:32:10 PM
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[This is a reply to comment by Feeman on Apr. 6, 2008 at 03:25:00 PM]
Feeman
Apr. 6, 2008 at 03:25:00 PM The reason we are struggling is because we are being turned into a plantation. The greedy industralists who run this country have managed to have their own puppet dictator installed, and we are reaping the "benefits" of his... View this Comment Amen Feeman. Oil profits...........good. Government taxes on gas to pay for roads, improvements----bad. |
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Apr. 6, 2008 at 03:32:24 PM
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| Wow, is Enron a VONA sponsor now? I mention them, going on to address Cali's energy problem from 2001, and the miracle of Gov. Pete Wilson's deregulation, and suddenly you gotta go to break? But lets hit them real quick; did any of the Republotards notice that once they went back to regulation magically, there was plenty of electricity? Also, the apples and oranges of comparing profit margins of commodity producers, to services companies. The rule with any commodity, over time, the price approaches the cost - Without an emergency situation (like water/food prices in a hurricane/ earthquake place.) Whereas service providers can get whatever the market bears; when Microsoft was the only game in town, they commanded high prices. Once Linux came along, and China thru the internets were able to sell pirated versions, prices came down for MS official products - they became a commodity. Same thing in reverse, 15 years ago, every where you went, had a water fountain. Now they sell bottled water. Comparing the operating profit margins of a commodity producer to a service industry like banking or healthcare is a dishonest comparison. Also, on Iraq's infrastructure, before 2003, Bagdad had reliable electricity, decent water and working sewers. Now, 5 years later, they have none of those - maybe 4 hours of electroc a day, many areas of the city rely on wells or bottled water, and many areas have no sewers. So how incompetent is Bush? He can't figure out that s*** runs down hill. |
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Falling wages.
Rising prices.
Lenders are cratering.
No jobs.
Recession.
And the stock market is still in the same range it was 8 years ago.
Solutions? pResident Bush and Sen. McBush and the rest of the Republotards want to cut regulations - which is what lead us to this mess.
Want the answer to all of these problems? Tarrifs and a comprehensive energy and manufacturing policy. Adam Smith never envisioned corporations that had no national alligiance pitting their nations workers against Third world slaves, or the oil/energy crisis ChuckleNuts has lead us to.
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