End of the year gas prices

Sounds like a mirror image of what we get.... The liberals have been in
(federal) power for much too long.... Taxes go up, they run a defecit budget
(spend more than they get) and we have nothing to show for it (other than
the gay marriage thing.... wow, where do I sign up???). Here in Alberta, our
provincial (Conservative) government has eradicated the provincial debt, run
consecutive surplus budgets and is fighting to save social programs.

What I still can't understand is that (on both sides of the border) we
continue to pay sports figures (read as stick and/or ball types) much more
than we pay those running our respective countries. I imagine that might
have something to do with the difficulty in keeping honest people honest...

Have a happy and safe new year, anyway.


"rw" > wrote in message
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> Jim Warman wrote:
> > Kate.... your political parties have goofy names and I can't figure out
who
> > stands for what...
> >
> > Up here we have the Liberals (these are the folks that think you can
spend
> > your way out of debt)...... we have the Conservatives (more to my liking
but
> > sometimes too reserved) and everything in between -
>
> I can see why you're confused. Down here we have the liberals
> (Democrats) who believe in paying for government expenditures with
> adequate taxes and who ran a surplus in their last administration, and
> then we have the (so-called) conservatives (Republicans) who believe
> "deficits don't matter" (in the words of VP Cheney), and who are running
> record deficits in the current administration.
>
> --
> Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

Jim Warman wrote:
>
> What I still can't understand is that (on both sides of the border) we
> continue to pay sports figures (read as stick and/or ball types) much more
> than we pay those running our respective countries. I imagine that might
> have something to do with the difficulty in keeping honest people honest...

The people who run the US are corporate CEOs, and they make even more
than sports stars.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

> NW corner of University and Oakland Park had regular for 1.799
> yesterday. Haven't been by there today though.
>
> So what was wrong with the Focus, and why'd you take it to Beach Ford?
>
> Joe
> Calypso Green '93 5.0 LX AOD hatch with a few goodies
> Black '03 Dakota 5.9 R/T CC

Car started sputtering and stalling out when I was running real low on gas,
at one point the dang thing just stopped in the middle of the road while I
was turning into the parking lot at FIU. Got blasted for running out of
gas, so I figured I was just dumb and let it get too low. Then it started
stalling and losing power on steep turns like the on ramp to 95 at Miami
Gardens when I had a 1/4 tank. Then 5th gear simply fell out and died. So,
I looked up the problem on line, came to conclusion it was the fuel pump and
took it to Beach Ford since it seemed there was a recall on that problem.
First off, our first service rep got fired, then it took 4 weeks to get my
car back. After a week they finally looked at the transition (the tech who
knew how to do it had been on vacation), then ordered the part. Of course,
for a week we only had one car, so that was a headache between my job, last
week of school, and my mother's job, since they would not pay for a rental
until the extended warranty said the work was approved (the transition work
was approved, the PVC pipe was not, but I'll get back to that). We finally
got a truck for a rental, so I had the Land Yacht and mom had the Dakota.
Everytime we'd call, it was "the part's not in" or "the tech is on
vacation." Mom and I finally went down there about a week ago and told we
did were not going to pay for that rental (we'd had it over the 5 day limit,
more like 14 days). Suddenly my car was fixed and waiting for me, they just
had not called yet to tell us. However, since the PVC pipe wasn't under
warranty, we took that over to the mechanics who handle the vehicles for my
mother's office. They look at it, the PVC pipe is fine, the fuel pump over
is shot to hell. So they fixed that to the tune of about 300 bucks, and
that was with a break. They also told us the clutch is going to go soon, I
just hope that lasts for a bit longer. So, Beach Ford is evil. Spawn of
Satan. Its been added to the list of Ford dealerships we won't go to (Deel,
Gus Muchado, and now Beach)....

oh well... live and learn, eh? I'll probably be up there sometime tonight
anyway, so I'll fuel up before it gets to fumes...



patricia
00 Focus