What's Your Line in the Sand? The $25 Burger?
Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 4 months ago to Government
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"What's your line in the sand, the point at which you simply refuse to pay the asking price? Is it the $25 burger? Or is it the $50 for two burritos and two beverages?
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For others, it might be the outrageous estimate for repairing a system failure in a nearly-new vehicle that is (surprise!) no longer covered by the manufacturer's warranty. Hundreds of dollars for what?
Is it being stripmined to buy a hot dog and beer at a sporting event, or the "service charge" to buy a grossly overpriced ticket to a concert?
Or is it having to take out a second mortgage to cover the entrance fees to an amusement park?
Maybe it's the shockingly high cost of what used to be dirt-cheap--a camping permit in a state or national park. (When camping becomes an expensive outing, the Revolutionary Clock is getting close to midnight.)
Could it be the absurdly inflated cost of cable TV service, or the total cost of all those subscriptions for marginal content/entertainment spew?"
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I've refused to buy lots of times due to 100% price increases in the past year.
It's long past time to take government matters into our own hands, since we are the ones who are supposed to be the owners of America.
"What's your line in the sand, the point at which you simply refuse to pay the asking price? Is it the $25 burger? Or is it the $50 for two burritos and two beverages?
...
For others, it might be the outrageous estimate for repairing a system failure in a nearly-new vehicle that is (surprise!) no longer covered by the manufacturer's warranty. Hundreds of dollars for what?
Is it being stripmined to buy a hot dog and beer at a sporting event, or the "service charge" to buy a grossly overpriced ticket to a concert?
Or is it having to take out a second mortgage to cover the entrance fees to an amusement park?
Maybe it's the shockingly high cost of what used to be dirt-cheap--a camping permit in a state or national park. (When camping becomes an expensive outing, the Revolutionary Clock is getting close to midnight.)
Could it be the absurdly inflated cost of cable TV service, or the total cost of all those subscriptions for marginal content/entertainment spew?"
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I've refused to buy lots of times due to 100% price increases in the past year.
It's long past time to take government matters into our own hands, since we are the ones who are supposed to be the owners of America.
Cable, cut. Toys, out. Entertainment, out. Tourism, out. Restaurants, out. I can live as frugal as need be. There will be pain. Lots of businesses are going to die. We are in recession, teetering on depression.
Thank's to that asswipe, election stealing Grifter with Dementia. What will 30 to 50 million illegal aliens are going to do to the fabric of our society? Trader Joe and the Hoe.
Elections have Consequences -The Kayan, Stolen Elections have Catastrophic Consequences -Steven K Bannon
More recently, I package I sent to my other brother in Florida somehow got stranded in Puerto Rico. It took about a month for it to eventually get to the right place.
It's hardly surprising that someone with an above average IQ and self-interest incentive can prepare
food better than a 3rd world employee who only performs as well as required to stay employed. ;^)
As demonstrated in AS, such activity can be very satisfying, even for one-time intellectual giants, too.
Management of sole owner restaurants have been regulated and force-mandated into bankruptcy,
so free market competition is much reduced for once good quality chain restaurants, too.
Having to hire morons by their skin color instead of ability nearly guarantees poor service and
product even if the owner has good intentions.
My home-cooked steaks have always been as good or better than the best of the best restaurants.
BTW, I have a new smoker to practice with, and last night's pork chops were excellent.
I have my eye on a couple of hardwood trees on the property to take down and split for future cooking.
Banksters, Wall St., DC politicians, lawyers, judges and bureaucrats have set the (unpunished) criminal examples for everyone to see.
I have stopped eating out (twice this year).
We used to eat out 1-2 times a week, 2015 and earlier. Just for dinner, with me having Weekly business luncheons.
First, the food sucks, and is unsafe for me to eat.
Second, they are now lying. Calling things PRIME that are clearly NOT! (happened in vegas to my neighbor. Paid $100+ for a Prime Steak that tasted about the same as a Walmart Angus steak). His restaurant friend confirmed it.
I have upped my stash to 180 days of canned food, and 45 days of frozen...
I simply refuse to pay for a steak that I do a better job with at home (in 2015, that was NOT the case), but I've now cooked over 2,000 steaks for myself... I Can screw a steak up, and it still be better than I get when I pay too much!
The carrier, the next day walks by, he is waiting, says he has NOTHING for him. He shows him the photo on the phone. The carrier says "Oh" reaches into a special pocket in his bag, and hands it to him.
My buddy reported this. Him and his mom have gotten things CLEARLY removed from their envelopes (loyalty coupons, in one case, and a SILVER coin in another).
We are falling apart... By Design!
Raised prices are just the result of the government destroying the value of the dollar.
For me as well as others, the first thing we do is cut back on the least important things so as to keep the total spending equal to the total income.
That means no more directv, downsizing auto purchases, forget new off road vehicles, forget sit down restaurants, forget moving to a better house, and in face forget about improvements to the existing house, in fact probably selling the existing house and moving into a pay as you go apartment.
(That is only if they are out of stock of what you ordered.)
You can opt out of the substitution at online checkout, but if you forget you can also refuse to accept it at delivery.
You can also suggest your own substitution at that time and they may accept if it's reasonable.
I did that not long ago when I got an email saying they were doing a substitution.
I checked in the store first and took a photo of my choice of substitution and they went inside
and completed the order with it.
i keep it in my the butt stock of my M16A2 clone
let me get it out....
:-)
(had 6+ the day Trump was sworn in)
now, i'll just make them at home
i think i've done maybe 3 this year when out to eat
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