Stories from the Sales Frontlines

Replying to: cdnpinhead (Jan 12, 2009 7:04 pm)

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Replying to: richard64 (Jan 12, 2009 2:32 pm)

If I bought the cop car off of ebay, I could also buy the outfit and really scare some people on the road.
 
My cousin lives in Mexico City. Check out how he painted his beater car. He gets pulled over all the time, but apparently it's not illegal to impersonate a foreign police car.
 

Replying to: explorerx4 (Jan 12, 2009 7:00 pm)

let me guess, it was speculators.
the reason the bottom fell out of prices: you actually had to be able to take delivery of the oil.
 
Yes, you are close and even more amazing...prices kept spiking while demand was way down. It could have been the oil speculaters that started the real recession, but I think the banks would have done that anyway. We need watchdogs to inspect everything - the system is too complicated and can be easily manipulated. Capitalist system is great, but needs some tweeking.

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Replying to: driver100 (Jan 13, 2009 4:23 am)

We need watchdogs to inspect everything - the system is too complicated and can be easily manipulated.
 
I think the watchdogs are the problem - they complicate the system to manipulate it for kickbacks. To quote Ronald Reagan, "Government is not the solution to our problems - government IS the problem"
 
We might be in this recession anyway, but banks weren't lending to subprime borrowers before the government started doing it in the late 1990's - they just needed to compete.
 
Tying the topics together, I helped the economy by purchasing a new car (did I mention that already?)

Replying to: driver100 (Jan 13, 2009 4:23 am)

prices kept spiking while demand was way down.
 
This is my personal favorite! The electric company needed to raise rates when oil prices went up, to cover their "generation costs". (Call it what it is, "we want a slice of this pie")
 
I notice the generation rate has not decreased since oil went down. In fact, they want to raise rates again, citing the following reason: "People are using less, so we need to charge more to keep profits up" This is after telling us for years that we need to conserve to save money - I especially like the full color brochures they send every month telling me how to save money by conserving electricity and using energy efficient appliances.
 
To stay on topic, the money I save by using less power (both gas and electric) is used to wash my cars more often.

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