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unrepuke Donating Member (763 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 09:23 AM
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Bush: Zero Tolerance for Profiteers, Price Gougers in N.O.
Except his buddies.

Gas $ skyrocketing; in Georgia @ $6 a gallon

N.O. cops taken off rescue, going after looters

:wtf: is going on?
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 09:24 AM
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1. His language during the speech yesterday was that he was releasing
from strategic reserves and "this should take the pressure off"...didn't mandate a damn thing
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 09:24 AM
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2. More concerned about public seeing looters on TV ...
... than about rescuing people.
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niceypoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 09:24 AM
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3. Unless they donate heavily to the GOP.......
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 09:24 AM
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4. Read your own subject line...
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 09:26 AM by Atman
Zero tolerance for profiteers and price gougers in New Orleans. You have to be careful with these fuckers. Every word is carefully crafted. This simply says that Big Oil's profiteering and price gouging in the other 49 states will be just fine. Just don't do it in NO.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 09:28 AM
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6. No point for price gouging in NO, all the people with any $$ left Sunday
Those left in the city can't buy anything anyway.

Now, here in the dry part of the nation, gouging is going on and nobody is shooting the evil doers.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 09:35 AM
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10. exactly. It just shows how disconnected from reality Bush is
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unrepuke Donating Member (763 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 09:34 AM
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9. Uh...you got me there, Boss - actually I said N.O.,
The "news" didn't specify. I wasn't so careful crafting my post, Karl doesn't help me - too angry, typing too fast.:blush:
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DemNoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 09:27 AM
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5. The exceptions
War profiteers

Oil company price gouging
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closeupready Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 09:28 AM
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7. Profiteering/price gouging consistent w/Ayn Rand's vision of life
so I'm sort of surprised that any Republicans object. You know, law of supply and demand, survival of the fittest, etc. :puke:
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:48 PM
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12. Hi closeupready!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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closeupready Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:59 PM
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13. Thanks!
:beer:
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bushisanidiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 09:29 AM
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8. President Asshole will let his oil buddies loot the american tax payer
...it's not just the gas station owners who are gouging americans.. it's the oil companies who've unecessarily inflated the price of oil in order to double and triple their profits of 4 years ago!!

when president clinton was in office, the price of gas was nearly 1/3 of what it is now. AWOL Bush has let his oil buddies run roughshod over working americans by pushing us to see how much we'll pay until we're all broke!!

where are the fucking price caps?? where are the fines to u.s. oil companies for looting the american people??
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SoCalifer Donating Member (652 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 09:35 AM
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11. In my opinion
a major factor in this "zero tolerance" policy for looters is because the looters are of the wrong demographics to this fascist piece of shit in the White House.

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