Article View: aus.consumers
Article #359Re: Rocket Science
From: David Clayton
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:45
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:45
30 lines
2392 bytes
2392 bytes
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:49:16 +0000, Ziggy wrote: > Most people don't realize that they spend hundreds or even thousands of > dollars a year buying the heavily advertised (HA) brand products in the > grocery and department stores. Most people are lazy, soft-headed sheep who can be brainwashed into doing many (many) things that are obviously not in their best interests - this is called "Capitalism" a.k.a. "The Free Market", and it is very popular. .......... > > When you pay the higher price for the HA brands you are paying for the > ridiculous high salaries of the CEO's, private jets, golden parachutes > and for the billions spent on advertising. > > Every time you go to the store you can save several dollars. Over time > this can amount to a significant amount of money. And if most people didn't have more money than they really know what to do with, they would spend the time to shop smartly rather than let their lives be influenced by the "convenience" of having decisions made by their TV sets for them. -- Regards, David. David Clayton Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a measure of how many questions you have.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<pan.2009.09.02.10.45.26.409341@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!multikabel.net!newsfeed20.multikabel.net!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsstorage1.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsstorage1.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au!not-for-mailReferences:
<Xns9C75E89C85A55Ziggmailcom@198.186.190.61>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 935ba7766b,2f5a665c2bded268 X-Google-Attributes: gid935ba7766b,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!multikabel.net!newsfeed20.multikabel.net!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsstorage1.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsstorage1.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au!not-for-mail From: David Clayton <dcstar@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com> Subject: Re: Rocket Science Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:45:28 +1000 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Message-ID: <pan.2009.09.02.10.45.26.409341@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com> Newsgroups: aus.consumers References: <Xns9C75E89C85A55Ziggmailcom@198.186.190.61> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 31 NNTP-Posting-Host: 124.148.157.134 X-Trace: 1251888328 per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au 28397 124.148.157.134