🚀 go-pugleaf

I am a retired auto worker. I have watched my utilities hold steady here in
Indiana. True they have risen a little. But my natural gas bill actually
went down a few dollars a month thanks to new windows and maintenance on the
"drafty" stuff. Last year I paid $53.oo a month and this year it is $49.00 a
month. My electric bills hover at $100.00 a month. The ATT phone bill is the
one that really gripes me. If I call home from a vacation spot out side
Indiana the cost is about $15.oo for a three minute call. I was charged by
four different companies including my ATT long distance service. I am really
considering dropping all of ATT stuff and use my cell phone and buy a couple
of prepaid long distance cards. For three digital cell phones, 400 minutes,
I Pay only $49.00. My ATT bill this month is $70.oo. Our utilities are
regulated by the state. I hope they stay that way. When the phone company
was broken up and deregulated the bills went up and they still go up for
every silly thing you can think of. On the subject of the President elect
and the crook we now have till January 20th, those guys can not do anything
without the Congress. For the past 30 years this country has been on the
slippery slope of socialism, ( how do you spell communism?), and it has to
stop. Our Congress needs to stop giving money and programs away to people
who do not need them. From Corporate welfare, $200 million last year, to
welfare for people who will not work. Congress also needs to stop giving
money to foreign countries. Especially to the ones in the Middle East. If
all their "blood" money were not available maybe the fighting would stop.
Bring that money home and make our schools safer, teachers smarter, upgrade
the schools technological base, and their skilled trades areas. It can be
done if "everybody" would send letters to the Congress like to they do these
news groups. Put the Constitution back to work in America!

"JohnDoe" <JohnDoe@monmouth.com> wrote in message
news:b3pp4tov2s63v7pmoghae50g913tj4tike@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 17:19:55 GMT, sediment boy
> <palimpsest9823@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> >I work in the oil business and guess what. It does not matter who is in
> >the white house or congress as long as wall street is involved. So many
> >people are looking for a quick buck that in order for a comapany to
> >stay competative, they have to show solid performance on a quarterly
> >basis. Anyway, sorry about the soapboxing but we Americans are REALLY
> >spoiled by cheap undervalued energy. Get used to energy costs rising.
> >Realistically, we wont'run out of oil, just out of cheap oil. There is
> >sooooooo much oil out there, the problem is we keep having to go deeper
> >and deeper to get it. Also, natural gas is virtually inexhaustable. You
> >ever see an oil rig with a bright flame burning off of it? That's
> >excess natural gas that the just burn off because there's no market for
> >it. That market is starting to expand with these high gas prices. Oh,
> >by the way I agree, name calling of Clinton is not an intelligent
> >approach to anything but instead the refuge of a lazy mind, I am no
> >clinton lover by any means but come on pal.
> >
>
> >> > has been nothing done by clinton's gang of thugs
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>
> are you as literacy challenged as the other guy? there is no name
> calling, just relating facts,  the reference to thuggery is borne out
> by fact, many of his cabinet people have been indicted, convicted or
> forced to leave office under suspicion of wrongdoing.