Should the Government Limit Gas Mileage?
"To the Hagerstown caller who commented on bad gas mileage: Spot on. If the government limited weight to under 3,800 pounds and power to under 300 horsepower, then this wouldn't be a problem, but we are American."
Why should the government limit the gas mileage of vehicles? Since this is a free market (somewhat) and consumers are supposed to vote with their dollars which is why they will stop buying gas guzzling vehicles eventually. You want to remove the SUVs and large trucks that people don't need from the roads? keep the gas prices going up, it's only a matter of time until people can no longer afford to drive them. Or if we want to look at this from a green perspective then the government should tax the heck out of the larger vehicles on the road and that will force people to change. We may be Americans but hit us in the pocketbook and people will change.
Manufacturing and China: The Truth.
"The Americans are making China very rich. If Wal-Mart and all these other outfits would quit ordering things and importing things from China and everything would be made in America, China would not have near the wealth that it has now. That's the American way, I guess, so." - Williamsport
And to this point I say: If you think you want to stop giving money to the Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesians, etc. then you'd best be ready to pay a lot more for what you are buying. There is one reason why it is made there: cheap labor and the more labor costs, the more you are going to pay. The best part about this whole issue is that if companies and the US were to actually cut off trade with these countries, everyone would be begging them to make things in China again because costs were too high.
As countries become more affluent and industrialized, this type of labor and industry moves away in favor of high-tech industry that requires more education than manual work. Yes, there will always be some jobs in the US that are manufacturing oriented, but even if we did bring these factories back to the US they would not increase the job market by much due to a high degree of automation. People in rural areas assume that if we bring back manufacturing to the US, the clock will turn back to 1945 and everyone will have a job again and quality will be stellar. This is not the case, in fact all we will do is speed up the automation of processes if we do this and reduce the needed human intervention in the processes down to a manager and some robot technicians to keep everything running.
If you want to stop making China rich, spend a lot more money on things from niche retailers in the US and then come back and tell us how much you hate Wal-Mart and China. I doubt you will be ready to argue this point once you are spending 5 times as much on those same goods that are making China rich. The free market is an amazing thing and while it has certainly led to the reduction of manufacturing jobs in the US, I would argue we really are not worse off for it in general.
Higher Gas Prices Would "Ruin" Us
"I just don't understand the Democrats. Here they're preaching that George W. Bush has ruined the economy and we're in a recession, but yet they want to raise gas taxes 50 cents to save the earth. I would never vote for a Democrat after hearing this. This would ruin the whole U.S. if this would ever happen." - Boonsboro
Ok, so I don't like high gas prices either, but in case you haven't noticed, the gas prices are tied to the commodities markets and the commodities markets fluctuate when you have things like wars in the Middle East. If you don't like high gas prices then maybe you should rethink being a republican who believes the gas tax is the worst thing that could happen. If you want to lower gas prices then you would do well to write a letter to your president and let him know that the instability in the middle east is what he really ought to actually be working on sorting out. Don't blame the Democrats for something that the Republicans are just as guilty for in many other forms.
Mail Call – A Home for $1000 a month? I’ll Take It!
"I would like to make a comment about the rent in this area. I think it's really ridiculous. I have to move, and I'm on a fixed income. I can find no homes for no less than $1,000, and I think it's just ridiculous." - Williamsport area
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I'm not sure why you think $1000 per month is too much money, but try going closer to Frederick or Montgomery county before you complain. I used to live in Germantown and I was spending $1300 per month for a 850 square foot apartment. I moved out here and now spend $940 per month for twice the space which is a huge savings. The reality is that the rent will never go down in Hagerstown again, especially as Frederick becomes more built up in terms of commercial businesses and people start thinking of Washington County as a suburb of DC. The only way you will find cheaper rent is to continue heading west or into PA otherwise I wouldn't count on spending any less.
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