[tommer]

Originally Posted by Jessica Leigh

and in response to everyone outside of the US who keeps reminding us that we're a bunch of babies and we don't know how to handle this crap and our gas is still cheaper than yours and we should stop bitching about it- yeah, we know... but take into account that this gas issue has seriously effected our budgets very suddenly- i don't even know where my grocery money is this week. i ate a muffin from 7-11 today and drank a pepsi at a friend's house. our incomes have not risen with the cost of living over the last almost ten years. yes, our government is to blame... but each individual on this board did not choose to have this government. most of us did not choose to have this government. and what can we do about it? sit here and let them do what they want and wait for another election day. why do you all (outside the US) have to keep reminding us that our government is stupid and to blame for all of these problems that the world is experiencing and that we are pathetic for whining about our situations because we brought this upon ourselves? sorry, but for a lot of us, we wanted something different, and life sucks right now, and many of us asked for a different president.

sorry for the rant (and you know i love you tommer )

i'm not criticizing you, but the dangerous system around you. i promise you that if was in your shoes i'd be acting just the same. as i mentioned earlier, things tend to be simpler in countries such as mine, where you don't have such economic-political pressures by car manufacturers and oil companies. my point is, that you guys tend to cry about the end results, instaed of the circumstances that caused them in the first place.