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Is the American consumer finally giving up?
Even as the Fed gooses the economy with another rate cut, the latest GDP figures suggest that the mightiest shoppers on earth are at long last getting cold feet
Andrew Leonard [2008-04-30]

  • Rebates go right back to billionaire oilmen.

    Same old same old. Whether it's brainwashing consumers that they need SUVs, invading Iraq, creating $4 and soon $5 gas through greedy speculation in oil futures, or pretending all is well by putting a few extra dollars into our pockets this summer, it's the oil industry that gets obscenely, despicably, undemocratically rich.

    That 600 bucks? It's going to pay for gas this summer. Why do you think Bush looks so damn smirky when he brags about it?

    -- Quiet Type
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    Wednesday, April 30, 2008 02:34 PM
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