Fair point. I’m seeing about $1600 median as of 2007.
Well, gas is short-term inelastic, so even the Chicago school would expect demand to lag price.
Which means . . . wait for it . . .
More entertainment from History with Rick:
Perhaps it was the wigs that confused him.
I’m just glad it wasn’t Sarah Palin who said that. She’d be on Sean Hannity today arguing that John Adams had ovaries and Ben Franklin’s name was signed by the cleaning lady.
While Hannity looked on and nodded unquestioningly.
Shhh…
Don’t say that name! You’ll raise the demon!
(I’m mortally afraid of her wrangling a nomination, from the floor of the convention, and with all the polarization the contender/douchebags are creating, she takes it. I know, it seems far fetched. But there is nothing left to surprise me in US politics, I think.)
Eh, I’d give him a pass on that one. The man is mighty dumb, but he probably said “men and women” just out of habit. I imagine a politician on the stump has to say that a lot, just to be sure to not leave women out.
Sounds like he’d be a good candidate to narrate a “Drunk History” video, but without the need to get drunk first.
Sounds like he’s a liberal, PC, gender-includer!
Why on earth would you be afraid of that? A Palin nomination is possibly the only thing I’d enjoy more than a Santorum nomination.
I saw that speech live, and from context it was very clear what was going on. Rick’s handlers noted that he lost Michigan and Arizona in part because he was doing so poorly with women. Hence, a mid-campaign correction to try to appeal to female voters. That whole speech was filled with insincere sops to how much he respects and admires women. What I especially liked was how he managed to praise his family members for their education and in the same speech continue to jab at Obama as an intellectual snob because he said that all Americans should aspire to attend college.
Anyway, the “men and women” signers reminded me of one of my favorite demonstrations of PC excess - the “little men (AND WOMEN)” in the jungle. (You only have to listen to the first 25 seconds.) Rick sounds just about as natural and believable, which is to say … not very.
It’s really two things affected by a common cause. If their salaries had kept pace with inflation, they could have shored up demand, and still bought gas. Instead, their productivity was siphoned off to private equity and Wall Street.
Can we just change the thread title to Santorumisms?
You’re wasting the internets and I’m afraid that all of the tubes will fill up.
This was a good one…
In the nation’s past, he said, “Most presidents homeschooled their children in the White House.… Parents educated their children because it was their responsibility.”
“Yes, the government can help,” he continued, “but the idea that the federal government should be running schools, frankly much less that the state government should be running schools, is anachronistic.”
He said it is an artifact of the Industrial Revolution, “when people came off the farms where they did homeschool or had a little neighborhood school, and into these big factories … called public schools.”
And he thinks going back to the agrarian model would be LESS anachronistic?
There’s just soooooo many good ones
"The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don’t have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion.” –Rick Santorum, during a Republican presidential debate (May 2011)
Apparently, he’s a “lover”. Get a load of this little lovefest.
“You can say I’m a hater. But I would argue I’m a lover. I’m a lover of traditional families and of the right of children to have a mother and father… I would argue that the future of America hangs in the balance, because the future of the family hangs in the balance. Isn’t that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?” –Rick Santorum, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (July 2004)
…Homeland security? I think I just threw up in my mouth a little realizing what he’s (likely in his little fantasy mind) ‘secretly’ proposing there…
Do you know who ELSE fought to preserve traditional gender roles in the name of defending the homeland? No, seriously, our industrial capacity in WW2 was greatly increased by making full use of women in the workforce vis a vis Germany.
One can make a similar argument, although not as life-changing, that it’s good for the economy to allow same-sex marriage so that people do not make inefficient economic decisions based upon that fact (for instance, moving to a bad job in a state that allows SSM, or spending needless labor-hours on and with an attorney arranging marriage-like contracts.)
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"Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion.” –Rick Santorum, during a Republican presidential debate (May 2011)
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Where did the abortions go to grow up? Are they like that army that’s trapped in the mountain in Return of the Tower Rings Fellowship Lord who will be activated once Rick goes and says “Get to work’!”
And the poor don’t need to learn how to read. What do they need to read anyway? How to be poor? They already know.
Wait… people used to homeschool, now the government does, so the way it is now is an anachr… I do not believe that word means what you think it means.
The scariest part to me about Savanarola II is that I really think he believes the shit he says. Even if he has no idea when he opens his mouth what he’s about to say, I think he still thinks whatever it is, it’ll be true.
That’s just because you aren’t sufficiently committed to living in the eighteenth century.