Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Oil company bail-out

[red5hilser (red5hilser]

When I broke onto the newspaper racket, when all headlines were set by hand 
from a 'California Job Case,' one letter at a time, and a 'snapper' was a 
printing press, not your girlfriend's secret muscle control trick, newsprint 
was $75 a metric ton. When Gannett 'retired' me in June of 1995 it was over 
$600 a ton, and that was over 10 years ago. I'll check with my sources for the 
current price, but I'm almost afraid to ask. 

The amount of pages in a newspaper, and the amount of news printed is driven by 
advertising. As advertising linage shrinks, so does newshole. And as newsprint 
prices skyrocket, the percentage of advertising vs. news shrinks also. Ergo, 
less news staff is required to get the job done. Ever notice how many 
newspspers are looking like Shoppers these days?

PLUS, and it's a?BIG one, more and more 'wire copy' is used. The newspapers 
don't send out sports reporters to cover away games anymore, instead they?rely 
on AP, UPI, or other wire services that are already subscribed to. Same goes 
for 'hard news, too. The Orange County (CA) Register recently used a wire story 
about a Metrolink train wreck that happened in a L.A. suburb, and used an AP 
Wirephoto for the front page. In the old days, they would have sent a reporter 
to interview the survivors and a staff photographer. Hell, I've even seen page 
one bank holdups that happened in town with an AP byline. The shame of it all.

If I could look into a crystal ball and predict the future of newspapers, I 
would probably see that by the year 2015, 85% of all newspapers would be either 
in electronic form or be gone, while about 15% would be hanging on for dear 
life. (if there is any life left by that time.)

It don't look good, Tom.? Yer (got out in the nick of time) pal, Ferrari Bubba


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom 
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Oil company bail-out



Thank you very much.  I can drive my 17.xx MPG Camaro SS and almost enjoy
it.  Today the Tulsa World newspaper (note the NEWSpaper) laid off 26 people
from their NEWS department, and 2 others (no department given).
Just realized today that the International Herald Tribune is the foreign arm
of the NY Times...
Willi, Willi, whereforeartrhou?
Yours in (increasingly expensive newsprint, they say it's 50% over last
year's prices) economic hard times,
Tom Reynolds
Tulsa, OK
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael James" 
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Oil company bail-out


Oh My God.....can't you people just enjoy the low gas prices by driving your
Ferraris more like everyone else? First everyone was bitching when gas was
$4.00 + a gallon, and now that its a $1.50 you're still bitching.....GET OUT
AND DRIVE. Last time I checked, nobody from 'Big Oil' was asking Congress
for a dime - the Arab oil producers (the ones we like the least) were the
ones getting nervous as their mega-profits started to shrink. Just think -
all those SUVs are now economical to drive again.

Whaaaaaaaaa!


--- On Sun, 1/4/09, Ken Rentiers <rentiers [at] mac.com> wrote:

From: Ken Rentiers <rentiers [at] mac.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Oil company bail-out
To: "Michael" <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Date: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 12:38 AM

On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Rich wrote:

> WASHINGTON - Motorists are driving less and buying less gasoline,
> which
> means fuel taxes aren't raising enough money to keep pace with the
> cost of
> road, bridge and transit programs.
>
> A roughly 50 percent increase in gasoline and diesel fuel taxes is
> being
> urged by the commission until the government devises another way for
> motorists to pay for using public roads.

What a crock of excrement. Our cities are going broke funding pension
obligations to generations of outrageously compensated civil servants
enjoying a cushy retirement from their do-little unionized sinecures.
Teachers that didn't teach, sullen clerks a
nd hapless drivers of
broken buses.

In Texas state highways remain good to very good, but city streets
inside Houston have become studded with pavement breaks and patches,
steel plates and potholes as a result of subsidence (well water) and
complete lack of maintenance. Some streets are near-on impassable for
cars with sport suspensions and low aspect tires. I first saw this in
Manhattan years ago, spies in SoCal tell me the problem is widespread
in LA as well. Across the country our InterStates are falling apart.

Diocletian did in the Roman Empire when he abandoned their Gods. The
radical Christian sects won. Roman civil society withered, the
aqueducts dried up, roads and bridges became  unusable, halting the
import of goods and supplies. The Mediterranean trade routes which had
flourished for centuries were lost. The population had to abandon Rome
to forage in the countryside for the next 1000 or so years as
civilization ratcheted back to a feudal system of subsistence
agriculture .

I get upset when I see that our cities can no longer manage to fill
potholes, because they are so damn broke funding the accumulated
overgenerous pensions of the uncivil service. Increasing fuel taxes,
and all other taxes, is no doubt inevitable as our corrupt Washington
pols fall all over each other in an insane rush to spend more and
more trillions subsidizing their banking buddies and car manufacturers
who cannot manage to build anything anymore that anyone wants to buy.

Left untrammeled, capitalism would soon purge the incompetent,
avaricious and unsuccessful losers we call the Big Three.  By now we
would be on our way to economic recovery. In a non-union car made here
in America

Keynesian economics insists you can spend your way out of debt. This
idea was discredited years ago in previous economic disasters, but no
one teaches history anymore so who knows? Now we have elected a new
collectivist cadre intent on massive expansion of government into
every corner of the economy, using borrowed funds from hostile
countries inc
reasingly unwilling to buy our debt.

In summary: Moronic Associated Press Writer Joan Lowy! Stop parroting
the treasonous snakes in elected office and look around. I am fairly
certain that wile Rome burned an obeisant cadre of supplicant scribes
struggled to come up with ever more florid turns of latin phrase
complimenting Nero as he fiddled away.

Go Gators!

-ken-
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