NOYB wrote:
As I said before, this thread isn't about me or my predicament.

Is that your disclaimer against whining?




I started this thread because I thought it would be a good
conversation-starter about how the insurance companies are likely to do more
harm to the boat business than gas prices.

I don't see it that way, largely because I don't see how you
define "harm to the boat business" and partly because I see
"the boating business" as largely responsible for the mess
it's in. And it's dragged a lot of boaters with it.



.... Yet, hardly a week goes by
before someone starts a bitching and whining session about how gas prices
are going to kill the boating market.


But nobody ever does anything about it, of course. People
still drive their SUVs at 80mph.


Of course, those on the left can't figure out how to blame Bush for the
problems with the insurance industry, so they keep whining about gas prices
(as if Bush is somehow responsible for world demand).


No, but Bush & Cheney are responsible for deliberately
making the U.S. more dependent on oil, thus foreign imports
& Middle East politics, rather than less. So yeah, it's
pretty much his fault.


What I found most interesting of all is how the liberals who want to
socialize everything, and let the government take care of all of our
problems, were so lacking in sympathy to the plight of millions of
Floridians.

Funny you should see it this way. Wealthy boat owners are
not really much of a liberal constituency. And frankly, I
don't have much sympathy myself for people who indulge in
conspicuous consumption just because it's aggressively
marketed to them, and then whine that somebody else should
help them afford what they've become accustomed to.

There are many possible solutions to the problem, at least
one of which can be resolved thru individual fiscal
responsibility .... anybody else think it's comical that a
self-proclaimed 'conservative' didn't think of that?

Regards
Doug King