Five Guys' prices sparks outrage after $24 receipt goes viral: 'Highway robbery'

Gilligan

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What are you gonna do when the government cracks down on red meat consumption?
Laff out loud. Because that will never happen...ever. You live in a fantasy land the rest of us avoid visiting if we can.

The local farmer I buy my whole Angus steer from every year has doubled the size of his production herd in just the last couple of years, to try and keep up with demand. The Amish I buy my hog and several roasting pigs from every year..they'll never run low on animals. The lamb we buy every year comes from a 4H sale down in VA..never any shortage of those. Geese?..always take as many of those as I want from my offshore hunting blind. Same goes for ducks. Rabbit and quail...I get those cheap from my sis and bro-in-law down in southern VA. Life with good meat to eat has never been better. And then there is the venison too...
 
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Gilligan

#*! boat!
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What are you gonna do when the government cracks down on red meat consumption?
Here ya go sweetie....enjoy.

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TPD

the poor dad
I went to SALT on Friday night. Had the slider trio ($11), a huge plate of ranch fries ($8), and 2 Jameson & Gingers ($14). I can't recall ever going to 5 Guys, but why would I when SALT is less than 10mins from me AND they serve adult beverages.

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BOP

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Corporate profits *are* high enough that they could absorb paying their workers more. But they're not going to do that, they're going to raise prices to cover it. Those mansions and yachts aren't gonna buy themselves, you know....

I'm generally not in favor of limiting how much money people can make, but nobody needs 10 billion dollars to live on. One of the few times I agreed with Obama was when he said, "At some point you've made enough money." After that it's just greed and some psychological illness that keeps you hoarding it. (Of course, Obama didn't mean that and nobody loved to amass cash more than he did, but that's beside the point.)

Trickle down economics works, but the fat cats have to cooperate and actually trickle down. It galls me to see these turds whining on TV that they should be forced by the government to pay their "fair share" of taxes when they could certainly pay voluntarily, and they don't even pay their workers a living wage. They're just greedy aholes with a mental illness. Not to mention they'll simply hide their money from Uncle Sam to avoid paying anyway.

I find myself becoming more and more anti-establishment as I get older.
It's the natural progression of things. Like whoever said "if you're not liberal when you're young, you have no heart; if you're not conservative when you're older, you have no brain." Or something like that. Fun fact, though: apparently getting older and progressively more conservative means more anti-establishment. Nobody told me, because they did tell us: you don't talk about religion, politics, or money in polite company.

I joined the Libertarian party in 1976. At the core, I feel like I'm socially liberal, but fiscally conservative.

To the modern left, that puts me to the right of Hitler and to the left of DJT.

However, I also recognize that I'm no longer as socially liberal - to the point where I find myself asking myself "Self, was it even a good idea in the first place?"
 

BOP

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They could institute price controls, but a lot of you all on the right wouldn’t go for it
Yeah, junior? Tell us all about it. After all, most of us have lived through those. I'll give you a hint: Nixon imposed both wage and price controls in 1971. I was 2 years from going into the Navy at the time.

And we did talk about it in school, too. Current events; remember those in Civics classes?
 

black dog

Free America
Unfortunately...the last couple time we ate at Hornes it was quite underwhelming. That's why we opted to try the new little Mex restaurant next to the large antique shop. It was pretty good!

I'm with ya on the predatory behavior...watching Dollar General destroy the remaining "Mom & Pop" stores throughout rural Va has not been enjoyable either.
The county I live in allowed DG to build two stores in our town of 5,100 people. It really hurt our locally owned small shops and the two locally owned grocery stores.
 
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vraiblonde

Board Mommy
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However, I also recognize that I'm no longer as socially liberal - to the point where I find myself asking myself "Self, was it even a good idea in the first place?"

But back in our day "socially liberal" meant that people can be gay or black or women or whatever they are and nobody cares. It meant that people besides white males have rights and you can't treat them like crap and get away with it. It also meant that you don't see a BLACK! person or an ASIAN! person or a GAY! person - you just see a person. Abortion was the woman's own business and nobody else's.

Now that's not good enough. If you're not washing the feet of some black drug dealer pimp, you're a racist. If you don't let men pretending to be women watch your daughter undress or allow them to punch her in the face during a sporting event, you're a transphobe. If you don't actively celebrate abortion up to and even after birth and consider it the very most important right of women, you're a misogynist.

Treating people with respect and dignity until they show you they as a person don't deserve it is never a bad idea. But like everything the Democrats touch, it got screwed up and now privileged groups - blacks and the alphabet people specifically - are demanding special treatment for injustices that they never experienced. Ooooh, microaggressions! (translation: the sh*t we all put up with from aholes every day.) Oooh, my lived experience! (translation: sh*t they made up because they don't want to be left out of the victimhood.)

We were all getting along too well and thriving as a society, and Democrats just can't have that. If people aren't at each other's throats, they can't swoop in and "fix things". They're a one-note party and all they have is "righting wrongs", so if there aren't any wrongs they have to create them. Out of thin air. Their agenda doesn't sit well with anyone, so they have to cloak it and sugar coat it, disguise it and feed it to the bots like a mom hiding pureed cauliflower in the mac & cheese. Create a fake boogeyman and pump up the fear factor with lies and hysteria mongering. And humans are enthusiastic customers for the hysteria mongers, they always have been.

Democrats have done that throughout the history of their party - stir up hate and discontent. 150 years ago it was "black man gonna get your children," which lasted until the mid-70s. Then it was "Republicans gonna get your children." Now it's "Donald Trump gonna get your children." They are a destructive party and shouldn't be allowed to exist. They do nothing but stir up hate. They are the Party of Hate.
 

BOP

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The county I live in allowed DG to build two stores in our town of 5,100 people. It really hurt our locally owned small shops and the two locally owned grocery stores.
And, no doubt the two stores claimed that they "created" new jobs - even though the employees came from the local mom and pop stores.
 

BOP

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But back in our day "socially liberal" meant that people can be gay or black or women or whatever they are and nobody cares. It meant that people besides white males have rights and you can't treat them like crap and get away with it. It also meant that you don't see a BLACK! person or an ASIAN! person or a GAY! person - you just see a person. Abortion was the woman's own business and nobody else's.

Now that's not good enough. If you're not washing the feet of some black drug dealer pimp, you're a racist. If you don't let men pretending to be women watch your daughter undress or allow them to punch her in the face during a sporting event, you're a transphobe. If you don't actively celebrate abortion up to and even after birth and consider it the very most important right of women, you're a misogynist.

Treating people with respect and dignity until they show you they as a person don't deserve it is never a bad idea. But like everything the Democrats touch, it got screwed up and now privileged groups - blacks and the alphabet people specifically - are demanding special treatment for injustices that they never experienced. Ooooh, microaggressions! (translation: the sh*t we all put up with from aholes every day.) Oooh, my lived experience! (translation: sh*t they made up because they don't want to be left out of the victimhood.)

We were all getting along too well and thriving as a society, and Democrats just can't have that. If people aren't at each other's throats, they can't swoop in and "fix things". They're a one-note party and all they have is "righting wrongs", so if there aren't any wrongs they have to create them. Out of thin air. Their agenda doesn't sit well with anyone, so they have to cloak it and sugar coat it, disguise it and feed it to the bots like a mom hiding pureed cauliflower in the mac & cheese. Create a fake boogeyman and pump up the fear factor with lies and hysteria mongering. And humans are enthusiastic customers for the hysteria mongers, they always have been.

Democrats have done that throughout the history of their party - stir up hate and discontent. 150 years ago it was "black man gonna get your children," which lasted until the mid-70s. Then it was "Republicans gonna get your children." Now it's "Donald Trump gonna get your children." They are a destructive party and shouldn't be allowed to exist. They do nothing but stir up hate. They are the Party of Hate.
"If you're not washing the feet of some black drug dealer pimp, you're a racist."

Even that's not good enough. In what may be the ultimate of irony, you're still a racist...because you're white. You can never not be racist, no matter what you do.
 
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