How Can People Be This Stupid...

[Hobbit]

...yet still live under the delusion they know what they're talking about. The following letter to the editor displays so much economic ignorance, I can barely stand to read it. This person lacks anything resembling economic knowledge.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=697218&category=LETTER&BCCode=OPINION&newsdate=6/20/2008

[hjmick]

Come on, the author probably stayed at a Holiday Inn the night before it was written.

[PostmodernProphet]

Come on, the author probably stayed at a Holiday Inn the night before it was written.
if he did, someone else picked up the bill......

[crin63]

The reason the smaller independent oil companies are gone in California is that they were regulated out of business. I worked at 2 different small independent oil refineries in Santa Fe Springs, CA that were crushed by environmental agencies.