The True Cost of Cheap Prices

So you saved a few bucks on that new whatever by buying it at that big store chain that promises the lowest prices. Great. That'll make someone a little richer and a bunch of people a little poorer. How? Well, to sell
that whatever to you for the lowest price...that big store chain that promises the lowest prices drives a real hard
bargain with the company that produces that whatever. So the company closes it's factory in yourtown and
moves it overseas where it pays pennies instead of dollars to get that whatever made so it can meet that big
chain store's demands...and the company has to do that because that big chain store sells a lot of the company's
whatevers and besides, if the big chain store doesn't sell the company's whatevers it will see another company's
whatevers and the company will go out of business. Sounds like the market economy doing its job, right? Well,
the problem is that it's making a few people rich but it's making a lot of people poor and, in turn, the towns they
live in go to pot...and their roads get bumpy.

First Post

The very first post on my very first blog. I'm a little verclemped, talk amongst yourselves. Here's your topic...
THAT'S WHY YOUR ROADS ARE BUMPY...discuss. In fact, that's what we WILL be discussing here...
various and assorted annoyances caused by people who are lazy, people who don't care, people who aren't
thinking, people who are corrupt, people who are - well, you name it. And that's why your roads are bumpy.
Becase someone is too lazy to do anything about it...doesn't care enough to do anything about it...isn't thinking
right and doesn't know enough about getting the roads properly fixed...is on the take and awarding contracts
for substandard road repair in return for something...etc. Bottom line...we fork over tax dollar after tax dollar
and we STILL drive on these damn bumpy roads.