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Topic: How Cheap Things *Used* to be

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OrangeAfroMan

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Re: How Cheap Things *Used* to be
« Reply #196 on: June 06, 2026, 05:22:25 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on June 06, 2026, 06:50:44 AM
Corporations mostly influence policy by lobbying, not political donations (except labor unions). 

Open Secrets has the list. 

McDonald’s

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/mcdonald-s-corp/summary?id=D000000373


Contributing to campaigns influences who wins, and who wins helps dictate policy.  And what you said.  
Outspend.
Get what you want.
Legislate to keep the status quo.

Bastardizing the system.  Your pushback is unfortunate.  Revealing.  Sad.
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Re: How Cheap Things *Used* to be
« Reply #197 on: July 13, 2026, 11:27:24 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on May 31, 2026, 08:33:40 PM
I "used" to go to Subway once in awhile, back in the day

haven't been for at least 5 years, probably closer to 10

Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on June 02, 2026, 03:23:29 PM
I just don't consider myself a victim because Subway raised prices. I haven't bought a Subway sandwich in years.

I haven't had a Subway sandwich since pretty much my college days, over a decade ago, and even during those years I could tell the ingredients were gradually going flat, with all the different sandwiches starting to taste the same and the breads having that stale loaf smell.

But I do walk by a Subway several times a week; there's one two blocks from my building. I was surprised by their latest footlong deals as low as $7.99. But for this particular location, those franchise deals were only posted after a Jimmy Johns opened directly across the street. Every business on the block - 7/11, Smoke/Vape, and Grocery/Liquor Store - all display signs for EBT Accepted Here, which wasn't the case a decade ago.


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Re: How Cheap Things *Used* to be
« Reply #198 on: July 13, 2026, 12:07:47 PM »
As I noted above, nearly all private for profit corporations stay out of political funding.  They do heavy lobbying of course, but they don't fund PACs of individual candidates, with few exceptions.  The corporations that DO fund such things are labor unions.

Large public companies don't wany to get labeled as being partisan for obvious reasons.  Their emlpoyees may contibute obviously.  I know where I worked it was verboten for the company to contribute to any political campaign or group.
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Re: How Cheap Things *Used* to be
« Reply #199 on: August 03, 2026, 02:57:00 PM »
Exxon and Chevron on Friday reported windfall profits for the second quarter. Chevron’s earnings soared nearly 400% to $12 billion compared to $2.5 billion in the same period last year. Exxon’s profits more than doubled to $14.5 billion compared to $7.1 billion in the year-ago period.
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Re: How Cheap Things *Used* to be
« Reply #200 on: August 03, 2026, 03:00:38 PM »
We are being gouged in the name of the Iran War.
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Re: How Cheap Things *Used* to be
« Reply #201 on: August 03, 2026, 03:05:17 PM »
It's not really a shock that oil companies see higher profits when oil prices are higher, is it?  
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Re: How Cheap Things *Used* to be
« Reply #202 on: August 03, 2026, 03:07:49 PM »
not a shock a tall - I KNEW it was coming!

IMO - this is excessive and uncalled for.
Chevron’s earnings soared nearly 400% to $12 billion compared to $2.5 billion in the same period last year. Exxon’s profits more than doubled to $14.5 billion compared to $7.1 billion in the year-ago period.
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