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Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken are owned by Yum! Brands, Inc.

So what?

Burger King isn't owned by them. Dodger said they are ALL owned by the same corporation.

Burger King Holdings is a majority-owned equity group comprised of Texas Pacific Group, Bain Capital Partners and the Goldman Sachs Funds. Approximately 90 percent of restaurants are owned and operated by independent franchisees, many of them family-owned operations that have been in business for decades.

McDonald's is owned by none other than McDonald's themselves.

Wendy's is owned by Wendy's International, Inc.

"Notice how all the fast food chains are owned by the same corporations."---dodger

Looks like dodger is full of lies and half-truths. Why is that?

Dodger needs to quit whining, or present the facts, and not a bunch of psychobabble.

dodger
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4/15/2008
20:12:49

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Never mind Bill K. The M.U. guy with the stainless steel swirly shaped club Bill talks about messed Bill up bad 2002-2007.
Bill asked for it, though.

I was only pointing out that corporations are trying to own everything. If they don't now, they eventualy will. That is why it isn't whining. Whining would be complaining about what is already done. Warning about what is happening to screw up our lives in the future continuing on this downward spiral USA is in now, is public awareness.
McDonalds may not own several chains, but they own other things. There is a radio station, yes, a radio station in Connecticut called Kiss 95.7 FM that keeps announcing they are the "McDonald's studio". Sounds like global ownership and control happening.

You are a little closer mentioning,

"Wendy's is owned by Wendy's International, Inc."
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"is full of lies and half-truths....a bunch of psychobabble. "

Just listen to Wendy's demented psychobabbling of lies and deception in their ads;
.99, $1.99, $5.99, 99, 99, 99, to decieve people into thinking the price is less, now THAT is what is destroying USA. (in fact lie advertizing is the #2 threat to USA).

Burger king lies about their prices, just like all greed consumed corporations out of touch with the real world of human beings, but I do admit that Burger King quality has not suffered that much. Their burgers haven't shrunk, and the food there is still pretty good.

BooHoo
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4/15/2008
20:53:56

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Dodger must be a corporate member because he also lies about everything.

"I was only pointing out that corporations are trying to own everything."

Of course corporations own businesses. If they own you then that's your problem. What did you think corporations did?

.99 has been around as long as there has been marketing. I'm sure that you have never seen a store that sold everything in even dollar amounts. X.9/gal. was likely around before your parents were born. I sure they count on stupid people, like yourself, to think that $1.99 is a whole lot different than $2.

You should really be thankful for that penny though. Over a lifetime can save you upwards of $10,000 or more. If they charged that extra penny corporations would make millions of dollars more every day.

First you whine about greedy corporations and then you want to give them money.

dodger
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4/15/2008
22:50:55

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Own me? You think I'm the only consumer? You mean own the market we all are consumers for, instead of everyone having upward mobility and getting to the top is available for anyone that works for it in a fair competition game.

There shouldn't be monopolies. Yes, corporations should have room to grow, but small businesses should too.
All the crookery of getting out of paying their taxes, money aquired from consumers by misrepresenting their prices, phoney accounts they borrow from themselves and pay themselves back to double their assets with imaginary money-(thats just plain counterfiet and we know what counterfieting does to economies).

Ask any shareholder of stocks in WorldCom or Enron if those corporations are doing good things for the American people, and they are truthful about what they are selling.

I am aware of how long the "99" scheme of deception has been around, about as long as the quality of the USA has been sinking for.
It doesn't make it right, it just means the evil has been eroding society like termites, for that much time. There are consequenses for dishonesty. They tend to cumulate then the dam breaks, just when the evil doers think they are getting away with it.

Not whining, facing what is happening instead of wanting to pretend things are O.K.

The point was that crooked businesses are WILLING to sacrifice the penny to decieve people.
If people knew what the real price was, they would probably not buy it at all, so the wool over the consumers' eyes makes the business a dishonest 99 cents instead of zero.

Fine print is not supposed to be used to disclaim everything that was said in the bold print as not being the truth. The term "hidden costs" is another way of saying "dishonest deception tricks". Misrepresenting a price by making only a piece of the real total price to appear as the real bartering price, is lying. False advertizing. Deception is a form of lying. It is fraud.
Corporations lie to their investors about money in the same fashion they lie to consumers about money and true prices of things in their media advertizements.
They aren't bettering themselves or the country by doing that, they are tearing it down.
False price advertizing deceptions have a lot to do with the debt problem of US citizens, and economic downfal, not to mention why the dollar is shrinking so fast.
That happens from entities taking more than they give to society.

BooHoo
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4/16/2008
18:41:07

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"The point was that crooked businesses are WILLING to sacrifice the penny to decieve people."

There is no deception unless you happen to be a moron. In that case I can see your concern. Btw, who told you about it? Did it take a very long time to sink in?

You use a whole lot of words to say absolutely nothing of value. You sound a great deal like the very people you hate.

Why does it surprise you that there are crooks working for corporations and crooked corporations? There are crooks at every level of the economy. There are probably more thieves and liars in a five mile radius of your own home than there are in all the corporations of America.

Let us know when you have something substantial to say.

dodger
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4/16/2008
20:15:24

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No, you are a moron if you fall for the "making you think it is less than a dollar" when you see .99.

America stunned the world by sending people to the moon in 1969.

Now American corporations play the same recording over and over eveyday on their retarded radio stations and lie and decieve in childish ways that even a 2 year old could lie better than them, advertizing over the media airwaves that American Corporations are morons---playing the same tape over every day. A 2 year old could do that.

The good citizens hate evil, they aren't evil themselves.

BTW Connecticut gas hit $3.60 today.

Now who couldn't hate evil entities destroying their country's economy like that!

Instead of saying anything, just watch it happen! It IS!

BooHoo
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4/17/2008
17:22:05

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Nothing substantial there. Try again.

I Sell Them
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4/17/2008
18:56:24

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$113/barrel! $5/gal by August!
Bring it on!
I sell more hybrids that way.

I drive an electric Motorcycle
http://www.vectrix.com/corporate/US/images/experience.jpg

Oil companies eat your heart out.

BooHoo
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4/17/2008
20:06:21

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You don't sell hybrids and that is not a picture of your motorcycle. I doubt that you even own one.

I Sell Them
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4/18/2008
14:01:10

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Oh I do sell hybrids, and you're correct, that is not a picture of my motorcycle. That picture is from the web site of the company that makes it. I use it to commute to work, and it'll keep up with traffic. I keep it plugged in at home, and at the dealership where I work. Always a full charge. No sweat.
Kinda expensive ($11K), but when I bought it, gas was about 3$/gallon, so I figured if gas stayed at that price it would take me roughly 40,000 miles for the bike to pay for itself. The higher the price of gas, the quicker I get to that break-even point.
Bring it!!

BooHoo
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4/18/2008
19:59:29

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The only reason for buying an $11k electric bike is because you are a green weenie. I say that you don't sell hybrids or own an electric bike, to save money on gas, for the simple reason - you hang out on a Dodge Dakota forum. That makes you either full of BS or a loser. You could have bought a used bike and have it pay for itself in 1/4 the time. You didn't consider depreciation, the need to maintain your other vehicle and the additional insurance. Unless a hybrid or electric bike are your sole means of transportation you are not saving money.

I Sell Them
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4/19/2008
10:24:44

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I am also the proud owner of a 2004 Dakota extended cab 4.7L 4x4, which doesn't get driven nearly as much as before the price of gas shot skyward. The Dakota spends most of its time in the garage, and I drive it on the occasional rainy day. 17MPG in a Dakota is not nearly as good as a 24 mile commute on 2¢ worth of electricity.

BooHoo
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4/19/2008
13:49:35

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It still costs to have that truck sit. You have to deduct those costs from your supposed savings. The electric motorcycle will not pay for itself in 40k miles and may not in 80k miles. The bike also depreciates. It wouldn't have been difficult to find a motorcycle for under $1000 that gets 50mpg and pays for itself in less than 20k miles. You would be saving about $2.50/gal. Reasonably well maintained it probably wouldn't depreciate further and could even be worth more than the purchase price.

daddlo
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4/20/2008
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Shut up, Todd.

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