O.T. price of building materials!!

Now there is an off topic forum that can be used if you need to vent or you don't feel your topic is related to a forum.

I don't know how well that will work if something strikes a nerve and the words start flying again in tool talk. People are going to respond in the same forum, I would think. The rules posted by Kim in off topic say off topic discussions are allowed in other forums as well.

It's not going to stop those people who have to respond with insults and personal attacks just because they don't agree. To me that's just a sign of lower intelligence because their brains can't think of a more proper response to express their opinion.

The interesting thing about that reaction is this is a forum read at different times, it's not like a face to face discussion with gestures or a situation where someone runs you off the road threatening your life.

The president doesn't lose control whenever he is heckled at a public appearance. We'd all be in big trouble if he lost his judgement and fell apart because someone said something he didn't agree with. In general you have to have a thick skin today and that's a quality needed for leadership.

Some people have forgotten that we are lucky to be able to say what we think and listen to independant news reports. People in China can't do that. They are jailed for criticizing their leaders, and they only hear news their goverment wants them to know. Someplace, they used to cut out your tongue for speaking out, probably still do.

Continue posting whatever you want on these forums, whereever it leads and if someone gets nasty put them in their place like a mature adult. Everyone is free to read another thread if they don't like one. This is one of the forums that gets plenty of posts and replys each day.

Keep dreaming the american dream of the house and don't give up even if it takes "the spirit that beat the japanese" to get there. Keep thinking. If real estate values climb or it's an option now, maybe you can subdivide a little of the 55 acres and sell part to help pay for the house. Put deed restrictions on any sale to keep the place the way you want it. Or if keeping the whole place is a priority is there some timber you could sell off or use for lumber for your house? Lumber's a big cost, can you cut that cost out with your own? Last time i was in maine i saw quite a few independant saw mills. Can you make a deal with one to cut your lumber in exchange for letting them have some of the remaining timber? I know you can't farm as much in Ma. I saw a lot of hay, seems winter wheat should grow too after the hay. Can you rent the fields to help pay some bills or make a deal to let a farmer plant for free in exchange for part of the value of the crop? Then you don't have to mow the fields either. Maybe you can use this American Ingenuity to reach your goal now or at least sooner.

Building materials were going up in price here before the war in Iraq ever started. Not really sure why. James

(all in fun, no offense...stuff is expensive here too)

If the worldwide building boom is causing shortages and demand from foriegn countries is causing these big price hikes than that is hurting average americans pockets at the cash register. But not the American companies selling these materials, many now in Mexico. So were not benefiting from job creation from the boom.

Than our trade laws aren't working to protect Average Americans and our economy from runaway inflation. We should be America first, and Americans first.

As an american, I'm for a strong standard of living and well being for americans and protecting that from all potential enemies. I don't feel that's being done as well as it should be.

I won't go into blame for the inflation again. I have expressed my views on that already and made my point on it. We all have strong ideas about that, meaning we all care about our country and that's the most important and reassuring fact about America today in a chaotic world.

Now, back to tools and stuff.

If he is caught, i hope it's the Royal family Arabs. He won't get treated like he would if our guys get him. I believe they practice an eye for an eye.

Actually my reply to KX made my day!!! I feel like i hit a homerun! LOL!

I hope you continue to do well, and that spreads like weeds in spring.

--->Paul