5er4ever
Ontario Canada
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DW passed this along as a FYI
Most everything you buy
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Vapor_Trails
Yucaipa, CA
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RV-1/2n-FUN
FL.
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Me thinks Exxon-Mobil has more control than all of them combined.
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Rick Y
Vancouver (not BC), Washington (not DC)
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Shucks, that's nothing. I have a wife who controls 100% of what I buy!
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bid_time
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At least in my case the story is way over-hyped. I looked at the brands represented and in my estimation they would account for less than 2% of the stuff I buy. No fuel, clothing, utilities, mortgage companies, car companies. Don't know about the rest of you, but my groceries sure don't represent "Most Everything I buy". They amount to about 1 or 2% of my take home pay.
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Old-Biscuit
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I'm looking over the Brands & items represented and I can only find 3 Brands and 4 items that I actually purchase.......and two items are candy bars.
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Jim Shoe
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I'll agree that these companies control their markets, but that doesn't amount to more than 2% of what people spend their money on. Soap, soft drinks, candy, cereal and OTC medicine. Where are housing and transportation? And on this particular site, those are the same thing. 
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RVUSA
Orlando, FL, USA
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Jeesh, now I got the munchies. 
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wa8yxm
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It is actually much worse.. Thanks to mega-merger-mania, fewer and fewer are controlling more and more.. Radio and television for example.
At one time there were rules about owning too much of the media in any given market,, but the broadcasters kept pushing and pushing and now there are many markets where every on-air personality, every news anchor and every newspaper reporter get their paycheck from the same paymaster..
This used to be outlawed, and still should be.
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business
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RVUSA
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wa8yxm wrote:It is actually much worse.. Thanks to mega-merger-mania, fewer and fewer are controlling more and more.. Radio and television for example.
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This used to be outlawed, and still should be.
You will never outlaw FOX.
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