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Old Mar 20, 2007 | 11:03 am
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Originally Posted by ScottC
You get robbed everywhere nowadays. $8 Subway sandwiches, $5 coffee at Charbucks, $4.99 pints of Haagen-Dazs. So a $6 icecream at Coldstone really doesn't stand out much.
This is a country where people routinely spend $5 on a cup of coffee or an ice cream cone "because I'm worth it," drive $40,000 SUVs that need $75 worth of premium gas per fill-up "because I need it," then get their homes foreclosed "because I'm broke."
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