Well, it is in JEB's! Florida, but still it's sad to see this kind of thing.
Greg Lawrence talks about the $10 bag of ice. Kenneth Kleppach says he was clipped for nearly three times the advertised price for a hotel room. And a man with a chain saw told Jerry Olmstead that he could clear the oak tree off his roof, but it would cost $10,500.
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Charlie Crist, Florida's attorney general, said Tuesday afternoon that he had received more than 1,400 complaints of overcharging from throughout the disaster area. This morning he filed formal complaints against the Crossroads Motor Lodge in Lakeland and the Days Inn Airport Hotel in West Palm Beach, accusing them of price gouging and deceptive business practices.
Just let those "regulators" from JEB's! administration get in there, and there'll be no more pesky attorneys general messing with the free enterprise system, no matter how badly skewed.
With the 1600 Crew (South) No Dollar is Left Behind. Ever.
posted by Jo Fish on 08.17.04 at 11:04 PM
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the sunshine state. here in upstate ny, it's 80 degrees with calm winds, and i've never lost a shingle.
posted by: tim on 08.18.04 at 01:02 PM [permalink]
This is such a bad scene......Charley's aftermath will linger for months and months -- at what cost (emotional and actual)? I suspect there will be a political toll for all of this. I just don't have a sense for how severe it might be. Lemme know what you think
We had tornadoes here in north Georgia a few years back. Homes were wrecked or scattered to the winds. I took my chain saw to a house with downed trees and asked if I could help. Yes. The second day a team of Baptists from South Carolina showed up and pitched in. Four or five men and I cleared the trees from the house and yard and never even asked for a drink of water.
We worked for about three days, blessed the family and moved on. There are some good people in this country. I'm glad to have been privileged to work with them.
posted by: DAVE on 08.18.04 at 11:53 PM [permalink]
This kind of profiteering is exactly how I expected things to be in JEB!'s Florida. It will be kind of nice when Florida becomes a state again.
Durn government regulation. FIRST they take money out of the housing industry's pockets by forcing people to build to standards that make houses more likely to withstand gale force winds and earthquakes, thus forcing homes to become durable goods (the nerve!), then they want to jump down people's throats just for ensuring necessary services are available only to the incredibly rich. Can social-ism be far off?
posted by: John W on 08.19.04 at 11:28 PM [permalink]
