Saginaw News columnist Greg Mancina discusses who he believes is
out of touch  Follow on Twitter on September 23, 2008 at 6:30
AM, updated September 23, 2008 at 6:34 AM  I'm not sure if I'm
more flabbergasted at rap artist Sean "P Diddy" Combs or the
newspaper that wrote the story, but one of those London rags
reported that Combs has abandoned his private jet in exchange
for first-class seats on a commercial jet liner.  Gasoline
prices, it seems, are just too high for the multi-millionaire
rapper, who according to the article is worth hundreds of
millions of dollars. What is the world coming to anyway? No
private jet?  "Tell whoever the next president is, we need to
bring gas prices down.... I can't believe I'm flying
commercial," Combs is reported as saying.  If you wince when you
hear those words, you're not alone. At a time in America where
gasoline prices are at an all-time high, pushing the prices of
many other consumer goods higher with them, more families are
falling under the poverty line.  These are