Do you believe the President can control fuel costs? Do conservative Republicans really want the Government to interfere with Free Market economics? “Drill Baby, Drill” will not fix our immediate problems and probably not our future problems. The Keystone Pipeline that everyone touts as a job builder (and environment killer) is to transport oil from Canada to the Gulf for exportation overseas. The US exported more fuel than it imported in 2011 (Dept. of Energy). So where is the problem? We don’t buy oil from Iran, so that isn’t the problem. Could it be there is no immediate problem? That oil prices are artificially inflated by oil speculators. The same speculators that helped cause the 2008 collapse? No significant regulations have been put in place to stop the exact thing that wreaked havoc in the market 3 years ago. But bottom line, the President cannot control fuel prices. And if
Read more →Politics have consumed the media and our lives for over a year now. All leading up to Nov. 2012 election. Party politics have been going on for years, but never worse than the last few. Every decision our elected officials make is based on getting re-elected. And, because party lines have beed drawn so deeply in the sand, voting on bills is no longer about whether it is good for the country, but whether it is good for the party. Forget about compromise … on both sides. Both parties are just as bad. Politics is no longer about running our country and keeping it the best country in the world. Politics is about money, power, and staying in power. I’m fed up with it and you should be too.
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