Speculators Equal Swine! Make Them Pay More for Their Commodities!
Changing minds caused by changing circumstances, being called “flip-flopping” goes completely against the history of this country. After Carter, with 14% unemployment and 21% interest rates, you would think that no citizen, even a democrat, would want to vote for someone like Obama, who endorses the same policies as Carter did, with his windfall profits tax, and the elemental stages of wearing sweaters, adjusting to NO gas, rationing, long gas lines, American citizens held hostage, and Americans ashamed of their country abandoning hope and faith for the future. Thank God the voters voted him out and Reagan in (with his optimism), saying what we SHOULD be - a shining city upon a hill and a beacon to the rest of the world and leading the country in THAT direction. He strengthened our military calling for the Star Wars defense system, and he defeated the Communist party of the USSR, now split up - some of them even in NATO.
Now, as far as changing minds to meet new circumstances, MacArthur, a military man of high repute in World War II, did a masterful job in the re-construction of Japan after the war. However, in Korea, as military commander, he over-stepped his authority and was fired by President Truman and Truman was lambasted by the American people for his action. Truman also changed his mind on dropping the A-bomb after a study was made of how many millions of casualties there would be on both sides if we had tried a land invasion. There are still some liberals who condemn him for his actions. Those World War II veterans who lived because of his actions, no doubt, are thankful for his decision.
There is no doubt that Eisenhower, Roosevelt, Churchill, Truman, Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Halsey, and General Patton all changed their minds as circumstances changed during the war, or we would have LOST the war. The greatest program of the Eisenhower administration, and one of the major causes of our growth after World War II was the interstate/highway system, which was a circumstance of him seeing how a modern road system of major highways had helped in Germany’s growth and in their military prowess.
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The major cause for the high gas prices at the moment is mostly speculators on the futures market. Remember how Hillary made $100,000 with only $1000 as seed money - all without help from Tyson foods. Can you believe it? Finally economists are seeing what is happening to food prices because of the ethanol processed from corn, wheat, and soybeans. Should the prices of food and energy keep rising at the current rate, you will start seeing hunger becoming a major problem for this country. Counting on solar and wind power for our energy is without a doubt stupid, even to think about.
There are 200 acres in the desert with glass and mirrors, they say can power 35,000 homes. I don’t believe there are many small cities with 35,000 homes near the desert, and of course that wouldn’t include power for air conditioning, retail stores, small businesses, and manufacturing plants. The northeastern states certainly don’t have enough sunlight to make any appreciable difference in energy needs, and as far as wind, you saw what happened when a company wanted to install a windmill farm off of Cape Cod. The production and use of ethanol will have such an inflationary influence on food prices, it will cause hunger and bitterness in the general population, and let them eat cake statements will not suffice.
This country has never faced hunger except during the great depression, and when it starts due to the use of the great savior ethanol, pushed by the environmentalists, there will be blood, and Congress and the Senate will pay a price! How the American people have allowed their representatives to play silly games, kowtow to the environmentalists, and fail to do their jobs amazes me. It seems they are too concerned with baying like a pack of dogs at the heels of Roger Clemens.
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The Democratic Congress is starting off the new year in their usual way - no legislation, but lots of investigations. They did this all through 2007 and now are continuing into 2008. They are now after CIA agents who might have used some unusual methods to gain information from terrorists to save American lives. That doesn’t matter to the Democrats. All they want to do is take away all tools available to secure our safety and to embarrass the Republican party. They have ruined many lives by their allegations, which they use as weapons, whether based in fact or not.
We know how they participated in helping Bill ruin the lives of Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, and lie straight out to the American people about Monica Lewinsky. And he also lied to the Grand Jury. And boy do they cover for their own - Jack Murtha, Alcee Hastings, Barney Frank, the Cold Cash Kid (William Jefferson), and then they go with vigor to attack Republicans for any and everything. One instance of this is Senator Conrad Burns, who was defeated due to their allegations and long knives, but has been cleared of all allegations.
The politics of energy has reared its ugly head. Constantly during the past few years, no action has been taken except subsidizing crops that can be used for ethanol, which will make these crops too high in price for the farmers feeding out beef, pork, chicken, etc. It will represent the highest grocery prices ever and will hurt, drastically, poor families, but will make the environmental nuts feel good and will not hurt them because they are in the main, children of liberal activists with wealth, and have never faced any real obstacles. In other words, they are rich brats, such as Robert Kennedy Jr. and Al Gore.
If congress was really concerned, they could open up Alaska and use the oil shale in the western states. This would help, immeasurably, our balance of payments and would lower the deficit. There will be no action taken on this by Congress. It’s the same as the social security problem, which they will not touch.
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