Who are these people anyway?

It is still not known what the Republican Party stands for. They don’t like your social security. They want to get rid of your Medicare. Republicans are set against clean air and water. Selling oil and burning coal is more important than conserving America’s energy resources.

Nonetheless, there seems to be no proactive policies to make America better. No public transportation policies. No positive health care initiatives. No bold and forward looking education policies.

Just cut taxes for the rich and shrink government (whatever that means).

Who are these people? What do they want? It is most apparent they want to kill all social programs, kill consumer protection, shrink education, get rid of any programs that serves the nonworking and working poor. Then in turn fund only the military and protect oil, gas, and coal companies. Sucking oil out of the ground is more important than helping single moms and their dependents.

What kind of people are these? Uncaring, self-serving, war and money mongers, psychopaths, narcissistic, and generally people of the military-industrial complex. Just as President Eisenhower warned us.

These are the people who are running congress and the Defense Department as we speak. Is this what we want to run the Whitehouse? People with no interest in your well-being? Wanting to reduce your role as citizen to that of consumer drone. Just buy and use what we tell you and shut up. This is what happened with the G W Bush administration and look what happened. Major recession and an increase in joblessness and homelessness.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Republican Party.

Ladies and Gentlemen of congress, please step aside, or else.

How long is it going to take the American citizen to realize that the Republican leadership in Congress is the firewall between big business and consumers? They are the obstacle preventing reasonable laws to protect we Americans from establishing fair business practices, clean air legislation, clean water regulations, and just reasonable environmental protection laws. They are the guys who get in the way of common sense.

It doesn’t take a scholarly writer of public policy to see that the Republican leadership in congress is the hired protectors of Wall Street, big banks, big oil, and hydrocarbon purveyors. You can easily read about what congress is perpetrating against the American citizen. Just read the daily newspaper. Read the weekly magazines. Watch the nightly news. It’s all there. It is easy to understand.

Congress does not like anyone or any organization that stands in the way of “Making Business.” Business at the expense of America and its human and natural resources. No matter if good laws benefit the health of American, such rules or regulations will be labeled as Job Killing and vigorously opposed by the Republican Congressional leadership. And if the truth be known, seldom if ever are such laws ever cause jobs to be lost. More like a smoke and mirror mantra from the leadership.

So, it is easy to see that the Republican leadership is bought and paid for by big business, big oil, and big banks. Republicans want the American consumer and citizen to keep their collective noses out of Washington legislation. Congress is the hired “security guards” to keep America at bay. Holding Americans from entering the decision process. Which if you think about it, is totally against the constitutional process. More like Anti-American. Democracy is dammed. Congress is not our friend.

Wake up Americans! Call your congressman or congresswoman and let them know if they can’t protect the general interest of the constituency, then it is the voters duty to get rid of him or her. It is your responsibility as a voter to find somebody else to represent the best interest of your district. Better yet, all of congress needs to be replaced. Swept out. Start afresh with someone who cares about you and your interests. God bless America.

It's time to take the hint and leave

I don’t know that much about the Middle East and have never been there. Nor have I ever wanted to go there either. This includes Israel and all the other semi safe Middle East countries (if there is still such a thing).

America and the Middle East are worlds apart in culture, religion, and politics. Not to mention just the general attitude on morals and role of women in society. Not really sure who has the better position on any of the afore mentioned. Middle East? America? Nonetheless, they have the oil, we have the cars. What else is there?

The bigger question to ponder is if the hostile Arab countries really don’t like we Americans, why are we there? Better yet, why did we go there in the first place. Well, the answer is big oil companies. Big oil companies is what drove current American foreign policy in the Middle East. No other reason. I guess cheap oil is worth all the hostility and anguish. Oh, really?

Another question is, why did we go to the Middle East to get oil when we have oil right here in America. Sure it limited but we easily could have adapted to its flow. Conserving and limiting its use. You only use what you have. Right?

The principle is the same as our monetary policy. Spend only what we have. No borrowing or printing of money. No going half way around the world to take someone else’s oil. Use what we got. Learn to live within our means. Drive a few miles and walk the rest of the way. Right?

All the world conflict over oil in the Middle East and America could have been avoided only if we learned early on to plan ahead. Planning on conserving and creating alternative means of energy way back when. Had we done that back when, we now would be miles ahead on energy and our energy needs.

If it were left up to me, I would leave the Middle East right now. Just drop what we are doing and run home. Come home Charlie. It’s not worth the dirty grimy hassle. They don’t like us and we don’t like them. Please, let us just remain worlds apart. It’s would be best that way. The oil companies could just go suck a dry rock. Right? Right.

A bottle of fine wine may be cheaper than a bottle of gasoline

I am just guessing but I am almost certain when China gets its second breath and continues to progress and build some more, gasoline prices will double.  I may be wrong but it almost looks like that’s the direction gasoline prices are headed.  And, there’s nothing we can do about it.

It is absolutely certain if we drill for oil inland or offshore, whatever is pulled out of the ground will automatically put on the world market.  Our domestic producers are not stupid.  They know where the money comes from.  China being one of them.  Thus prices will sky rocket. 

Nonetheless, it would takes years to get oil flowing.  It just doesn’t happen over night.  It takes geology, guessing, hunting, drilling, and drilling again.  A slow laborious process.

And once again, the oil companies will sell the oil to the highest bidder.  Global demand.  Global prices.  Good luck.