Posted on 04/28/2008 8:42:19 AM PDT by tatsinfla
If you're a poor sap who needs to eat or drive in the near future, then you might want to consider taking out a second mortgage (assuming you could even get one) pretty soon. Glenn Beck asks what country that cares about its future would do what the U.S. has to its food and fuel supply. Food and gas prices have been all over the news lately, and even a big dumb rodeo clown like me can see that it's all connected. Our policies, which try to cater to everyone from oil company executives to environmentalists, end up benefiting no one -- and now we're all paying the price. I know that real economists probably will say that the causes of these skyrocketing prices are extremely complicated to understand, but the truth is that it's actually pretty simple: We've done this to ourselves.
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If any other country had imposed our laws, our education system, or our tax system on us we would have regarded it as an act of war.
This trickle could turn in to a torrent.
(Have lots of strong rope ... can tie knots ... will travel.)
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Fifth column socialists want to tear down this nation. The policies of liberalism are not healthy for America’s survival. This is no accident.
Off w/the gloves, I say.
It's kick-ass party time!
There fixed it. If we were catering to Oil execs you would have a few thousand more oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska then we have now
Huge impact of the Global Warming Hoax. More to come. One I just became aware of is —new 2008 commercial big rig diesel trucks won’t run very long before constant break downs start. New emission controls to meet the 2008 standards cause the break downs. Worse new standards are on the way for 2010. There are billions and billions of $$$ in needless costs upon the entire economy because of this made up BS. Most of those costs are never known about by the public at large.
i agree with you, they have been attacking us from the inside and using our own laws and policys against us to bring us to our knees...if we do not start electing leaders that see and understand this then the country we all knew and loved will be gone before our eyes.....
No kidding, we did this to ourselves. Well, I’ll be. I thought something else had done this to us.
The things you learn.
True, this reminds me of China’s One Child Policy. Back in the 1950’s one of the party members went through the data and found out if the Chinese kept reproducing at that rate, there wouldn’t be enough food in 30 years. He wanted the Chinese to limit their families to 4-5 kids. Mao of course went the other way and declared let a “million flowers bloom.” Which then resulted in the much harsher one-child policy.
The drive in fuel prices is a demand driven spike (the weak dollar has something to do with it as well, but that’s another thread). We’ve built our homes out in the middle of nowhere without sidewalks, we have to drive to get anywhere, outside of NYC public transportation sucks, and of course we have the biggest least efficient cars on the planet.
The only way for fuel prices to fall is to stop using so much of it. Normal, traditional capitalism - the solution to high prices is high prices.
OPEC reduced the price of gas because we started to use less of it in the early 1980s.
Yeah, times are a little tighter than they were. We need to work on that. But good grief, we still have a strong economy. Our poor people live better than most of the rest of the world.
Good grief, I hate whiners.
The only way for fuel prices to fall is to stop using so much of it. Normal, traditional capitalism - the solution to high prices is high prices.
Not quite correct. You are describing 1/2 of what is a free market - not capitalism.
The other side of the solution to higher prices is to produce more supply. There are PLENTY of potential domestic hydrocarbon energy reserves, but so far the enviro-weenies have been allowed to lock it away from development.
>>>>>The only way for fuel prices to fall is to stop using so much of it.
That would be possible if not for the several hundred Million new drivers and autos being introduced by the Chinese and Indian economies.
The only way out for this is to build at least 50 new nuclear power plants poste haste.
None of your solutions are possible until the Communists (such as many politicians) and their fellow-travelers (such as environmentalists) inside our country are dealt with. We are politically handcuffed by those traitors. Unless there is a major housecleaning, this country is already doomed.
I’m just amazed that this came from CNN but for one thing, and one thing only - this bashes the US. Deservedly, in this case, but still.
“Glenn Beck asks what country that cares about its future would do what the U.S. has to its food and fuel supply.”
Who says the US cares for its future? Look at its immigration policy and you’ll find the answer staring in your face. It seems that we only import third world nationals.
know that real economists probably will say that the causes of these skyrocketing prices are extremely complicated to understand, but the truth is that it’s actually pretty simple: We’ve done this to ourselves.
No, it really is complicated. The reason we try to understand a problem is to try and solve it, not to assign blame.
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