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The people who forced us to buy/drive those cars now drive these cars.
Posted on 07/24/2017 6:00:49 PM PDT by Openurmind
That was the America First battle cry for decades as the America Last crowd tried to mold us into their version of a second-rate power and potential third world hellhole. For administration after administration we were lectured about how we had to drive less, trade in our SUVs for tiny little Obama Clown Cars to reach “Energy Independence.” Now after less than six months of the Trump Administration long stalled pipelines are flowing, America is one of the major oil exporting nations, the cost of gasoline is dropping due to the expanding supply, OPEC is freaking because we’re fracking, and we’re talking about “Oil Dominance.”
Combine that with a resurgent coal industry and we’re beginning to see the outlines of making America great again.
If we can get a healthcare bill that allows the free market to fix the problem, if we can repeal two regulations for every new one (so far Mr. Trump is repealing sixteen for every new one), if we can resist the pressure of the neo-cons for war in Syria, or Iran, or Russia, or anywhere, if we can avoid the political assassination of impeachment we may have a chance to right the Ship-of-State that’s been listing hard to port for generations.
Those are some big “Ifs.” The political establishment, that two headed bird of prey that constitutes the Republicrat Government Party is fixated on the destruction of the Trump presidency. They must destroy him and declare that his election was an aberration, a mistake that has to be rebuked and reversed. If Mr. Trump, a non-politician can succeed than it reveals the truth. We don’t need professional politicians and technocrats to run the bewildering bureaucracy these same hacks and pencil pushers have created.
We now have a Special Counsel investigating a non-crime. We have House and Senate committees spending all day every day investigating things they know are cut from whole cloth, castles in the air. The Progressive Republican majorities in Congress are unable to reverse the travesty of affordable healthcare that costs more. The courts provide injustice as they block obviously lawful acts of the President because they didn’t like his rhetoric while a candidate. What is the long and short of all this obstructionism? The political class and their allies in the chatocracy are determined to reverse the results of the 2016 election. Or at least to bog the administration down with trumped up investigations to the point they’re paralyzed and ineffective. Why? Because they didn’t win and they can’t allow a non-politician to succeed that’s why.
For years the political hucksters told us we had to lower our expectations. They told us we had to make amends and pay reparations for all the evil we’d done. We had a president making apology tours, bowing to foreign rulers, and in general doing all he could to fulfill the dreams of his anti-colonial father.
Finally we have a leader who believes America can be great again. Finally we have a leader who proudly says we should believe in, project, and defend America first. This is just too much for the apparatchiks who hang on like a drowning man to a life preserver to the levers of power in the bureaucratic Rube Goldberg machine that is the federal behemoth.
How do we break the log jam?
Enter my new political party, the Telephone Book Party. Every two years we pick the first 535 names out of a phone book and that’s our congress. Then two years later we try another phone book. At least we’d have some regular people and maybe even a few working people in there instead of these feather-bedding plutocrat wannabes making laws for everyone else that don’t apply to them.
Seriously we have to do something to break out of the death spiral. If the deadweight would get out of the way and pass a simple healthcare fix such as Senator Cruz’s suggestion of allowing insurance companies to offer affordable policies without all the required Obamacare bells and whistles. If they would pass tax reform and build the wall President Trump would soar to the top of the polls. So, you can be assured none of that is going to happen.
What can we do? We rallied in unprecedented numbers to elect a non-politician to break the cycle and rejuvenate the American dream of personal freedom and economic opportunity. You can see how well that’s going?
If the Constitution was written expressly to institute and maintain a limited government and we have what we have how can we say it’s a success at the moment? Dare we say it, the Constitution has failed. Perhaps it’s time to reassess the social contract by which we order and live our lives. If ¾ of the States call for a convention to consider amendments according to Article V of the Constitution such a convention shall convene. Currently twelve States have voted for such a convention. Thirty-four are needed. Many fear such a convention. However, if what we have now is no longer working why should we hesitate? The Founders and the Framers didn’t hesitate. They did what was needed to birth this great experiment in human freedom. Should we hesitate to re-birth it now that it’s become ossified with precedent and political machinations?
We need to plumb the depths of our hearts and the recesses of our souls to find the courage and fortitude to rebuild the walls and pinnacles of human freedom. Just as the ridiculed advice of drill baby drill led us from energy subservience to energy dominance maybe we need a new deck and not just a new deal?
Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2017 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens
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If you think you can make money with E&P of $47.00 a barrel oil, good luck with your endeavor, but keep in mind that with every barrel you produce, it will only serve to lower the price of oil even further. And all the while, the Saudis only need to press a button to increase the amount of oil that they introduce to the market.
But I read all about !!!Peak Oil!!! on FR several years ago.
(And laughed in their faces).
One great improvement would be to go back to the original Constitutional election of members of the Senate by state legislatures instead of direct election as we have had since the Fourteenth Amendment. The result has been senators who do absolutely nothing but perpetuate themselves in office. The Senate is where every meaningful reform of our broken system goes to die.
If going back to the original concept is too radical, the Senate should be eliminated, and we should have a unicameral legislature. It works for Nebraska.
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The people who forced us to buy/drive those cars now drive these cars.
It is my understanding that the Saudis are running at full maximum. The problem is that it is not working and they can’t do any more. They are really starting to feel the pain of the decreased revenue. That is why they are starting to reverse course. They are trimming production and trying to get others to do likewise. The price will likely stabilize where the frackers can make money and have a decent break even length of time on new wells. Probably between $55 and $60.
I believe it was the 17th Amendment that allowed individual voters, rather than State Legislators to choose Senators. Nonetheless, Senators should be chosen by the states as decreed in the Constitution.
I had a 73 Vega. It was a piece of junk. My oldest brother bought it then foisted it off on me. It started rusting when he drove if off the dealer’s lot. The steel oil pan never sealed with the aluminum block and leaked more oil than a BP well. The compressor on the air conditioner would kill the engine at a red light unless you put it in neutral and gave it some gas.
My older brother had a burnt orange 73 Pinto wagon with a 5-speed stick. I envied him; he had the better car.
I liked both the Maverick and the Pinto, tough little cars. We took several of both and dropped small block V8’s in them and made rockets. Fun...fun...fun... lol
Lol, I wonder if that would pass Ca emissions testing? “Should I hold the exhaust probe or get out of the way?”
Great!
The Pinto was much better than the Vega.
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