The price of gas in America

[A Black Falcon]

I see, except for one thing, NONE of the alternative fuels are in a ready state yet!

And why do you think this is? Because Big Oil doesn't want it so, and what they want they get... if prices got high enough public pressure might eventually force them to change...

Did you ever consider that a president who generates a surplus in revenue might be to blame for major tax increases? The bureaucracy is ridiculously large, anyway... there are ten employees and thirty official procedures for every tax paying citizen. Both parties are responsible, but Democrats are nefarious for spending on the leech that is known as social welfare: a one-way out-going flow of capital that we never get a return on. I work hard for my money, and seeing it in the form of food stamps in illegal immigrants' hands may get you off, but it doesn't please me none. If you and ABF like taxes so much, why don't you pay mine for me while you're at it.

Let's see... recent history.

1982-1988: Reagan. We reduce taxes dramatically while raising spending (mostly on the military) dramatically. There's a boom for several years. Since "supply-side economics" are a myth, though, the bill eventually comes due for those years of deficit spending and ... yup, crash.
1988-92: We have a crash and a war. We begin to recover from the crash because Bush Sr. was brave, realized that the only way to help fix the problem was to raise taxes, and did so.
1992-2000- boom.
2001-2005 - struggling economy. Return of Reaganomics. Complete memory wipe of hte 1980s and the results of the last time they were tried. Wars. Natural disasters. Government spending grows dramatically. Taxes are cut.

Hmmmm... what happens next? Will it be A) A bust, B) a tax hike (after a bust), or C) a tax hike (in prevention of the economy falling apart even more completely)? You can't live on borrowed money forever, and all those billions going to the wealthiest 2% will never be seen again ("trickle-down economics" works about as well as collecting water with a sieve...)...

And people like you? You're the pawns... people deluded into thinking that some of the worst possible policies for you yourselves are actually good ideas -- things like getting rid of the estate tax, which gets millions of revenue and only applies to, at most, the top 5% of taxpayers only... like massive tax cuts combined with massive spending increases, giving the lie to any pretenses of this administration being fiscally responsible (or fiscally conservative!)... in opposing things like raising the minimum wage, increasing health care for the lower classes, etc, etc, etc... it's kind of amazing really, but it just proves how little people "think".

Thanks to this, in 20 years, China will be the dominate world power.

Stuff like this is why we need to determine trade laws based on human rights and worker's rights records, not on which nations sell us more junk... China and Saudi Arabia should not be exempt from being punished for having abysmal rights records. And, more importantly, convinced to improve those records...