Gas? It Smells More Like the Government

Here we go again, boys and girls. ABC News reports "A 50 percent increase in gasoline and diesel fuel taxes is being urged by a federal commission to finance highway construction and repair until the government devises another way for motorists to pay for using public roads."

Why? Don't they have enough taxes the way it is? Have they not seen the economic recession the Dems have talked us into? Why would they want to do something as horrendous as raise taxes? This is their reason.

"With motorists driving less and buying less fuel, the current 18.4 cents a gallon gas tax and 24.4 cents a gallon diesel tax fail to raise enough to keep pace with the cost of road, bridge and transit programs."" Many Americans are driving less and switching to more fuel-efficient cars and trucks, and a shift to new fuels and technologies like plug-in hybrid electric cars will further erode gasoline sales."

So there we go! Why are Americans driving less? Why are Americans switching to more fuel efficient cars? BECAUSE YOU DIM WITTED DEMS YELLED AT THEM AND ORDERED THEM TO! The little snot-nosed tree huggers wanted more fuel efficient cars so we have a cleaner environment. So we could live with the gas prices being so high. Guess what? It's there to slap them in the face.

The thing you've got to understand about Dems, is that they just can't do the simple and wise thing. They have to choose a far out complicated journey which borderlines taking your rights away so then they can say they have healed America when in fact they have eroded what America stands for. A free economy.

Republicans wanted to drill for oil here in the States. Why? So we can inject the global market with more supply. And with an high demand and a high supply, you meet the equilibrium point where all are happy. That's economics in high school.

Know it all liberals would love to chime in "But OPEC mandates global price." WRONG! If I own a bakery, and my competition is selling a loaf of their gourmet bread at $5.00 a loaf, you bet I will sell a comparable loaf of bread for LESS! Why? Because the market is all about how much can I get with my money and at what quality?

Our oil is the quality. Check. How much can they get? 896 BILLION barrels. That's in ANWR (10 bil), The Rockies (800 bil), and off shore (86 bil). If you had to do the math, we import about 20 million barrels a day from somplace else (competition). We could SUPPLY OURSELVES and others and make them pay a price which is lower that OPEC's What will happen?

Besides possible war, OPEC will lose some hefty customers and come to American oil companies who are becoming rich off of doemstic oil. Then OPEC (trying to get people back) will lower its prices and give different services to customers to get them back. This is the market, and because of the puney minded DEMS, we have not been able to participate in it.

When you want to get rid of a business, you don't buy from it. If they have no competition, you can't do anything but buy from they guy you hate. Bad thing is, oil is inelastic. People need it so bad, they WILL pay high price to get some of it. Because it is a necesity.

So we don't have to be spending all this money on OPEC and their taxes they put on our government. We can drill our own gas (natural and oil).

That's what Republicans would do. But NOOOO! Let's blame somebody! Let's see, who makes a product which burns a lot of fossil fuels. THE AUTO INDUSTRY. So they make sure GM and Ford and Chrysler are making fuel efficient and low emission cars so then everyone can breath better and not pay so much at the pump so frequently. This is where laws are not always economy safe.

Because we now have about $1.75/gal gas, people can fill up their huge SUVS for about $25 as opposed to $60. That's not all. Just like people from the Great Depression learned and carried on traits which saved them money (then making sure the clerk did not mischarge them for a meal or retail item now driving less) we drive less because we have set ourselves into the rut of saving gas and money. Not making trips into town so frequently. Spending more time with the family at home. Guess what? Individuals can set their own personal laws and it is economy safe! If they save a little money in bad times, they will save oh the more in good times. WHY STOP THAT? More money is more buying power.

Now if only the DEMS would just leave it up to the people, and if the people would stop thinking that the president has full control of the economy. Honestly, no one does! The president can only suggest and introduce a few things to influence the economy. Once a president starts making mandates, it usually spells bad news for America.

Don't be suprised if you see $2.50 be the new $1.75! It is the same price, just taxed more!

Dems Can't Decide What's Going On

So here we go. The fairy Barney Frank lashes out at McCain for blowing up everything at the talks today at the White House. Later on, Mrs. Harry Reid Pelosi said that McCain only talked at the end of the talks, but you could barely here him.

WHAT? If there was arguing going on before John McCain even had time to speak, how did HE start the yelling and screaming? You know what the actual story is? Obama got his hands on some of the details of the Republican economic plan. So what did he do when he was given time to speak at the begining? He starts in trying to destroy the Republican plan!

Obama probably thought he knew what was going on, but he clearly did NOT! The whole thing blew up in his face a Republicans began questioning how he got his information (which was mostly false) and why he would start to debate it when the plan had not even been presented.

This is the type of president Obama would be. He would just jump into things without knowing anything. THIS SHOWS HIS LACK OF EXPERIENCE, folks!

So Obama came out from the talks and talked himself up in the media. Talking about how presidential he was by controling what went on. Firstly, he's NOT (thank God) the president (yet, dare I say). Secondly, he only caused chaos, he didn't solve anything. If anything he has just ruined any thing his own party members had instore. However, he has bought McCain precious time. The time he can now relax and think about the debate. The Dems said they are going to have a plan passed at midnight, but I think they are going to eat their own words. I think Obama's little stunt has stopped their momentum.

All they have is chaos in Washington. They still need to calm down. So it will probably Monday until a proper bill is passed, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you for your inexperience Obama! you just handed McCain victory at the debate this evening!

Obama's Bluff

What in the world people? Can we not please anyone. For one thing, the nation is in a financial bind. McCain decides to do the smart and honorable thing and serve his country first. He suspends his campaign and calls for a delay in the debate while he takes care of important economic business in Washington. Had he not done this, the dems and Obama's media parade would have flogged him in the news for not doing his job.

Then we have Obama coming out and saying that there will be no postponment of the debate. So now Obama wants to debate? Where was he at all those town hall meetings McCain invited Obama to? Why now? Why does Obama seem to think the sky will fall if McCain and he do not debate this Friday. Because he really does not care for our economy.

Obama is what you call a poser. He says he is for change, but when it comes time to deliver, all he has is words and speeches. That's it! That's all he has!

Congressman Mike Pence R-IN said that Congress should hold off on finalizing a plan to rescue the economy so quickly. He believes that we should look at more options besides a simple, expensive and taxpayer harmful plan. There are many free market alternatives to the bail out.

You know, people. Many Dems ,such as that flamer from Massachusettes Barney Frank, say that the problem is that there is a lack of regulation and it is the Republican's de-regulation that is the problem. He obviously does not remember the CRA of 1977 during the Carter administration. Basically, it forces banks to lend money to poor underserved communities. In laymans terms: people are getting money they cannot and will not payback because they did not deserve the loan to begin with. It was expanded in the 90's during the Clinton administration so more people could get loans and it required more loans like these to be issued. So banks put together packages to meet this "quota" (which I think the government has no business setting). Later around the time Bush came into presidency, the first wave of payments started to become due. Many people could not pay them. Gee! What a surprise. So Bush decides he wants to move oversight of the government sponsered lending companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the treasury where the lobbyists cannot get to the oversight members.

Sissy Frank comes out and slams Bush for claiming there is a financial crisis and that it is only scaring the economy and the people of America. Two years later (2005) Frank co-sponsers a bill to save America from the risks of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Did he know they were risks? Sure! He received $40,100 from them! He knew that there was corruption. He knew all this.

Instead of bailing out all these people, why not go after all those people who manipulated and abused the system.
(Bill Clinton, Barney Frank, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, James A. Johnson, Chris Dodd, Franklin Raines, Stephanopolis, AIG CEOS and all these regulators who took money and overlooked the problem instead of fixing them.) We need to indict each one of these anti-capitalists! They need to be put in prison, have their Congressional benefits taken from them, and have them payback what they can the money they stole or make them do time for their crimes against Americans.

Republicans, repent! You allowed this to happen whe you controlled the Congress in the 90's! You could have stopped Clinton!

Anyway, Obama has to be one of the most un-American people in our country. He wants us to lose the war, he wants socialism to reign and to control our money and healthcare, he does not want to join Congress in trying to fix the problem at hand. He just does not care, but he does care about how he will look if he goes to the debate and McCain is not there. He will have full control over that floor.

I suggest that McCain trip Obama up and end up going at the last minute to the debate and telling the public that he would rather be doing more important things that ensuring his presidency (such as trying to fix our broken and corrupt financial government!).

Country First still holds strong for the Arizona Senator. You're a Great American Senator McCain!