Day: April 6, 2010

Drill, Baby, Drill!

You recall Palin in all her cuteness during the 2008 election, when she championed the concept of opening up more of the oil reserves off the different coasts of the US?  Right?  You DO remember?

Okay, maybe not…..it was her idea or someone in the McCain camp that wanted to end America’s dependence on foreign oil…of course the Dems were not on board with the idea, at least during the campaign…..my, my….what a difference a couple of months makes…

As reported in the NY Times:

The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time

The proposal — a compromise that will please oil companies and domestic drilling advocates but anger some residents of affected states and many environmental organizations — would end a longstanding moratorium on oil exploration along the East Coast from the northern tip of Delaware to the central coast of Florida, covering 167 million acres of ocean.

Under the plan, the coastline from New Jersey northward would remain closed to all oil and gas activity. So would the Pacific Coast, from Mexico to the Canadian border.

Yes, sports fans, I said Obama!  What was a horrible idea during the election is now a good one for the country…..it should make Repubs happy….happy enough to support some of his energy plan…..what was once a bullsh*t idea is now a sterling one….change we all can believe in……is not that Obama’s slogan  in 2008?

Now we could be on our way to oil independence……hip…hip…hooray!

If one thing…nothing about this plan passes the sniff test……

Are you people that damn gullible?  Or just plain ignorant?

You truly believe that the US less than 5% of the world’s oil reserve will ween us from foreign oil?  And do you truly believe that the pumping of those reserves will bring the cost of gas down?  And that you think this plan will do anything other than increase profits of oil companies?

If you have answered yes to any of these question then you need to put the Playstation control down and pay more attention to your reality…..you people are just idiots and deserve the sh*tty government you have now……

The Wrong Direction

Inkwell Institute

Subject:  Economics/Budget Deficit

Paper #7

For many months now we have heard, endlessly, Repubs saying that the country is headed in the wrong direction….and that our ruin is near……(you know…kinda like that guy on the street corner holding a sign that says, “Repent!   The End Is Near!).

We have heard it all….well…almost all….the ideas are flying out of the mouths of politics….both Left and Right are jumping on the bandwagon.

All GOP office holders and candidates are saying that the Prez and the Dems are taking the wrong path for a successful end to the economic cancer in this country….while I may agree in principle…I seriously doubt that the Repubs have a success direction either….

First of all, I ask ALL Repubs where is the Prez going wrong?  Is it health care, or the environment or financial reform….just where is the wrong direction?  Secondly, what is the GOP’s idea of the right direction?…..(pause for thought)…….okay stumped?  They say that they are all for the small businesses that employ most Americans…..so far so good…but if you define what the small business is in general terms, what would it be?  My guess would be the Middle Class.

If the Middle Class is sort of synonymous with small business then we should come to the conclusion that the GOP should be concerned with the plight of the Middle Class, right?  Well you would be mistaken………the following information was found on the site themiddleclass.org…..it is the site of Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, which tracks all of Washington’s doings that would effect the Middle Class….

The most vocal opponents of Obama are Reps Cantor and Boehner and Rep. Ryan of Wisconsin has been called the rising star in the GOP and a brilliant budgetary analyst…..so where do these guys stand on the Middle Class when it concerns legislation that would help?

I will start with House Minority leader, John Boehner of Ohio…….themiddleclass.org has been keeping tabs on the House and Senate since 2003……from 2003 to 2008, Boehner got an “F” every year and son far the score for 2009 has been 8% of the time in favor of the Middle Class, final score will be in by 04/2010.

How about Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia?   Since 2003, he has also received an “F” every year…….and so far the score for 2009 is 13% he has voted in favor of Middle Class issues…April will give us his final score….but so far it does not look good.

Now we look at the economic genius of the GOP, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin……in 2003 the middleclass.org gave him a “D”……..but from 2004 to 2008 he got an “F”…….and for 2009 he has got 13% of his time helping the Middle Class….

Those were the three most out front Repubs,,,,they always talk about the American people and what they need and yet they do little to help the largest class in America.  But I want to be fair so I wanted to look a the Dems in the Congress…..for contrast I chose my Rep in the House who is a “Blue Dog”, Gene Taylor of Mississippi……themiddleclass.org score Taylor thusly……2003 a “B”, 2004-2007 a “C”, 2008 he got a “A” and so far in 2009 he has voted 68% of the time in favor of the Middle Class….he is not a barn burner but at least he seems to be on the side of the Middle Class……

Do not believe me….go to blogroll and click on The Middle Class and see for yourself or check out your reps….almost in every case you will see that the GOP has NOT voted favorably for the Middle Class…..Repubs are LYING!  They show NO concern for the plight of the Middle Class!

Check it out…….themiddleclass.org

Do not get me wrong….I HATE paying taxes……but logic says if I want the services from the government…then I need to suck it up….I also hate to work….but we all do for the same reasons…..what I truly do not like is the fact that we pay taxes for those services and we get crap in return….that is where I have the problem….