The Blame Game by Dr. T
It's disgusting, pitiful, and disingenuous to watch the Democrats and in particular, Barack Obama play the "blame game". Our oil crisis never had to be a crisis at all. Leave it to the government to screw things up and then shift blame to others. When gas shortages happened in the 1970s it should have been a wake up call for our country to get moving in the direction of maintaining it's own internal supplies. But environmentalists and anti-capitalists began rattling their sabres and soon the Democratic party was marching in lockstep. Off shore "drilling" became an enterprise of scorn, refineries slowed, new ones halted as year after year we became more dependent upon foreign entities for energy. Fast forward to 2008 and we are in deep stuff, folks are hurting, businesses failing, prices for all goods and services increasing, all because the price of crude has gone through the roof.
But fear not, dear citizens, the government will come to the rescue in the form of the messiah, Barack Obama...he feels your pain and he is going to make those responsible for that pain pay. One problem, he is blaming the oil companies and wants to slap a windfall profit tax on them. Ah, the old "bait and switch". The truth is, it's the government that has us in this predicament. And in particular, the Dems. Each time drilling off shore and in ANWR has come up for vote...the Republicans have voted YES while the Dems have voted NO. We have the technology to drill responsibly and doing so would give some immediate relief while alternative energies are pursued. Instead, the government chooses to put the focus on the oil companies banking that the citizenry will follow along. First of all, the oil companies make about a 4% profit, the government , which does nothing to deserve it, makes about 15%. To add insult to injury, if they get away with slapping the windfall tax on the oil companies...who do you think will end up paying the added taxes.....that's right...it will be passed on to us... the consumers. Yeah, Barak feels our pain.
But fear not, dear citizens, the government will come to the rescue in the form of the messiah, Barack Obama...he feels your pain and he is going to make those responsible for that pain pay. One problem, he is blaming the oil companies and wants to slap a windfall profit tax on them. Ah, the old "bait and switch". The truth is, it's the government that has us in this predicament. And in particular, the Dems. Each time drilling off shore and in ANWR has come up for vote...the Republicans have voted YES while the Dems have voted NO. We have the technology to drill responsibly and doing so would give some immediate relief while alternative energies are pursued. Instead, the government chooses to put the focus on the oil companies banking that the citizenry will follow along. First of all, the oil companies make about a 4% profit, the government , which does nothing to deserve it, makes about 15%. To add insult to injury, if they get away with slapping the windfall tax on the oil companies...who do you think will end up paying the added taxes.....that's right...it will be passed on to us... the consumers. Yeah, Barak feels our pain.
posted by Dr. T at 6/10/2008 10:44:00 PM
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