Re: Gasoline Prices
demsvmejm,
First as a traveler of Michigan I know exactly where you are coming from. Anyone who lives in Michigan now knows what an extreme recession or maybe even a depression looks like. Unfortuantely you need to understand that big business makes money serving the little man. Big business doesn't win serving the minority they make money serving the masses. See Walmart. As some say, the rich get richer and the poor get more populous - not exactly. What we call poor in this country would be upper middle class in most parts of the world. Unfortunately, manufacturing in this country is all but dead. Unions hurt, but mechanization and the lower required skills to operate machinery makes less qualified workers acceptable to accomplish what once took a craftsman to accomplish. These jobs are now in Mexico, (theft, political bs) or Asia. Unregulated immigration has hurt as well, devalueing the importance of the American workers contributions.
The red/blue state arguement didn't hold water. Clinton signed NAFTA. Democrats have done everything to stonewall meaningful immigration legislation, and the Republicans haven't exactly run to close the boarder. What exactly would you do if they didn't take the oil out of the ground? What would it change in the environment? Extraction is rather clean and the only downside is storage of refined oil or spills which are not all that common, in fact the greatest oil polluter is mother nature, as millions of gallons of oil leak out of the ground into the oceans.
We now have more trees in this country than when Washington was president. Environmental agruements are unjustified when you look at what Mexico, China, all of asia for that matter, have done to the environment? Have you been to Paris, dog doo everywhere.
Our country was based on free enterprise. Like it or not. And it has been responsible for the strongest economy the world has ever seen. It is all about exploitation of resources, labor, intellectual property. Our system as it is today is uniquely American. And consistant with the constitution. Our rights today have been bastardized into allowing for the most base type of garbage to spred their disease on everyone. I don't think I have to outline the litany of aborations that have been spauned by liberal fiat.
You are pointing out that Republicans benefit because gas prices are dropping, so are the citizens. When prices were high, Democrats were benefiting, but the average american suffered. I will be pulling for the little man, even when it hurts the socialists. But those same socialists will be happy when the oil companies profits drop, why is it that someone has to suffer for dems to be successful?
There is much to improve, but it isn't black and white nor is it red or blue. Your governor is destroying your state. Good luck next election.
