Just finished watching Hillary Clinton speak at the Democratic National Convention being held in Denver. She blamed the Republicans for giving oil companies their large windfall profits. I'm sorry Hillary, but the Republican party is not paying for the billions of dollars of profits that the oil companies are receiving, nor are the Democrats. WE THE PEOPLE ARE!!!
We are the ones paying 4 bucks a gallon, not the government or a political party and so we are the ones giving the oil companies their big profits. So don't try to pin this on your opposing party and tell us exactly how you are going to give everyone health care, how you will bring the troops home, how you will produce all this green energy and how you will fight for gay rights. You gave a rousing speech but did not say a word on how you and the democrats were going to deliver moon beams home in a jar. All you did was say how great you are, are supporting Obama and pointed the finger at Bush and McCain. Change? No, it looks like more of the same politics.
I hope Obama does a better job of telling us how he is going to save the world on Thursday night.
Thanks for letting me rant. You should see less of it by November 5th. Think you can survive till then? Will I be able to survive after then?
1 comment:
Okay Stacy settle down. Understand that Hillary is concerned about the fact that not only do we pay $4 a gallon at the pump but we provide them tax breaks (that again we are paying for), subsidy payments (and again guess who is fitting the bill on this one). We are paying for this many times over. Republicans claim to be "pro market" but seem to have no aversion to hand outs that we are paying for in the case of energy.
If we remove these hand outs life would go on, exploration would continue and we would be paying the true cost of gasoline only one time, at the pump. It would also make other cleaner energy sources more economically competetive and help mitigate the fossil fuel strangle hold that we are in.
Hillary is right in saying the republicans did this, but they are not alone. Many democrats and other corrupt politicians that are owned by the oil lobby have contributed. The fact that these inappropriate economic tools are being addressed is a positive step.
Rob
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