If I were 36 years of age, or older, and able to run in the 2008 Presidential Election, the following paragraphs would be my platform. I believe in America and believe our best days are ahead of us...depending on the outcome of the next Presidential Election and then Mid-Term Elections, our worst days could also be ahead of us.
There are many issues facing this nation today. The first and foremost for every American today would have to be the price of gas. A close second, of course, is the two-pronged war on terror. Then, the major issues behind those would be the economy (which is directly related to gas prices), immigration, education, and jobs, also related to gas prices and the economy.
Over the next few blogs, I am going to explore and explain what would be my platform for running for President. While most of this may not be new to those that frequent my blogs, I do hope to convince a few voters to see the light and cast the correct votes this November, as well as in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and so on and so forth.
Today, let's talk about gas prices. No, gas is not approaching $4 per gallon because Bush is in the back pocket of the oil companies. The oil companies could possibly do more to lower the cost of gas, but we can't expect Exxon and Cheveron to voluntarily give up their profits when we don't expect Snickers to voluntarily drop the price of candy bars. What we need to look for is answers as to what is really driving costs up.
The cost of oil is going up for the simple fact that there are billions more people using it today than they were 25 years ago. The shift from the stone age to the modern age over the last 20 years in China has drastically increased the need and demand for oil and gasoline. More demand, more cost. Simple economic fundamentals. If no one wants what you are selling, you can't give it away. But if your product is demanded and essential to survival of billions of people, prices skyrocket.
Countries like our good friend Saudi Arabia and Iran and Venezuela are holding the world economy hostage through OPEC, who controls most of the world's oil. They refuse to up oil production and sit back and watch the money roll in to their already overflowing pockets.
Our problem in America is our dependence on foreign oil. Our problem is that we have our own oil but refuse to use it. The United States is one of thousands of hands out in the oil market, like the masses crowding at the door of a soup kitchen during the Great Depression. We are like a farmer who won't sow his own oats and wheat, instead waiting in line for a crust from someone else, and paying steeply for it.
We have enough oil in Alaska to last a minimum...A MINIMUM!...of 30 years. Alaska can fuel our country's entire need for fossil fuel for over a generation! Yet, the environmental wack-os freak out and buy the best liberals available everytime we talk about drilling. ANWR (pronounced in the news an-whar), the Alaskan National Wildlife Reserve, is a place of pristine beauty where rare and endangered wild life roam freely. ANWR is roughly the size of the state of South Carolina. The area that would need to be impacted would be roughly equivalent to the size of a large international airport. A large area, but hardly enough to show up on an atlas.
Plus, in the 30 years since drilling in ANWR was first killed by liberals, drilling and conservation technologies have progressed by lightyears. We have the technology to drill with minimal impact on the environment. Today's technology would provide more efficient and successful oil extraction while the spotted butt caribou can live on without a care in the world.
We need to drill our own oil in Alaska and other places. We have territory off of our Pacific and Atlantic coasts that would also provide oil for our country. Yet again, we are being held up by liberals who fight for environmentalist wackos and their slanted agendas.
Our nation has not built one new oil refinery in over 30 years. Why? You guessed it...liberals.
We have new, improved, environmentally safe technology to drill oil with virtually no impact on the areas inwhich we would drill. We have abundant oil to get us through an entire generation.
The second we pass legislation to start to drill and produce our own oil, I guarentee you that we will see OPEC change their tune and start lowering oil prices. They need the US as a customer too much to force us to pull out of OPEC completely once our own oil is on line.
Next, we need to invest in more nuclear power plants. We have the technology to make it the safest, most abundant and renewable source of energy. It would replace coal and oil power, thus alleviating the demand for those fossil fuels. Nuclear power would also help fuel cars that run on electricity, thus eliminating even more Carbon waste.
We have our own power sources...just need to get the people in power to allow us to tap into those resources. Once we lower our energy costs, inflation and the cost of every other product we use and need will likewise go down.
In my next blog, we will further explore what is slowing down our economy, both including skyrocketing fuel costs and other factors.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
$135 a barrell and up....SAVE US OPEC!!!
Dear OPEC, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and other oil producing companies/nations:
Please save America. We need more oil at cheaper prices from you. Only you can save our nation. Only you can save the American, and thusly, the world's, economy.
We do have the technology, man power, and care to drill, refine (after building green refineries), and produce our own stockpiles of crude oil. We are fully capable of competing with you on the oil market. We have that capability. Yet, we are a true superpower and nearly half of our leaders feel guilty about that success.
So, we need your help to remain on top. We need you to produce more oil and lower your current asking prices. We know you have improved your production over and over again over the last 8 years. We know you have helped us in the past. It hasn't been the extensive, economy-saving help we have asked for or needed, but we do thank you for everything you do.
We will send our lame-duck President to grovel at your feet. He will marvel at the 24K gold, diamond-encrusted, platinum-coated-engined Mercedes-Benz. He will praise the beauty and success of your country, ignoring the starving masses five kilometers from your palace. He will comment, "What opium-producing farms are they talking about here?"
We listen to environmentalist wack-os who tell us oil is evil...and watch them drive away in their gas-guzzling Suburbans, Escalades, and Tahoes. We will let the Democratic party lay roadblocks to our independence from your oil because yours is so much cleaner and more environmentally safe than we could ever drill and produce.
Our national security and our economy will play second fiddle to the unproven and unrealistic Global Warming phenomenon. We will rely on semi-friendly psuedo-allies for our energy needs instead of harvesting our own resources.
We need your help. If you so choose. If not, we will just continue to pay whatever you ask, because we need you.
We just are content to let our own oil sit 200 feet beneath our land. We are content to hope that you will have mercy on us out of the goodness of your hearts.
Sincerely,
The Citizens of America
Please save America. We need more oil at cheaper prices from you. Only you can save our nation. Only you can save the American, and thusly, the world's, economy.
We do have the technology, man power, and care to drill, refine (after building green refineries), and produce our own stockpiles of crude oil. We are fully capable of competing with you on the oil market. We have that capability. Yet, we are a true superpower and nearly half of our leaders feel guilty about that success.
So, we need your help to remain on top. We need you to produce more oil and lower your current asking prices. We know you have improved your production over and over again over the last 8 years. We know you have helped us in the past. It hasn't been the extensive, economy-saving help we have asked for or needed, but we do thank you for everything you do.
We will send our lame-duck President to grovel at your feet. He will marvel at the 24K gold, diamond-encrusted, platinum-coated-engined Mercedes-Benz. He will praise the beauty and success of your country, ignoring the starving masses five kilometers from your palace. He will comment, "What opium-producing farms are they talking about here?"
We listen to environmentalist wack-os who tell us oil is evil...and watch them drive away in their gas-guzzling Suburbans, Escalades, and Tahoes. We will let the Democratic party lay roadblocks to our independence from your oil because yours is so much cleaner and more environmentally safe than we could ever drill and produce.
Our national security and our economy will play second fiddle to the unproven and unrealistic Global Warming phenomenon. We will rely on semi-friendly psuedo-allies for our energy needs instead of harvesting our own resources.
We need your help. If you so choose. If not, we will just continue to pay whatever you ask, because we need you.
We just are content to let our own oil sit 200 feet beneath our land. We are content to hope that you will have mercy on us out of the goodness of your hearts.
Sincerely,
The Citizens of America
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Something is SERIOUSLY Wrong Here...
Ok, in all seriousness we need to talk about something.
A 30 year old male teacher has sex with a 16 year old girl. He is fried. Buried. Dead. Haunted for the rest of his life.
A 30 year old female teacher has sex with a 16 year old boy, she gets away with a slap on the wrist and the boy is the new hero in town.
What is wrong with this picture?
Both teachers should be raked over the coals for corrupting these kids. Instead, its a joke in our country where all men say, "Where were these female teachers when I was in school?"
Take a father of a 16 year old boy and a 15 year old girl...the father would not be riled to anger or disgust if his son has sex with a female teacher. There might even be a beer or other sign of pride shared between them. That same father would load up a shotgut and have to be hit with a stun gun at the door of the school if a teacher touched his daughter. This is such a moral contradiction.
In both cases, adults in powerful positions can use their positions to persuade children, not capable of making the right call in this position, into consenting to sex. Whether there was aggressive action coming from the CHILD, the ADULT needs to say NO. It doesn't matter who was the aggressor and who was the male or female. It is RAPE. If an adult takes advantage of a child, it is RAPE. They are RAPED of innocence...RAPED of proper judgement...RAPED of the ability to properly respect the opposite sex and respect the power and importance of sex.
I just don't get the double standard. When a man rapes a girl, he is put through the fire and rightfully so. Yet, its almost acceptable for a woman to rape a boy.
This is just another in a series of problems that are really getting me worried about the plight of our country and our world.
A 30 year old male teacher has sex with a 16 year old girl. He is fried. Buried. Dead. Haunted for the rest of his life.
A 30 year old female teacher has sex with a 16 year old boy, she gets away with a slap on the wrist and the boy is the new hero in town.
What is wrong with this picture?
Both teachers should be raked over the coals for corrupting these kids. Instead, its a joke in our country where all men say, "Where were these female teachers when I was in school?"
Take a father of a 16 year old boy and a 15 year old girl...the father would not be riled to anger or disgust if his son has sex with a female teacher. There might even be a beer or other sign of pride shared between them. That same father would load up a shotgut and have to be hit with a stun gun at the door of the school if a teacher touched his daughter. This is such a moral contradiction.
In both cases, adults in powerful positions can use their positions to persuade children, not capable of making the right call in this position, into consenting to sex. Whether there was aggressive action coming from the CHILD, the ADULT needs to say NO. It doesn't matter who was the aggressor and who was the male or female. It is RAPE. If an adult takes advantage of a child, it is RAPE. They are RAPED of innocence...RAPED of proper judgement...RAPED of the ability to properly respect the opposite sex and respect the power and importance of sex.
I just don't get the double standard. When a man rapes a girl, he is put through the fire and rightfully so. Yet, its almost acceptable for a woman to rape a boy.
This is just another in a series of problems that are really getting me worried about the plight of our country and our world.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Gay Marriage...Marriage...
I originally posted this blog on my MySpace page on 8-8-07. With the recent controversy of the California courts overturning the Gay Marriage ban, I felt this blog, with my revisions, needed to be dusted off. I hope you will enjoy...and think...
In our country today, love and marriage have little to no meaning or respect. Constantly people are getting married in a hurry, divorced in a hurry, and the word love is thrown around like a tennis ball to a dog.
Take my ex-wife, please...no, really. How much can marriage mean in our country if a woman can meet the love of her life two years in a row, and get married in late August two years in a row?
Marriage means so much that the judge who finalized the divorce was jovial and joking and trying to be buddy-buddy with us. I mean, this was the end of what was supposed to be a life-long bond. Yet, it was ended as if it was no more important than two people deciding on the last donut.
Look at how many people get married because it's owed to someone, or because its the right thing to do, or whatever. Or, once they are married, find that it takes hard work and real dedication, so they instead decide its to take the easy way and quit and file for divorce. Its so hard to find people today who really take love and marriage seriously.
The reason I am writing this blog is not the fact that the phony and her puppet are getting hitched 51 weeks after I was hitched to her. Instead, I recently went to the theaters and saw "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," and it got me thinking.
What in the heck are we trying to save by fighting gay marriage? If we, as a society, do not take care of the bonds of marriage and the meaning of love, why the hell do we deny people who have a different opinion and way of life the same opportunity?
What is the difference in gay marriage and straight marriage? The difference is that the gays might actually take marriage seriously.
So, that being said, let me add this. I am Christian. I do not believe that homosexuality is a proper choice in life. I do not agree with the lifestyle, but I have nothing against the people who participate. SO, please don't think of this blog as a pro-gay marriage statement.
More so, this is an indictment of our society, the people in it, and the hypocracy of so many people. The question I am raising is simple:
If marriage is such a sacred institution, when are we going to start acting like it?
In our country today, love and marriage have little to no meaning or respect. Constantly people are getting married in a hurry, divorced in a hurry, and the word love is thrown around like a tennis ball to a dog.
Take my ex-wife, please...no, really. How much can marriage mean in our country if a woman can meet the love of her life two years in a row, and get married in late August two years in a row?
Marriage means so much that the judge who finalized the divorce was jovial and joking and trying to be buddy-buddy with us. I mean, this was the end of what was supposed to be a life-long bond. Yet, it was ended as if it was no more important than two people deciding on the last donut.
Look at how many people get married because it's owed to someone, or because its the right thing to do, or whatever. Or, once they are married, find that it takes hard work and real dedication, so they instead decide its to take the easy way and quit and file for divorce. Its so hard to find people today who really take love and marriage seriously.
The reason I am writing this blog is not the fact that the phony and her puppet are getting hitched 51 weeks after I was hitched to her. Instead, I recently went to the theaters and saw "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry," and it got me thinking.
What in the heck are we trying to save by fighting gay marriage? If we, as a society, do not take care of the bonds of marriage and the meaning of love, why the hell do we deny people who have a different opinion and way of life the same opportunity?
What is the difference in gay marriage and straight marriage? The difference is that the gays might actually take marriage seriously.
So, that being said, let me add this. I am Christian. I do not believe that homosexuality is a proper choice in life. I do not agree with the lifestyle, but I have nothing against the people who participate. SO, please don't think of this blog as a pro-gay marriage statement.
More so, this is an indictment of our society, the people in it, and the hypocracy of so many people. The question I am raising is simple:
If marriage is such a sacred institution, when are we going to start acting like it?
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