Posted by
Roxanna M. on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:17:35 AM
Well, there's unrest in the mid-east, as though that hasn't been the norm for decades. This time, though, it's got nothing to do with Israel and everything to do with people getting fed up with the dictators who live high on the hog (pun intended) while they suffer.
The latest man-on-the-bubble is Libya's Qaddafi, who in response to the uprising is ordering sabotage of the oil fields, Libya's only real source of revenue. Oil prices spiked 9% in one day. And we Americans, already struggling with a weak economy, are once again going to pay the price at the pump.
Because of the feckless leadership in this country and the absolutely idiotic refusal to harvest our own resources - and put our people to work - we are going to continue to suffer economically.
And what is Obama doing about this? Well, as usual, he's playing President of the United States on TV. His wife and children have just come back from yet another taxpayer-funded vacation. He's siding with the strikers in Wisconsin. He's denouncing Israel at the U.N. He's not working with Republicans in congress and fully intends to shut down government, regardless of the consequences to you and me, in an effort to breathe some life into a re-election campaign that has not one accomplishment to run on. He's not serious about fixing our economic problems. He's never been serious about anything except satisfying his own adolescent wants.
His Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is in contempt of court over the moratorium in the Gulf after the BP spill. Salazar's foot dragging has sent one company into bankruptcy and another elsewhere in search of jobs. And people who could be working are drawing unemployment while an asset goes fallow.
America, the greatest nation on the planet, is being brought to its knees needlessly. We have oil in this country. We could get it, refine it, sell it. We could put our people back to work. We could revive our country. We could show the useless tinpot dictators of the world that they don't have a stranglehold on the world.
But, America does nothing. The people who are supposed to be looking out for us have, in effect, sold us out. They sit there with their government salaries and bonuses and perks and don't give a rat's rear end what's going on with us. Congress gives itself a 5% raise every year, while denying Social Security COLAs for 2 years. They don't care. Higher gas prices don't bother them. After all, they're not paying for their gas, we are.
Higher gas prices will increase the price of absolutely everything else. Our already precarious economy could be sent into another tailspin.
Meanwhile, the Neros in DC fiddle while America burns . . . all the while thinking that we're too stupid to know what's going on.
They learned nothing from November and if this country is ever to return to greatness, November 2010 must be only the beginning.