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Daily Archives: May 20th, 2012

Again! What is Wrong With Us!!!


A recent 60 minute broadcast with 2 Airforce pilots coming out about the safety issues on a warplane has brought shouts downs and criticisms, these men are the folks who patrol our skies and need to have safe equipment to do that work. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has promised to address this issue to insure the safety of these fliers yet the public (some of them ) are complaining about the information being made public. We Americans have for years complained about not enough information and too much information, so to my question : What is wrong with us? We didn’t complain when the government went all out after terrorists after 911 but we complained when safety measures were put in place to insure nothing dangerous was in any luggage or anywhere else on our persons. We are still complaining about the financial crises and bailouts that kept good companies from going belly up and saved a good amount of jobs. We have lost a lot of jobs but that tide is changing albeit slowly. Yes there are still big issues that have to be dealt with and it will take some time to sort out. We are looking to blame someone and anyone will do but our mirrors tell the real story, we want everything and are willing to sacrifice nothing or as little as possible. During WWII we all tightened our belts and made do but since then we have become spoiled and complacent while our elected officials  appeased us with platitudes and promises sprinkled with enough physical work to keep you quiet. We have accepted this when it served our personal agendas and become outraged when it didn’t. So it comes to this: if we want to get this country back on track we need to stop our pursuit of personal needs at the expense of others and begin to look at the big picture where everyone benefits. It is not incumbent on the politicians to get this done because they will not do anything against their interests even if it’s in ours. We hired them and we need to collectively keep them in check.

Gas Prices Not President Obama’s Fault


Angry About High Gas Prices? Blame Shuttered Oil Refineries

The U.S. has lost nearly 5 percent of its refining capacity in the past three months, as a handful of old refineries have shut down.

 Most Americans as usual want to blame some one for the gas prices and most of the time its the Government. The President has no control over gas prices and cannot mandate a price decrease or regulation.
 The Government can investigate price gouging but cannot necessarily dictate pricing. There has been shouts that the Strategic oil Reserves should be tapped but that does not solve the problem and remember replacing those reserves will cost more now since they were purchased when prices were lower.
 The problem is oil production and these facilities have been shut down due to under production and reduction of revenue to the producers. This is like stores that do not have enough customers- they close!
There is nothing the government can do beyond attempting to insure that drilling in sensitive areas is monitored so that the natural balance is preserved. You may notice That I said "attempting". We as voters at once want the government to protect us and the environment the issue with that is we cannot have both.
 A balance has to be struck, in order to achieve that balance is first stop contacting our Congress for help, these mopes are in this for themselves period! The "scamocrats and Dupublicans have had us over a barrel (no pun intended) for years because we trusted them.
That trust has led us down the path of economic crisis that exists now. The erstwhile Congress has attempted to blame the Chief Executive, since that office has a limited term while they remain in office due to our own naivete.

No More.


Recently I grilled and ate a “cheese” hot dog, this the product that has the cheese built into it. When the meat is cooked the cheese inside is melted. This ordinarily is no big deal as I like hot dogs . The next morning the extreme urge to “empty” came upon me and then I remembered that years ago (A lot of them)  I ate one of these and the same thing occurred. Needless to say as much as I like hot dogs, cheese filled ones are no longer on my menu.