In spite of the constant attempts to make us all feel guilty for being alive and doing, well, just about anything, there are at least a couple of clear-minded folks with feel-good solutions that, unlike many proposed alternatives, need cost you nothing extra:
If Barack Obama had given a speech on bowling, it might well have been brilliant and inspiring. But instead he actually tried bowling and threw a gutter ball. The contrast between talking and doing could not have been better illustrated.
Now this is cool: capitalism at work. Drill your own oil well. Wonder what the envy ron mentalists are thinking about this, knowing how they detest capitalism.
It occurs to me that part of our problem is that the gub mint owns over 28% of the land in America. It owns even greater percentages of resource-rich states such as Alaska, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah but less than 2% of Texas, which is ranked at the top for number of oil and gas wells.
The green indoctrination of children proceeds apace with cloying doggerel such as Michael Recycle. No longer content, it would seem, simply to row his boat ashore.
This poster sounds like a potential self-terminator. The progression of altruism through self-sacrifice and finally to self-termination is logical, but people such as that poster never seem to want to follow their logic to its conclusion.
While not, strictly speaking, self-termination, this woman’s sterilization because “having children is selfish” comes pretty close.
No word on whether they intend to ask themselves what government’s role in such inflation could conceivably be.
I know this is complex and difficult to understand but prices rise when demand outstrips supply at a given price. So, if you want lower prices for gas and food (and anything else, for that matter) you can do either or both of the following:
Decrease demand (end subsidies and other assorted boondoggles, such as ethanol mandates).
Of course, if you’re a politician, those are not likely to interest you. Instead, therefore, your options will be:
Find a scapegoat (that would be anyone who has not yet achieved the coveted status of “victim”, preferably successful capitalists and their businesses);
Tax and regulate (because that’s how you justify your existence, maintain your elite power status and keep those kickbacks er, campaign contributions coming in).
Naturally, trusting our elected officials to do the right thing (by them), we can expect more of the latter. Much more. Especially when the socialists are voted in, which is a given, since no capitalists are running.
UPDATE 5/21: The little critters do not disappoint — they remain clueless, but never miss an opportunity to pander to wealth envy while blaming someone else. Congress grills oil execs on record pump prices but turns a deaf ear to logic: “As repetitive and uninteresting as it may sound, the fundamental laws of supply and demand are at work,” said John Hofmeister, president of Shell Oil Company.
