Our Public Servants

RightBias ^ | June 19, 2008 | Nancy Morgan

[nancyvideo]

As millions of Americans are adjusting their lives and their pocketbooks to the new reality of exploding gas prices, our elected representatives continue toiling endlessly on our behalf.

A house subcommittee last week voted down a GOP led measure that would allow the U.S. to open up off shore areas for oil exploration. "The United States can't drill its way out of this problem", our servants endlessy intoned, as they effectively denied Americans the app. 86 billion barrels of oil that lie off our coasts. Oh well, they're the experts. And after all, based on the latest Rasmussen poll only 67% of voters are in favor of drilling.

As ethanol mandates imposed by these very same experts continue causing some very serious unintended consequences, like global food riots and starving people, our elected servants astutely ignore this crisis of their own making, focusing instead on other vital issues of the day.

The House was busy ..

[nancyvideo]

Satire as truth

[kcm.org]

If Mr. President would sic the CFTC on oil commodities futures, the Goldman Sacs and British Petroleums would cause hurricanes in London and New York in their rush to short crude oil. Satire not intended.

[Free State Four]

Rather than allow this to happen, our servants in the Senate took a brave stand and voted to, gasp, privatize its failing restaurants.

Actually, I don't think it was the increase in taxpayer subsidy that prodded them into action. I think it was the idea that the concession was going to increase prices to the individual diners (senators) that threw them into action.

[learner]

Cannot run a restaurant, but can run refineries. Make sense to me.