The depression I get, but overall you are making no sense whatsoever. You are picking little tidbits of info and trying to connect dots that do not connect. What do you mean modeling ourselves after China? How is that paying for Romney’s campaign? China is only taking advtange of our own self inflicted economic wounds, most of which are inflicted by government.
And you think profits are why gas is expensive? Profits equal about 12-16 cents a gallon. Taxes are 3 to 5 times that depending on area. And not being able to drill in this country is probably doubling the cost of the raw material. Government, not profit, is the driver of gas costs.
You are depressed, but angry at the wrong folks.
“China is only taking advtange of our own self inflicted economic wounds, most of which are inflicted by government.”
Government is a tool; it is not a money-hoarding entity. The top 1% have increased their wealth, over the last 30 years, by 20% OF THE ENTIRE ECONOMY while everyone else has lost wealth. Sure, they use government, but they use it to enrich themselves. Same as communist Chinese billionaires. They get the government to change the rules like CEOs can now be paid in stock (they couldn’t 30 years ago) to avoid income tax, like off-shoring and out-sourcing got made from a rare practice to a super-profitable and common one, like pensions got eliminated nominally because we were getting our new 401ks to take their place, and high tax brackets were eliminated that removed the cap on high wealth.
Let’s face the truth honestly. I can provide facts and figures references, but you’ve got to know I am speaking the truth. Our nation has changed over the last 30 years. Our top 1% is way, way, way, way richer and more powerful. Our regular people can no longer live in single-earner families, no longer payoff their mortgages in 15 years, no longer can hope to retire at 65, no longer have security, no longer have pensions, and all that means that they have LOST FREEDOM. They didn’t lose their feedom to government, they lost their wealth and security and therefore their freedom to our 1%ers.