Posted on 05/11/2008 1:10:37 PM PDT by an amused spectator
The public must pressure Republicans in the White House and Congress to change directions in the country's energy policies, which have pushed oil and gas prices to record highs, a Democratic lawmaker said Saturday.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow said the rising price of oil, fostered by President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney's close ties to the oil industry, is no longer just a burden.
"Now it is a crisis for every American family," the Michigan senator said in the Democrats' weekly radio address. She called the current energy situation "a crisis that doesn't just affect us at the pump, but also raises the prices of groceries, increases our home heating bills and squeezes small businesses trying to keep their heads above water." **snip**
"Republicans want more drilling, more consumption and more tax giveaways for the big oil companies," she said. "Democrats say that those are exactly the policies that got us into this mess to begin with."
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Debbie Stupidnow, ultra moron.
"Oh, man - LOOK at the stupid s*it they want me to say for the cameras this week!?
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The Constitutionalists who founded the country rebelled against excessive taxation.
They never considered the taxing authorities to be shining angels, even when they themselves were the taxing authorities. This is why they advocated an implemented limited government.
You, on the other hand, appear to be an unlimited government advocate. This is generally frowned upon on Free Republic.
Oops! ;-)
A free country does not have an “energy policy.”
That sounds like a Soviet five-year plan sort of thing.
If government would get out of the way, stop meddling with markets, and generally keep to itself, these things would work themselves out.
Good point. The media socialists may have gotten to me while I wasn't looking...
What he said.
WOW....a FReeper that admits to possibly being wrong.
CLAPPING MY HANDS OFF!!!!!
I may be out of step with the new, improved GOP, but when I listen to Reagan’s radio commentaries, they are full of stuff like that, and they still make sense to me.
I don’t think an amused spectator was advocating an energy policy. That would be the incompetent senator from Michigan doing so.
I didn't post it, but I fell for the media line about "we haven't had an energy policy for the last thirty (forty, insert decade number here, etc.) years.
B Knotts is right - government should get its nose out of the energy business. As we can see, they just mess it up.
After reflecting upon it last night, I realized that our government DOES have an energy policy, and as usual the socialist media is helping their government buddies cover their vile tracks.
The policy is to block many avenues of energy exploration in order to channel energy usage into a few easily controlled (and taxed, taxed, TAXED) resources. Then, the government sticks a PERCENTAGE tax on the resource. When the resource redlines, the government is raking in the dough, due to the percentage taxation.
The media is the dog that doesn't bark in this equation, as I discovered and posted earlier in the thread.
The New York Times had some "big splash" article about how Exxon made 40 billion last year, but nowhere in the article was how much they paid in taxes. That information turned out to be singularly hard to find, though there were a couple of thousand articles pillorying Exxon over its "profits".
But back to my point. The government's energy policy appears to be "gouge the taxpayer" as an alternate means of taxation as the government itself forces energy prices up. Then, Democrats AND Republicans pull the Stabenow Sad Sack routine while Congress is laughing all the way to the bank.
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SOS, I never buy anything off of Exxon, stop attributing your thoughts to me. I drive a power stroke diesel.
Brilliant!
The government doesn't tax diesel, or the other fuel suppliers!
Why didn't the rest of us think of it?
FWIW, when the "people" of this Republic...start talking about "BIG GOVERNMENT" and the harm they do....is when I will get very excited.
FRegards,
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