On your other point, you claim that the high cost of fuel(allegedly caused by the democrats) somehow nudged the “mortgage domino”. It certainly didn't help anyone, that's for sure; however, this argument assumes that it was the democrats who caused the high price of fuel in the first place which we all know is false. Yes, we can blame the Bill Clinton administration for coercing lenders into lowering their standards for the so called “sub-prime borrowers”. I have yelled about that one plenty myself but I do believe there was yet a little more to the crisis than that and, as I stated previously, there were plenty of people making money off of that from both sides of the aisle; likewise, there were plenty of people who lost money on that from both sides of the aisle when the bubble burst.
Which brings me to my final and already belabored point, that the mess we are in now can largely be attributed to our inability to compete with Chinese COMMUNISM in the global economy and the willingness of some Americans to exacerbate that problem by giving American jobs to the Chinese who are all too willing to use the unlevel playing field against us to great advantage. Americans shouldn't have to work like slaves just because the ChiComs work like slaves. Americans shouldn't have to let companies dump unsafe toxins into their waterways because the ChiComs do. Americans shouldn't have to accept a lower standard of living just because the ChiComs are willing to. But that's the probem, unless we accept this decreased quality of life as the new American standard, we can't compete. That's what we need to be talking about here, not how the Democrats caused the price of gas to skyrocket in 2008.
If you are saying that a free-market economy cannot compete with a communist economy, then I must strenuously disagree. We heard much the same nonsense during the days of the Soviet Union. I well remember being told that the centrally-planned economy of the USSR would out-produce us and bury us. It did not happen.
. . . and the willingness of some Americans to exacerbate that problem by giving American jobs to the Chinese who are all too willing to use the unlevel playing field against us to great advantage.
There is no such thing as an "American job." No worker "owns" his job; the employer does. To stay in business, the employer must make a profit. Hence, jobs will be offered to those who are willing and able to do the work at a price the employer is willing and able to pay.
. . . Americans shouldn't have to work like slaves just because the ChiComs work like slaves.
I am not sure what you mean by "work like slaves." Slaves are not known for working diligently or intelligently. Free men and women can always out-produce slaves.
If you mean Americans should not have to work as hard as the Chinese, I would ask, Why not?
Americans shouldn't have to let companies dump unsafe toxins into their waterways because the ChiComs do.
Agreed. On the other hand, keeping the air and water clean should not require enormous and intrusive bureaucracies.
Americans shouldn't have to accept a lower standard of living just because the ChiComs are willing to.
Why not? Nowhere is it written that we Americans are guaranteed wealth that we have not earned.
But that's the probem, unless we accept this decreased quality of life as the new American standard, we can't compete.
Nonsense. We can compete with anyone, if we are willing to do so. Indeed, we must compete, if we wish to maintain our quality of life.
That's what we need to be talking about here, not how the Democrats caused the price of gas to skyrocket in 2008.
The price of gasoline is not the real issue, in my opinion. The problem we face is loss of liberty.
Who drove the price of gas down? Perhaps those same "energy speculators?" Perhaps we should slap a 5000% tax on them also. Think of how our economy would boom.