| Paul_Warren said: Listen, people that work low paying manual labor jobs work one hell of a lot harder than some realtor that has the priviledge of being able to tell others to do their work for them. Anyway, under the Republicans, the rich always get richer while the poor get poorer. The best example, under Bush and his oil family friends and cronies gasoline is now over $3.00 a gallon if you live in an area of the US that has no jobs and you have to drive 60 miles round trip to work each day while only making slightly above minimum wage, all of the money that you make from your work goes into your daily transportation. When Bill Clinton was President, gasoline was only about a dollar a gallon, and middle income families were much better off in comparison to the rich, and those are facts.
Oh yes, one more thing, mrstickball, I looked at those lists you posted of why you don't want to vote for Obama, and one thing that I think I can read about your character from those lists is that it seems as if faith and quite possibly being a person of Christian faith is a major reason that you don't want to vote for Obama. All I really have to add to that is that Jesus and Jehoavah are both mythical beings. There is no validity for creationism and no moral reason to be opposed to abortion or stem cell research. And if there was any kind of intelligent design involved in the creation of the world now it was done by grey aliens from the planet Nibiru and not yahweh or Yoda or whatever that diety's name is supposed to be. |
First off, if you are working a "Low paying manual labour position" and you feel that someone else has a much easier job that pays much better there is something you can do ... Go out and do what is necessary to get that job rather than whine about how the world is unfair. Now, do you have any statistics to back up your claim that "under the Republicans, the rich always get richer while the poor get poorer"?
As for the price of oil ... Oil is one of the few products that is bought and sold in an (almost) perfectly free market. This means that the price of oil is primarily driven by Supply and Demand (although there is some influence from speculation). Realistically, the American Government is not powerful enough to have much influence on the price of oil ... in particular given the current ecconomic climate of India and China growing at an alarming rate (dramatically increasing energy demand) while lobby groups through most of the world prevent any action to produce more energy (limiting the supply).
