mrstickball said:
txrattlesnake said:
mrstickball said:
Also, could you, TX, advise which Bush-era laws nearly ruined the country? |
Okay, let's say you're making $8.00 an hour and you have to drive eighty miles a day roundtrip to work. Now if you are paying $4.00 to $5.00 dollars per gallon to drive something like an older model Cadillac to work and paying $20.00 each week out of your paycheck for company health insurance (that won't even pay for a colonoscopy, bloodwork, and a ct scan when you need it) combined with other bills your $8.00 an hour isn't going to go very far.
Now you could say move closer to work. But what if the cheapest apartment you can get in that city costs over $400.00 a month because they want to keep the riffraff from surrounding counties from living there, then how are you supposed to eat for that month?
Obama's plan is supposed to be to get everybody free health care which should allieviate having to pay for company healthplans that won't cover jack. And since foreigners like Obama more than Bush (and Obama isn't trying to help his rich oil buddies get richer), then you haven't seen gas cost over $3.00 since Obama has been in office.
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- Which Bush policy caused gas to jump to $4.00-$5.00 per gallon? Please provide a link to it.
- Healthcare isn't free. Show me where the money is coming from for his 'free' healthcare.
- Gas under Bush started at $1.49 and ended at $1.99 where I live. It didn't increase on Bush under his first year, either.
Please answer these questions.
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While I wouldn't call it "Bush's Fault" the core reason why energy prices have been on a steady increase has been an inflationary monetary policy of the federal reserve (along with an unwillingness of the state and federal government to run balanced budgets) which has resulted in many/most major currencies increasing in value by 25% to 50% against the US dollar over the past decade. To put it another way, most commodity prices (including food and energy) are increasing at such a rapid rate because inflation statistics are heavily manipulated and not representative of reality.
