I was going to go into some of these as separate posts but I have to compress the last few days down to this post. If you're reading this, you have the Internet and can find more information on the topics if you so desire.
Bush begs for oil: Oil prices are skyrocketing and Bush went to ask the Saudis to increase the supply. An increased supply would decrease the price. The Saudis refused saying that it's Bush's economic policies that are creating the high oil prices. They are right. I had to read that last bit in a foreign paper.
In the US, what you're more likely to hear is that Bush is pleading with them because high oil prices will kill our economy. That way he can push the blame off of himself and onto someone else. And who better, really, than those hated people in the Middle East? It's just like them to want to see us suffer.
Meanwhile Bush continues to borrow money from the Federal Reserve to fund the war and the Fed continues to pump new fake money into the Wall Street bailout. Both of which are causing massive inflation and the cost of oil to skyrocket.
It's probably better to blame the people in the Middle East though.
USA Today did a piece where they said that stagflation kills our currency. When inflation rises and economic growth slows, the value of the dollar goes down.
The sad thing about this is that people trust the USA today. In actuality, when the value of the dollar goes down, THAT IS INFLATION! It takes more of those little paper IOUs to buy things because they aren't worth as much. Stagflation doesn't cause money to drop in value.
But it gets better.
USA Today said that Ben Bernanke (chairman of the Federal Reserve, the same corporation that is causing history making inflation) is an "honest broker" in the emerging stimulus packages. I trust Bernanke as far as I can throw all the gold in Fort Knox.
Wait! Is there any gold in Fort Knox. No one knows because no one has ever, ever, ever, done an audit on the Federal Reserve. We don't know what they have done with America's gold.
Bush is going to give the economy a shot in the arm even though everything is "just fine". Yeah, if it's fine, why do we need to stimulate it. Not only that but the $150 billion dollars will be in new fake money so it will end up driving up inflation. The $800 check you get from the government is going to be like taking an aspirin for a migraine. It's not going to stretch very far in 2008. 2007 had the highest inflation in 17 years. I believe that 2008 is going to be worse.
Btw, I know how we could end the war. It came to me in my fevered state sitting on the couch vegging in front of the TV which is something I never do.
Everytime an American soldier is killed, break into the broadcast and do a 60 second piece on how he was killed and what it means to his family. Don't just put up stats at the end of the news. Each and everytime we lose another one, interrupt the current show with the announcement. People might not care too much about another soldier dying and about seeing the spouse and kids crying but you interrupt American Idol too many times and people will be absolutely pissed. They will be calling for an immediate end to the war.