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The most recent revelation from Senator Obama’s campaign shows that he is a demagogue in the vein those in Europe in the 1930s..Obama wants to punish the rich to give welfare to the rest of us. Politico explains part of his energy policy this way “The first part of Obama’s plan is an emergency energy rebate ($500 to individual workers, $1,000 to families) as soon as this fall.”
What will that really solve? We know the price of gasoline is high, but how will that make gasoline cheaper? Obama really is not after cheaper gas prices, and he stated that before.
Speaker Pilosi stated that last week, She refused to bring to the floor a bill that 75% of Americans approve of, expanding drilling to increase supplies. Her reason was repeated like a mantra, “I’m trying to save the planet.”
Meanwhile, Obama is calling the huge profits of companies like Exxon-Mobile “obscene”, reminiscent of the Carter White House making a tax (surcharge) on profits they deem excessive. By doing that, Obama demonizes major corporations. This is a capitalist country and anyone who tries to redistribute wealth in the manner he proposes, has the sulfurous smell of socialism on it.
Granted, the oil prices are high, but it is not due to egregious greed by companies. Recent events prove that the speculators increased their margins, and the refining capacity in the US has not increased in over 30 years. That is a recipe for shortages and high costs.
If there was a problem with the oil companies, it would have been discovered. Some of us can remember the 1972 Oil Crisis when we had long lines, and prices shot up to a record 80 cents per gallon. In the intervening 40 years with many investigations, no one has said that big oil was responsible for the price of gas.
Yet Senator Obama wants to make the oil companies the bogey men. He vilifies them. Our gas problems are due to them, he says, so we will punish them financially.
His plan is the same sort of demagoguery that Hitler used in 1939. Hitller blamed the hated Jews for every problem that Germany had. The senator’s plan is ludicrous, and it could generate another Kristallnacht, this time at our local gas stations.
What will that really solve? We know the price of gasoline is high, but how will that make gasoline cheaper? Obama really is not after cheaper gas prices, and he stated that before.
Speaker Pilosi stated that last week, She refused to bring to the floor a bill that 75% of Americans approve of, expanding drilling to increase supplies. Her reason was repeated like a mantra, “I’m trying to save the planet.”
Meanwhile, Obama is calling the huge profits of companies like Exxon-Mobile “obscene”, reminiscent of the Carter White House making a tax (surcharge) on profits they deem excessive. By doing that, Obama demonizes major corporations. This is a capitalist country and anyone who tries to redistribute wealth in the manner he proposes, has the sulfurous smell of socialism on it.
Granted, the oil prices are high, but it is not due to egregious greed by companies. Recent events prove that the speculators increased their margins, and the refining capacity in the US has not increased in over 30 years. That is a recipe for shortages and high costs.
If there was a problem with the oil companies, it would have been discovered. Some of us can remember the 1972 Oil Crisis when we had long lines, and prices shot up to a record 80 cents per gallon. In the intervening 40 years with many investigations, no one has said that big oil was responsible for the price of gas.
Yet Senator Obama wants to make the oil companies the bogey men. He vilifies them. Our gas problems are due to them, he says, so we will punish them financially.
His plan is the same sort of demagoguery that Hitler used in 1939. Hitller blamed the hated Jews for every problem that Germany had. The senator’s plan is ludicrous, and it could generate another Kristallnacht, this time at our local gas stations.