Going Up!!!

Just when you thought the worst was over, and things were leveling out. Just when you thought it was Ok to take that long road trip. Just when you thought it was safe to fill up the F150, the Minivan or the SUV, GASZILLA strikes again.

Prices at the pumps are over the $3.00 per gallon mark for regular unleaded gasoline once again. Only this time, it may creep as high as $4.00 per gallon nationally. For areas like New York and Southern California, they may actually see $4.00 a gallon sooner than later. Kind of makes a person long for the days of the Yugo, huh?

This is a serious situation. You see, the gas prices are but a mere indicator of the direction our economy is heading in, and quickly. See, when the gas prices go up, other prices go up as well. It is basic cause and effect. Take for example the cost of an average gallon of milk. In order for the milk to arrive in the stores, trucks must deliver it. The average cost of a gallon a diesel fuel is $3.30 per gallon, and your average Peterbuilt burns through a tank of gas a whole lot quicker than the average passenger vehicle. So, the trucker have to pay more in gas to transport the milk to the stores, they charge the dairy houses more to transport the good. To recoup their loses, the dairy houses charge the consumer more per gallon of milk.

The American economy is on the brink of a fiscal implosion which can only lead us down the pathway to a recession, or even worst, a depression. That's right people, soup lines, brother can you spare a dime, that kind of depression.

Why are we like this? Why is the economy of the world's only remaining superpower floundering? Why are we in a fiscal turmoil? Well, when Congress is afraid to grab their nuts and tell the President that we are not going to allow him to run rough shot over the country anymore; when our elected leadership loses the balls to enforce checks and balances, the President has a free hand to do whatever he wants to do with our economy.

The Bush Administration has succeeded in reducing the Legislative Branch of government to a bunch of frightened kittens hiding from the big bad Pit Bull. As it stands presently, whatever George W. Bush wants, George W. Bush gets. Damned the working class people, full speed ahead into the next unjustified conflict.

So, what lays in the balance? Our troops are being worn out by long deployments away from home, while Bush plots how he if going to move his bishop. Our schools are suffering due to lack of resources. No Child Left Behind is creating a generation of puppets who's strings are easily controlled by some Texas Ranger want to be. Our homes are being foreclosed on, people are losing jobs, our economy is in a shambles. All this in less than eight years. Bet you all did not count on this to occur when you rushed to ensure Gore would not be elected. Wow, Bush did all of this, and the only thing Clinton did was get a blow job.

Bottom line people is this; as long as the White House pushes their policy of war, our economy will suffer. Our troops will suffer, our children will suffer, hell, we all will suffer. Is this your idea of America?