Posted by
lge on Sunday, December 02, 2007 1:01:00 AM
We're so used to being a powerful country, we take it for granted. But "Oogo" Chavez can threaten to cut off our oil. And China can threaten to call in all our markers and to quit using the dollar. And we're at their mercy.
We need a master plan for energy -- and who's developing that plan? Who, in all the time since the first Arab oil embargo, has chosen a clear direction for us as a country? Who's in charge in Washington? Ditherers.
It's business as usual in Washington. We can't import ethanol without a prohibitive tariff, so we produce it ourselves with federally-subsidized corn. That's the worst of two worlds, and all because the powers that be -- meaning President Bush -- don't have the courage or vision to buck the farm lobby.
We need nuclear power, but our "leaders" can't buck the lunatic enviro left.
We need more refineries, because the lack of same is a big part of high fuel prices.
We need more drilling for oil, but that same infantile, spoiled-rotten enviro left won't allow it. So Mexico and China go after the oil in the Gulf, not us. That should give our rotten leftist brats a lot of satisfaction.
As to our crushing indebtedness to China and our loss of the ability to manufacture anything -- we need a generalized, overall tariff to protect our manufacturing base. Manufacturing is the foundation of our economy, it's the reason we became a prosperous nation, and it's the source of our national power. You can't ship all of the source and origin of national prosperity and power overseas, and expect power itself to linger behind.
We are now fighting a war in Iraq, and a larger war against the Saracens -- that is, against bloodthirsty religious fanatics all around the world who want to convert the whole world to their repressive medieval creed. The only reason those barbaric throwbacks can bother the whole world, is they have money -- money from oil, money from us. Fighting them with guns is OK, but we have to deprive them of the means to inflict their evil designs on the world, and that means we have to find a way to buy less oil from them.
Otherwise, China and not the U.S. will be the economic and military powerhouse of the world. We're teaching all their students, giving away what technological knowledge their spies don't steal. We're shipping them all our manufacturing capacity so we can get cheap stuff from them. We're becoming a nation "whose inhabitants make a living taking in one another's laundry," and going into hock up to our eyeballs to do it. And our economic pundits and a--holes of that nature love it!
Does that sound like a prosperous, powerful nation?