nixon
Boned
Well kind of . What a DOOF !
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Omg, I would have crawled under the table if I'd been sitting beside her LOL!!
Deadly Sushi
The One, The Only, Sushi
I like it. Regulate the oil companies. Reduce the CEO's pay to 100% commission on oil found. Base their pay on how well they find oil and base it on the price we pay at the pump. WHATEVER it takes to get fuel back down. But the REAL long term solution is to move away from oil as a way to fuel our cars. Im tired of this crap. All I care about is the bottom line. And that is MY bottom line.
nixon
Boned
Obviously .
Deadly Sushi
The One, The Only, Sushi
And so do you Nixion. You care about your bottom line dont you?
nixon
Boned
Yes , I do . But I'm not expecting the Government to help Me out with it .
I have no expectation from the Government ,other than to provide for Our common defense . You ,on the other hand, seem want the Government to function as a social equalizer .
OBTW , It's Nixon , not Nixion
Howzat, sadly douchey ?
DOH! Let them drill for the oil they found! That's how the price comes down. Let them build the refineries! That's how the price comes down. RESTRICT ANYTHING, and the price goes up.
As for pay, go get your calculator out and figure out how much the CEO's compensation is per every barrel of oil refined.
Then go figure out the compensation based on the same metric for, say, the boss of Evian water.
And how long does it take just to complete the application for a new Nuke Plant? 10 YEARS! Talk about roadblocks set up by bleeding heart liberals to energy independence. Talk a great line of crap but do everything they can to stop progress toward that end.
AND, put YOUR money where YOUR mouth is - long term solution - sell your cars and ride public transportation or a Schwinn. Driving a gas guzzling full size car sure is leadership in action.
Democrats, jeesh..............
Deadly Sushi
The One, The Only, Sushi
You guys are really out of it. The oil industry is screwing you over and you go pointing the finger somewhere else. I have turds with more common sense than you. But please, go ahead with your taught prejudices of dems and repubs. I'll use my brain and stay independant so I know what is the true story and not read filtered propaganda.
Sushi, BEFORE you commit to an opinion. learn something about what you are basing an opinion on. Oil companies essentially own NO oil. GOVERNMENTS own 95% of all known reserves. Oil companies have to but the oil from the governments. Who sets the price of oil - commodities players. They are the only ones. Spend some time learning about something instead of feeling about something.
YOUR industry screws people the most. Look at MS. Three of the top Billionaires in the world are MS'rs. No oil execs are though. Where'd that money come from? And as a company, look at the financials of E-M vs MS. Using your logic, your industry is screwing us even more so than the oil companies.
YOUR government is doing it to you bud. They blame others for what they've created.
What follows is a well written little blurb I recieved from a "buddy" a while back. Tell me where it is wrong. You may learn something about something if you can absorb it. Even though it does not mention anything about oil, just remember my earlier statements in post 9. You figure it out.
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against those created problems. Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy, The Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices - 545 human beings out of the 300 million - are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is superciliousness. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.
The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept the budget. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.
Who is the speaker of the House? The leader of the majority party. The speaker and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by the facts of their actions - of incompetence and irresponsibility. There is not a single domestic problem that is not traceable, directly, to those 545 people.
When you fully grasp the facts that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ.
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like 'the economy,' 'inflation' or 'politics' that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
