Good Job America!

As I think back on this election cycle and all the potentail canidates that we've had I have to say that I am glad that we have chosen the canidates that we have(assuming that Barack Obama is the democratic nominee-which he is-do the freakin math). We have resisted the urge to nominate someone just because of thier last name. We have shown that we will not let another right-wing activist occupy the Presidency. I'm not going to lie the idea of someone like Mike Huckabee becoming comander-in-chief scares me immensly. I feel that America has learned its lesson and has decided to get away from old politics and came to the realization that the presidency is no place for religious nuts. Obama and McCain both seem that they would not mess up things too much. All though I support Obama, McCain's election would not be that bad of a thing especially if the democrats gain ground in congress. It would be a good balance. But anyways good job America I applaud you for rejecting fascism and giving an early death to what would have been the second presidental dynasty of modern times. The democratic process has indeed endured .Kudos

Comment on Substantial Commentary #2

I read my co-bloggers Substantial Commentary #2 on the national debt and I can’t say that I really agree. It got to me thinking is it even relevant. Does our debt even exist we know that we will never pay it. It is an imaginary number that we track because the national government as gone beyond money. By borrowing they create money out of thin air. But we are not the only nation to have such substantial debt I found a list of all the nations with debt which shows that this is just the standard way of operating for industrial nations.
We shouldn’t worry about our national debt when it is spent on important things not on pointless wars and such. We need to be spending our money on America to improve the lives of our citizens and to better our nation. We should be worrying about our personal debt. Americans are carrying more personal debt now than in any other time in history. The current reccesion is not caused by the National debt but rather by Americans living beyond their means. And it has to stop we have to move away from our delusion American "Dream" where everyone gets to live in a subdived carbon copied neighborhood, shop at walmart, and drive a freakin SUV.The point is that the national debt is just a number that doesn’t really mean anything anymore. What is important is the spending habits of our citizens.

We've been duped

About this time two years ago I remember being inspired by a new alternative fuel. That fuel was ethanol produced from corn and other grain crops. It sounded like a great idea at the time and I remember being proud that the company I work for HEB, for those who don't know would be the first retailor in Texas to offer it to the General public. But since then we have learned that we have been duped. In the rare cases that ethanol has been added to the gasoline mix the price remain high and the octane level falls down. But at least one could say that the corn farmers of America are beneifiting from this new lucrative corn business. NOT!!! Just like in everything else they do the oil companies are taking huge profits and paying low prices for corn and oil for that matter and then charging the public like crazy. Everyone suffers even the retailors I was at a HEB meeting and we were discussing profit margins and I was shocked to find out that make little to nothing off of gasoline sales and that the station is only there to promote traffic in the center store. Ethanol isn't even that better for the environment it takes insane amounts of petroluem to produce this corn oil. Also the diversion of corn and other grain crops from the mainstream food market has caused shortages sparking food shortages and riots across the globe. We have no right to burn food in our tanks when people are starving to death.This is ridiculous leave to the Oil companies to screw up a potentialy good idea. We need to take the responsibilty of alternative fuel sources out of private fuel companies and place it in the hands of the government. Its insane its like giving someone a gun and then asking them to shoot themselves in the head. The Oil companies are not going to dig their own grave. We need to take responsibilty for our own future.