55MPH Speed Limit, Again! Tell The Truth Now, Did You Have Your Brains Sucked Out By Martians Or Do You Think The American People That Stupid!

There is a most distressing movement being discussed in the hallowed halls of The Senate and The Congress in our nations capitol. And what makes it so noteworthy is the fact it is being discussed by both Republicans and Democrats and they are starting to cite data that they will ultimately use to bamboozle the American public and railroad this most stupid of ideas through, to the ultimate chagrin and unconscionable inconvenience of all the moron's who voted them into office to begin with. Oh, you can't guess what this plan is? We'll John Q. Public, it's the 55MPH National Speed Limit, you know the one that then President Nixon spearheaded to save oil back in the early 70's during the oil shortage crisis, and which did save some oil, but the savings were eclipsed many times over in lost revenues to industry by slowing down our entire economic machine.

I've written about this before and it appears it has several new champions in the form of first term Democratic Congresswoman from California named Jackie Speier, who want to lower the speed limit nationally to 60MPH citing a$250.00 per year savings to drivers, the good congresswoman from San Francisco must have been licking the lolly pop laced with LSD to come up with this one, as she thinks $250.00 over the course of a year is an awful lot of money to the little people she counts as her constituents, oh, lets not forget the other one hundred fifty million little people who drive and actually work for a living that will have to make unreasonable adjustments to their lives to accommodate this plan. Please don't get me wrong and think I am unjustly singling out and picking on Ms. Speier, there are several others from the past and present who are voicing up. The venerable Cato Institute, the same think tank people who advise the current president and his guy's, and pop up from time to time with data to bolster ideas hatched by such notables as The Honorable Senator from the great state of Virginia, John Warner, you know the guy who was one of Elizabeth Taylor's many, many husbands. That little bit of bad judgement alone should have been cause for the voters in his state to send him back to his Virginia horse farm for good. Mr. Warner by the way, lay's claim to being one of the original dufus' politicians who pushed the first 55MPH national speed limit.

Here's a novel idea, why not ask the American public what they think of this plan, however, when the question is asked the truth must be told , not skewed statistics from some government funded think tank or public relations firm. Frankly, I don't want this or any other, silver spoon up his or her a_s politician deciding what's the best way for me and the rest of America to drive. This was a sham the first time and is equally so this time, THERE IS NO GAS SHORTAGE-CARS ARE INFINITELY SAFER THAN 40 YEARS AGO, and unless they are headed off at the pass we will have the same old mess shoved down our throats again, only this time it may never go away, how's that for cause to get up off that hay bale you call a couch and go out and vote, Jethro.

This is the second time I've seen this bantered about on the Internet news, only this time the news outlet putting out the story with all of the old data from the 70's is attempting to get readers to believe it is a good thing to take a second look at a bad idea. They, the new media, genuinely think they can coerce the American public into thinking that the government has our best interest at heart and that they are doing what is best for us all. Personally, I would like to see the government drop this steaming pile of bulls _ _t on the podium's of the combined houses and go in another direction all together, with a real plan that will benefit the whole world. The government should get behind their development of alternative fuel sources, subsidize that development like their counterparts in other developed countries, which would help toward energy independence. The US government dishes out a paltry 3.6 billion annually for the development of alternative energy, and expects to see results? That's like going to a singles bar after you have just s_ _t your pants, and I'm talking the mother load here, expecting to get an 8, 9 or if you get really lucky a 10, to go home with you expecting to break most of the Blue Law's ever enacted in the United States, when in reality you couldn't get a second look from Duty The Dog. We need our government to partner up with research and industry, for real. Stop taking care of their friends with grants, pork barrel projects (Former Congressman Hastert-and I'll get to you in another blog)and no compete contracts. Spend some money here and watch the returns, basically work on behalf of the people who elected them to high office.

Well, here's the part where the dyed in the wool Conservatives get out of the cab. We need regulation of the industries that are actually putting a stranglehold on the American people. Regulate the utilities like they once were, while I was growing up my rich uncle always touted utilities since they always paid dividends and were considered stable in all economic conditions. The communications industry is in need of a good "look over", it doesn't matter who you use for telephone, cable and Internet, they get more than their due. Regulation would probably help the airlines again, considering their state of affairs and please don't say it's the high price of oil that has several of the majors who emerged from bankruptcy in the last few years contemplating doing it again, when incompetent greedy management is is the real cause of their dilemma. Oy Vay, oil you say? Yes little Leroy, the one and only oil industry. I can guarantee these guy's will make money if regulated and further more may be the catalyst that spurs these giants to come up with other forms of energy. All of the above industries made plenty of money for their shareholders when they were regulated and would do the same again only not at the total expense of the consumer this time. In the meantime all of the members of the Senate and Congress who support stupid ideas like a national speed limit should be voted out of office as they have shown themselves to be incompetent boobs not worthy of running the day to day operations of this great country.

Had the past several presidents, senate and congress been working on the behalf of the American people during their terms in office, the issues we face today would not exist. Instead of playing golf at some exclusive country club in Maryland or out on sex junkets in some Southeast Asian country where they won't be recognized, our elected officials, from the top down, should have been working on the groundwork for long term solutions to what is now impacting the lives of American Citizens and even the hoards of illegals these idiots have let in, across the country and will for years to come. Oil is not the only issue we face, our economy continues to slow and unemployment continues to rise. This is unacceptable.