The President went before the White House Press Corps today to deliver a load of more of the same old b _ _ l s _ _ t he's been dishing out for the last year or so as he hasn't been in front of the corps since the last load of fertilizer was shoved down the collective throats of the American public in late April and he must, or his advisers must, think that we are all in need of another serving of s_ _ t pie for our later afternoon desert. He continues to drone on about the economy being basically sound and what is happening will eventually get better, maybe, someday, but tells it with such little enthusiasm that you know he doesn't believe a word of what he has just read off the teleprompter, if he even knows what it is he read. What Mr. Bush fails to understand is that whatever he and this administration do now is too little too late. Mr. Bush has been in office for eight years or close enough to call it eight and is only now addressing issues that directly impact the lives of ninety five percent of Americans. Now you ask what about the five percent not included, well four percent are included since high costs affect everyone, only that group are not impacted to the point that they have to make significant adjustments to their daily lives and the remaining one percent are so rich and out of touch with life as most know it ,or remember it as children, that they go on as though everything is just fine and dandy (a good old boy term), the President falls into the one percent group in case you missed the hidden meaning.
He brought up offshore drilling and that it will be years before any relief will be realized from it. Now, I will repeat again, with all of the think tanks, economists, lawyers, lobbyists and other supposed brilliant hangers on that occupy space in and around the White House, how did they miss this one. The growth of the developing countries around the world is one of the easiest calls in history. A trip to China, which I have made several times, is a no brainer when it comes to predicting economic growth and how the new found wealth the people of these countries are acquiring is changing their lifestyles. The emerging countries of the world want what we have and have swallowed our way of life hook line and sinker, kind of a life imitates life thing. With that life imitates life thing comes the trappings we all covet, cars, boats, big homes etc...etc...and on and on and on. What did our elected leaders think these people were going to use to fuel their cars, boats and planes and manufacturing facilities, B _ _ L S _ _ T? The name of the fuel is OIL and nothing else will do for the foreseeable future so as our President say's, we will have to endure a little inconvenience. He say's the American people are smart enough to realize that high fuel costs mean we shouldn't drive as much and when we are not at home we should turn off the air conditioning, good ideas for an out of touch idiot to express to the country. I really shouldn't be so hard of our President, so here's what I plan to do. I work nine miles from work and starting tomorrow I am going to drive five miles and walk the rest, also, I am going to turn off my air conditioning when I leave for work, especially on these ninety degree days and not turn it on again until I get home, suffice it to say the house will probably get up to well over one hundred degrees, kill my dogs and take a day and a half of the air running constantly to cool off the inside to maybe eighty degrees or so. But that's what the President wants and I know he will be doing the same at the White House and I can guarantee he will be doing it at the ranch in Crawford when he's not there, NOT. And though we won't realize any relief from drilling, if it started tomorrow the President say's it will change the psychology, the psychology of what. Does he think empty wallets is a state of mind.
In the History Repeats Itself column remember back to a time when Bush number one as I call him was in office and he was amazed when he visited a supermarket and saw a scanner for the first time, he's up on the latest technology you know, but his personal best being the "read my lips - no new taxes"gaffe that so endeared him to the voting public that he couldn't get elected dog catcher when he ran a second time. But the best is the current Bush or Bush number two as I choose to call him when he stated,, earlier this year that he hadn't heard of four dollar gasoline but now he has heard it loud and clear. All he had to do was put down the video game controller and look out the window of the Presidential limo while he was on his way to pick up dinner for the family at Domino's every couple of day's and he would have seen how quickly prices escalated over a very short time.
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