Quote Originally Posted by Keet04GTP View Post
All I know is that I used to be a big conservative...Not anymore.... I know what they stand for. When Clinton had office, my parents had money, things were affordable, my family was able to go and do things... When I turned 16 gas was $1.11 a gallon in '99... 2 years later a republican is in office and gas prices started soaring continuously for the next 8 years.... Oil companies are making record profits, the country is seeing record setting foreclosures and layoffs... The president has the power to say enough is enough... They have in the past and can do it now...No, the problem is not only Bush... It is him and the rest of the good ole' buddies that got put into their positions and got their bloated salaries by kissing each other's @$$e$... I will not be voting for someone who won't take the initiative to do the right thing because it's not the popular thing among his peers... The reason this nation is in its current dire straights is because the republican infection has festered too long... If these oil companies want to make billions of dollars of profits in 3 months... Fine go ahead... but expect to pay for it in taxes... There is no reason that oil companies should be allowed to hurt the US by shafting its own people. Oil controls this country... And now since other countries are becoming industrialized nations, and more of their people own cars, building houses, and traveling the demand for oil is very high... So why would you hurt your own country by selling to other first... You take care of home first... The same exact thing happened for a company I worked for in the past just before they went bankrupt and I got laid off. The parent company was a grocery distributor. My company was a convenience store chain. We ordered the majority of our candy and grocery and automotive products through our parent company. We made no profit. We could go to Sam's and buy it cheaper than what we were paying for it from our own company. Then when it came to cigarettes, our parent company started taking on smoke shops and distributing to them before it's own company and would then run out... Leaving us to fend for ourselves. Eventually customers would get tired of the inconvenience and would shop somewhere else. In the end... everyone lost... All the companies including the parent company shut its doors for good... Oil companies are doing the same to us... Other countries are getting richer and Americans are suffering for it...
you're right....gas has just gone down to about 3.95 a gallon and people are thankful.....there is seriously something wrong with this picture....oil companies are showing record profits, and oh yea G.bush's family fortune is derived from oil profits