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Who Can We Trust
I often wonder if we can trust any one in politics. I know I really want to, but it’s very hard to let myself get too trusting of politicians. The media seems to fall into that category. Which news program or network is favoring a political party. If you listen hard and looking for the truth, not just what you want to hear, several networks seem to have their hand in some politician’s pocket or up their butt. So there comes this point were you just have to start using your own brain to figure out what is happening and why things are so bad in America right now. Let me say you don’t have to think too hard to figure this problem out.
First the major problem with gasoline prices. Why is gas so high? Most of the financial programs, a few which I really like, give several reasons why the price of gasoline is high and getting higher. They say things like demand, production, other countries, and a relatively new one is the speculators. Who are these speculators? How do they drive the price up so high, and how much money do they make? How do you make money being a speculator? Now I have to sort through all this information and try to put this in terms I can now live with. I’m thinking if the price of gas goes up who benefit’s the most? Well that’s easy the oil companies and oil moguls. Oil moguls, and all there friends are making a killing. Wait a second the President and the Vice President are oil moguls aren’t they? The President’s father is very good friends with the Saudi’s. Since this President came into office gas prices have risen at an alarming rate. In 1999 the price of gasoline was about $1.35 a gallon now it’s over $4 a gallon. I have read that a barrel of oil in 1999 was less than $30 a barrel, now it’s almost $140 a barrel. So I see a direct correlation between the rising price of gas and when this president came into office. If I look a little further I now can see even more clearly why this president went to war with Iraq, it to has oil. Getting back to the speculators, can the speculators actually be the oil industry itself or maybe paying or telling someone to drive the price of the barrel higher and higher? The president is leaving office in Jan. 2009and the oil industry has to get all they can get before a real investigation finds out what they are doing to all Americans.
I watched a program years ago when chicken was found to be very healthy and better than beef for people , and especially when you wanted to go on a diet to lose weight. The chicken farmers wanted the price of chicken to go up, but couldn’t get the price increase they wanted. So what they did was cause a chicken shortage so demand would be high and supply low and the price would go up. What the chicken farmers did was dump hundreds of thousands of baby chicks in garbage dumpsters, and now you have a supply shortage. So this proves that an industry itself can make it look like they have nothing to do with the price of their product rapidly increasing. So when the analysis on television give us a plethora of reasons why the price of oil goes up, we should now see just a few key reasons for the increase in gas prices. At least I hope you can. Lets not believe everything we hear. Thanks for reading, Citizen Jack