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It is funny that vice president Cheney held a big energy summit, a summit which nobody knows who really attended or what they really discussed, but soon after this event took place oil prices started to rise. Oil has continued to rise since Bush & Cheney took office. Somehow I have the feeling this Cheney energy summit has something to do with the contiued rise in oil and gas prices.
Now think about this. Do you really want McCain in there to extend the Cheney / Bush policies? Plus have McCain come in behind Bush to cover up the whole mess that Bush and Cheney have made?
I wonder if the Saudis aren't voting with their Tap against the Neocons?
Anyway, the price for Gas would be half what it is now if the dollar had retained its value and conservation oriented policies had been implemented 7 years ago. Instead we'll have market induced conservation, but many little people will be hurt. There are people, many people, eating crappy food in order to be able to afford gas to get to their crappy jobs.
The Republican Party needs a new justification for endless war profiteering and a new justification to needlessly slaughter US troops and a new justification to murder women and children in the middle east. This is what the Republican Party does, and the Democratic Leadership is happy to help bring this about.
It's an Orwell World we live in.
Of course, when Cheney had his secret "energy meeting" very early in this regime, everything, oil, electricity, coal, nuclear--every form of energy was discussed with the idea, I'm sure, to maximize profits during the Bush/Cheney tenure. I know for certain that a rep from Duke Energy (which controls a hell of a lot of electrical power) was present because it's been reported in this area, and believe me, electric costs have gone up at least 20% here, in spite of what used to be a consumer-friendly Utilities Commission in NC, and since both oil and coal are used in generating electricity, when those costs are increased, so is electricity, of course.
As long as the profit motive has, at least since Reagan, been the driving force and deciding factor in prices, leaving labor's needs in the dust and having no real basis for the kinds of increases we've seen other than profit, this economic cycle is far worse than any we've seen before for the average person. Bush/Cheney, in flouting the laws regarding consumers, labor, regulation, etc. have accomplished their real Mission and created a basis for real class conflict. Well, I say, bring it on...
Power to do what? Supply us with oil, and then send back our dollars directly or indirectly?
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080705/benefit_battles....
But Spherion Corp., the temporary staffing company where Amschwand worked, told Amschwand-Bellinger she would not receive any of the $426,000 in benefits she believed she was due. When she went to court, Spherion succeeded in getting her lawsuit thrown out. The Supreme Court on June 27 refused to review the case.
Amschwand-Bellinger received a refund of the few thousand dollars in insurance premiums she and her husband dutifully had paid. The total, she said, would not cover the costs of his funeral.
The story has played out often under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Designed to protect employee benefits, the law has been used by employers as a shield against suits.
Federal appeals courts, interpreting Supreme Court decisions dating to 1993, consistently have said companies that offer health, life and retirement benefits under ERISA cannot be sued for large amounts of money, or damages. Instead, they can be sued only for typically smaller sums such as Amschwand's insurance premiums.
Instead the company simply refunded the money paid to have insurance with no interest or penalties.
What a country we have and what a stellar bunch of Senators who refuse the change this terrible law which has been in place since 1993. I was unable to find a voting record to see who all signed on but here we have another case where our Politicians enjoy the best health care, salary for life, car allowances, free air travel, as much free money as they can carry home, kick backs and bribes, jobs for family members either in their offices or with lobbyists and these assholes sit on their hands playing with their prostrate gland and deny benefits that have been paid for by the employee.
Every time I read another one of these stories i am amazed that no one votes in this country and that they continue to vote for the GOP who screw them every day in every way without any lube.
This is a country of scared babies. How fucking pathetic. the GOP is and the average fat ass consumer.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?A...
The real 2007 federal budget deficit was $4 trillion, not a previously reported $163 billion, an economist contends, based on data from the Treasury Department's annual financial report.
We will never pay our way out of this mess. Unemployment is zooming, we need people working to pay taxes. Corporations are off shore and don't report foreign profits so don't pay taxes on them. The rich got a tax cut so they aren't paying and unless something changes at McD's and Wendy's the college grads of today aren't earning enough money to ever pay taxes to get out from under our federal debt.
Good job, Chimpy, Good job, Pelosi, Good job Reid, Good job Delay, Good job, Hatchert, Good job you Dems and Repubs who enabled this dry drunk, incompetent, elitist ass hole.
Anyone else notice how the "democracy = cheap oil" meme is being pushed? Their new theme song for the upcoming war with Iran is going to be Oil For Freedom and Democracy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/business/06oi...
Here is an example of how our biggest companies are clued in to what is happening in the world. They have spent no time pursuing higher mileage for their vehicles even after the oil embargo in 1974. Now Ford is close to bankruptcy and that would put 180,000 people out of work in Canada and the U.S.
Yeah, America is Number 1----in incompetency. Our business are bankrupting at record rates and the people, well the people can't go bankrupt because our Federal Senators and Congressmen who took huge kickbacks from the credit card companies and banks voted to make it next to impossible. But big business continues to get welfare and pay huge salaries and walk away from their debt and their responsibilities to their employees.
America #1----we couldn't run a farting contest after a baked bean dinner.
And behold, seven other cows came out after them, poor, and very ill-favored, and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness.
And the lean and the ill-favored cows ate up the first seven fat cows.
And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning.
It really gets too absurd.
It's funny but, also true.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/05/open-t...
I expect on many levels and many fronts that things are in horrific condition and the people are going to have be prepared for some very hard truths told about the reality of the total destruction to our country, treasury, ect., done by Bush.
I also expect to see alot of hearings and even some criminal proceedings against some if not alot of the Bush administratoin over the next few years.
The scandals of what they have really done is going to be a true lid blower.
And Obama said he is going to have his justice dept look over everything to see if criminal acts were committed and if able to prosecute, including Chimpy.
diane
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