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  oh dear

  http://harks.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/oh-dear/
  11 days ago in harks · Authority: 1

  “Yes, we need a long-term solution, but how about a little relief now?” the New York senator said. “When we bailed out Bear Stearns to the tune of $30 billion I didn’t hear all these people going ‘Oh, my goodness, we shouldn’t do that.’ Everybody just said, ‘OK, fine. We have to do it. They’re in a pickle; let’s fix it.’ Well, what about the millions of Americans who are facing their own challenges economically?” she said. Oh for pete’s sake, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Why do you speak in this fatuous tongue of blinding naivete? First of all, there was no need to jump on board McCain’s idiotic plan, and to persist in defending this kind of frivolity is not the best way to tread water in your floundering campaign. The problem with your short term relief is that it doesn’t curb the behaviors of Americans who maintain lifestyles with a significant portion of their income devoted to filling up their gas tanks. The problem with a gas tax holiday is that it encourages people to keep abusing and overusing fuel. The problem with a quick fix is that it discourages a serious investigation into alternative energy resources. The problem with your Bear Stearns example is that you might be able to change management and direction of a company through board meetings, but that’s not quite the same as changing the minds of millions of individual Americans. The problem with your analogy is that the “bail out” was actually a loan from the federal reserve, and how do you think people will feel when its time for the government to collect? The problem with your temporary relief is that you’re forgetting how awful it’ll be when the government has to recoup these expenses afterwards, and citizens will be chopping off limbs and offering first-borns to pay. The problem is that you pretend to be one of the common people, thinking that you can be seen as empathetic to our gasoline price woes, but you instead come off as an ignorant desperate politician with no genuine desire to make real changes. The problem is that what this country needs is a leader that can look into the future and offer the long term solution that we can fight towards, and not the teenage babysitter who offers us a lollipop to make us forget about the real problems. The problem is that the only people who could actually see this tax relief holiday as a good idea, are blindingly thickheaded with economic expertise comparable to a third grader, and they all seem to be working as your policy advisors.
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  My Thirty Cents on the Gas Tax

  http://sharpskirts.com/2008/05/04/my-thirty-cents-on-the-gas...
  12 days ago in Sharp Skirts · Authority: 6

  Hillary is trying to buy votes at the cost of $.30 a day by repealing the federal gas tax. That’s an annual price tag of $28 she has put on her desperate campaign and it’s an idea running on empty. This sorely underestimates the intelligence of the voting public as well. Who believes oil companies will pay the gas tax reinvented as a windfall profit tax without raising the price at the pump? There’s nothing prohibiting the oil companies from adjusting their price after the government adjusts their costs. And, there are just a few of us who remember the gas lines the last time Congress tried to fix the price of gas. On ABC’s This Week today, Hillary said she doesn’t need an economist’s approval to know this is an idea that works for working Americans. This is more governing from the gut directed towards earning the allusive political capital she thought she had in the bag. I’d like to hear the new ideas experts believe could work for all of us, something that works for the next three months and the next three years. Hillary’s proposal isn’t just about the short term as she insisted. It’s simply short sighted. This proposed holiday will put a few extra pennies in the average American’s pockets for a few days but that change will continue to do less and less for us without real solutions. She can keep my thirty cents because I want more. I want 50 mpg to be the norm the next time I shop for a car and I want a concern about global warming to drive government decision making like it drives my decisions at home. Is it hard? yes. Is it more expensive? Yes. But I believe I’m worth it and protecting our future quality of life is more important than empty rhetoric about punishing the oil companies. This isn’t their problem, it’s ours. They’re the suppliers and we’re the addicts and those roles will persist until we do something to break that addiction. We don’t need a price break. We need an intervention.
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  My Thirty Cents on the Gas Tax

  http://sharpskirts.com/2008/05/04/my-thirty-cents-on-the-gas...
  12 days ago in SHARP SKIRTS: Dames Who Think · Authority: 1

  Hillary is trying to buy votes at the cost of $.30 a day by repealing the federal gas tax. That’s an annual price tag of $28 she has put on her desperate campaign and it’s an idea running on empty. This sorely underestimates the intelligence of the voting public as well. Who believes oil companies will pay the gas tax reinvented as a windfall profit tax without raising the price at the pump? There’s nothing prohibiting the oil companies from adjusting their price after the government adjusts their costs. And, there are just a few of us who remember the gas lines the last time Congress tried to fix the price of gas. On ABC’s This Week today, Hillary said she doesn’t need an economist’s approval to know this is an idea that works for working Americans. This is more governing from the gut directed towards earning the allusive political capital she thought she had in the bag. I’d like to hear the new ideas experts believe could work for all of us, something that works for the next three months and the next three years. Hillary’s proposal isn’t just about the short term as she insisted. It’s simply short sighted. This proposed holiday will put a few extra pennies in the average American’s pockets for a few days but that change will continue to do less and less for us without real solutions. She can keep my thirty cents because I want more. I want 50 mpg to be the norm the next time I shop for a car and I want a concern about global warming to drive government decision making like it drives my decisions at home. Is it hard? yes. Is it more expensive? Yes. But I believe I’m worth it and protecting our future quality of life is more important than empty rhetoric about punishing the oil companies. This isn’t their problem, it’s ours. They’re the suppliers and we’re the addicts and those roles will persist until we do something to break that addiction. We don’t need a price break. We need an intervention.

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