Re: Gas prices rises 10 cents a gallon over 2 weeks
- From: Jerry@xxxxxxxxx (Jerry)
- Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:47:15 GMT
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:34:56 -0700, Winston_Smith <not_real@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:34:28 GMT, Jerry@xxxxxxxxx (Jerry) wrote:
Pelosi and her goons promised to lower gas prices and stop the war if
they were elected. They did neither.
The campaign promises were to end the war in Iraq and impeach Bush.
You are right. They lied. Much like Bush has spent eight years
lying. The fact that no bill can get past a veto is certainly not an
issue, is it?
Polls show the American people want more domestic oil drilling. It is
the job of Congress to listen to the people instead of listening to Al
Gore and Hollywood. Which bill that Congress wrote allowing drilling
in the Artic, or new offshore drilling did the President veto?
You are asking a lot of new questions, so I'm going to assume that the
question of 10 cents over two weeks has been satisfactorily answered.
Let's move along then.
You probably should ask your new questions in new threads, since tyou
have so many of them. But, let's see what I can do to get you some
answers....
They caused the prices to rise by not doing their job.
Why did prices rise under six years of a Republican President,
Republican House, Republican Senate, and Bush Republican regulatory
agencies?
The question is... what have they done, period?
The question is what has the Republican President, Republican House,
Republican Senate, and Bush Republican regulatory agencies done in his
first six years?
Supply and demand. The rise under Republicans was moderate compared to
the sharp increasesPelosi mafia.
The other question is what has the Republican President, a Congress
unable to overide a Bush veto, and all the Bush Republican regulatory
agencies done in the last two years?
What have the NeoCons done period. Other than start wars, exhaust the
military, and collapse our economy?
***Abortion & Traditional Values***
1- Banned Partial Birth Abortion ? by far the most significant
roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade.
2- Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion
Mexico Policy.
3- By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not
requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy
Act.
4- By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family
planning groups that provide abortions and related services.
5- Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals.
6- Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs
in 2004.
7- Supports the Defense of Marriage Act ? and a Constitutional
amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman.
8- Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on
prospective foster and adoptive parents.
9- Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous
schools.
10- Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom
disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms).
11- Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers
from lawsuits related to student discipline.
12- Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations
in after-school programs.
***Budget, Taxes & Economy***
1- Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest
dollar-value tax cut in world history.
2- Supports permanent elimination of the death tax.
3- Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and
deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks.
4- Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the
president line-item veto authority.
5- In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty.
6- Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new
people.
7- Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and
individual investment accounts.
8- Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to
implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America.
9- Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account
as a result of corporate scandals.
10- Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains.
11- Signed trade promotion authority.
12- Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax
for family farms and ranches.
13- Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United
States.
14- Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes.
15- Provided $20 million to states to help people with
disabilities work from home.
16- Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the
disabled.
17- Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's
from $500 to $2,000 per child.
18- Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1
billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000.
19- Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition
savings plans.
20- Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000
per year.
***Character & Conduct as President***
1- Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and
DIGNITY to the presidency.
2- Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public
discourse.
3- Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace,
determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11,
2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held
this country together during those searing days:
-Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the
National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said:
"War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This
nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict
was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and
at an hour, of our choosing."
-On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground
Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering
pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who
had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue
workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a
small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted:
"I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who
knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd
roared with cheers and chants of "USA! USA! USA!" Then he raised that
American flag and rallied a nation
***Education & Employment Training***
1- Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most
dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft
bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers
union is currently running radio ads against the accountability
provisions of this Act.
2- Announced "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to
better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening
post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high
school education.
3- Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in
persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private
schools. (Blocked in the Senate.)
4- Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through
eight.
5- Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of
Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national
benchmark for academic performance.
6- Requires school-by-school accountability report cards.
7- Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement
teacher accountability systems.
8- Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which
recruits former military personnel to to become teachers.
***Environment & Energy***
1- Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty.
2- Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional
action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more
natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign
sources of energy, improve national grid, etc.
3- Established a $10 million grant program to promote private
conservation initiatives.
4- Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically
engineered crops.
5- Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow
necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire
danger.
6- Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial
challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges),
and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before
removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger.
7- Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the
electricity surplus to California.
8- Provided matching grants for state programs that help private
landowners protect rare species.
9- Committed America to meeting the challenge of long-term global
climate change by reducing the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions to
economic output, or greenhouse gas intensity, by 18 percent by 2012
compared to 2002.
10- In December 2003, President Bush signed legislation
implementing key provisions of his Healthy Forests Initiative. The
President's initiative is helping restore the health and vitality of
forests and rangelands, and helping reduce the threat of catastrophic
wildfires.
***Defense & Foreign Policy***
1- Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01:
Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical
regimes now live in freedom.
2- Saddam Hussein is now dead. His two murderous sons are dead.
All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or
captured.
3- Leader by leader and member by member, al Qaida is being
hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al
Qaida leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S.
Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into
custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaida
leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and
Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command until his death in
late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror.
4- Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's
without bribes or bloodshed.
5- `Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide
cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the
terrorists' funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al
Qaeda network.
6- Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was
completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that
ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century.
7- Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing
the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses.
8- Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend
Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency.
9- Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to
Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU.
10- Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased
military pay by more than $1 billion a year.
11- Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history
with Russia.
12- Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced
withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ.
13- Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command.
14- Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of
U.S. share of the costs.
15- Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement
budget for next-generation weaponry.
16- Increased defense research and development spending by at
least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006.
17- Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and
strategy.
18- Ordered a review of overseas deployments.
19- Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has
already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to
modernize 76,000 additional homes this year.
20- Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology
exports.
21- Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without
any bribes or bloodshed.
***Government Reform***
1- Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of
thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions
and cuts undeserved pay raises.
2- Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of
eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to
reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private
sector jobs.
3- Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy
in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and
their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland
Security.*
4- Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure
itself, with fewer managers.
5- Converted federal service contracts to performance-based
contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable
performance goals.
***Health***
1- Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more
physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds
tax-free.
2- Double the research budget of the National Institutes of
Health.
3- Signed Medicare Reform, which includes:
-A 10-year privatization option.
-Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare
paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a
cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the
drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about
$500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to
replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less
expensive prescription medicine.
-More health care choices: As President Bush stated, "?when
seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within
Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher
quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more
choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the
kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and
federal employees. What's good for members of Congress is also good
for seniors.
-New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004,
Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for
medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you'll
save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your
account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and
gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good
for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on
covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization
for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their
families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab
tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to
employee health accounts. This will help more American families get
the health care they need at the price they can afford.
***Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration***
1- *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush's
leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland
security.
2- Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in
Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes.
Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be
deployed by 2004.
3- Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security
funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels
(excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield).
4- Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three
different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol
officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single
agency to create "one face at the border." This not only better
secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many
of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over
18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000
uniformed officers on our borders.
5- The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring
devices along the borders to detect illegal activity.
6- Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and
workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure
immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640
businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030
unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of
774 individuals.
7- Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more
than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more
than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to
enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more
than 90 Maritime Security Zones.
8- Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System
(SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America's ability
to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over
870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field
investigations, 71 aliens were arrested.
9- The US-VISIT program began to digitally collect biometric
identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the
U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new
program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies.
10- Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of
accountability.
11- Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two
agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal
with naturalization.
12- Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of
illegal aliens.
13- Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration
applications.
14- Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo
is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States.
Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons
and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry.
Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of
chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11,
2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have
been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack.
***Judiciary & Tort Reform***
1- Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous
lawsuits.
2- Killed the liberal ABA's unconstitutional role in vetting
federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the
ABA.
3- Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary.
4- Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so
that more settlement money goes to victims.
***Politics***
1- His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and
Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and
the presidency, until the great brainwash took place.
2- Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision
regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against
individual's wishes.
***Second Amendment***
1- Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the
Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd
Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and
is NOT a Leftist-imagined "collective" right.
2- Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in
the cockpit.
3- Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our
national gun manufacturers.
4- *See Globalization & Internationalism.
***Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism***
1- Endorses and promotes "The Responsibility Era." President Bush
often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic
volunteerism. He said, "In a compassionate society, people respect one
another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life.
My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels
good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else ? to one in
which every single American understands that he or she is responsible
for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your
children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for
being involved with the quality of the education of your children;
you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is
safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would
like to be loved yourself."
2- Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive
clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first
time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about
where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as
areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they
can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000
organizations across the country and around the world.
3- Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the
Faith-Based and Community Initiative ? located in seven Federal
agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of
these important organizations. The goal is to make sure that
grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal
dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic
barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless
and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and
welfare-to-work families.
4- The White House released a guidebook fully describing the
Administration's belief that faith-based groups have a
Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity
through hiring ? even when Federal funds are involved.
5- Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court's Olmstead ruling,
which requires moving disabled people from institutions to
community-based facilities when possible.
6- Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help
people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them.
7- Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development's
Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up
to a year's worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD
has started pilot programs in 11 states.
8- Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men,
women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa.
9- Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the
president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all
people everywhere. On January 29, 2002, he said, "No nation owns these
aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention
of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the
non-negotiable demands of human dignity." As stated by the President,
they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles:
-Equal Justice
-Freedom of Speech
-Limited Government Power
-Private Property Rights
-Religious Tolerance
-Respect for Women
-Rule of Law
Pretty much they have destroyed the country and now in classic NeoCon
style they are going to walk away, deny all responsibility, and blame
their successors for the mess they left.
Pretty much.
It's high time people realize there is only one party in Washington.
One party, two wings, they take turns at the trough. They are not
supposed to "do" anything. They are there to feed.
Something we can agree on then. :)
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