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Ms. Clinton and Mr. McCain are in favor of suspending the 18.4 cent per gallon federal from Memorial Day to Labor Day. What genius, what political courage this took. Gee wiz right before the election. Do ya think these morons really think that this is going to give us a real break? The average American family would save 18 dollars a car.
Actually if you think about it, and most politicians don’t want the people to start thinking, the federal tax on gas is about the only thing that doesn’t get me angry about buying gas. It has stayed the same since 1994 so figure in the cost of inflation it has shrunk in terms of what the government can do with the money, but this money actually is the one component of the per-gallon cost that comes back to benefit the public. It funds road and bridge construction and repair. Most of the rest leaves this country and goes to fund the golden toilets of the king in Saudi Arabia and to Bush’s best buddy Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
So let’s see they are giving us 6 to 12 hundred dollars back that they will tax us on next year add another 36 dollars on gas tax and does that really spell relief???
Alas one senator, by the way who is also running for president, says hey now, that’s not relief, that is exploiting the issue for short-term political advantage. Mr. Obama refuses to play politics on this issue. He said "It's not an idea to get you through the summer," he said. "It's an idea to get them through an election."
His opponents no doubt hope that Mr. Obama's stand will prove to be political suicide. I think it should qualify as political courage. Something that has been lacking in the halls of government for too long.
We have the largest deficit in history our foreign debt is out of control and Mr. McCain wants to be in Iraq for a hundred years, Ms Clinton wants to raise the taxes on the oil company’s profits, and who will pay for that in the end. WE WILL.
So America wake up and don’t buy it, don’t take it anymore. Tell Congress this. To paraphrase the lyrics of a song, we ain’t no chickens and we don’t need your feed. Your cash ain’t nothin but trash. Give us real solutions!!!! Give us a well thought out, sustainable energy policy that will finally break the strangle hold on this country’s reliance on foreign oil.
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