I (me and mine) are still on your bus Buddy, but with a few qualifications / caveats / corrections that we think are important.
Good luck to all of us as I think we need it.
Well said Buddy.
I think that nearly everyone agrees with you for the most part!
The U.S. needs to always keep our farmers and family farms in the US. If we get all of our food from other countries we are at great risk, the same as oil. But to pay farmers to produce Ethanol, when we have oil and natural gas in abundance, that is getting cheaper to produce with new technology is not a good idea. Windmills are made in China for the most part. China is financing the wind farms. The US pays for the electrical transmission lines. The oil and gas industry produces more jobs and generates more tax dollars for the states and Federal Govt. than all the other power sources combined!
The same can be said for all domestric industries; Textiles, Iron & Steel, Automobiles, Tires, Ship Building and others.
The industrial base that gave blue collar workers livelihood has been outsourced / eroded / basically destroyed the way it seems to me.
We're primarily importers these days.
It's called a 'Trade Deficit' as I gather.
Exporting the industrial base gutted our economy if you ask me.
Nothing much left to support in way of industry.
What's left ? Pharmaceuticals, Education, Office Buildings for Attornies, Doctors, Insurance Companies, Importers and Exporters for everything ?
I don't think it's enough myself and I agree we seem to be at the mercy of the new off shore / overseas industrialized countries.
I think all that needs to change myself.
Just my opinions here.
Buddy:
I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said except for the, Go Trump part. I will vote for him if it gets to that stage; but, for now I still believe Cruz is the one we should be putting our marbles on.
It didn't start this way for us but as it stands right now at this point in time we're thinking Trump.
We see the others as 'Insiders' and Trump as not - and thus representative of 'Change'.
Well, then thank you for your response.
I suppose the worst part of this whole mess is how the oil industry broke its promise to god when they said the 'oil prayer'. Oh lord, please give us another oil boom, we promise not to mess it up this time.
I suppose also that we can agree to disagree about the chances of anyone writing about all of these proposed changes if oil were still $100 a bbl.
Most of us were still catching up and it did not last long enough and we had a Democrat for President!
I think they had (and still have) alot of help on the 'messing it up' front.
It's almost (?) like they all want to mess it up (perhaps to give them time to better rig the works ?) isn't it ?
Bye Bye Rod
Yep, never lasts long enough
Bye Michael.
Don’t get me wrong. I identify 95% with his proposed policies, but I really want a statesman. I am not sure if we have an electable statesman on the Republican side. But any vote that I cast will be anti the Democrat candidate.
If oil were $100 per bbl, then the tariff does not kick in. Please read carefully my original post.
On well, I guess I've seen enough and have heard the phrase 'we're at war' enough times to buy into the idea that we are - so - personally I don't give a hoot what the price of a barrel of oil is to apply Tariffs / Embargos / create Allied Trade Agreements or whatever it takes to crush those who want to crush us.
I don't think we should be playing 'Let's Make A Deal' with these birds (writing for only myself).
From what I see / hear they don't want a deal - they want us gone.
I'd rather they were gone.
Mr. Powell, You got it right on this as far as I am concerned! You see the "Big Picture"!
Joseph Powell, I think you may be somewhat uplifted by this video of Jefferson Parish Sheriff, Newell Norman (GOP). There is hope for sanity.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/02/gop-sheriff-normand-calls-jindal-cult
After last evening's Republican Debate I'm left without a candidate to vote for.
The debate seemed to me to be a ridiculous circus.
Don't like any of them at all.
Don't like any Democrat either as they seem to me to be Anti-Fossil Fuel and too far left on the 2nd Amendment.
When that happens and it seems to happen all the time - I just don't vote.
It will take a miracle to get me to vote this time.
Politics reek.
I'm thinking Sanders will probably end up being the next POTUS and his VP will end up succeeding him.
Good luck to all of us - we need it.
The debate seemed to me to be a ridiculous circus.
Don't like any of them at all.
Don't like any Democrat either as they seem to me to be Anti-Fossil Fuel and too far left on the 2nd Amendment.
When that happens and it seems to happen all the time - I just don't vote.
It will take a miracle to get me to vote this time.
Politics reek.
I'm thinking Sanders will probably end up being the next POTUS and his VP will end up succeeding him.
Good luck to all of us - we need it.
Agree with a lot you say. But even the moderator could not shut up Rubio! Personally, I could never vote for him! Will leave you with this from Albert Einstein--" The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." Please vote.