Just a piece of PH paper dipped in the toilet

It's amazing to me to read filth in the press that gets passed off as journalism. The other day I read a story by some French reporter that empathized with the poor Saudi nations belonging to OPEC and how they needed to raise the price of oil to try and maintain their standard of living in these hard times, while the "gas guzzling west" kept on buying up all the gasoline. Filth. Let's put the blame squarely where it belongs for a minute okay? IF the POOR (?) OPEC block hadn't raised the price of crude (in cooperation with futures speculators, "journalists" who reported futures as if they had any impact on current pricing, and governments that turned a blind pirate patch to the price fixing) to a RIDICULOUSLY HIGH AMOUNT last summer, stealing all the spare change from anyone who drove anywhere, we might all still be out buying transistor radios, usb optical mice for our laptops, and a few extra bags of chips for the game we were planning on attending once long ago, but now are going to watch in our living rooms. (Some of us might even have paid down our mortgages).1

AND THEY ARE AT IT AGAIN - justifying their greed by saying "the world economic system can handle the increase" The press is silent, except for the softest of Parisian applause. Pardon me while I vomit...there, that's better.2

Let's get something clear here, most of those guys that sit around the OPEC table, price fixing oil, pee in solid gold toilets, and drive in Hummers you can't buy from the American military. (And they aren't sharing with Muhammad the town goat herder.)3

But that's not what's irritating me at all, what's irritating me is that the press is whitewashing it all, just like this so called "bankruptcy" at GM. Since when does the American government take 60% ownership of a manufacturing giant? Or a banking industry for that matter, tell me comrade? When? But you see, we're in trouble, and nobody knows how to get us out of trouble...oh my GOD the sky is falling, call the government, they can fix it all!!! Just like Social Security, Medicare, and now, they are waving a flag about fixing health care....the only news of which I have heard is that Mr. Kennedy (Ed) while behind closed doors, is going to pass a law requiring every American to buy into whatever they come up with...seems to me the last time they closed the doors and had a meeting about health care, everyone friggin hated it, and WE STILL DO!!!! But hey, as long as you pass a law, I guess you can take my money. 4

One question, how much of the health care industry does the government plan to own by the end of this economic downturn (I mean, closed door meeting)? I mean, they are the one industry that hasn't really been hit that hard - I'm thinking that's probably because most people are either buying anti-depressants, or they're just sick over watching the American dream turn into what looks like the Czar's palace just before the revolution. (That would be Russian history for those of you who were educated by American public schools...the part they breezed right past just before you learned all about Marx and Lenin). 5

The communist leadership in Russia (again, for those educated by American public schools - Marx and Lenin) said of America (I believe it was even before the U.S.S.R. was formed by the geniuses forming the Marshall plan - which birthed the U.S.S.R., Iraq, Israel, and the anemic Palestine we know today) something to the effect that they'd never have to invade our country with ground troops, but that in time, America would fall like a ripe apple into their hand. For all intents and purposes, we already have. The free world isn't free, the open market isn't open, big business and big government now own the same street address, along with big banking, and the sheople of the United States of America are more concerned about gang warfare, drugs, crime, disease, poverty, and war than they are about things like freedom, individual liberty, and the American dream...funny how our biggest fears happen to be those things that the government is supposed to be handling, and yet we're not scared to death about them trying to handle even more than they're supposed to be allowed to touch.6

No, we simply can't have Richard Gere show up like he did in "Pretty Woman" to dismantle GM, sell it off to the highest bidder, and let new owners decide what to do with the parts...that would be "Un-American" I suppose. We can't set up government drilling platforms where we KNOW we have oil and produce AMERICAN petroleum to help stabilize the price of oil when price fixing/gouging becomes obvious, that would be "Anti-capitalistic" so what do we do? We all sing hail to the chief along with the news media when we start acting like our socialist counterparts, communism starts just as soon as they shoot me for writing things like this where people can read it...just so you know the difference in definitions, in case they didn't teach you that in high school either.7

It's not as though writing a piece on a poetry web site is going to make any difference to an elitist media presence that doesn't care if it publishes spelling and factual errors to the internet news sites it blogs at, nor should it matter to anyone at OPEC that I'm a little ticked off that they think my family should go homeless so they can wipe their asses with silk toilet paper, but when it doesn't make any difference to the United States Justice system that the President of the United States became the senior shareholder for such a huge national company under a bankruptcy agreement filed in court...that's over the line. No offense Mr. President, I know you're not intentionally taking the wheel, you're just supplying my tax dollars to float corporate incompetence in the open market...again.8

I think it would have been much better to give the American homeowner a sizable tax disbursement in the amount of the trillions of dollars you have spent, and added to that money the requirement that it had to be used to pay down credit card debt, that's not fair either to those that don't have credit card debt in America, my apologies to both of you. Just think of the economic impact if every American citizen all of a sudden got another two hundred bucks in their pocket every month from not having to make a credit card payment. Hell, they could afford two more tanks of gas each month...once OPEC found out we had a solution to the problem they created. Yeah, you're right, we're better off buying GM and making them build cars that run on something else, even if we have no idea how to do it safely or cost effectively yet...even Henry Ford had a few cars blow up in the middle of the street when they first came out, with the water carburetor. (They won't tell you about that in public school either).9

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