Will This Never End?

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I just can’t take much more of the Obama/Clinton match.  Actually, I can’t take much more of this election period.  I have real issues to worry about.

Food — Food prices are on the rise.  What a shocker.  As the environmentallists screamed for ethanol and alternative fuels, there were plenty of us trying to tell you that it would drive up the price of food.  It’s simple Econ 101 — supply and deman.  The more land you take out of food production the less that is there to feed people.  Then you have to tote the food in from South America.  Now, Congress wants to create ANOTHER special program for special people, one of which I am not.  I get to pay the high taxes to support these people AND pay the high prices because I’m not one of them. 

Fuel — The same idiots who have been screaming alternative fuels are the ones who have crippled our countries ability to refine crude into fuel.  That’s also an Econ 101 no brainer.  It doesn’t matter how much oil you have in your barrel if you can’t turn it into something usable.  So, we fight for oil against China, India and a couple other growing countries who don’t have the environmental regulations.  And don’t even start on “Big Oil” and their “obscene profits.”  Nobody wants to talk about the “obscene taxes” the government is raking in on those profits.  Cut the freaking state and federal taxes if you want to help the little people.  Oh wait –

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., weighed in against the scheme Thursday, telling reporters “there’s no reason to believe that any moratorium on the gas tax would be passed on to the consumer.”

Here’s the real problem, people in this country have become so far removed from the farm they have no freaking idea how things really work.  They don’t realize exactly what it takes to put three ears of corn on the store shelves.  They just walk into Kroger or Wal-Mart, pick-up what they want [note: want, not need] and move on.  Food and crude oil prices aren’t static.  Chevron doesn’t set them, but Chavez does.  So does OPEC [ Algeria, Angola, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, and Ecuador] by how much they’ll pump, the rest is up to the commodities market.

Housing — Now, this is really pissing me off.  Seven years ago I decided it was time to get a new home.  Now, many of my friends have homes in the $100K range, not me.  I financed a $40K doublewide mobile home and plopped it on a piece of land I purchased for $20K about 10 years before.  Why?  BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT I COULD AFFORD!!  My payments are around $400 per month on a fixed interest rate.  BECAUSE THAT WAS THE SMART THING TO DO!!  But, because I was a responsible person the government won’t be helping me out at all.

Credit — Oh lord, you know, why is it that every interest rate in the world will come down except what’s on credit cards?  I don’t have a lot on credit, but I want to get ride of it.  But I can’t because I get hit with $50 in intrest charges every month.  They jack the rate all the time.  I don’t want to get into that shuffle where you roll your credit to a new card for the “introductory rate” and then try to remember to roll it back.  I’d never make it.  Being self-employed I don’t have a steady income so I can’t get a loan right now to get a fixed lower rate.

But — these aren’t the important things.  The important things are Obama’s preacher, Hillary’s sniper dodging and McCain’s age.  I need to get my priorities straight.

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