Slaves in America

[Donnie (Arne)]

Human Trafficking.....Glorious!

[magus]

i am very uncomfortable jumping in on anything dailing with politics and whatnot. to be honest i stopped reading at lyles comment. he posed a question, how to stop greed. here is what popped into my head. the allmighty dollar has said value based on trust in "god" which is church. the dollar is controlled by the trasury "state" or in our case the government i.e. 50 states. now, i do remember at some point someone telling me that there is to be a separation between church and state. so to this i ask, why do we, the populous of state, trust in god that our greenbacks are worth something, whom btw represents "church". and also, does "god" have a hotline to some bigwig economist in the state that says "hey, i think thos dead presidents i repesent through trust are only worth this month today" i think not. thus ending my rant on the almighty dollar, now on to greed.

everyone wants more for less and they want it now, or in the immortal words of eddie mercury and queen "i want it all and i want it now". so, there are potentially a billion solutions to this, several to which i have thought about. the first is devaluation of product. remove the desire for said item, retain functionality but remove optical appeal. no more super hot anorexic women selling over priced and under made (quality) items to every day consumers that are willing to blow entire paychecks on a thong cause it looked really hot on said model. also, treehuggers, and i use this term loosely due to the fact some people actually care, and some just want their 15 min of fame. recycling is a choice, i do not by choice, and i dont hug trees. however i do not litter, i make it a point to throw things away, and if i see trash on the ground i usually throw it away. which points me to the focus of this rant.... in alaska, a frozen wasteland of generally uninhabitable conditions, protrected by laws, put in place by people whome feel it necessary to call it a willife reserve or w/e it is up there. anyhoo, inder this frozen tundra of desolation is, again so ive been told, is enough oil to fuel the U.S. for decades, and surplus to sell. im sorry, but if we can drill oil under water in some pretty hefty and destructive oceanways, i think we can cleanly and safely drill a hole in some ice and frozen ground, and pipe that shit to the people that really need it. with the ammount of oil under alaska, and what the government hold in reserve, our fuel prices (gasoline to heating oil) will be drastically reduced.

here is a final point on fuel and whatnot, and that is alternative fuels and fuel savings. oil componys are obviously jacking prices because of all the alternative fuel R&D going on out there. and now with ethanol coming into play, foor prices are starting to rise due to the demand on corn, so i ask, is it worth it to fing cleaner fuels? or is it more beneficial to make vehicles and machinery cleaner? i dunno, but for god sake, with the money i earn, and the taxes i pay on top of my regular bills, i can neither afford to fuel my vehicle or maintain my vehicle in proper operating order, because everything else costs so damned much. call me greedy, needy, or bitchy, the fact is i am something of  arelaist, there is a half glass of water, neither full nor empty, and thats the bottom line cause stone cold said so.

[Galinda / Baneswife]

A vendor from work told me of this today...kind of goes with the topic at hand.

http://www.americansolutions.com/actioncenter/petitions/?Guid=54ec6e43-75a8-445b-aa7b-346a1e096659

[Alex (Riptearkill)]

http://mises.org/story/2940
as has been said before it isn't necessarily the faults of oil companies that gas is so high but inflation caused by the gov't issuing more money without anything backing it (fiat)

[Donnie (S3 / Jagor)]

http://mises.org/story/2940
as has been said before it isn't necessarily the faults of oil companies that gas is so high but inflation caused by the gov't issuing more money without anything backing it (fiat)

I have actually read that before and it's a great article.

[Khellendross]

http://mises.org/story/2940
as has been said before it isn't necessarily the faults of oil companies that gas is so high but inflation caused by the gov't issuing more money without anything backing it (fiat)

Actually alot of the current Fuel Price problem resides in Supply < Demand.

Currently there are several High demand countries (China and Venezuela to name a couple) who subsidize their gas prices to a lower cost so as not to hurt their respective economies, what this does is cause more people in their countries to buy fuel at those lower prices, (which is high demand) however if those subsidies were removed, and the prices went up to what we have here in the US and Europe, the peoples of those countries would not be buying as much fuel (quite a bit less methinks)

resulting in Supply > Demand which would in turn lower prices. possibly a fair bit.