Letters to the Editor
universe42
Published Letters: 49 Editor's Choice: 2
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dumbest article i have ever read
[Read the article: Obama is wrong about the gas tax]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you honestly believe what you just wrote then you need to put down the crack pipe. This is TEXT BOOK political theater at its most obvious. Summer tax break on gas? ooohhh, you mean i might only pay 3.50 per gallon instead of 3.67? (most gas tax averages .17 cents nation wide) wow, thanks Hil, now i can buy my kid an extra happy meal a week. Wait, how about you get gas prices back down to below 2 dollars where they were less than 2 years ago. Oh thats right, supply and demand get it the way at 120+ for a barrel of crude.
Ok... so...
A. ever heard of George Bush? can you say veto? he can.
B. Did you forget how powerful big oil is? every year they are brought in front of congress to be pitched softball questions and receive a stern finger wagging about exhorbinant gas prices. Every year the price keeps going up. Even if they wanted to play charity, you know, for a 2 month stretch, they will just tax us on the back end. Corporate shuffle 101, save profits at all cost, especially at the consumer level.
C. is for Clinton. C is also for con-artist. I bet you a C note that she will scheme her way into the nominee spot despite the numbers, and that you will never hear about these gas taxes again.
D. So lets say that that there 304,016,220 people who live in this country. of that, lets be really modest and say that only 60% of that number actually has a car and fills up once a week. That gives us 182 million and change people driving around. the amount of gallons vary from car to car but for the sake of being modest lets just say all these people only have a 15 gallon tank. To be really fair to you and peter pan, lets go ahead and exclude all commerical frieght consumption while we are at it, to drive the point home. 15 gallons times .17 cents times 180 million people, multiplied by the 12 week summer is right about 5,508,000,000. thats trillions.
But wait a second yo! that thar is tax money, and tax money is the gift that keeps on giving. Economics says thar be multiplier effects yeilded from that revenue... or now thanks to saint hillary ... the lack there of since we get a "GOLLY GEE WIZ HOLIDAY!!! YAY!!!" the multiplier effect has as high as 3 to 5 times that 5.5 trillion dollar figure. 15 to 25 trillz and you expect BP to pay the bill? No, that wont happen. EVER. oh and snap we are totally in a RECESSION / Inflationary period whether people want to say it or not.
what sort of fantasy world are the two of you selling here? are we going to just 10's of trillions of dollars evaporate to save us poor folks at the pump? oh i would really love to think so, but in my world people get laid off for less, have their jobs outsourced to save a fraction of a penny in costs. that is the same world you live in too so you bet your G.D America skipping record she is pandering.
Politicians with nothing to lose and everything to gain, pander like a zombie on brains - thats not so unusual in an ever increasing election cycle, so saying she isnt makes your post seem naive.
PS. you are a dummy.
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Bleh...
[Read the article: Night lands Clinton closer to oblivion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just go away already. We dont need your hawkish policies reminiscent of the last 8 years. We dont need your .17 cent a gallon worth of summer gas savings. We dont need a person who is banking on the racial prejudices of rural voters to gain last minute momentum over someone who has sealed this deal weeks ago. I dont want someone who's only true measure of victory in these last several states can be accredited directly to the unlikely aid of a sworn enemy only seeking to defile the Democratic process by sending his minions out in droves to tip the scales. As with Texas, Limbaugh will be celebrating Indiana tomorrow... but not for long. North Carolina didnt fall victim as he had hoped.
The end game of these last never ending months, finally upon us, is that the overwhelming evidence suggests that HRC is out of touch with the best of her base. That time and time again, she cannot be successful without a powerful media storm behind her to level the playing field and even then it comes down to the underhanded work of saboteurs. Despite the desperate notion she has clutched onto in regards to Florida and Michigan, Obama has again tonight stripped away the popular and electoral vote should there be the smallest possibility they were.
Game over. Drop out.
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Mr. or Mrs. Pounce...
[Read the article: Night lands Clinton closer to oblivion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I was just watching MSNBC, who just aired statistical information from the exit polls results conducted yesterday and confirming exactly the opposite of what you just said.
The question read: Should your candidate lose -
HRC supporters would vote for McCain - 54%
Obama Supporters would vote for McCain - 38%
Anecdotally speaking, I was reading an article on Salon last night no less where some idiot HRC supporter actually had the nerve to call Obama supporters "Arugela eating, wheatgrass drinking elitists."
Now that is rich.