Posted by
Charlie on Wednesday, August 08, 2007 11:53:56 AM
The western world's death wish becomes more evident every day. Instead of taking steps to make themselves more secure, political correctness and disastrous policies are moving the West ever closer to destruction.
Israel and the United States are re-arming Fatah the terrorist organization founded by Yasser Arafat, which was driven out of Gaza by Hamas an even more extreme gang of terrorists. That is if one gang of terrorists can be said to be more extreme than another. As far as I'm concerned a terrorist is a terrorist is a terrorist and all should be exterminated like the vermin they are. One thing is certain: The weapons given to Fatah today will be used against Israel and the United States tomorrow.
On another front it has been announced that Saudi Arabia is buying $20 billion in advanced weapons from the United States. Same result as above. Stupid, stupid, stupid. In addition the average American will pay for these weapons in higher oil prices.
Speaking of oil, it's time we threw off the chains of dependency on foreign oil. We have vast untapped oil reserves in the Rocky Mountains and in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve. Not to mention the reserves in the Continental Shelf. A blowout in an offshore oil platform in 1969 did a lot of damage to beaches and wildlife near Santa Barbara, California. This disaster put a damper on offshore drilling for a long time but better technology developed since the Santa Barbara disaster makes offshore drilling much safer now. We should develop these resources not only to decrease our dependence on foreign oil but also to free our foreign policy of the influence of the oil exporting countries who, by and large, are unfriendly.
Now, as to our trade policies, they can only be described as catastrophic. So-called "Free Trade" has resulted in the destruction of entire US industries. The importation of cheap foreign goods, especially from communist China, has allowed the Bush administration to announce month after month that inflation is under control.
The disastrous trade deficits with communist China have resulted in the Chinese government now holding $1.33 trillion in US Treasuries and is threatening to liquidate them if we don't do their bidding regarding the valuation of their currency versus the dollar. This could ruin the US economy and cause a recession. The same threat could be used to force us to take their poisonous exports. We are in effect becoming a vassal state to China. Communism could yet triumph over democracy without firing a shot unless the fat heads in Washington take steps to stop our reliance on China and other foreign countries who we regard as friendly but who are in reality our enemies.
But we can't expect the fat heads now in Washington to do anything constructive in this matter. The answer is a complete house cleaning in the halls of Congress. Let's elect some new fat heads. Maybe we'll get lucky. In any case we can't do any worse with new people than with those we have now.
DON'T VOTE FOR INCUMBENTS!!!!!
If 98% of incumbents are re-elected as has been true in the past it will make me
FURIOUS!!!!