Redistribution of Wealth

Gitfiddleplayer, thank you for repsonding. Democrats have not punished capitalism, they have supported capitalism in the United States, and has tried to punish companies that send jobs overseas, and effects the average American. For example when US corporations send billions of dollars over to a communist country, that then use those funds to build up their military, and threaten the US. See capitalist doesn't worry about where their money goes, or who it supports, they just worry about their bottom line. This is why Reaganomics doesn't work anymore, when you lower taxes for wealthy Americans, they are not reinvesting in the United States, they are creating jobs all around the world. Bush's tax cuts did nothing at all to help the country, as a matter of fact it has left our country in worse shape now. We have a record defecit, our economy is near another recession, job growth is horrible, and inflation is skyracketing. By the way OPEC does not set oil prices, if you do some research you will see that the commodity traders set the price. OPEC is part of the reason the price of oil is down, they recently had an emergency meeting about oil prices. OPEC makes $87.00 a barrel, at the time of the meeting, the market rate for oil was $135.00 a barrel. Who made the difference? By the way, George W. Bush could very easily effect the price of oil the same way Clinton did in the 90's. He just didn't want to. When it comes to drilling: Why would the oil companies do this? If you know so much about business, then you would understand that drilling for oil would cost billions, you wouldn't see a drop for atleast 5 years, and worse it would increase supply. When you increase supply the price goes down, so now you have spent billions, it has cost you millions in interst, and now oil is cheaper because of the greater supply. It doesn't make sense at all does it? Good luck with that one.

Sorry it took me so long to get back. I was doing some research. You are correct about OPEC, I know they have lowered the price and the American consumer has benefited, a few cents is a few cents. Back to your comment about capitalism, we live in a global economy, we can't reverse it. I see that globalizing things is a give/take 60/40 deal. We often times loose jobs in America to extend our global economy to other countries, its also called trade relations. America is a superpower, we are not weak and capitalism allows us, whether its good or bad, to extend our fruits of success to other countries. If you want the cheapest price, hire the cheapest labor, business 101. The Bush tax cuts showed that Washington was using our money for useless programs that I or you never saw any results from. Why not give back to the American tax payer their money and let them use it how they want, no bills, no amendments, just a simple return of MY and YOUR money. I'm sure you already used your money, if you don't want it, send it to me. Now onto drilling domestically. We have oil and can't touch it, Cuba can, hmmmm. Tell me who we are beholden to that we can't use our own natural resources? B.O. wants to develop these pie in the sky energies, let him but lets drill now and use what we have under our feet, in the meantime, he can use money from his supporters to "test" these new fangled government programs. Leave my money alone! I don't want to support his "Save the earth and save ourselves" agenda, its wrong and you know it. We can debate the war later but the money being spent on it is keeping us safe, I want to be safe, I don't want a Jr. Senator to sit down and have a conversation with our enemies, he will compromise the safety of the USA, he's inexperienced. Drilling for oil will cost billions but the supply will go up when we have the ball in our court, we can sell it to other nations, again its part of the global economy. I don't agree with you about a depression, be positive, use what you need and don't think this country won't survive and thrive. If everybody hates us then why are they all wanting to come here?

I know that we are a slave to big oil but creating an alternative fuel won't be available for market until at least 5 years. I'm not against alternative fuels but you can't convert the current automotive industry overnight and have us all burning banana peels to get around town. Plus, the government want's to control the alternative fuels, that's a huge problem, they can't do anything right because they will get kickbacks from the billions of dollars it cost to develop, market and distribute these "new" types of energy. Leave it up to the American inginuity to develop a better way, not a government regulated program. Plus, what if I don't want a solar house or a mandantory green lifestyle? B.O. and company are poised to control your every action, what kind car you can drive (eco friendly) what kind of food you can eat (organic) and at what time of the day you can run your AC, that's BS! The Bush tax cuts did benefit the wealthy, they also benefited me, the poor benefited too by having a little more green in their pockets. Nobama wants to take money from the rich, (and btw, he's worth 1.3 million, he's rich, but don't think he and his very rich democrat buddies are going to give their money to the poor, that would make them true public servants,) and give it to the poor, I'm for helping the poor with effort not with cash. Our global ecomony is off kilter, I'll agree with that, I don't like the trade relations we have with some countries but when we send jobs out of the USA we do it for a global profit. I don't own a corporation but I've worked for some pretty big ones and their cost and expenses are far what we can imagine. We create jobs for people all around the world, you don't hear Snobama saying he wants to end that, he knows its bigger than him. About the foreign policy issues, I don't want greenhorn B.O. sitting down with our enemies trying to work it out, if you do that then they've already won. McCain knows the importance of not starting WWIII, he can't do anything anyway, Bush is still in office. Since you work in the oil buis I'll take your word for it, I won't debate until I've done more research about that, point to thegreatdebater. I also understand about the capital gains tax being lowered, we have money all over the world, other countries don't care how we got the money, just that its in their bank so they can lend it out. Money makes the world go round.