This is what we've got going on in our nation's economy:
A debt that has grown $7,700,000,000,000 during the Bush Administration
A war in Iraq that is costing $10,000,000,000 a month
A health care system, Medicare, that eats up $340,000,000,000 a year
A global warming crisis with national security and environmental ramifications which worsen EVERY DAY
The failure of 3 of the Big 5 on Wall Street - Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch - in the last 8 months
And this is what John McCain has to say about our economy:
Seriously, John McCain doesn't get it. Nor does Mrs. Palin, but that's another post ... if we vote for this team of liars, we deserve the lack of change they will bring us over the next four years.
And just how to you think Steve Scalise voted? He voted to tell the residents of his districts to enjoy the high price of gasoline for the summer. Such compassion for his constituents. Hell, even Reps. Alexander, McCrery and Boustany voted AYE. Only Scalise, the uber-conservative of the Louisiana delegation, voted NAY.
Tonight, newly elected Representative Don Cazayoux will vote to lower gas prices for all Louisianans by voting to temporarily halt shipments to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Stopping shipments has lowered gas prices in the past, most notably in 2000, when it caused gas prices to drop a third, from $30 a barrel to $20 a barrel. The bill that Rep. Cazayoux will bevoted for is HR 6022, which, unfortunately, is not online at press time.
For those of y'all who think this will harm national security, President Bush himself declared back in 2006 when he deferred such deliveries:
"Our Strategic Reserve is sufficiently large enough to guard against any major supply disruption over the next few months."
I should also note that in 2006, the Reserve was roughly 688 million barrels. Today it contains roughly 702 million barrels.
