Where are we heading?

Ethanol has been exposed as a non-solution to anything. It uses
more energy to make than it produces, it doesn’t pollute any
less than regular fuel, it lowers gas mileage, and it isn’t a
replacement for regular fuel. How convient that now, when corn
futures are rising daily, refiners can’t make money making
gas out of our food.

If you think ethanol is expensive, did you add the fifty-four
cent a gallon subsidy refiners get to produce it? We find it
ironic that new ethanol refineries being built will never make
a drop of ethanol. Also ironic is the fact this is due to rising
corn prices when ethanol production wasn’t supposed to have any
adverse effect on these prices.

Lawmakers have been playing us for fools, and we don’t like it.
The latest caper that stuck in our craw was the economic stymulus
package. We don’t know who came up with that one, but they stayed
up nights thinking that one out. We could see going to your boss
and saying, we have a plan.

Let’s borrow billions of dollars from overseas, dole out a
small amount to everybody, and let them spend it on overseas made
products, and imported fuel. Oh, why we’re at it, let’s spend
millions of dollars to notify the people that we’re going to do
it. Whoever sold our learned lawmakers on this should do seminars
on ‘How to get rich in real estate with little or no money’.

We were brought up on a simple premise when it came to money.
“You never get out of debt by borrowing money”. It has served us
well. Due to several decades of bad decisions by our lawmakers,
the dollar is worth a lot less than it was. This makes the cost
of anything we import higher. Just remember, when then those
running for office talk about giveaways, it will be our grand-
children who will shoulder the burden.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. It’s time for
this bunch of spineless legislators to grow up, stop fighting
like children, and do their jobs. They should come up with
solutions to our gas problems, our money problems, and the
problem of our deficit, which they created. Tighten your
belts, prove you stand for something, and just git r done.

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