I guess if you & your IQ are out of personal insults you have to fall back on insulting a NFL team that had a Perfect regular season, & an absolutely awesome looking F-150 that I happen to own, & can afford to run! By the way when I took my truck in for service today, I got compliments on it from almost every Ford Tech workin the Bays today!.......Try again when you have some better material!................

 

Whoo-hooo! I love a good cat fight!

 

i am about tired of your name calling and overall immaturity towards others on this forum ri. how you havent been banned yet is beyond me. my ears work fine. i watch/listen to orielly every chance i get and own all his books except the one for kids. did you see his talking points tonight on gas prices? i bet you didnt. not once did he blame george bush. it is a combo of many, many things.

 

 

Overall immaturity, I only call out people when they call me names 1st! Like the idiot above! I don't take crap from people in person, nor will I in cyberworld! I treat people just how they treat me, that is my tempo, I am a fair person & treat other the same. I saw O'Reily, however the one thing that fuels the rising cost of gas prices is greed pure & simple!...........

 

The big reason a barrel of Oil has gone up so much lately is because of the Week Dollar. It hasn't gone up as much in EURO's, it just cost more American Dollars now to buy a barrel.

Why is the Dollar weak? Because the Government has borrowed so much to fund it's Budget, War, Big Spending, and Deficits, no one WANTS to invest in American Currency.

All I know is the price of gas was $1.59 a gallon just Seven Years ago. (the Dollar was a lot stronger then too, and we had a Budget SURPLUS.

Demand is obviously a part of it, I don't deny that, but Demand hasn't DOUBLED in the last 7 years like a barrel of gas has...

 

 

Thank you! Finally someone with common sense! Yes, the American Dollar is weak because of what we've been spending for the past five years in a sandpit called Iraq not to mention young American Lives that have been lost, & there in no end of the Physical or Financial bleeding till 01-20-09!........

 

That's right. McCain will fix it.

 

I'll take choice A-B-or-C at this point! Anything is better than the present!..............

 

Here's some Real insight into our Economic Future. I happen to be a Professional Buyer so I'm actually speaking with Experience here and not just Arm Chairing..

The Weak Dollar is a fact. The Dollar has recently Plummeted in China and Taiwan. Everything comes from China right.

Well right off the top we're going to be paying more for basically EVERYTHING coming from China.

There's More. China is Rapidly raising their prices for products. The China Government had recently been providing all China Factories "incentives" of up to 12% of their Exports.

Basically if a Factory sold their goods to the US at COST they'd still make 12% on their products.

Well the China Government is cutting these "incentives". They may be throwing out a 4% rebate right now.

PLUS the prices of raw materials are going up in China as well, Labor their is demanding more money, they are just starting to inact Environmental Policies (costing Money).

To wrap it up, Prices for Chinese goods are going up close to 15% Next year. More for goods containing Rubber, Oil, and Aluminum.

Remember, just about EVERYTHING comes from China. How's this going to effect our Economy???

 

Were Screwed no matter who gets into Office, or what China does!.......

 

Devalueing the dollar is how the towells are winning this war.

This war has cost us nothing other than soldiers lives Not to downplay any of the suffering, It has cost nothing in dollars. Surpluse outdated bombs and new tested equipment. Expenses of any large defensive operation. We now have new generation patriots and other wepoens that protect a metropolis or security area. It's the urban warfare trying, not to hurt the inocent that is expensive to us in lives and sanity of soldiers. If we don't fight this war there you will see our children suffer here, because we didn't take care of the problem in the first place. Imagine useing one of our own weapons to shoot down a hi-jacked American comercial aircraft. Because we don't have the guts to fight this war. People forget very fast what happenend 9/11. Yes we morn the dead, but there is a much deeper meaning than even the number dead. 9/11 was the date of choice of our enemy.

You want to blame someone blam green. Do we or do we not have oil to drill in alaska? Save the world if you want to be live in an agrarean society

Sorry for miss spellings , I only think big

 

I mostly agree on the weak dollar aspect, but not the deficits. Deficits might affect us short term as a general indication of financial stability, but the overall national debt is a larger concern in my view. This has been out of control for a long time, and we need to do something about it before we are in bigger trouble.

This is taken from a FAQ site a guy did, but from numbers he has seems accurate. It's the national debt adjusted for inflation.




If we looked at all the other variables, such as per capita debt, or debt vs gross national product, it might vary some. But either way, it's a trend of going up farther and farther. And we have to stop it somehow. In my view it should at a minimum slowly decrease in all but times of dire need for the country. If we ran our personal finances this way we would never have hope of retiring!

 

I believe it's clear how this will affect our economy. China's workers are demanding more money and starting to buy SUV's. As workers lifestyles approach that of the average American you will start to see an even playing field. Goods can once again be produced in the U.S. for the same price as China.

As soon as we opened free trade with China everyone knew this would happen. Can you seriously expect to import cheap goods forever? Did China actually think it could produce goods this cheap indefinitely? The answer to both is no.