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In the end, everything is a gag. Charlie Chaplin….

Interesting – because that is the same thing I found out last Thursday….

fuel saving is what we need…

Socialist countries have the highest standard of living. Notice how the British pound, the Canadian dollar, the Japanese Yen and the Euro aren’t falling the way the American dollar is?

“establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”

Sounds like the proper role of government is to be socialist. Other socialist programs like police, fire department, education, and health care benefit everyone as well. All these programs increase security and productivity. On the other hand there are fascist policies like corporate welfare to companies like Exxon that has the purpose of enriching shareholders at taxpayer expense. But when the Democrats suggested removing some of those subsidies from the top five oil companies the Republicans whined that the welfare was a necessary government program.

What Phantom said. As for the poor oil companies and their risky ventures, cry me a river.
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Full of HATE and JEALOUSY for those who are successful, CFUK is a typical Radical Liberal. Not a rational comment in his pea-sized brain.

Highways benefit EVERYONE, and are located on public land. Everyone here benefits from the highways. Everyone who buys gas, license fees, registration fees, tolls, etc.. pays for the highways.

Socialist programs rob from one group to give to another group. One group pays for another group. That is, one group gets benefits and the other does not. And one group pays, and the other does not. One groups hoards their Socialist benefits as their private property, for their private use. The other group gets up everyday and goes to work, and pays their taxes. The other group, does not.

You Socialists are full of gimme, gimme, gimme. Do not attempt to confuse your greed by warping the definition of Socialism, because you will fail. But then, you Socialists are used to failing.

“Oil prices, there is a common understanding that has nothing to do with supply and demand,” al-Badri said on the sidelines of an energy conference in Rome.

Also over the weekend, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted Saturday as saying crude oil prices at $115 a barrel are too low, and that oil must “discover its real value.”

What Phantom said. As for the poor oil companies and their risky ventures, cry me a river.

Yup, and he’d be denounced as a socialist by folks like Paul and Max.

Reg, one can argue, flatulently, as to how “conservative” Ike was by 1950’s standards (not much, actually–why did he need Nixon?), but that’s beside the point.

IMHO, Doug is talking about what counts for conservative now .
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Ummm, lay off the high blend Rage.

I know what he meant, I meant and what Eisenhower stood for and did.

nuff said…

Doug can stand on his own hind legs, besides we are kinfolk. :D

IMHO, Doug is talking about what counts for conservative now .

Are the conservatives bitter because without the socialist highway program we wouldn’t have any interstate highways? Let the conservatives have their way and we’d be lucky to have dirt roads.
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Wasn’t it Eisenhower that pushed the national Interstate system? :D

http://earthtrends.wri.org/updates/node/292

Food aid agencies are feeling the pinch, too; last week, Josette Sheeran, the head of the United Nations’ World Food Program, reported that global food reserves were at their lowest level in 30 years and the agency faces a $500 million shortfall in 2008.

Some of this inflation can be attributed to short-term production shortfalls. But many of factors driving food price increases are more lasting, and their effects are likely to be felt for several years at least. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, along with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, identified the following root causes for food price inflation in 2007:

Agricultural subsidies in developed countries that make more efficient production in developing countries unprofitable;
Decreases in food stocks;
Rising fuel prices;
Increased demand for some products, such as meat, particularly in rapidly emerging markets such as China and India;
Growth in biofuels production (see figure 2 below); and
Speculation in agricultural commodity markets.
Global population increases and climate change are also contributing to rising prices. The global population is expected to exceed 9 billion within the next 50 years, and simultaneously the impacts of climate change are predicted to reduce agricultural productivity by as much as 50% in some parts of the world, most notably sub-Saharan Africa.