Blog posts. Various topics.

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That last post was a good read. Instead of blathering on about things I agree, I have one idea to disagree with. US oil production and its effects. Most people like Palin and those ideas in your blog are just wrong. Oil is a "WORLD" commodity. We DO NOT mine, produce, drill , or gather oil that is only consumed by the US.

The other issue is that, If we produce more of the gross total, then OPEC countries, can and will draw back on their production to maintain their predetermined price point. Then we are just using up our reserves with little to no benefit.

Here's one that'll tickle your pickle. We gladly make and create a minimum wage and other nefarious regulations in this country to create a sort of "fairness". Then we accept, allow, and create an environment where companies go searching for $1 a day labor and no regulations. Then we import those products with zero "fairness" penalties, ie; tariffs.

This is what I do not understand. If our country was built and modeled aroung states rights.
My take on free trade is not the USA competing against other countries but allowing states to freely trade between themselves. Thanks Bush.

Anyway, sorry for the rant.