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The economy is one of the top concerns of the American public. Yet we hear the presidential candidates argue about how many houses they have. They could help the economy by pulling out of Iraq and thus save billions of dollars.

The Iraq government does not want us there and their prime minister is quoted in a CNN article: Iraqi PM demands ’specific’ U.S. pullout timeline

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Monday there will be no agreement on a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq unless it includes a “specific” timeline and is not “open-ended.”

How about we start pulling out today. Support our soldiers and demand the candidates pullout the troops now, quit spending the money on a war where they don’t us, and help the economy at the same time. Stop talking about bullsh*t and start telling the American how you can help this country.

Quit trying to blow smoke up my ass. I have enough gas without it.

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This is one cool, calm, and tough old lady. She caught a burglar in her home and held him at gun point until the Pennsylvania State Police arrived. It looks like she enjoyed herself.

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When the next president takes office in 2009, he will inherit an enormous national debt. For fiscal 2009 the national debt will be $482 billion. The most ever!! That does not include the cost for the war in Iraq, which will cost an additional $80 billion.

According to CNN Money: Welcome, Mr. President: Here’s the tab

Congress just passed - and President Bush is expected to sign - a housing bill that increases the country’s statutory debt limit to $10.6 trillion from $9.8 trillion. Lawmakers increased the debt limit because they’ve already made spending commitments - including additional spending on Iraq - that threatens to pierce the current $9.8 trillion ceiling.

The Concord Coalition, said the country paid $200 billion in debt interest last year alone.

Where is fiscal responsibility? Why did Congress approve so much spending when early on they knew America could not afford it? Now the American people are paying higher prices for gas, food, clothing, and the list goes on. What is next when it comes to paying off this debt?

How can any person who becomes president have a positive impact when that piece of sh*t Bush and his cronies have robbed the country blind and left us in the poor house.

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Read the full press release here (PDF, 108KB).

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Iraq has opened it’s oil fields to foreign oil companies for development. Short term deals with Shell, Exxon and Chevron are said to be under discussion. Reuters is reporting: Iraq throws open door to foreign oil firms

But any awards to U.S. and British firms could anger opponents of the invasion, who have said the 2003 war was designed to give Western oil companies control over Iraqi oil reserves. U.S. and British officials have denied the charges.

And the Bush administration has stated the war was not about oil. It looks more like the Iraqi government is opening it’s oil fields to give that piece of sh*t Bush and his oil cronies a parting gift. Or is it a way to force coalition armies to stay in the region and protect their interests?

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Saudi Arabia is convening a special oil summit over concerns there may be a drop in demand because of oil prices.

CNN Money is reporting, Saudi summit aims at oil prices

The world’s largest oil producer, worried the escalating cost of crude will dampen demand, is convening a special meeting on Sunday to seek solutions.

The Saudis are widely believed to be concerned that escalating oil prices - crude hovered around $134 a barrel Thursday, nearly double what it cost a year ago - will cause a permanent drop in demand as consumers get more efficient or, worse, the global economy slows.

I hope there is a drop in demand! I believe high oil prices is a blessing in disguise, it will force us to be more energy efficient, may help us be less oil dependent, and thus assist us in producing less pollution and help decrease our contribution global warming.

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Reuters is reporting how Americans have cut the mileage they drive by 1.7% because of gas prices. The reported total miles for this cut back from November 2007 to April 2008 is 30 billion miles. This sounds impressive, but if you figure a lot of Americans drive approximately 1,000 miles per month and you do the math it calculates to driving 17 miles less per month. Even if you drove 3,000 miles per month it would only calculate out to 51 miles per month.

If driving 1.7% less miles gets their attention then what would driving 10% less miles do? If you drive 1000 miles per month that would only be 100 less miles driven and what do you think the media would be reporting then?

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Here are a excepts from a Reuters story. Could this be where the U.S. Is heading?

MADRID, June 10 (Reuters) - Protesters marched in India, Hong Kong and Nepal over soaring oil prices on Tuesday and Spaniards stockpiled fuel and food, fearing shortages because of a truck drivers’ strike that has halted deliveries.

The strike by Spanish truck drivers, which Portuguese drivers have also joined, was backed by protests across the border in France over the impact of high oil prices, now at record highs of over $139 per barrel.

Police motorbike riders escorted fuel tankers to some petrol stations to break picket lines and prevent attacks, after some strikers slashed lorry tyres on Monday.

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It finally happened, the national average for gas has broke the $4 a gallon barrier. It not like over $4 a gallon prices are a surprise on the West Coast, we have been seeing those prices for a couple of weeks now. This follows two record breaking days of increases in the price for a barrel of crude oil. In a CNN is report: Gas price record reaches $4 a gallon they are saying:

The average price is $4 a gallon or more in 14 states and the District of Columbia, according to the survey. California pays the most for gasoline, averaging $4.436, with Alaska and Connecticut both at $4.296. Other states above $4 are Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and West Virginia.

So what is the next price barrier the oil companies want us to get accustom to too? $5 a gallon? Will we see it before summer is over? And what about the prices of other products which are dependent on fuel to be delivered to store for us to purchase. How high are those prices going to rise? And what is your response going to be to all of this?

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Today I saw another news story on CNN about rising gas prices. And it made me wonder if the oil companies are using the news media to help increase fuel prices. In the story the talking heads were reporting we should be grateful we do not live in Europe where the average gas prices are $8.70 a gallon. So what. This is not Europe, fuel taxes and fuel prices have always been different. So why should we be grateful when big oil so proudly flaunts their profits while f*cking us over.

When the story ended it made me wonder if the big oil companies are using a propaganda model to prepare Americans for even much higher prices, to keep us consuming oil, and using the media to deliver the message. And while they are delivering this message they are also telling us how to save on gas consumption, but no one is saying we should stop driving and stop spending money on gas.

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