A Boston Tea Party …(Only In America)

Is the hand quicker than the eye? Can you have something you can’t see? Can one make a person disappear before your very eyes? The art of deception is a wonderful tool. Is money you earn, that you never see, really yours? The art of deception is a government strategy.

The American public is outraged over high gas prices. Each day we fill our cars/trucks with gas and get red in the face. Prices continue to soar. It pisses us off because we actually have to reach in our pockets and pay for it. The extra money spent on gas is less we have to spend on other things. I love it.

I love it because it proves how stupid we citizens really, really are. The stupidity is on many fronts. If fuel costs were taken out of your check each pay period would we still be as angry? Income taxes get taken out of our checks each time yet I never hear the outrage. As citizens we work one quarter of the year to pay our taxes yet no one rebels. Fuel prices are also full of taxes. The angst over high fuel prices proves the government knew what is was doing when it decided to take taxes out of our pay check rather than having us pay the bill out of our pocket. Imagine for a minute if it weren’t that way. The Boston tea party revolt I so crave would become a reality.

More evidence of stupidity is our naiveté over the price of gas. For some reason most people think it is a god given right to have cheap gas. Are oil companies taking advantage of the situation? I suspect somewhat. Is it our fault for the energy pickle we are in? Absolutely. Americans elected politicians who made no priority of creating an energy plan for the last thirty years. Countries like India and China are now using much more fuel. Americans drive everywhere (example thousands of miles a winter just for youth hockey). SUV’s are a staple of the roads. No refineries have been built. Nuclear power plants are a no-no. But gas prices are not supposed to rise.

Sorry! Our failure to be concerned with this issue since Carter was President is why we are where we are now. Our politicians refused to lead and sold us on the thought of cheap gas forever. We were deceived because we allowed ourselves to be deceived. These same leaders are deceiving us over social security but do we listen? Nope. Living the lie is so much easier. Keep driving, keep paying your taxes, keep allowing yourselves to be duped but for the life of me quit WHINING! We are in this situation because so many refuse to pay attention. The most conniving deception of them all is we actually write checks for fuel to the very people who want to kill us. Only in America! We expect the government to solve this problem when government IS the problem.