Economic terrorism pt.4

Well now...Here we go again!!! What is the excuse for gas prices being as high as they are today? Prices are as high 4.00 @gal. in some places. We cannot afford this kind of rise...We the working class would have to work double just to make up the difference for these prices, we will end up having to choose again which bills, medical help, food, utilities, and so forth to pay through out the month. Why?? I for one will have to work 5-6 twelve hour days just to pay for expenses needed to live for the months ahead...I think everyone needs to send there congressman a letter stating why they cannot afford this price hike. I also think a boycott of fuel prices is in order to make it heard from the people.

Economic headache

Hello again,
Guess what? They are at it again with gas prices in the clouds. It would seem that big oil just can't get enough money in deep pockets to accomodate there lifestyle..so what is it this time? It seems to me  any little excuse to raise prices of fuel such as flooding, snowfall, lots of wind or just plain greed. This state of Ohio is not New York or Los Angeles, or any place where big money is. Jobs still don't exist at all for lots of people or families to survive..min wage might go up a bit, but so will prices for food, utilities, your car insurance,mortgage, healthcare and so forth. We all see it, but nobody cares enough to take and put it back into the hands of those who caused it. NO ACCOUNTABLITY!!! WHAT A CROCK!!! And you know this messege will fall on deaf ears and eyes because no one wants to tell them the AMERICAN PEOPLE HAS HAD ENOUGH OF THIS CRAP!!! I'm done ranting, it will not do any good. IT IS TIME TO STEP UP AND BE HEARD AMERICA.

Economic headache pt.3

Why is it everytime that those up on capital hill get there panties in a bunch we the people pay for it? Shutdown the country if they don't get there way!  what a bunch of children!! It doesn't matter which side you are on..it effects everyone in this country!!  I am tired if all this crap from our leaders, they are supposed make decisions to keep us from harm, not create it! Everything they have done the last several years has started to look more like a state with no freedoms..no guns, church and state are becoming one, freedom of speech gets you lots of trouble, freedom of the press is all but gone, Where has our true freedoms gone?  living the American dream died along time ago..jobs have gone bye bye to other countries, food has gone thru the roof, fuel for cars and our homes keeps rising higher and higher, AND NOW TO THE HEALTHCARE!  it already is in direstraits because of all the crap that can't be agreed upon by our leaders. AND THEY WORK FOR US..NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND .!!  FIRE THE WHOLE LOT FOR JOB ABANDONMENT AND REHIRE NEW LEADERS..( rant over)
So tired of all the BS that rolls down hill and we the lower classes gets it full on while they walk away squeeky clean.  :'(

economic headache.

hello again,
  here we are coming up on summer time and school is coming to the end with people going on vacation..now here we go again with the price of GAS going to 4.00 @Gal.  now why would it be so high ?  out west they are cleaning up and trying to rebuild people's lives.  it seems to me with everything that is happening that the price of fuel would stay at a low rate or go down,  BUT NO it has to go up !!  the cost of living is still not where it should be..jobs are still not the best..the economy is still fragile as eggs,  and our troops are still being sent overseas for whatever reason..some are coming home..(GOD BLESS THESE FOLKS)!!  I don't know about all of you out there but I can't keep paying high prices for fuel.  if I have to keep paying 50.00 to 60.00 a week just for gas ...well think about it!
this is about medicine, food, mortgage.
it all adds up and you have to start choosing of what is needed and what is not!! now mind you it can also be heating fuel or whatever requires you need.  but you have to look at what you have and what it will take to survive and it is not looking good for the consumer..but big business is getting the wealth and we are paying for it..I don't know what else to say about it..each of us has a right to ask our REPS. from our state the reasons for this..that is if you get the truth !! I for one deserve to know why!! 
talk about a headache when you have to save money for fuel.. instead of the table or a roof over your head..damn tired of it!!

economic chaos / headache 4

well folks it's election time again! Gas prices are in the clouds, jobs are scarce across the country and we still have are men and women in the middle east....I'm not going to tell you who to vote for, that is your God given right on freedom to vote.(FREEDOM) lets think about this for a moment shall we. The question is do you want your freedom taken away or do you want to keep everything that was fought for in blood,sweat and tears!  I have one Question about our candidates running?  one man can care less about the middle class as long he gets what he wants, the other is trying to keep it real as possible, at least that is what is portrayed to the American people...Do you want a mormon to run the country? or do you want someone who says is a christian?   Right now I personally don"t want a mormon president because your religious freedom will be gone in a flash!!! and at least right now we still have our freedom as an American people..think about this for a minute!! One man wants to stay at war with our neighbors and the other wants to bring them home. taxes will be so high thru one that the middle class to lower class will lose everything if they go with another candidate. or you can stay and ride it out with the current candidate..oh and healthcare under the running candidate, Women will have no say in anything, women's rights will be set back 100 yrs....at least under the current candidate women have a right to choose...think about what it would be like to have no freedom of religion or freedom to vote,speech, right to assemble in public, right to bear arms,  these rights will go bye bye under the running candidate..( now I know this will upset some people, and I am sorry) but this is how I feel about the way this election is going and I personally don't want another Republican to ruin this great nation of ours!!! 

economic chaos/ headaches 3.1

hello again!  well as know we coming in elections again, and everything seems to be in turmoil with all that is happening. Again jobs are still hard to find and employers still don't want to pay a good wage for employment..In the last month Lexmark has laid off 1700 people! ( 1700) now lets think about this for a moment, Does this sound like our economic growth in the plus?  YEAH RIGHT!  I've got land on pluto for sale! this is how much **%$#@  that is given to the American people!!! And I haven't even touched on Gas prices at the pump!  Last week I saw prices roller coaster, I got gas as low as 3.54 a gal, then it went up to 3.68 a gal, then 3.84 a gal. and this was at one station in less than 8 hrs or less!  then there were 2 stations across the road from each other---3.68 at one 3.98 at the other!  talk about empty pockets to pay for gas!! Now here's a real boot to the HOLE, prices around GA especially around Atlanta are above 4.00 in some places...but they have ALT. backup called the MARTA system..which is their small rail and bus system they use to get from all over. And for what you pay in Gas prices at the pump,  it might be cheaper to just ride the secondary to get where you need to go.  But since I don't live in Atlanta, I really can't give a good rant about how things are being handled by the people of this awesome state!   FOLKS I CAN'T KEEP RANTING ABOUT THESE THINGS IF NOBODY CARES ENOUGH!!  IT TAKES EVERYONE TO SAY WE ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS CRAP ANYMORE!!!! I'm tired of being taken to the cleaners over gas prices and no jobs and so forth!! But when you go to the polls, please please please-keep in mind that whomever you vote for, make it count for something!

economic terrorism pt3

hello again America!  This is your wake up call again!!!  here we are again talking about things such as economic issues and prices at the pump and being dumped on.....well WE are being dumped on again!!! today as I was driving thru town I noticed that gas prices not only jumped between 25 to 40 cents a gal..and it depends on which station you go to...it all jumped up in less than 8 hrs..speedway is now 3.48, UDF is now 3.69 and BP is now at 3.85 a gal..now you figure that if you subtract the above that is what it was for last weeks prices and some was lower...now to me this is just not right and we as a people need to just say enough is enough ,  YEAH right our economy is in recovery, jobs are still scarce and things are still not right with our system....personally I think this is just a conspiracy with the oil companies to drive prices up so they get a big profit and we get the shaft and paying the bill after all is done and said!!!I could care less if it is an election year..Wake up folks! they are just putting fright in your life when they should be putting hope and trying to do a better job about the economy...I can't stress enough that you America have the power over what happens not what goes on up on the hill...recall the Governors and the senators and representatives that are not looking out for the interests of the people..I for one have had enough with the jumping around of  prices in stores or at the pump. I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY ABOUT THIS MATTER...folks we can not survive as long as this keeps on track like it is...WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TO LATE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT....DON'T WAIT UNTIL ELECTION TIME TO TRY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, DO IT NOW !!!

vultures+thives= big oil companies pt.2

I posted about the first part of this months ago- here is the continuation of that! gas prices are all over the board and it's getting crazy!  as employment is either growing or drying up in areas, it seems that every time that the knuckleheads in Washington aren't getting a bonus to go on vacation or can buy the wife/ mistress whatever they please we get the pointed end of the shaft...so they find a reason to raise gas prices...yesterday I got fuel for 3.56 a gal and within 4-6 hrs it jumped to 3.85 or higher, now i wonder what there excuse was this time!  maybe thunderstorms, no wait SNOW STORM, no wait - dry weather,  Well America you pick one!!  It really doesn't matter what the excuse they will find one and use it to scare the hell out of everyone   I think it's time to tell these guys to get there hands out of the till and  put back on the ends of the table with a pen in there hands to figure how to get this under control considering they made this mess in the first place!!!!!  Of course they will point the finger at others for the blame and  say it is not my problem  ,BUT  it is there problem and they should be the ones who have to pay for this SIN they  have  created!!!      WE ALL PAY THE PRICE FOR THERE GREED!  NOW WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TO SAY NO MORE-- BOYCOTT?  It will not happen .. AMERICANS feel they shouldn't get involved and they sit back, especially the ones whose income is not effected because of lots of money and wealth!!  Well one day it will, and boo hoo you lose all.. nobody will care at that point!!!! no one cares now as long as there little world is not encroached upon from the outside!!!!  GET REAL AND GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE SAND LIKE A BIG BIRD!!!!
        This is all I have to say about it, since there is a GOP race in effect and sensible people have other little problems to deal with at this point!!   Remember who"s running,  prices and jobs could go to the Moon and America would be in more trouble than you will ever think!  THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT! 

EMPLOYMENT HEADACHES

They say that the economy is picking up!  they say jobs are coming back to the area!  When are we going to see the real numbers of how the economy is really doing!   the reason that i am writing this is that 2 manufacturing plants right here in my town have shut down, one is doing a complete liquidation of all assets of equipment and material!  they are holding an auction in April to sell off everything.. the 2nd plant is just sitting idle with no movement at all, no workers, no trucks in or out,nothing at all!  Appleton paper near here is is gone, hundreds of jobs lost!  the postal service has closed it's sort service and moved it to another part of the state!!  Now the oil companies decided to raise gas prices and those who can't afford to pay for it are going to suffer!  I keep posting these concerns for the benefit of everyone who reads this Blog!!  ONLY YOU MR.AND MRS.AMERICA CAN TAKE A STAND TO SAY NO MORE!!!!!!  It will take us all to call or write to our Government Reps. especially in your areas that you live to let them know that all of this is not Exceptable!  High gas prices is just simply Highway robbery !!!!!  It will take every person to make there voices heard....WAKE UP BEFORE YOUR RIGHTS ARE GONE AND YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT!  I don't know what else to say, getting run over by policy makers is getting to much and nobody seems to give a $%#^^$  about it, even when it funnels down hill to the lowest man!!!! well one day it will end and it will be to late, so those of you who say it will not happen, you will be the first one it grabs..and it will happen!!!
                      WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!! YOU ARE GETTING BLED DRY AND THERE WILL BE NO FUTURE FOR ANYONE!!

What's on the Menu Today...BACON!!!

Mmm...Bacon!  Fat, succulent meat cut from the belly of big old hog, fried up and sizzling in it's own grease.  Only I'm not actually talking about food here this morning.  I had another kind of fat hog in mind to carve up today--the OIL COMPANIES!!  For those of you following me on google+ you already saw me post my friend Verna's blog and I had to add my two cents. 

The economy sucks, there's no jobs anywhere, and none of that is new news.  Especially not for me.  I grew up in southern Louisiana and I've seen it all happen before back home.  Morgan City had plenty of jobs when I was little.  You could stand on the levy and look out at the gulf and count the oil rigs off shore.  My grandfather worked for one of the oil companies down there too and my dad worked for a company that supplied pipe packing material to the rigs.  Then some bunch of executives in the oil industry got the bright idea to cap wells that were still producing, lay off all the workers and start getting nearly all our oil from OPEC.

One thing the Deep Water Horizon disaster proved is that there's still an abundant supply of oil in the gulf.  But I already knew that.  There is no shortage of oil that we could produce right here in the US folks.  NONE!! There are thousands of capped wells out west too.  I saw those when I drove a semi cross-country.  You know what all that capped oil could be?  JOBS!!!  Hundreds of thousands of jobs!  Cheap prices at the pump!  More jobs in the auto industry again as people could afford new cars.  Cheaper merchandise in the stores 'cause it wouldn't cost so much to ship everything too.  In other words, a BOOMING economy instead of a failing one!!

So why is our government continuing to allow these fat hog oil companies to bury us?  It is within the government's power to say "Enough!" and take over the old wells and cap prices at the pump until the economy recovers.  I keep hearing "The government is not in the banking business" "The government is not in the car making business" "The government is not blah, blah, blah!" How about the government being in the business of doing whatever it takes to get the country solvent again?  How about the government being in the business of getting people off unemployment and welfare and back to work again?  How about the government being in the business of giving us all some hope that things will be better in the future?

Guess what GOVERNMENT!  That IS your JOB!!  The welfare of this country is your JOB!  The economy is your JOB!  It is your JOB to cut the blight and right now the oil companies are causing economic stain and blight to our country!  Not to mention the fact that we keep handing over billions of dollars every year for oil to the middle east, the very people who would like nothing more than to see us crumble as a nation.  Tell me how that makes any sense at all? 

The truth is WE DON'T NEED FOREIGN OIL!!!  We have our own, more than enough to last until a viable alternative is on the market.  If the oil companies cry that they don't have enough refining facilities to produce more fuel, order them to build more!  It's jobs to build more and run more refineries. WIN!  Give them a deadline to produce an affordable alternative fuel.  There's no excuse for them to not be producing ethanol and methanol in abundance.  Cars back in the '40s used to run on the stuff, its not like the car makers don't know how to build engines that can use it.  Sugar is the best source for ethanol and every state in the country can grow sugar!  Every garbage dump in the world produces methane and so does every pig farm, cattle farm, and waste water treatment plant!  These sources are available RIGHT NOW!! We could start production, get people back to work and get the economy strong again all before the next presidential election if the government would just step up, DO THEIR JOB and take charge of the situation! 

America needs to step up and be a leader in the world again and this is how to do it!  Stop being dependent on foreign oil and become the world leader in alternative fuel production!  It's time we carve a big old chunk out of the belly of that fat oil hog and fry us up some bacon!  WAKE UP AMERICA!!  It's BREAKFAST TIME!  Whose HUNGRY?  

First Round of Layoffs at Liz Claiborne in West Chester

First Round of Layoffs at Liz Claiborne in West Chester

economic chaos 2.2

hello everyone!  this is going to be a fun year. The GOP can't seem to get there affairs in order!  BIG SURPRISE.. since these guys can't come to a mutual ground maybe they need to all drop out until the next big election in 4 years from now!   the reason for this blog is gas is going up again and more jobs seem to be leaving again!  there is a company that has been here for awhile, FORTIS plastics has decided to leave the area and move else where.  more jobs are going away and this is unfair to the  people in the area!  we have all the people from our GOVERNMENT trying to see if they can get something for nothing... at least that is how i view things being with no job because they are to busy worrying about trivia that really isn't really important right now! GIVE GIVE GIVE that what they always are wanting from those that don't have it to give.. what are we to do now?  God forgive us if the wrong people get into office!!!  AMERICA YOUR VOTE COUNTS!!!  Please look around you and your community and decide what is most important....people are  till losing there homes due to mortgage companies keeping to higher rates and banks still not lending and so forth and so on!!! 

Fleeting moment

Fleeting moment, a photo by tropicaLiving - Jessy Eykendorp on Flickr.

this is a place to go when you need to feel the stress go away

economic chaos pt2.

hello again friends! just a short note of interest right now, here is a small concern about benefits for those of us who aren't employed at the moment!  I was reading on a website earlier today that unemployment benefits might not be around after the first of the year!   they are talking about cutting them out or getting rid of it completely!  so now what are we supposed to do if this happens?  jobs are still scarce unless you have a College degree.  folks, this is getting old and it's time to start sending letters to your REPS. wherever you are.. let them know that enough is enough.  employers don't want to pay squat to get people..temp to hire offices seem to be the ones with all the jobs at hand with no benefits at all.   I hate writing about things of this nature, but it seems that nobody gives damn about it or they would be flooding these offices with their concerns and grievances!!!! GET REAL AMERICA!!!!!WE ARE SCREWED because congress is out for the rest of the year..

homeless in america

hello again friends!
  on my last blog i wrote about jobs here!  Now i was just watching the news about families who are homeless and no place to go except in to shelters or into there cars to survive, so why are we still letting big business and large banks control the American taxpayer?  Folks do not blame the homeless for there problems, for whatever reason there is, I keep wondering why we just look the other way and don't figure out a way to fix this problem!  Right now it is mostly job loss in America....now is the time to send letters to your elected officials in office and voice your concerns!!  Occupy wall street  is a good idea, but they are going about it the wrong way! Don't go getting yourself arrested over this, This is way to much work and nobody is listening!  This is why the net is your friend- you can reach others about these issues we are having with jobs and homelessness...YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT!!!! help fix the problem or continue to sit there and do nothing, THE CHOICE IS YOURS!   But do not blame those who are homeless because of these issues!

vultures+thieves=oil companies

not to be insulting to the vultures since they do a good service for the environment, they take care of all the dead crap lying around! As for the oil companies they seem to be best at leaving crap lying around. Both pick at the bones of poor unfortunate creatures. the country is already wounded, hanging on to our economy by a thread. this week the eastern part of our country has been hit by a major earthquake and now faces the devastation of a major hurricane severe enough to call for the evacuation of  the New York City and five buroughs coastline and now the gas prices are up from 30 cents over night again. I don't care if the price per barrel of oil jumped or not. In a time of crisis, gas prices should not be raised for any reason! since oil companies seem to be incapable of any sensitivity to the peoples need in the time of crisis, I think some sort of legislation is needed.  Right now the way jobs are leaving the country or just folding, it doesn't matter if pensions are invested into the oil companies, if you lose your job or your pension is cancelled before you can collect it. Stop excepting what you are told by these people, demand some sort of accountability thru legislation because the oil companies will not do it themselves. there is no shortage of oil. just build more refineries means more jobs to boost the economy. and it will lower gas prices...

UNPATRIOTIC!!!

So I was on my way to work when I saw that gas prices had shot up from $3.24 per gallon to $3.69 a gallon!  My first thought was why, then I remembered that it's the last day of June.  It has nothing to do with the last day of June really, but everything to do with the first of July, and Friday, being tomorrow leading into a long, holiday weekend.

The 4th of July, our nation's Independence Day, is Monday and the oil companies are sticking it too us again because they know they can.  They know that all of us want to be out and about taking advantage of the long weekend and celebrating the 4th.  They know we'll all need to fill up this weekend before we head out, so they ordered their stores to raise prices .45c per gallon.  They call it supply and demand, I call it UNPATRIOTIC!! It's HIGHWAY ROBBERY!!  There is absolutely no excuse for it at all.  It's a just plain rotten thing to do!

My wife and I were invited to go to a concert with friends in Lexington Saturday, but going is out of the question now.  We can't afford the gas. 

I work and make decent money, but we're far from rich.  I already have to work overtime every week just to make up for the increases at the pump and still end with nothing left over to take care of other needs, like car repairs.  We've cut every expense possible and still gas prices suck up every extra cent I earn and then some.  Some months we have to dip into what's left of our tax returns to make sure everything gets paid.  We don't have cable and we never go out anymore.  If we're lucky, I can hit the red box for a video or two once a month and every time gas goes up, it's one less thing we can buy at the grocery store and the videos get cut.  How is the economy supposed to recover if we can't even put money into the red box because it has to go into the gas tank instead? 

We're not the only ones in this country who's finances stay so close to the wire.  Like I said, I make decent money, but it's not enough for this.  This is a time when we should be able to celebrate, pump some money back into the economy and be thankful that we're Americans and remember the sacrifices made to create this country and keep it.  Instead, we will be at home because the only money we can pump anywhere is into the gas tank of my tiny, 4cylinder, nine-year-old Pontiac.  That sucks!

The bottom line is, the oil companies don't care about us, or the USA, just themselves!  And that's UNPATRIOTIC!!!

Happy Birthday anyway, America!!

speculations about oil speculators!

Here is something to consider? Why is it we are always getting the short end of the stick when it comes to gas prices?  Speculators make predictions about how high the price of a barrel of oil which is a self fulfilling prophecy.  These predictions benefit them financially by crippling us, the average working class Joe's, and the poor, the elderly and those who can't fend for themselves.  Why hasn't there been an investigation until now? Who are we supposed to turn to for help?  Who is to blame for the economic crisis that is sure to return if prices at the pump don't go down?  Our representatives are supposed to be our voice, but it seems they would rather keep their mouths shut and pad their wallets with our tax dollars than actually do something to help us.

Now I hear on the CBS News that Al Quida had plans to sink oil tankers to drive up the price of oil.  They abandoned that plan, but why?  I think maybe they found a better way to ruin the world economy...Through oil speculation.  That's my theory anyway.  Think about it people.  The prices of oil and gas were a big part of the recent economic crash, even though it seems everyone wants to blame housing.  But the truth is, prices began to rise and people began to lose their jobs long before the housing market crashed.  The cost to employers to do business was rising due to high gas prices.  When people stopped buying because they couldn't afford the higher prices for goods and gas, businesses turned to the banks to keep them afloat.  But the banks refused to lend them any more money to pay their expenses and layoffs and closures were inevitable.  Businesses that go under can't pay their creditors and people who don't have jobs can't make house payments, especially if they're going up.  And so the banks crashed.

And why is it that gas prices go up like a rocket when oil prices rise, but to quote one guy on the news "fall like a feather" when the price of oil goes down?  It's because the oil companies don't pass on the price reduction to us.  They deliberately hold the price up as long as they can by charging their gas stations more than they should so they have to keep the prices high.  Mo  money, mo money, mo money all to the greedy oil companies at our expense...literally.

I for one am sick of all of it and I know you all are too.  Wake up, America!  Demand an investigation into oil speculators and demand fair value at the pumps!