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:	post by TheRidersofDoom at 2010-02-21 09:30:30

I love how people always complain about stupid issues like abortion, gay marriage, don't ask don't tell...seriously? We're at war in two countries, maybe three or four soon if you count pakistan. Our economy is going down the drain, the jobless rate for people 18-25 is 30 percent...which has implications because less people getting job skills now means slower come back of the economy, our health care system sucks and people care about abortion, gay rights, and all these silly secondary issues.

If this was happy go lucky peace time everyone makes 50,000 a year I'd say that shit matters...

Al Gore is a piece of shit by the way, the fagot owns huge numbers of shares in Brazilian companies that deforest the rain forest.

I like the fact that yeah gw was a dick and retarded but he did two things no one cares to think about.

One, he made the largest national park in history and in the world.

two, he brought us to war with Iraq, but this was to prevent Iraq from becoming the middle eastern version of Adolf Hitler. Yeah he got us into war in a shitty matter with false pretenses but I think we are better off now than if Saddam was sitting there right now on 10 percent of the world's fuel.

I don't think people realize this but there isn't a single thing you own or that keeps you alive, unless you live out in the woods like a caveman, that isn't directly tied to oil. Unfortunately until oil starts to peak and become more expensive, like whale oil back in the day, no one is going to bother investing too much money in alt fuels, and even if they do they will be paid off by Ford, Toyota, OPEC, Firestone and millions of other corporations.

I dare you to find one thing in your house that you own that oil didn't help make.

But to make sense of that, The Bushanigs decided, hey there's this dude in the middle east that's sitting on ten percent of the world's fuel...if he gets smart and starts investing more in weapons he could easily hijack the middle east through alliances and we'd all be at the whims of the Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, maybe even the UAE.

Sure you say we could use coal, but coal is much less energy dense than oil and is currently much dirtier to burn. Or we could dig into Alaska...but our best estimates are that there's maybe ten years worth of oil there and plus we'd ruin pristine ecosystems found no where else on earth.

so fact of the matter is don't hate on GW because his decision to go to war with Iraq however immoral and wrong it was bought us precious time in the scheme of outlasting the EU, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, and Brazil, whom we are subconsciously in a global cold war with mostly over resources, oil being top priority and cheap labor being second.

I say we just end the charade and declare all out war on all governments, seeing how ours no longer is by the people for the people, rather by the rich for the rich...with meager flakes of good rolling downhill only when it doesn't detract from the upper crust's purse.

end rant.

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