Gas prices 

Surely you’ve noticed the gas prices going up.  Interesting, isn’t it?  Our capitalist system is under attack.  Freedoms are disappearing.  America is sliding backwards on the scale of economic freedom.  Dependence on government is increasing.  Bitterness between income levels – classes, if you will – is on the rise.  We’re on the verge of pure socialized medicine in the US.  It’s only a matter of time.  Businesses are passing on expansion plans due to ObamaCare and government regulation.  Our debt is rising, interest payments on that debt are nearing $10 billion per week … that’s right, $10 billion dollars every week, and heading to $22 billion per week in just ten years.  Every year our government goes well over $1 trillion dollars into additional debt, with no end in sight. 

All of these problems … and more, and what does it take to get the American people agitated and complaining?  Gas prices.  That’s it --- gas prices.  A young couple can have a baby and be more concerned about the cost of the gas it will take to get that infant home from the hospital than they are about the fact that their little bundle of joy is saddled with over $100,000 in debt as soon as the first cry is heard.  

As I pointed out yesterday, if gas prices go up $1.50 a gallon that would cost a family an extra $125 on a 1,500 mile vacation round trip.  I’m sure they would have something better to spend the $125 on than gasoline, but when you consider the other problems we’re facing here, this price of gas is not that big a deal. 

So .. can we just suck it up on gas prices right now?  Let’s spend all that time and effort trying to do something about removing our anti-American president from office and getting government off our backs – and off the back of the American economy.