candycorn
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Candy -- your new avatar looks too much like Sarah Silverman to be taken seriously.. Just sayin'......
Anyways --- Something odd happened last night.. I actually started cheering for Obama for about 15 seconds. It was when he started leveling with the American people about ".... many of those jobs are not coming back".. And when they do "... manufacturing will need NEW technologies and less lower skilled workers"... For about 12 seconds --- he was telling the most important economic story of the election concerning jobs --- WITHOUT all the phoney hype and numbers..
But then -- my elation turned to outright jeers as he launched into how the "rich need to pay more so "WE" can educate the engineers required to do that".. And how GOVT needs to develop all of those spiffy new 21st Century manufacturing ideas.. NO -- Mr Dear Leader.. YOU supply the truth and the direction and WE WILL provide the resources and manpower without lawyers and politicians standing in the way. This dude has the childish opinion that we are all waiting on govt dweebs to invent and develop every tool required to accomplish the goals..
Also -- BOTH of them blew the question about "lowering my gas prices".. It's NOT ALL about drilling and leases, and extraction.. The gasoline price problem is LARGELY REFINING --- not drilling and extraction. And NEITHER of them was familiar enough with energy issues to point out that we have not built a REFINERY in this country for over 25 years, can't UPGRADE refineries without onerous permitting, and have 40 different govt mandated "SEASONAL BLENDS" that screw up pricing and distribution.. I wouldn't trust EITHER of these men to DICTATE an "energy policy"...
Also dissapointed that NEITHER actually points out that America IS ALREADY "energy independent" for it's electricity generation.. And they (especially Obama) conflate wind/solar/electricity with transportation.. When we haven't establish a WILLINGNESS to double the production and distribution of electricity to support such a policy.. Wind/Solar today have NOTHING to do with driving. And probably won't in the future either since it's likely that we will have electric cars alright --- but they will be fueled by hydrogen or nat gas via fuel cells.. Not charged directly off the grid..
I think she's quite beautiful. My av...not Sarah.