OK! OK!! Anyone who reads me knows that oil hit $110-a-barrel on 3/12/08 – yet this article is dated for 3/9/08. Yes! It’s post-dated!! I’m trying to buy two homes and teach at 2 different schools at the same time (one of them being THE asshole of education); not to mention dealing with those two soccer sons at home and my sociologically challenged girlfriend! There go my excuses.
I also know that you are going to say: “What has this upper-middle class snob got to say about $110-a-barrel!? He’s trying to buy two homes at-the-same-time for Christ’s sake! Well, firstly – if I am upper-middle class (for the moment) – I guess I have the Bushies to thank. But in the same breath that I thank them – because they enabled me to sell my home with a very high ceiling to the capital gains tax – I have to continue hating them because oil has become so very expensive thanks to THEIR devaluing of the dollar (hence the renewed bid to invade oil-rich Iran). And, one of those two homes will probably be a modest condo in Ventura (besides, Girlfriend Giti is helping!).
And since I’m a Californian educator – I am all for placing that 6% tax on oil companies drilling for (and pumping) oil in California. Why is there no public outrage at the incredible profits the oil companies enjoy while over 3 million American manufacturing jobs have been lost during the Bushie regime?! C’mon folks! This tax stimulus plan (following his trip to the Middle East) is the Bushie plan to keep those petro-dollars flowing to his Arab buddies. When Saddam Hussein set fire to those Kuwaiti oil wells – he was setting fire to Bush Oil. At $4-a-gallon – everybody’s rebate check is going into the gas tank. And where did Haliburton move their world headquarters to, again?!
If these American oil companies truly bled American red, and have those colors that don’t run – they should most certainly spring for $5 billion needed to help out California schools. After all, Mexico continues to send us cheap labor so that Exxon can continue reaping those record profits.
Alas, I fear that those Americans who might have once started revolutions when they realized they were being ripped off – have been NASCARed and Budweisered into some delusional stupor that has them thinking: “It’s all good.” It ain’t all good! And it’s going to get worse! But, “Oh,” I forget myself – I guess I’m one of Dubya’s friends, because I’m a “have” as opposed to a “have not.” Perhaps I should quit rockin’ the boat…but-for-sure, I need to buy a house in 2008 – because my money ain’t makin’ any money – and I seem to giving it all back in taxes…and gas…