Doing the Right Thing

In the past few months leading up to congress' summer break, the hot topic is off-shore drilling and whether congress should expand upon the territory currently available. It's obvious we have a problem in the U.S. right now. The problem is that people have been spending way too much money on things they don't really need for the last two years or so. We were in the middle of an economic boom and we didn't really know it. Hummers, huge flat-screens, houses we couldn't afford, etc.

Now in 2008 we've already discovered that sub-prime loans caused a bubble that has burst and with corporate bailouts under way the only real losers are the alarmingly high number of home owners being foreclosed on. Consumer spending is down on items like big screen t.v.s and so what's left are our hummers. Well not exactly. The hummer is going the way of the woolly mammoth, woefully unequipped to handle the current situation. In the mammoth's case it was a brain the size of a peanut; in the Hummer's case it's a deep thirst for fuel that was expensive even in the days of $1.50 per gallon gasoline. Today buying a Hummer is simply a tax on your stupidity. However the fact still remains, we need our automobiles.

We need planes to fly us and our cargo around the world, we need trucks to haul products to our stores, boats to haul our freight, and even some way to get us to the store to get some groceries; not to mention the thousands of commuters that our paying and arm and a leg per day just to get to work. But with all these concerns weighting heavy on the minds of all Americans, it's great to know that our congress is doing everything in their power to assess the situation and take the proper steps toward lowering our gas prices. Wait what's that? They're on summer break? How old are these people 13? You'd honestly think that even dirty rotten politicians like Nancy Pelosi would realize that with an approval rate hovering around 9% and absolutely no discernible progress made since this Democratic congress was voted into office, the leaders of this party would want work to be done. People are paying the price, business is paying the price. We need to expand all avenues of domestic oil production. America wants it. Do something about it, you big Nancy!