A WTF moment to share with you
So as of this morning the reports are that sweet crude oil prices dropped about $6 a barrel after news of higher oil reserve amounts in the U.S. This news then affected the stock market which surged up several points. So my question is this.If speculators can affect the price of crude on a hunch, and a person can announce higher than expected oil reserves on hand and they can affect the price as well, why don’t we, the American public just find ourselves one person or a small group of people of our own that can release a series of vague but basically positive information on a regular basis that will have a effect on all the economic issues in our favor? I mean if our economy can turn on a dime just because some person who some other people have given the divine authority to have everything they say effect what the rest of us have to pay at the pump, or the store. Why can’t we do the same? Just one guy who wakes up each day and picks up his phone for a tele-conference and announce that he feels “things are generally pretty good in the world today and therefore no reason to drive up consumer good prices then give a couple of vague reasons why he feels that way each day. Then none of these A**H*les who are causing the rest of us to stress out, stretch the dollar anyway we can, sit in a little rubber pool in the backyard instead of going on a trip to the beach can stop stealing from us and go find other things to do for a living. And did you hear about that poor lady in California who is living out of her SUV with her Golden retriever. She’s retired but getting a decent social security check each month but says she can’t afford to pay a mortgage or rent and so has joined several others like herself sleeping in vehicles in the local park each night. Now before you get out the violins for this poor woman who appeared on Larry King talking about how rough she has it, let me remind you that she does get a decent social security check each month and oh yeah the reason she’s having a tough time finding a place to live, well it’s not the government, the president or the economy, as much as it’s that she lives in SANTA BARBARA California! Now if she just took that SUV and drove to say, well, Greenville, her fixed income would technically increase 10-15% because of the cost of living. That’s not an invitation for to come to our town, it’s just showing you how out of whack the news and what they show is these days. I ask you, how the hell this ladies plight compares to that of a single mother of three who makes about the same amount of money as this woman but finds a way to feed the kids pay rent and keep her family together and doesn’t complain or take any government assistance. Now that’s a real story and one that people need to hear and see but you just don’t seem to hear about in the mainstream media these days! Oh and one last thing. The New York Jets officially opened training camp today July 16th in Hempstead New York, so hang in there dudes, football season is just around the corner and we can go numb from all that ails us at least till the election and then back to numb again till February, which is when Hockey season really gets good!