Never has so few people done so much to so many. The audacity of the lying deceitful marketers that are price gouging and gambling in speculative oil futures is beyond any white color crime that I have seen in many, many years. Bill O’Reilly of Fox News Factor fame and columnist, makes this eye-opening statement concerning oil’s real cost per barrel to produce. “It costs Saudi Arabia about two dollars to market each barrel of oil. Last week, those huggable Saudis charged the world $138 for that barrel of oil.” (BillOReilly.com: 2008). Now if that does not anger you, nothing will. Why should Americans pay $4.00 (or more) per gallon when it costs almost nothing to produce? 

We are constantly reading about falling (quasi) oil prices because the U.S. is cutting the demand outlook. Excuses are offered (lame) that one of the reasons gas prices are so high is because oil refineries can’t keep up with demand. When has that ever stopped any greedy capitalist from making money by building more refineries because the demand warrants it? How stupid do they think we are? And incidentally how stupid are they conceptually speaking? They believe that their little meaningless lives cannot be touched by this dilemma!   They feel they are in an untouchable position and in control of their little fiefdoms! But, what is sown is also reaped, and as sure as I am writing this blog, they will pay for their insolence and non-merciful approach with the earth’s resources. James 5:1 Says- “Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.” These resources were created for the service of all of mankind, not a select few to profit excessively from. 

The current way of doing business is at best; a failure. The President is a failure, Congress is a failure, and the Senate is a failure. America is under extreme duress cataclysmically and financially. People are having their homes foreclosed on because they simply cannot make the payments. And, on top of this is the scandal developing concerning these same mortgages! Some news by-lines today, “Two hedge fund managers today became the first financial executives to be arrested over the US sub-prime mortgage scandal.” “Senate Submerged in Mortgage Scandal.” (Fox News Headline 6/18/08) So, what this means is, the fox is guarding the henhouse. I don’t know about you but, I am finding myself angry more than usual over these, and other oppressive issues being foisted upon the American people. 

Our forefathers fought against such oppression prior to and during the founding of this country. They wanted freedom from oppression and tyranny, so they fought against these oppressors, and America was born, home of the free and land of the brave. And now we are finding that a few evil avaricious people want to reinstitute slavery, (and we are the slaves) all for the sake of making a dollar. They are selling out our freedoms for their inflated bank accounts. I am one that believes in free enterprise. Free enterprise is business’s that concentrate on supply and demand for the general populace without government interference. If I plant or build something I have a right to sell what I have built or what I have reaped without intervention or intrusion by assorted marketers or middle men. I do not believe that I have the right to exploit anyone for profit whether that is fellow Americans or peoples of other lands and or countries. I make, plant, construct (houses, buildings) and then I sell what I have to any that will buy it. The going market will determine the price of my goods.

Our futures are being stolen from us by white collar criminals. White collar crime goes virtually unnoticed because of the echelon involved. And another reason why white collar crimes are so extant is the prosecuting authorities cannot afford to prosecute these white collar criminals. And if they do choose to prosecute them the dollar value of their crime (s) is determinate if they will be prosecuted at all! And if they do choose to bring them to trial, these criminals appear before the court with high dollar barristers to get them off, and, they usually do! So it is a win-win situation for these thieves, from the highest to the lowest, these parasites would steal their own mother’s life savings!

Author Kevin Phillips has written a book called “Bad Money” it addresses the why our economy is sinking. He says that Capitalism has run amok, and I am in concurrence with this concept! Here is a salient excerpt from this book:

“The most worrisome thing about the vulnerability of the U.S. economy circa 2008,” Phillips writes, “is the extent of official understatement and misstatement — the preference for minimizing how many problems there are and how interconnected they are.”

Sort of like an ostrich’s head in the sand as a good illustration! Economically, America is in trouble and at the helm of this ship sailing to devastation are foolish and unprincipled men and women leading this country to certain economic collapse.