SCAMMING AMERICA TO DEATH

GAS PRICES, AUTO BAILOUT, FOOD

LIE UPON LIE UPON LIE WITHOUT END

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER

Which is worse, going to the store or reading the stupid crap in email?  Is life supposed to be a test to see which will make you projectile vomit quickest?  Today, the email bullshit was Pat Buchanan, often an amusing but deluded dickhead, sometimes insightful but mostly busy talking out the wrong orifice, the one designed to keep your underwear spic and span.

He talks about why the auto industry is broke.  I say Buchanan is a moron.  Give this a thought.  The auto industry makes most of its profit selling big SUVs and pickup trucks.  Oil speculators drive gasoline to nearly $5 per gallon.  Sales of these profitable vehicles goes to nothing for months.  The capital reserves of the car makers is depleted and market confidence crumbles.

Then our economy crashes, banks can lend no more money for car loans and low cost leases disappear.  Anyone of you have difficulty understanding a word of this?  Please let Pat and a few moronic senators know.  Anyone not understanding should apply for a Darwin award while able.  Anyone not caring probably already has a Dickhead award.

While on this subject, the oil speculators working with the oil companies that made record profits destroying the auto industry and helping push us into financial collapse ended up giving countries like Russia, Iran and Venezuela several trillion dollars in the process.  They, of course, are spending that money on weapons systems.  Remember when Russia went broke trying to keep up with the US on "StarWars?  Now we are the victims.  Russia quit communism.  We quit fascism.  Lets hope it works out better than it did in Russia.

Then, ah yes, the store.  I went to  the grocery store.  While digging thru the bargain bin at my local Meijers, I found a bottle of Brand X corn oil, marked down 40%.  It was $4.19.  A year ago, retail was $1.89 without the torn label and markdown tag.  Ethanol did this.  We are planting corn to produce ethanol for FlexFuel vehicles we don’t build.  The ethanol is being produced in plants that don’t exist to go into the vehicles that don’t exist.  The vehicles that don’t exist buy the fuel that nobody sells that isn’t made anywhere?  Is this coming thru?

However, my next door neighbors, the Andersens, are making hundreds of millions in federal subsidies, yes, just like WELFARE, helping produce this $11 dollar a gallon fuel to compete with the $1.69 a gallon gasoline sold at the BP station on Holland Sylvania Road, 300 yards from their lakeside family compound.  If anyone can find a gas station selling an ethanol product, please let me know. 

Let’s talk diesel.  Truckers are being destroyed because they are paying up to $1.50 more per gallon for diesel than for gasoline.  Diesel is cheaper to make, is made from cheap crude oil and should cost about 5% less, even in the new lower sulphur mixture mandated.  Anyone who doesn’t expect to see another quarter where our country is suffering, more lose their homes yet oil companies  make billions by destroying the trucking industry, their new target of choice, please correct me.

I won’t even go into the constant excuses I am hearing from pundits as to why we are utterly screwed.  We are told liberals spent 8 years, prettymuch broke, disorganized and out of power, secretly undermining the Bush administration and destroying the world.  Give me names.  If anyone is that smart in Washington, I want to know who they are.  Please.  Maybe it is Marcie Kaptur, our local representative.  Yup, Marcie did it. Perhaps it is a secret plan between Ted Kennedy and the Jewish Banking Conspiracy or the Illuminati. 

Our pudits are part of the same group that spent 40 years fighting medical experts over the ties between cancer and smoking.  Do any of you have relatives who have suffered horrible deaths from cigarettes?  Hell, who needs parents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles when big tobacco is there to care for us.  Old age wouldn’t have been much fun for those people anyway.

Did anyone ever note that the "pundits" and their political friends got hundreds of millions in bribes, sorry, I meant to say "donations" from big tobacco? 

So, lets see where we stand.  700 billion dollars is being given to banks who lost their investors money by being total fools.  Oil companies rig prices, push trillions, yes, trillions, not billions, of dollars into the hands of our enemies who are using it to build new missiles, nuclear weapons and generally stick it to us.  Good so far?

In the process, the banks and oil companies destroy the auto industry by making it impossible to borrow money to buy a car, eliminating the jobs so people don’t have anywhere to go anyway and pricing gasoline out of reach so the car companies would end up penniless when they finally had to face the collapsed economy?  Any problem with this?

Perhaps, the next time someone tells you that eggs, milk, cereal, bread, canned beans, orange juice , hamburger or anything else should cost twice as much because we need ethanol or fuel for trucks is expensive, you might want to make a list.

That list should include people claiming to be capitalists who buy and sell our government like, well like the petty thieves they are, rig prices, destroy industries, take people’s homes, jobs, lives and keep wars going so we aren’t supposed to notice. 

Do what you are told.  Next time someone tells you to support the troops, start looking for a brick.  I am not suggesting you do anything with the brick, but I think you should have one all the same.

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Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.

Gordon Duff

Gordon Duff posted articles on VT from 2008 to 2022. He is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. A disabled veteran, he worked on veterans and POW issues for decades.

Gordon is an accredited diplomat and is generally accepted as one of the top global intelligence specialists. He manages the world’s largest private intelligence organization and regularly consults with governments challenged by security issues.

Duff has traveled extensively, is published around the world, and is a regular guest on TV and radio in more than “several” countries. He is also a trained chef, wine enthusiast, avid motorcyclist, and gunsmith specializing in historical weapons and restoration. Business experience and interests are in energy and defense technology.

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