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Governmental Viscosity Breakdown

By Doug Powers on 5.2.06 @ 12:05AM

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At the November 2005 hearings, California Sen. Barbara Boxer was so up in arms that you'd have thought those oil execs were trying to talk somebody out of a late-term abortion. Robert Byrd was shocked because he hasn't been in the same room with such greedy white men since the time he was in arrears on his Klan dues.

Hillary Clinton, who turned a couple of Chuck E. Cheese game tokens into over a hundred grand trading cattle futures, also shook her head in disgust at these money grubbing petrol peddlers.

So, if you're tired of paying so much for gas and are waiting for time-honored "government intervention" to make the prices drop, you may first want to sit down and hope that the sun rises in the west (your congressperson can see to it, if you'll just give him or her enough money).

What's the answer? I don't know. All I'm certain of is that the solution won't come from the problem, and that it's far easier to justify Lee Raymond's Saudi-esque $400 million retirement package than it is to figure out what Congress does to deserve a couple hundred grand a year and endless perks.

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Taxes, Hillary Clinton, Abortion, NATO, Energy, Alaska, Oil