Ask Yourself Why?

[HARDCORE]

After reading the segment of the article reprinted below, ask yourself why? Better yet, ask yourself (truthfully) if you believe that this ?ORWELLIAN? twist of the "Knife of Lies and Intrigue" that is buried deeply within our collective backs, is limited to fuel alone?

This whole damned scenario reminds me of that ?Mad Magazine? character (Alfred E. Newman). With a perpetual and stupid grin plastered all over his idiotic face, he consistently (no matter how bad things get) refuses to worry - well, we had better damned well start worrying amigos!!

With Ford dumping thousands of employees, illegals still streaming across our borders by the thousands, many a saintly politico smeared with the excrement of recent financial disclosures, and that "Eternal War" still raging on in the Middle East - those over-bloated and gaseous fat cats on the high-side of life are still insisting that all is well on the Western Front!

To this I respond - ?BULL CRAP!!?

We are being buries alive in Horse Shit, and no one, not even the corpses, seem to care one damned bit!! And after reading how corporate oil and industry profits are soaring, and yet our government claims to be collecting less $$$$ than 5 years ago, again I say to you, ask yourselves why?

?And whom do you suppose will be bled to make up this gigantic short fall - Big Oil, Big Business, Big Government (and bureaucracy), or the Big Suckers (you and I)!?

?You know - you can bleed a hog just so much before the critter runs dry and croaks!?

?HOW MUCH BLOOD HAVE YOU GOT LEFT??
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniont...n23energy.html

January 23, 2006
WASHINGTON ? At a time when energy prices and industry profits are soaring, the federal government collected little more money last year than it did five years ago from the companies that extract more than $60 billion in oil and gas from publicly owned lands and coastal waters.
If royalty payments in fiscal 2005 for natural gas had risen in step with market prices, the government would have received about $700 million more than it did, a three-month investigation by The New York Times has found.
But an often byzantine set of federal regulations, largely shaped and fiercely defended by the energy industry, allowed companies producing natural gas to provide the Interior Department with much lower sales prices ? the crucial determinant for calculating government royalties ? than they reported to their shareholders.
As a result, the nation's taxpayers ? collectively, the biggest owner of U.S. oil and gas reserves ? have missed much of the recent energy bonanza.