Reply #74: I know, that issue alone is enough, but we did this to everything. [View All]

[Seldona]

We privatized the entire country and put it up for bids to a select few. It will be decades before the full extent of that privatization will even be known, but there are some indicators we can look at today. Except for that same select few, things aren't looking so good.

Imagine what will happen just when the US Government stops subsidizing petrol? The American Taxpayer is buying gas at 5 or 6 bucks a gallon (Costs money to get gas into a war zone) and reselling it to Iraqi's for literal pennies on the dollar.

Why? Because if Iraqi's realized that what formerly cost them a few cents per gallon for their own damn gas will cost them that same 5 or 6 bucks when we leave, assuming that subsidy ends when we pull out, they would tear their own country down to get us out. And the big boys know it.

Hell, Iraqi's don't even know what an electric bill looks like. Wait until they start receiving them from energy companies that are from the country that invaded them in the first place. Think we'll be winning hearts and minds then?

What is President Elect Obama going to do about this? IS there anything that can be done at this point, is a better question? I really believe that this is out of our hands, and has been for some time.

All the Bush administration has been doing is buying time, literally. Then Big Badda Boom!

No doubt about it, President Elect Obama has his work cut out for him on nearly every front. And the boy that last had the scissors will be off 'filling the coffers' on the lecture circuit.