Oil Dependancy - Oil Underneath out Feet

Oil importation is at an all time high, despite the creation of the Department of Energy (DOE) decades ago and continued empty meaning promise by politican after politican, and administration after administration on becoming energy independent. We are more dependent now than we ever have been on foreign oil.

With the decline of the U.S. dollar and the threat for the U.S. dollar to lose it's status as the world's reserve curency, fuel will skyrocket. It has already increased one daoller per gallon in the last 11 months.

Make no mistake about it,....this is a national security issue! We have got to exploit our natural resource or literally face becoming a third world country and laspe into hyper-inflation. Having a national level focus on exploiting our known reserves across the board in coal, natural gas and oil and even shale oil, plus natural energy surge in wind and solar would provide a much needed economic boost for this country and could, in fact, bring us out of this recession (heading into a depression) and eliminate the national security threat of energy dependancy.

Nowhere is the domestic energy production issue highlighted than on the Artic National Wildlife Refugee (ANWR), pronounced "AN-WAR".

Restrictions on drilling in this area known to contain millions of oil is just plain wrong. Especially when Americans are paying $4 a gallon at the pumps and food and other commodities, brought across country and distributed to retail centers, have risen an average of 40% in the past 6 months.

The major excuse that the environmental nazis use against drilling in ANWR is that drilling in and a pipleine from ANWR would disrupt wild life.

First of all, a new pipeline across Alaska isn't required since the location for drilling in ANWR is about 160 miles From the North Slope Prudhoe Bay pipeline where it would be connected. Second the wildlife loves the pipeline since it is heated and provides a shelter during the worst times during the winter.

If we take the Prudhoe Bay example anyone can see that drilling and infrastucture does not destroy the existing wildlife or environment.  The photos below show the summer and winter time around Prudhoe Bay.  Does it look like the Caribou are put out?

WE NEED TO DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW AND PAY LESS. THIS IS A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE.

Budget Battles

A very last-minute budget deal after much hard bargaining last night seems to have avoided an very embarrassing Federal Government shutdown. It remains to be seen the exact numbers of billions, something around $38 billion, that has been cut in spending, but at least the American people can go on about their business with, at least, the possibility that a divided Congress can actually get some work done. We all know that the $38 billion is peanuts compared to the totality of the national debt, ran up into the stratosphere under the current administration and a previously Democratic controlled Congress.

Obama signed a "bridge bill" today (Saturday) that will provide funding through the week to give time for the budget agreement to be finalized.

To me the real question, albeit not important now, is: Who would have been blamed for a Federal Governmental shutdown? The Democrats? The Republicans? The Tea Party? Obama?

Obama could be blamed for an incredible lack of leadership, but not the budget as Congress develops budgets not the executive office.

Recent recordings from conversations between Democrat lawmakers let the Country know about the Dems plan to try and blame the Tea Party. Yes, yes,...that boogeyman ,...the Tea Party.

Well, the facts only support one thing,....that the Democrats would have been to blame. The same Democrats, under the leadership (if you call it that) of that jackass Harry Reid, who failed to develop and present a budget even when they controlled BOTH sides of Congress,..... and in the wake of the Republican controlled House presenting budgets, intended to begin to bring this country back to fiscal responsibility, the Democrats still could not get anything together. Shame on you, Democrats!

But the main battle is still to come,.....to raise the national debt ceiling, or not, and the presentation of a FY2012 budget.

Good 'ol Benjamin Franklin

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin, 1759

Benjamin Franklin, one of this country's Founding Fathers and primary architects of the U.S. Constitution. The wisdom from our Founding Fathers continues to amaze me. Compare the words from these early leaders and politicians (though I doubt they would like that term) with current politicians such Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank and many others.

Quotes supporting the 2nd Amendment are prolific and profound all throughout American history providing a backdrop as to the intent, not to mentioned the actual 2nd Amendment, of our Founding Fathers.