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To: RetiredNow who wrote (304983)	9/30/2006 4:57:26 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1573891

Gas goes down every year after labor day and up just before memorial day. Yes, even during clinton's reign...

To: RetiredNow who wrote (304983)	9/30/2006 5:10:16 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573891

Are you saying that you think it is just unhappy coincidence, but nothing more? No, I was being sarcastic. I do think its been planned. Just as that announcement of the new oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico was staged. There is not nearly as much oil in that new find as they were suggesting. But it worked......oil prices began to fall shortly after the announcement. And a short time after that, gas prices began to plummet. This has been planned for some time now. The oil companies don't want Democrats in charge. The war in Iraq works well for them. So they have worked closely with the GOP to prevent that from happening. In my review of stocks, I have been noticing for months that the defense stocks have been in a significant pullback. It didn't make sense...these companies are making money hand over fist. Bush doesn't want to end the war....that means there is more need for weaponry. Suddenly about two weeks ago, some of them started to rally. I wondered what changed. Then I read articles by one stock analyst, then by another who said the defense stocks were starting to rally because they believe the GOP will win in November. We tend to believe that the leaders of our major corporations are oblivious to what's happening to the gov't but in reality they are plugged in very tightly esp. when the president is Republican. Bush has been good for them; he's cut both personal taxes and corporate taxes. They like this GOP majority. Could be, but I can't shake the feeling that this particular coincidence is anything but random. Its not random and it didn't start this year. I suspect this kind of manipulation has been going on for decades in this country. Before the internet, only a few people could figure it out and they were so adamant about their POV you began to wonder if they were crazy. But now, if you are willing to do the research, you can see how much Americans have been steered in particular directions like cows in a field........like fat, sodden, brainless cows. Things were good enough so Americans didn't bother to dig under the surface. However, there was always this disconnect between how people perceived the American gov't and how they perceived Americans. When I was in Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s, very often people would say to me......I really like you and I like Americans in general but your president and his administration........we don't trust them. I never quite understood what they meant........I figured they would change their opinion if they saw an American president in a social situation. Now I know otherwise. There are good reasons why the world doesn't like and trust us very much........there is a real disconnect as to what Americans believe and what the American gov't believes. And all the mostly myths we have been fed.....horatio alger, you can be anything you want in America, Americans are the richest people in the world.......are just examples of more manipulations to keep the fat cows happy. So yeah, I believe everything you're saying and more.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (304983)	9/30/2006 5:19:31 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573891

For the amount we have now spent in Iraq, the US could have already ensured we would be free of oil imports within 10 years. What a joke this country has become when we make such monumentally stupid decisions. cnn.com Congress has now approved $507 billion for Iraq, Afghanistan and heightened security at overseas military bases since the September 11, 2001, attacks, according to the Congressional Research Service. The war in Iraq has cost $379 billion and the conflict in Afghanistan now totals $97 billion.