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It’s The Economy, You Moron

CNN did an interview with the current governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm regarding her states decesion to move up their primary contrary to the Democratic Party rules.  The Democratic Party punished them by taking away all their delegates to the Democratic National Convention.  Well, she almost started crying on CNN and talking about how her states economy is in such dire straights right now and they need an early primary to make the nation aware of their woes.   Ok, I have to sound off here.  First of all, Michigans economy has been tied to the auto industry for decades now.  That has not changed in some time and will not change in some time.  I would think that it would be prudent of the state government to entice other industries to Michigan so as to better weather downturns in the auto industry.  Or, those people can quit whining and move somewhere else.  Utah still has a red hot economy and im sure Governor Huntsman would love a larger tax base.  I took the initiative to move elsewhere when I was living in Kansas and had no real opportunity.  I moved to Utah with a car that barely ran, no job and only 900 bucks.  Seriously people, quit whining and take some initiative. 

 Now on to Mike Huckabee who I just cannot stand more and more every day.  CNN was asking candidates about how they would help people who are suffering financial hardship.  Mike Huckabee said that one of the first things he would do is to lower gas prices straight away.  Ok, fine but later in that interview he went on to say that we need to lower our dependance on foreign oil.  Mr. Huckabee, if you lower gas prices, people are just going to buy MORE GAS FROM SAUDI ARABIA!!!!!!!  If anything, we should raise gas prices so people stop driving so freaking much!

 Im Eriq Kiltz and I approved this message. 

January 15, 2008 - Posted by kiltze | Uncategorized | | 3 Comments

3 Comments »

  1. If you take the Huckabee comments together and at face value, then yeah, they’re contradictory and dumb.

    But the heart of the matter is lowering gas prices now will ease a large financial burden for everybody — including people who rely on public transportation — and would even have an effect on, say, the price of food, which the ever-growing number of people on WIC and other food assistance programs indicates is still a problem for many people.

    As for reducing dependency on foreign oil, raising gas prices won’t make people choose to stop driving, it will only make driving impossible for those who can’t afford it (and raise the price of food and other goods/services and the unemployment rate as more and more people can’t get to work). I think it’s become fairly standard political shorthand that when someone talks about reducing dependency on foreign oil, they’re talking about drilling for domestic oil or developing alternative fuels.

    Comment by C. | January 18, 2008 | Reply

  2. I agree with you in principle. However, nobody ever said that going green was going to be easy. It will hurt and will leave a dent in our economy. I dont believe that we will ever have the political will to get serious about alternative energy as long as we continue to get cheap oil from the Middle East. As for fuel becoming less afordable, I dont believe that we should only raise prices and do nothing else. We should also expand access to public transportation. Cities should take efforts to make walkable communities with access to jobs, shopping and residential within walking distance. Salt Lake City has taken strides in both of these areas and is off to a good start.

    Comment by kiltze | January 20, 2008 | Reply

  3. Well, that makes sense. And my sister said basically the same thing when I linked to this post on my blog. See, now this is why civil conversation is good!

    Comment by C. | January 21, 2008 | Reply


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