My views on the Economy.
Looking around and seeing how the US economy is currently looking, it’s not going in a positive trend. That being said I personally feel both main political parties don’t really appear to have a clear-cut answer to how to correct it. To me the answer, though not my ideal solution, is for us to drill our own oil. It’s quite obvious that we as a nation are severely addicted to oil. As oil increases our economy continues to decrease. My personal opinion seems pretty straight forward. Remove a majority of tax breaks for big oil companies. These tax breaks should be used when certain areas are hurting to keep them a float (see the current airline situation). Not so they can make record profits while the rest of us suffer. Next we need to get off our dependency of Middle East oil. We need to start drilling more of our own oil. I understand the concerns of environmentalists, as I am one that does care about the environment. But if our economy crumbles the environment will for sure take a big back seat to everything else. So why should we let it get to that point? I say lets start drilling offshore oil ASAP. For those that say that we shouldn’t drill offshore, I have an easy rebuttal…Cuba and China are already drilling off our coast. I’d be much more comfortable if we were drilling off our shores than if they were, as we have a reason to keep things cleaner…if they get a spill or something do you honestly think they will pay millions to clean it up? Doubtful. Where as if, and I say if because I feel we have better technology now that would make it more efficient and cleaner than years past, we would spend the money to clean up the best we can as it would directly affect us. That said, I am hesitant to drilling in Alaska, but feel it could be done if litigation would ensure that minimal disruption to the environment would be guaranteed. Obama states he’s not willing to drill oil period, while McCain said he is against drilling in Alaska, but would be willing to leave offshore drilling up to the states that are nearest to those areas.
If we do work on drilling our own oil, this would be a temporary band-aid to a bigger issue. I do realize that, but putting government money towards only alternate energy sources will cripple us even more. I still say we need to put money towards alternate energy, but we need something done for the here and now to get our feet back on the ground. Add to that, if we can reduce our need for Middle East oil, we then won’t need to have troops in the Middle East. In my mind this is a win on two fronts. Our troops will be back home and out of harms way, plus I would think that would get the terrorists (or what some of them probably view as freedom fighters) off our backs. Now I support our troops full heartedly, but if one was to put themselves in the shoes of the Iraqi’s…think of the American Revolution, what our countrymen did against England. I’m sure they had thought of us as terrorists, but we viewed them as freedom fighters pushing out an occupant of what they viewed as our country.
I still say we fight Al Qaeda and hunt down Osama Bin Laden (which should be in Afghanistan and Pakistan, not Iraq), but continuing to occupy Iraq isn’t gaining us all that much, and is costing us a lot of resources we need else where.
Looking around and seeing how the US economy is currently looking, it’s not going in a positive trend. That being said I personally feel both main political parties don’t really appear to have a clear-cut answer to how to correct it. To me the answer, though not my ideal solution, is for us to drill our own oil. It’s quite obvious that we as a nation are severely addicted to oil. As oil increases our economy continues to decrease. My personal opinion seems pretty straight forward. Remove a majority of tax breaks for big oil companies. These tax breaks should be used when certain areas are hurting to keep them a float (see the current airline situation). Not so they can make record profits while the rest of us suffer. Next we need to get off our dependency of Middle East oil. We need to start drilling more of our own oil. I understand the concerns of environmentalists, as I am one that does care about the environment. But if our economy crumbles the environment will for sure take a big back seat to everything else. So why should we let it get to that point? I say lets start drilling offshore oil ASAP. For those that say that we shouldn’t drill offshore, I have an easy rebuttal…Cuba and China are already drilling off our coast. I’d be much more comfortable if we were drilling off our shores than if they were, as we have a reason to keep things cleaner…if they get a spill or something do you honestly think they will pay millions to clean it up? Doubtful. Where as if, and I say if because I feel we have better technology now that would make it more efficient and cleaner than years past, we would spend the money to clean up the best we can as it would directly affect us. That said, I am hesitant to drilling in Alaska, but feel it could be done if litigation would ensure that minimal disruption to the environment would be guaranteed. Obama states he’s not willing to drill oil period, while McCain said he is against drilling in Alaska, but would be willing to leave offshore drilling up to the states that are nearest to those areas.
If we do work on drilling our own oil, this would be a temporary band-aid to a bigger issue. I do realize that, but putting government money towards only alternate energy sources will cripple us even more. I still say we need to put money towards alternate energy, but we need something done for the here and now to get our feet back on the ground. Add to that, if we can reduce our need for Middle East oil, we then won’t need to have troops in the Middle East. In my mind this is a win on two fronts. Our troops will be back home and out of harms way, plus I would think that would get the terrorists (or what some of them probably view as freedom fighters) off our backs. Now I support our troops full heartedly, but if one was to put themselves in the shoes of the Iraqi’s…think of the American Revolution, what our countrymen did against England. I’m sure they had thought of us as terrorists, but we viewed them as freedom fighters pushing out an occupant of what they viewed as our country.
I still say we fight Al Qaeda and hunt down Osama Bin Laden (which should be in Afghanistan and Pakistan, not Iraq), but continuing to occupy Iraq isn’t gaining us all that much, and is costing us a lot of resources we need else where.
