I should have guessed. Despite the fact that all I do here is make comments about things I find absurd, I am being pressed to add 'substance' to my rants. What that means is, someone is upset that I spoke my mind and in their bumbling attempt at a snappy comeback, they suggest that I need to be more specific about issues of the Obama change machine. One suggested that I focus on the current proposed changes to the CAFE standards.
Bwaaaaaahahahahhaahahaa.... this is America man... no one here is informed... 95% of the 'people'...(including the Prius driving 'arrogantia') don't even know what CAFE stands for.
So, for the sake of enlightenment I will decode it for you here...
C.A.F.E. = CORPORATE AVERAGE FUEL ECONOMY... yeah... that's right CORPORATE.. not personal... not reasonable... not, standardized, CORPORATE.
It basically makes rules with loopholes built in, so that the corporate managers of the US auto industry can find a way to skirt the guidelines by taking advantage of the 'loopholes'.
Even the verbiage of the proposed standards is vague... here is a sample :
"Under the program being considered for proposal, a manufacturer whose fleet generates credits in a given model year would have several options for using those credits, including credit carry-back, credit carry-forward, credit transfers, and credit trading."
Oh yeah... now that's straight forward isn't it? That is so perfectly nebulous it sounds as if those words were blurted by the Great Obama himself. The CAFE standards as being discussed are the equivalent of the Cap and Trade guidelines for carbon emissions. They are BS. This is yet another lame attempt by the king of 'liberal left rhetoric' to circumvent attacking a problem head on.
CAFE standards simply allow the corporations to average fuel consumption across an entire fleet of vehicles. It allows them to claim some vehicles are light trucks, so that they can get away with lower economy requirements. It also allows the Great Obama from actually imposing a politically sensitive TAX on Fuel... and instead allows for a 'hidden tax' on new cars sold. Didn't know about that? Didn't see that in the fine print? Well, its there. So, the brilliant plan is... impose a hidden tax on the sale of new cars, in an economy that relies on the automobile where the automakers are going bankrupt because not enough new cars are being sold.
If everyone paid a GAS TAX... and fuel costs were increased by way of taxes... everyone driving would be paying their share... NOT just the people who want to buy a new car. But imposing taxes is not a popular plan for politicians.. (unless the TAX can be hidden in the fine print.) Imposing a gas tax would increase the cost of driving, and it has been illustrated time and again that when fuel prices rise, so too will sales of more efficient vehicles. I suppose what the Great Obama is hoping for is this... he gets away without having to increase taxes on fuel ( because doing so will irritate his constituents), because he KNOWS fuel prices will rise anyway... and that will force a lot of struggling consumers to trade in their clunkers for more fuel efficient clunkers and THAT is when his taxes come into play. He feels very clever in all of this... once again he has set himself up as HERO and SAVIOR without actually having done anything worthwhile. I am sure he and his 'Brilliant" staff are feeling pretty smug about all of this.
"Oh be nice to the Great Obama, he is doing the best he can do, and at least he is doing something"
OK... believe that if you want... but also consider this. Nothing is changing. All we are getting is rehashed rhetoric. The same old political excuse making we have always seen.
If the Great Obama really is the MAN his supporters claim him the be... then the MAN needs to step up and do some unpopular things. He cannot continue to be 'all things to all people'... the popularity contest is over and the 'great abs' won... Great!
He was full of promises about how he was gonna 'fix everything' when he was running for office, and now he has his chance... I hope he gathers the courage to effect something concrete and not just continue the miserable failings we have all had to endure for much too long.
Do you think the Great Obama has the guts to TAX FUEL...? I don't. I don't think he has the guts to back 'same sex marraiges ' either (unless he can hide a secret 'queer tax' in the fine print)... and it appears he does not have the guts to release images of US Guantanamo Torture either... or to stop the war, and bring home the troops... AS PROMISED. But, you gotta hand it to him... that silver-toungued devil sure can shift the blame for his shortcomings... he has a 'reason' for every promise he continues to break.
I am pulling for the guy... he still has the potential to become the 'Great Obama', he still has the potential to lead our country into the light once again... he just needs to find to courage to do so before the next round of electioneering starts...
If he cannot summon the courage to face the lobbiests he promised to eject from the system, if he cannot find the courage to oppose the special interests that continue to jocky for best position in every legislative act... well, then I guess he is destined to assume the mantle of the 'Great Oblahblah".
Talk is cheap... the first 100 days of honeymoon are over... it time for the 'Brilliant' dream team, and the "Brilliant' Larry Summers and the 'Brilliant' Nancy Pelosi, and her ' Brilliant' democratic leadership to step up and do what needs to be done to return our country to the people. To protect our precious civil liberties, and to defend the working class from the excesses of corporate greed. That is gonna take guts and selflessness.... I am just not sure these egomaniacal asses have what it takes to get all of that done. BUT, you can bet they will take care of their big money contributing constituents... afterall, the election is right around the corner.
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