I was going to post about the idiot truck drivers at the Flying J, but decided to put it on Life on the Road – http://lifeontheroad.com/2008/09/24/fired-up/974.html

I’m getting sick of politics, I want to hurry up and have the election so I know whether we are driving off of a a short pier or a long one. The bailout, even if done right is only going to prolong the inevitable. And god forbid Congress actually puts aside politics for a couple of days and get something done. Someone mentions a bailout and spending money and everyone’s hand goes out. Everyone is trying to get their pet projects tagged into this bailout bill and help the poor people that are losing their homes because they’re too greedy. Hey! They’re bailing out the stupid idiots that bought and insured the mortgages, why not everyone? 

What has the Government ever done right? Medicare? Yeah right! Social Security? Don’t make me laugh! An Energy policy? Stop it! My sides are hurting!!! Giving themselves raises and the best benefit package of any company in the country? Okay, you got me there, THAT, they can do.

Congress still thinks they had nothing to do with this? How can they fix it if they don’t even know how they broke it? 

Ron Paul was just a little ahead of his time. If him and Bob Barr could get major coverage as third parties I would actually have hope. I’m predicting if Obama wins, Ron Paul will run again and win in four years. We will be in such dire straits, drastic measures will be necassary for our survival and Ron Paul has the drastic plan to get back to basics. If McCain wins, maybe things will get better slowly. He’s going to have to cut Capital Gains and Corporate taxes, but saying that will be political suicide because everyone hates the rich and especially the rich corporations.

I’ve heard a lot of pundits say that corporations don’t pay taxes, they pass them along to consumers and employees. But in order for us to compete in the world market and get corporations to build new factories, buy new equipment and hire lots of workers, we are going to have to attract them here with monetary incentives.

Obama’s plan? He’s going to make corporations pay taxes and then pay more taxes and make it so they have to create jobs here in America. Oh yeah, and cut the CEO salaries to something more reasonable. You can’t legislate the economy. You can’t force a corporation to do anything when they have to option to leave and build their products anywhere in the world.