$27 Million dollar Limo ride!

Everyone can visualize the Banker with the power suit sitting at his desk made of remote rain forest wood. Big dollar signs fills his eyes while he sips his coffee made with cherries after they were processed through the Toddy Cat’s bowels. He loves the expensive things, because they’re privileged possessions owned by a select few. They make him “Powerful”! People now are starting to view our government in the same light. They want control over the things that run this country, and maybe the world. Again, just like the gluttonous banker I depicted, they don’t want control because they want to better people to make themselves feel good. Control equals money, in return equaling power. The more power the better.
I was at a Houston Texans football game in the fall of 2006 and I was one of the lucky first 20,000 out of 18,000 that actually attended the game and I was given a free T-shirt. Yeah! I got another T-shirt. On the back in huge letters was the word Halliburton. I had never heard of them until now, so I looked them up. Hoover’s Online says that they provide oil and gas field services. They’ve steadily increased in closing stock prices over the last five years. Their net income has risen steadily since 2004. In 2003 they recorded a loss of $979 billion. That might be why they were charging the government $27 million to transport only $82,000 worth of fuel that they purchased in Kuwait. Kuwait’s right next door. Did they take the long way? First of all, why are they buying it from Kuwait? We’re helping Iraq with their civil war and Iraq contains the second most oil reserves in the world behind Saudi Arabia. Is our government not studying geography? Seriously, can’t we make a deal with them to use their oil so we don’t have to pay Vice President Cheney’s old company to give Kuwait’s oil a Limo ride? That oil should get free champagne and chocolate for a $27 million dollar venture across the border. Anyways, instead of greedy bankers, all I can visual now is Cheney swimming in the money pool in Houston next January.

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Nicole Gaouette of the Los Angeles Times wrote on President Bush's attempt to restrict internet sales of prescription drugs, especially pain killers. Approximately 2,500 young people start abusing prescription drugs every day, while 70% of all prescription drug users obtain their drugs from the home medicine cabinet. The Bush administration’s drug strategy wants to use student drug testing, community outreach, and screening and prevention in attempts to cut youth drug use by 10%. Bush’s administration does report a drop in numbers of young people abusing drugs now compared to 6 years ago in 2002. Now approximately 860,000 fewer young people use, or rather misuse, prescription drugs. If you take the 2,500 young people that start every day and take that times 365 days a year you’ll get 912,500 young people a year. That’s a lot of drugs. If you take that number times 6 years you’ll get 5,475,000 young people. Now I know that the president didn’t actually calculate these terms himself, but maybe they should watch what they’re bragging about. Oh, we’re down 860,000 abusers in six years. They didn’t even mention how many there were in 2002 to start with. Considering we were only down 15% of just the newcomers, I wouldn’t be bragging just yet. How can politicians say that we’re going to cut down on drugs, but they allow internet sales of prescription drugs to almost anyone? Any half-witted 13 year old kid can buy some hydrocodone and down them like candy. Hopefully the Senate sees how the President hasn’t really done much and realize that drug use period is ruining our schools, our jobs, and our loved ones.