Originally posted on 10/28/2011:
I should probably also add that there are three main reasons why the economy is languishing...
1) artificially fukking with the housing market.
If the gov't doesn't step in and try and artificially inflate home-ownership not only would the housing market have remained steady and prices remained stable, but none of the toxic assets that caused the massive shitfuk we're in would have been created.
2) artificially fukking with the price of corn.
Corn is in EVERYTHING. It's in almost every fukking food product, either because of corn syrup or feed for livestock, and gov't subsidies have resulted in the price skyrocketing, meaning everyone has to pay more for food and has less money to spend on other goods and services.
3) artificially fukking with the price of gasoline.
We haven't had a new oil refinery built in this country since the frickin' 1970's. If the gov't would stop stepping in and squelching the oil companies' ability to drill/refine more oil we wouldn't have to buy so much from the damn arabs. It would create jobs in this country and it would reduce prices. The day we lift the restrictions on our oil production the Saudis and OPEC are going to reduce the price of oil immediately so as to make it worth our while to keep buying from them instead of doing it ourselves.
Look at it like the landscapers who mow lawns in your neighborhood. You pay a landscaper because you don't want to do it yourself. But say the landscaper doubles his prices on you over the course of the next year, and they keep rising, because all the landscapers are in collusion with each other to keep prices high (like OPEC). Well eventually you're going to get to a point where it's not worth the money, so you start mowing your lawn yourself. Or you wait on some random passing-by mexican to roll through one Saturday who offers to do it dirt cheap. Unfortunately, in the crude business, there are no illegals working for under the table cash. Point is, if enough people start dropping the lawn care service then the lawn care service companies are forced to drop their prices or go out of business. The US buys so much damn oil from the middle east we are a large enough customer by ourselves to get them to reduce the price.
steady housing market + cheaper food + lower gas prices = stable/growing economy.
Why don't we have these things?
Because of the motherfukking tinkerers. Idiot dipshits who thought they could fukk with the housing market and put poor people into homes without their being repercussions. Dumbasses who want to pay farmers NOT TO FARM! Busy-body dumbshit do-gooders who have suppressed oil production in this country thinking it would spur alternative energy without any seriously negative consequences. And guess what, they are all liberals. Liberal politicians and the people who vote for them. People who can either afford these increases because they are already successful in life, or who are fed table scrap jobs/wages/hand-outs to keep their mouths shut and stay content stagnated in their personal economic growth.
It's really not that complicated. Three fukking solutions. And simple to understand. Why won't we do it? Well you have my answer. Maybe you've got a better one.