The US undeniably has an information economy. The majority of jobs in the US are information jobs, the vast majority of our exports are information and media, that's the only thing that the US does better then the rest of the world. Yet, for some reason I can't understand, we voted for a straight oil ticket.. Bush and Cheny, obviously, are just the appointed representatives of the oil industry, and a HUGE percentage of their staff is made up of former oil company staff, huge shareholders in big oil companies, and boardmembers of Chevron, Haliburton, etc.
And it is absolutely undeniable that their oil-origins are dictating policy... What have the republican's big initiatives been lately? They are scheming to attack anti-US-oil-company's-interests dictator Hussein, who is sitting on top of the second largest oil reserves in the world, and prop up a new dictator more friendly to "US interests" (aka oil company's interests). They refused to sign the Kyoto accord, which virtually every other industrialized nation signed, so that industry isn't pressured to cut carbon emissions, and hence reduce their dependancy on guess who, the oil industry. They are pushing to open up Alaska's national parks for drilling by, guess who, the oil industry... The list goes on and on and on. Virtually every major move the republicans have made lately is directly a result of the policy interests of the oil industry.
So I'm wondering, why we are letting one industry dictate our domestic and foreign policy to us? Worse still, if we were to pick one industry and give them the power to completely control our government, why the heck have we picked the oil industry? We live in an information economy.. That is our future, not oil. Shoving our country along a path dictated by a dying, amoral, backwards industry like oil is a one way path to collapse. We need to take a long hard look at who is really making the decisions for us and whether or not they are the right people.
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The US undeniably has an information economy. The majority of jobs in the US are information jobs, the vast majority of our exports are information and media, that's the only thing that the US does better then the rest of the world. Yet, for some reason I can't understand, we voted for a straight oil ticket.. Bush and Cheny, obviously, are just the appointed representatives of the oil industry, and a HUGE percentage of their staff is made up of former oil company staff, huge shareholders in big oil companies, and boardmembers of Chevron, Haliburton, etc. And it is absolutely undeniable that their oil-origins are dictating policy... What have the republican's big initiatives been lately? They are scheming to attack anti-US-oil-company's-interests dictator Hussein, who is sitting on top of the second largest oil reserves in the world, and prop up a new dictator more friendly to "US interests" (aka oil company's interests). They refused to sign the Kyoto accord, which virtually every other industrialized nation signed, so that industry isn't pressured to cut carbon emissions, and hence reduce their dependancy on guess who, the oil industry. They are pushing to open up Alaska's national parks for drilling by, guess who, the oil industry... The list goes on and on and on. Virtually every major move the republicans have made lately is directly a result of the policy interests of the oil industry. So I'm wondering, why we are letting one industry dictate our domestic and foreign policy to us? Worse still, if we were to pick one industry and give them the power to completely control our government, why the heck have we picked the oil industry? We live in an information economy.. That is our future, not oil. Shoving our country along a path dictated by a dying, amoral, backwards industry like oil is a one way path to collapse. We need to take a long hard look at who is really making the decisions for us and whether or not they are the right people.