Going After Greedy Corporations

Thank God for capitalism and corporate greed. It looks like greedy corporations have seen the future of oil and they've decided to invest in new technology with their ugly, ill-gotten profits. I think it's definitely a scheme to make even more profits. Funny how that works. Greed brought us the first automobile, the television, the telephone, prescription drugs which make our lives more comfortable, and the list goes on and on. The government didn't do it. Private corporations, by far, account for most of our inventions. Some inventions were the direct result of government spending for military research and development, but again, they were not government-owned companies. They were corporations hired by the government.

When are we, as taxpayers, going to recognize that the government is not our savior? When are we going to demand that our elected officials stop wasting time grilling oil company executives on why oil prices are so high? Then again, if they're doing that, they aren't passing ridiculous laws regulating how much water a toilet can use per flush, which is a good thing. But I digress. Our poor energy policy regulated by none other than our politicians has created this crisis. Their plan was the "No Plan." They learned it from Nancy Reagan apparently because they just said "no." No to drilling. No to building refineries. No to nuclear power. Ted Kennedy even said no to a windmill farm off of the Massachusetts coast because it would detract from the beauty of the environment. And here they are, with the audacity to ask the oil companies why oil prices are so high. Are we stupid?

The government gave us wonderful plans such as welfare, enslaving generation after generation to government subsidies. It was supposed to save the poor. The truth is that it's given them no initiative or incentive to plan their families, careers, or lives. The government also gave us the IRS, DMV, NASA and their exploding vehicles, and don't forget the collapsing social security system. They pushed HMO's, or at least the democrats did, and now they demonize them.

Politicians devised schemes to shove more and more money at our public education system "for the children." Their plans have resulted in lower and lower test scores, year after year. Their answer for this? Change the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scoring system so that test scores will be higher when students perform poorer. They make such claims as "the average scores are going down because more low-income children are taking the tests." Oh yeah? When not comparing SAT scores, how come American children are doing increasingly worse in math and science when compared to other countries? Aren't other countries also testing more of the underclass? Seems like government planning is miserable, but they're very successful at spending our money.

But back to the topic at hand. Even without the government mandates, we are going to see hydrogen cars on the road perhaps as early as 2010. It seems there's a market for the cars. Soon they'll hire people to manufacture them, reap profits, and pay dividends to their stockholders. Those dog gone greedy corporations. They did it to us again.