The price of everything

Heard on the radio this morning that Oil is up from 29 bucks a barrel to almost 80 since 10th September 2001. That gold is around 700 bucks an ounce from about 230 an ounce. The stockmarket is roughly the same and the economic outlook is worse.

Republican politics don't seem to be doing a great deal for the average American citizen. All the bin-laden, terror and Texan swagger won't help those defaulting on sub prime mortgage. The tax cuts for the rich won't help the sliding stocks that soccer mums banked on for their kids education. Bin laden's speech, recently, has shifted away from infidels to sound more like a Michael Moore rant about global warming, economic collapse etc. He should know, the Russians quit Afghanistan because it cost too much. The war in Iraq costs a lot of tax payers money, but like the deals cut with the pharmaceutical companies. The US Military industrial complex is now a cash cow for investors subsidized by poorer peoples taxes.

So if you invest in pharmaceuticals or military related industries. You are not helping America, you are shafting average Americans who subsidize this folly when they should be using those taxes for healthcare, education et al.

Rant over, see you next year