Misdirection ploys

Add comment May 22nd, 2008

Magicians and politicians make their living by directing your attention to one hand (or object) while they do something with or to something else. The problem being that magicians are entertaining while politicians are not.

Right now people are totally upset about the price of gasoline. The politicians what you to vent your wrath upon OPEC and the big oil companies. While I’m not a fan of either, I understand that the role they play in our problem is not as large as the politicians want you to believe.

By the use of misdirection they have you look at OPEC and the oil companies so you don’t notice that most of the problem with high gasoline prices lies with what they did. By spending us into the largest deficit in our history, they have weakened the value of the dollar.Therefore, we have to pay more for everything that is imported. By removing the controls on  investors they have allowed oil traders to become oil speculators. By caving in to the U.S. automakers and the oil companies, they have allowed the manufacture of vehiles like the Hummer and other big gas guzzlers. By not having an effective and sane energy policy, they have allowed this problem to go to gargantuan proportions.

But, to hear them tell it, everyone is guilty for the high gas prices except them. Their inaction, incompitence and complicity with the oil companies, automakers, speculators and deficit spending is a major cause of the problem. No more slight of hand or misdirection. Let’s call them on their stupidity, the selling of their votes, and their arrogance. Vote the  scoundrels out of office.