The Perfect Storm

In the first three months of 2008 Sunoco made $4.2 million dollars an hour.  There seems to be a little eyebrow in the air over profit percentages.  Whatever those percentiles are, while families struggle, lives are lost and  "Wall Street is getting drunk" (according to George Bush), the leadership of the United States cannot admit we are in a recession.  Governor Paterson of New York keeps talking daily about the hard times ahead for the state with a deficit looming and we are supposed to have faith the economy is not in a recession? Reassurances from Bush are like your drunk grandfather telling you he doesn't have a drinking problem. If we aren't in a recession technically, we are mentally.  At this point, Bush has been impeached mentally by the country as we wait to see who steps forward to turn the sinking ship in the perfect storm his regime has created.  He and his pals have set the table for the feast at the trough of the American wallet. If the profit percentage is only a little over 7% for the big oil companies, then the sheer volume at which they are amassing historic wealth in a time of "war" should be considered criminal.  If this were any other country we would have taken to the streets like angry villagers, rioting and pillaging.  Americans continue to wait, days are turning to months and the two men posturing to take the helm, we aren't even sure can do the job, if at all.  Albeit no one could do a worse job that George W.  Is this all part of that New World Order Daddy was talking about?  The talk of National Service is starting to surface, in other words, the U.S. Draft is about to happen, although this time is will be a kinder, gentler draft under the guise of "service", not to be confused with vounteerism.  By the way, Microsoft has started another business, the business of education.  They are meddling now with public schools across both coasts, sort of a pilot project for the privatization of our public education, a very foundation of our country.  Granted, there are problems, however if we feel like looming deficits are our biggest problem, wait until Sunoco and Mobil are sponsoring your kid's high school.   Whatever the percentages are, it's too much for only a handful of corporations to be taking us to the cleaners.  What could be better than having now the solid excuse to drill in the United States?  Hindsight is 20/20, it looks like now the whole war was staged to set up shop and and start tapping resources, all in the name of the almighty dollar.