Random Thursday

This week's issue of Random Thursday comes from our site. Today I did a lot of work on the design. For me this was exhausting.

People are always throwing around the term 'Web 2.0.' I am still trying to understand Web 0.2.

I tried adding some categories of posts, grouping each day of the week together to make it more functional. Obviously there are still many changes needed which I will try to keep working on over the coming weeks if my brain does not explode in the process.

Besides this, I my brain is suffering from no Mountain Dew in over a week, and on top of that my youngest child woke up around 3 AM crying. All wakeness, and no sleep makes Kurt a grumpy man.

My goal for tonight is to get a good nights sleep. Now that The Office season is over, we have a shot at it. I hope all you get a good night as well.

Random Thursday

For this issue of Random Thursday, I am going to write about one thing that is on just about everyone's minds these days: Gas Prices. As I type this, $4.00/gallon gasoline looks like it will soon be a bargain. So what is the cause, and what can we do about it?

The Cause:
The cause of high oil prices/gas prices can be tied to one thing- the falling value of the U.S. dollar. Why does this cause oil prices to rise? Because oil is currently traded in U.S. dollars. And just like inflation in other sectors of the economy, when the dollar value falls prices go up. Plain and simple.

There are some concerns about supply side issues like drilling in alternative areas, and investing in coal to oil technologies. However, these solutions would do little to mitigate the problem. They would dampen some of the speculative run up we have seen lately, but it would not address the foundational issue of worthless dollars being used to buy it.

A good indicator as to this being the cause is the price of gold also skyrocketing. When currency values fall, commodities rise. Dollar is down, all commodities are up.

Here is an excellent article on this.

Solution:
Basically the question now is, how do we strengthen the dollar?

The only answer is for our politicians to stop spending it so rapidly. The dirty little secret is, that although the politicians love to point their fingers at the oil companies and cry, "Shame", in reality they are the cause of the high oil prices.

They spend all the money, so the print more, and when that runs out, they print even more. Currently we have three candidates, almost two, running for president in the media. I am here to tell you that all three are the same. The will all take us to hell in a hand basket. The only difference is, what decorations will be on the basket.

We need to vote every single one of these bums out. The last 30 years has shown one thing and one thing only in regards to politicians. They only care about themselves first, their party second, their supporters third, and their country last. I do not care which side of the aisle a politician sits on, overwhelmingly they are the same.

I know even mentioning the name Ron Paul will turn many of you away. Many have swallowed the lines the RNC has pushed through the media in attempts to silence him. Try for a moment to look past all that and do some research for yourself. He has real answers to these problems.

Limited spending in our government is the only hope for the future. Politicians have sold our children's' children's' children's' economic future down the toilet.

Fortunately, for those that have caused these problems, the education system in this country is so inferior, that any hopes of clearing these deadbeats out is impossible. The only thing we can do is fight this one battle at a time.