I would like to know exactly what has happened to the Republican Party. I thought they were in favor of smaller government but their actions say otherwise. Research into alternative energy sources should be done privately and thus bring about free enterprise. Government officials and big corporations have repeatedly rendered null any chance for true free enterprise and also have consistently been against small business in recent times. Free enterprise has been thwarted time and time again by politicians and corporations. What has happened to Henry Ford, Preston Tucker, alternative energy sources and high gas prices? All prime examples of government and large corporations working together.
 

            History also proves the bad connection between government and large corporations. If you look at the Exxon Valdez incident Exxon spent very little on the clean up leaving the majority to the public when it was their responsibility. If Bush were in any other occupation his association with the oil companies would be considered a conflict of interest. If the energy situation were as bad as Bush and the oil company executives would have the public believe then the profits would be in proportion and remain close to what they were getting and not skyrocketing as they are!!!

            Clearly Bush and the Republican Party has been against the working people of America and small business and the proof of this has been the situation with the sbaexchange program being cancelled when a rich corporate friend of the head of the SBA (Small Business Administration) could not get his hands on funds going through the system. Saying Bush is not helping Americans is an understatement at best. Bush’s administration claimed that profits from the oil from Iraq would be used to defray the costs of the war but he has allowed himself and the CEO’s sky high profits. This administration is doing a very good job of doing away with the middle class and adding more and more families to the lists of the working poor and placing the blame on other things like the war. If we send our military in we need attitudes like Nixon had in Vietnam and not the political correctness we have today. Clearly the leader of Iran is aware of attitudes and political correctness and wants nuclear power for their own protection because the USA has shown so much weakness and can not be trusted to help if needed. We need to take possession of the oil wells and be strong and gain their respect not so called “friendship” under political correctness otherwise we will always lose!!! We should never have given back the oil wells in Desert Storm!!! Conspiracy theorists can conjuncture that the Bush administration plotted with the oil companies and the governments in the Middle East and started a war so that they all can heavily profit and thus the first step in making a world of two classes the rich and the poor. It seems Bush wants the USA made in the image of a 3^rd world country and seems to be doing an excellent job in making it come about.

            When Henry Ford originally made his Model T it was designed to run on ethanol which the big oil companies fought tooth and nail against. If this country were a free enterprise why can’t I decide to buy a car that runs on ethanol? The oil companies should pay to convert my car over since their profits are so high. If there was a chance that the oil supply was going to run out then logically speaking the oil companies would start alternative energy research so that they could be in on the profits.
 

             Does the government also have scientists as well as large corporations under their belts claiming global warming is from this, that, and the other? The truth seems that politicians and corporate spokespersons believe people are like mushrooms and feeding the public so much rhetoric that it pollutes the atmosphere. The majority of people are not mushrooms as believed and unable to absorb any of the rhetoric that comes out of politicians and corporate spokespersons mouths and thus poisoning the air and causing global warming. 

              All that I can ask is that “WE THE PEOPLE” no longer be treated like mushrooms being kept in the dark and fed lots of rhetoric hoping we will buy this and that situation is good for the country when in reality it is only good for the wealthy. This is why most people stopped voting and stopped caring because they feel it is useless. There is a misconception amongst DC residents that taxation without representation is a bad thing when history and recent events prove that it is actually worse with representation if you see how politicians and corporations work so closely together. Our politicians also sold our country out with workers rights when NAFTA was signed sending good paying American jobs to corrupt nations which this once great country is quickly getting more and more corrupt like Mexico and any other 3^rd world country!!!

             When Nixon was president things were not as bad for the working poor. When Reagan took over and made the first Social Security benefits cut when he took the cost of housing out of the cost of living. Before Reagan you could work at a McQ type job and afford an apartment. Ronald Reagan began the downfall of the middle class and the low class workers when he took the cost of housing out of the cost of living index. Housing cost rose substantially after this.