Public Works Costs on the Rise
Everywhere you turn, there are public works costs on the rise. From water—which, according to Robin Williams and many actual experts, will soon be a coveted commodity, and already is in many parts of the world—to electricity to gas, Americans are feeling their wallets close more easily due to the lack of funds inside. While many say that it’s due to the cost of gasoline itself going up—which is likely related, sure—general inflation also continues to occur, just not in accordance with the general inflation of checkbooks.
My family is actually doing okay—knock on wood!—but I know that many others are suffering right now, particularly those who make only minimum wage at work. As these costs continue to rise, without pay increase reciprocal to balance it all out, people will struggle even more.
Mr. Obama, if you’d like to stay in office, might I suggest some radical efforts to help Americans out soon? If you can’t create a pay increase immediately, how about lowering energy costs somehow? You could send each American an energy assistance sum to help with these monstrous rates. (Of course, bailing out the people rather than the banks just four years ago probably would have helped even more—why didn’t we let the banks fail while giving the chunks of money to each American instead, again?)
Of course, doing what Al Gore suggested several years ago and implementing renewable energy into each household would be even better. Sure, the power companies would lose profit, but you could at least funnel those jobs into the new renewable resource jobs and have people help install and run solar power cells and other equipment.
Or maybe you could help us all out at the pumps where it’s hitting many people—particularly commuters—the hardest. I am not suggesting that we open up our reserves once again, but how about we take a bit off the top, on the government’s tab? I’m pretty sure with all the houses he owns, Mitt Romney could afford helping to front the bill, anyway.
I remember back in 2004 (another election year—go figure…) that the gas prices were climbing up to $4 a gallon again, yet they suddenly dropped like they were dead near the election itself. Prices were cut nearly in half. I am not sure what happened then, but it’s almost election time, hint hint!