TIME TO CHANGE YOUR FAVORITE LINKS

I am moving the "Torches and Pitchforks" site to this *NEW* Location...

Click HERE or 'cut and paste' this link:

http://torchpitchfork.wordpress.com/

Effective Immediately. I will keep this site intact for as long as I can... there exists a significant history of past news articles and this will remain active. But, all new posts will be on the NEW blog site (listed above).

Thank you.

22 JUN 2009

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Banks Are Operating Without Any Reserves Now
An Analysis Of Obama's Psychological Make-Up
Why Things Do Not Matter
What Happens When Companies Do Not Hire Back
Supreme Court Throws Out Valerie Plame's Lawsuit
Broken Obama (Video) Hilarious

Part 2: What Your Money Has Purchased

Welcome to Abu Dhabi. Take a look at the pictures of this city.



Before you start gawking, I'll tell you that the very first paved roads in this area were constructed in 1961. At that time, the city consisted of a few low rise concrete buildings and mostly mud huts. The main business in 1960 was camel trading, date farming, and pearl diving. Click Here for the Wiki article. Then a funny thing happened...

Money for oil began POURING into Abu Dhabi. Your money.



Today, Abu Dhabi is the wealthiest emirate of the UAE. The average net worth for EACH of Abu Dhabi's 420,000 citizens is US$ 17 million.

Yes... That bears repeating. Almost half a million people, each with a net worth of $17 million dollars (US).

Thanks to you. You built this city with American dollars. From mud huts to this...



How did this happen? Why isn't this a brand new modern American city built with American dollars? Because Congress forced you to do this... they forced you to buy most of your gas and oil from Saudi Arabia and the UAE (Abu Dhabi and Dubai).

So, instead of your American money going to American workers and American products and new American cities, Congress made it a law that we could not drill for our own gas and oil and they literally forced you to send your money "over there". Look what it has built. It could have been here.

Who were the brilliant idiots that made that happen? You need to thank Diane Feinstein, Barney Frank, Obama, Dodd, Kennedy, Boxer, Al Gore, and both Clintons for that.

Pictures Of Your Money And What It Has Built

Presented here is a short picturesque explanation of what your hard earned money has purchased. It is expected that you will look at these skyline pictures (they are very real) and wonder where this city is? Could this be Houston, Detroit, New York? Could this be Baltimore, Miami, San Francisco? After all, you would expect that this sort of incredibly modern and wealthy skyline should be somewhere in the United States? Right?

Well... you'd be wrong.





These are pictures of a city named Dubai. It is not in the United States. Yet, incredibly, you paid for it. This whole city has been built from your money... right from your wallet and purse.



Wow... wouldn't it be great if this city were being built in the United States? Think of the jobs... think of the opportunities... think of the investment.

Especially since... you paid for it.



Well, this is what happens when we are FORCED by our government to buy our gas and oil from middle-eastern countries. This is what happens when our government refuses to allow us to drill for our own oil and gas...

No matter what, we will continue to use oil and gasoline for just about everything we do. And just about every bit of that comes from offshore. And that is mandated by our Congress.

See this city? This city is being built with your money that you've been forced to send to offshore oil suppliers; places like Dubai. And guess what? They're going to continue drilling for oil and they'll continue selling it to us... and we'll continue to send our money to them for the gas and oil.

What a shame. We could be building that city right here in the United States if we were allowed to drill for our own gas and oil (and we have PLENTY of both).

Take one last look at these pictures...

Then thank Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Barack Obama, Al Gore, Chris Dodd, Barbara Boxer, and Diane Feinstein for forcing us to build these fantastic cities for those people that don't like us. But they'll sure take our money...