France, Canada, Germany, Sweden (conservatives in power now), Poland, Czech Republic, Kosovo, Chechnya, and Albania's increase in pro-Americanism and pro-Bush leaders shed a different light on the opinion of us and Bush in the world.

As to security we have not been hit by a terrorist attack since 9/11. And, we have a highly trained military should any real world conflict arise. Battle hardened military.

As to economy there is nothing earth shattering. In an economics standpoint we have not hit a recession. The first quarter was a 1% GDP growth. Better than most countries in the world, including Europe. Europe has higher fuel and food prices, and much higher unemployment. Our unemployment, with 5% being considered full employment, is just slightly higher than that. The economy is not good, not good at all, but most of the world economy is pretty crappy. Economies will rise, hit a ceiling, decline, hit bottom and then rise again. It is a healthy economic cycle.

It is far too early to determine what the result will be of all decisions. Iraq's economy and stability are on an impressive rise. Investment is heavily flowing into it and oil production is set to far exceed what had ever been produced before in that country. Iraq has always been a far more diverse economy than just oil as well, and should it go into full production and trade it will assist to the future rise of the world market, which will happen in time.

I suggest everything not be in doomsday mode, history repeats itself, we've been in this spot before, and we will be in it again, but what follows are times that are high and prosperous for us all as well.

The racists?

Personal attacks, on the level of child, against a man far younger than yourself is quite pathetic.

I have read it, but stuff just doesn't add up. They just recently found absolutely massive natural gas supplies in NY, PA, and Ohio. They just discovered massive oil shale in the Green River Basin that has up to 1 trillion barrels of oil in it. They have already begun and been drilling for natural gas in northern PA for awhile now, soon to survey my own land up north as well. There is supposedly massive amounts of natural gas there.

Increase of supply draws price down.

In WWII we were not set up for a war economy. However, after Pearl Harbor and all our ships were hit in the port we went into massive production of iron, steel, ship production, military good production, consumer good production, ammo production, weapon production and so forth. What the government did to create this big business economy shift was use patriotism but also huge monetary incentives. The US government has used this numerous times since then.

We can do the same thing for oil and natural gas. I just saw this Dateline or 60 Minutes episode where this guy went to Canada to assist in the oil fields up there and is making $150k a year and he doesn't even have a college degree. Make incentives like that, they don't even need to be half that, and our huge labor force will go running to overwhelm those jobs. Huge labor in the oil and natural gas industries and the supports that create platforms and such will cause production and time stamps to be moved up significantly.

National economic campaign operated by the private sector though backed by the government incentives.

Nope, I find his proposals are interesting. I haven't visited his site yet, but I am a bit skeptical about the wind power thing. I'll have to look into it on his site. I've always read it is very inefficient, but maybe he knows something others don't. People support wind power until they learn their scenery of mountain tops will be covered in these huge ugly fans...lol.

Bush's approval ratings are 28% according to Gallup you propagandist. - http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

The study is by bureaucrats. Break down the system to the private sector, let them do what must be done, put mass incentives for the youth for high paying oil jobs and there ya go.

Nice personal attack. You based your assumption on an individual to a commodity that we all need to maintain our way of life. They don't compare. If we would have drilled a decade ago we would have all the oil and other energy sources we could have ever wanted. But, oil was low back then, gas was low, and the environmentalist lobbies prevented anything from being done. They prevented the levees in New Orleans from being reinforced and strengthed because of swamp lands for goodness sake and look what happened with the weak levees.

Drill now for oil in mass production and oil prices will drop. Drill now heavily for natural gas in PA and energy prices will go down for natural gas (which is on a steep rise as well). We could mass produce ships and drill for oil to supply us in WWII in no time, but for some reason it would take many years to get oil? That's bull. We just allocate resources heavily to oil. Give incentives for mass youth labor to assist and there ya go, massive labor, massive operations and quicker drilling practices to get the oil here asap.

The reason they gave such a long wait for oil is because they are a bureaucracy that will hold up every process as will the environmentalists that will try to put up every roadblock, just like they did with the New Orleans levees that led to mass death and destruction when they broke.

Did you happen to see the commericals being run by the Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens? He supports massive wind farms and other alternative fuel development as well as drilling. He supports a massive national energy reserve buildup.

"A majority of Americans (57%) interviewed in a mid-May Gallup Panel survey approve of expanding drilling for oil in offshore and wilderness areas considered to be off-limits." - http://www.gallup.com/poll/108121/Majority-Americans-Support-Drilling-OffLimits-Areas.aspx

Read that, it says not drilling in general, but drilling in "areas considered to be off-limits".

The rise of the middle class. It looks just like Europe through the Middle Ages to modern day where merchants were becoming far more richer and powerful than nobles. The rise of the Middle Class caused the spread of classical liberalism that brought about the US, France and so forth. And, it is the concept that made Japan and South Korea economic powerhouses, that anyone, no matter class or origin of birth can be as rich as any other.

This is growing in China.

PLUS, we also have the very oppressed rural classes. The rural areas are starting to witness more and more cousins, relatives, and former neighbors who went to the city coming back to visit or sending pictures of all the cool stuff they have and all the money they have. These people in the rural areas are saying "screw working my butt off in the field and living in poverty", and choosing more and more to go to cities. The Chinese government doesn't want this, they need the farmers and rural class, without them China collapses and thus the rural citizens are being forced, locked into a class system.

They will eventually become too large and too ticked off to let it continue, added with the rise of a middle class achieved by capitalism you got yourself big trouble for the Communists.

Well I wasn't going to list every single factor cause there are likely hundreds. The markets of today are so incredibly collapse I have no idea how day traders and such can follow it all. It would likely cause my head to explode.

China will eventually collapse internally from this shift to capitalism and then will see real economic chaos.

There are more than a few factors. Shipping, crude arrival, delays, storms on seas, international diplomacy, a fire at a plant, international figures saying something, and economic factors all have an impact on the price of oil. But, most of all it has to do with supply and demand that caused the prices of oil to skyrocket to where it is at today.

It's all a lie, the evil Zionist Jews control us all, next our minds! Run! Don't forget your tinfoil hats kids.

So, he is a self-hating black man who sold his soul for money and doesn't actually believe in the positions he supports? Come on, talk about a bigoted opinion.

Suurrrre it is Mr. Know It All. It happens mere hours after he says it, but it was just all pure luck...riiight.

If Rush is racist why is it that one of the longest employees to the show, Bo Snerdley, who is a conservative black man and friend of Rush as well, is not only employed by Rush but often given live air time?

Oh yeah, he's a conservative black man, so he has to be a self-hating black man, I forgot, stupid me.

I'm a huge Eagles fan, McNabb sucks. The media plays him up to be a great quarterback but he is absolutely horrible. He's even worse now that he has been injured so much he is a puss to scramble. Instead now he just decides to whip it at the receivers feet all the time.

No, giving money to terrorists in the Palestinian territories, unless you support suicide bombers who solely target civilians?

PLEASE use the "There are no civilians in Israel because all must serve in the Israeli armed forces" line, it would be such icing on the cake.