Is the government doing ANYTHING to stop our rasing prices?

Question

To those of you who call is a recession, it's not. A recession is generally associated with a decline in a country's real gross domestic product (GDP), or negative real economic growth. A recession occurs when real growth is negative for two or more successive quarters of a year. Not soaring gas prices.

However, the conditions are so unbareable, only movie stars, actors and doctors are able to live how they want to live, be what they wanna be, relax how they wanna relax, etc.

Pleas for help are all over the news and especially gas station boards. Not only are taxes increasing and prices getting higher, but job oppurtunities are scat as well. 1 out of every 5 aged 16-19 teenagers will find a job this summer; that's the lowest employment rate since WWII. Slightly lower. 20% of our children are working. It's frightening.

The war is progressing, is Bush just sitting up there sulking? This government is so wrapped up in the election. It's sickening.

Answer 1

You have some great points.  I think they have done nothing to help us out.  I own a landscaping/lawn care business and it seems I work all week to put gas in my vehicle and equipment.  It getting really bad.

Answer 2

In a word, no. Gas prices in the US were artificially low for decades and for a number of reasons that has now ended. We'll just have to suck it up and live with it like the rest of the world.

Answer 3

This now beyond the gov't.  The FEDs just threw $500 billion into the stimulus/bank bailout.  Our dollar is devalued, therefore oil prices went higher.

Answer 4

Bush is sitting there with a big freaking smile on his face at the climbing gas prices, as he has a major hand in the oil cookie jar.

Answer 5

no :]

Answer 6

uh not really bush is pulling for offshore drilling which would allow us to drill of the cost of Florida, California, and gulf of Mexico. also Saudi Arabia is having discussions with all the major producers and consumers this weekend and could possibly put more supply out there which lower the prices but more than likely it will only be a short term fix.

Answer 7

Do you mean government should get involved in the free market system. What? through subsidizing or or privatizing. Government has little power in this. And rightfully so. Government involvement, other than prosecuting wrong doers, usually ends in disaster.

Answer 8

Governments can't do anything about rising prices. By the time they finished their meetings, boards of inquiries, investigations, surveys (all costing money) Off course, if they can decide on the people sitting on those boards?  They are 6 months behind the economy, which has again relapsed.

The only people that can stop prices from rising, are the people with the purses.  You, me and the man in the street. Get the neighborhood together, and refuse to buy (only product X) from any store. Then next month the next product thereafter the next, until you only buy reasonably priced goods.  Our town does not sell avocado's, because nobody buys them.  Rusks are next.

Peace.

Answer 9

Forget the government. It's up to you to prepare for the coming collapse.

Answer 10

I don't know whether they are doing anything or not, but I know what they ought to do; abolish income tax. It's the only way to keep Americans happy, while in the process also minimizing everyone's dependence upon government thus securing more freedom and prosperity to everyone.