Posted by
vonryansexpress on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:32:42 PM
If you try to figure where and when the Democratic party became livid toward the oil patch, I suppose 1969 and the Santa Barbara oil spill is a good guess.
The Democrats can't get their minds around the notion that tough work that requires strong backs and creates great wealth is a wonderful pursuit.
Funny, in a perverse way, because more blue collar workers that voted Democratic over the years made great incomes from the oil business ... Rough necks, welders, underwater welders, pipe fitters, operating engineers, crane operators, boiler operators, truck drivers, refinery workers, etc, call the role.
When white collar workers in service industries in the 1960's and 1970's were making tiny minimum wage, the above skilled trades were raking in the profits of oil patch work and making $25.00 an hour and up.
Why Sen. Obama and the weak shouldered Congressional Democrats with their hatred of fossil fuel think that the legatees of those trades would vote for them in this cycle is bizarre thinking.
There was a time when movies like "BoomTown" and "Giant" reflected the hopes of the American frontier and the pursuit of economic wealth. Perhaps a life size cut-out of the cast of "Giant" would be motivational for Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid at this point.
If not, just use your precious fuel to drive to the polls and vote against the oil haters in November.