Late on Election Day, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced a December 19 auction of 50,000 acres of oil and gas parcels alongside or within view of Arches National Park and two other red-rock national parks in Utah: Dinosaur and Canyonlands.

Environmentalists see it as a Bush Administration "fire sale" to pay back their wealthy donators to the "drill, baby, drill" group. Will Bush and Cheney's "spread the wealth" among their rich friends ever stop?? Bush's people have been quite busy de-regulating everything from A to Z when it comes to his big business friends. Man payback's a bitch, especially when it creates a burden of the taxpayer.

Sema Sierra, state director for the BLM deficantly says,she sees nothing wrong with drilling near and on public park land. Even if it interferes with the views of the unspoiled landmarks like the view of the Delicate Arch, which is a work of mother natural out of red-rock.

To top it off, the BLM tried to sneak it by the National Park Service. This is a sister agency. Yeah, It's known that sister sometimes don't tell each other their secrets. The only difference here is that it will effects the view to thousands of vistors each year with the sight of oil wells pumping out black gold to benefit the rich elite. Is there nothing sacred for the sake of "greed"??

Flash!!! On the winter front-------the nation's financial crisis is starting to effect the nation's power supply. Remember the North American "blackout" five years ago??

The world's power grids are being strained and in need of money to erect new power sources. It's not available. Of course, you could say, "they shouldn't have allowed investor-owned utilities happen."

Wind powered generation is the way to go, but they are expensive to contruct. Coal plants are dirty, but cheap. Naturally, when the money was flowing in they grabed it for their pockets and didn't want to think the economy would sink into an abyss. So, now the taxpayer wind up sucking wind. No pun intended.

So, what makes them different from the automobile industry. Those greedy S.O.B.'s should see their "day of reckoning". The car business has been screwing the public for decades. Building "metal gas alcoholics" all gussied-up to turn our heads. They made plentry of money and definately could have invented or built automobiles that got better gas mileage.

$25 billion, yeah, $25 billion they want to retool to develope a fuel-efficient cars. They crying because they are getting low on cash. Hell, they were singing a different tune when they allowed the foreign car companies to enter the U.S. to build plants.

General Motors is sucking hind tit now to the Toyota cars. Why, poor workmenship and greed. They should have taken a lesson from Chrysler's demise. Oh, heck, where is Lee Iaccoa when you need him??

Why don't Bush and his gang bailout the world?? Hells, bells, oops,that won't happen, they would have to include the poor people. TOO BAD, WORLD!!

Richard Shelby, the senior Republican on the Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee says, "Companies fail everyday and others take their place. The car companies are not building the right products even though they've got good workers. They have bad management and no innovation. Let them go the way of the dinosaurs."

The only thing a rich man like Shelby forgets (or don't care) is what's going to happen to the 53,000 workers that will put out on the streets and on unemployment?? Meh!!!

Again, Lee Iaccoa is now almost 82 years young, but I'll bet you a dollar to a donut, he could figure out the right formula to save the industry.

Having had my say, go softly into the night. mgf