Recalls, the Market and Oil...Oh my!

If I were a conspiracy theorist I would be having a field day the past week!

All the toys that are made in China (which amounts to something like 90% off all toys on the market) are being recalled...lead paint, drug laced toys and cribs. All I have to say about that is - outsourcing is finally kicking our ass in a way that will make more impact than just the loss of millions of jobs (which, seemingly, no one takes seriously anymore!). It's going to be a fluffy, furry kind of Christmas this year... a great year for animals in the pound.

Oil spills off the coast of San Francisco, a refinery on fire in Texas (possible arson), and oil prices approaching $100 a barrel (thats $3.20+ a gallon average at the pump for you and me). Again, if I were a conspiracy nut...I could scare the pants off myself in pretty short order. Did you also hear about the contractor that tried to slip a pipe bomb into the nuclear power plant outside Phoenix last week? (Just a little more fodder for those that would see these events as, less than coincidence)

The Stock Market took a serious spill yesterday, supposedly reacting to the housing market that has imploded leaving pox marks all over the landscape. (Shame on those silly banks trying to take advantage of low interest rates by hooking and reeling in people who were NEVER going to be able to afford their scam in the long run! Did they REALLY think they'd be making money when those ARM's swung and foreclosures were certainly going to be the order of the day?!)

And the Market is also reacting to outrageous oil prices. And to that, I have one answer - Anwar = less foreign dependence on oil! (Yes Mom, we need to drill there...the Caribou will adjust...the pipeline didn't displace them or cause them change their migratory patterns or disturb their mating or eating patterns in the least bit...they are thriving)
A second answer would be to cut some of the regulations that make it impossible to build and operate further refineries in this country (and the Environmentalists and liberal activists resound in a frenzy of screams and arm flaying...makes me giggle.)

Maybe it's just me, but it seems acting on little common sense instead of emotional PC crap could have prevented much of this and would go a long way to making positive changes for our Country in the future.