Does anyone else see the anger and frustration in America peaking?

[AndyA]

I'm beginning to see it more and more. People who have taken the adventures of Bushco in stride, tolerated high gas prices, put up with everything that's been dished out so far, are now getting fed up.

I'm beginning to think a perfect storm may be brewing. Oil prices are going up during a time of year when they are traditionally lower. The high cost of oil is beginning to impact everything, from the cost of gas to fuel our cars, to home heating oil, groceries, and any most goods we buy that depend on some form of transportation to make it to stores.

And this is all happening as we head into the holidays, the time of year that is make it or break it for retailers. People will be cutting back due to the higher costs of filling up their cars, buying groceries, and heating their homes. Combine a bad holiday season with the housing slump, cut backs in other areas due to the high cost of oil, and you have a perfect storm.

Retailers will dump employees due to slow sales, their payroll budgets are very tight and cutting hours is the first thing they do when sales are slow. That will impact the unemployment numbers.

I can see a real problem looming on the immediate horizon. And this is something that will impact even the most devoted Kool-Aid drinker. Bushco continues to escalate the threats against Iran, despite the failure in Iraq, and despite America's disgust for the war in Iran. The war rhetoric is partially responsible for the higher oil costs.

Everyone knows this (mis)administration has heavy ties to the oil industry, which has been making record profits.

I can see the possibility of a backlash coming...for the GOP as well as the Democrats, as long as they continue to ignore their responsibilities.

Does anyone else see this thing coming to a peak around the holiday season? :shrug: