Okay so these guys have went out of their way - taking vacation time - to go to Washington, DC in order to "defend the constitution" by creating a bottleneck of traffic on I-495. Where in the constitution does it say, "Private longhaul truckdrivers have a right to cheap gas?"
This whole truckers thing in Washington, DC makes no sense. It isn't the government that sets the price of a barrel of oil - that would be socialism. The price of oil is decided on the commodities market by speculators and traders. The price is set based upon demand for that particular commodity that day - the government doesn't have anything to do with it.
Okay so these guys have went out of their way - taking vacation time - to go to Washington, DC in order to "defend the constitution" by creating a bottleneck of traffic on I-495. Where in the constitution does it say, "Private longhaul truckdrivers have a right to cheap gas?" Could they be demanding price controls from the government? You know, the one that is, supposedly, shutdown.
Why aren't these folks clogging up the roads to Wall Street? Not that they could stop speculative trading as it is done electronically, but it would seem that one of them could have turned "The Rush Limbaugh Program" off long enough to have perhaps done a quick search on Google. Or here's an idea; how about driving out to Texas or Pennsylvania and disrupting the means of production by blocking the delivery of oil to refineries or even disrupting the delivery of gas to retailers. I know, I know - that would be something some communistic organization like a labor union would do.
Faithful believers in capitalism and the "American way" would never do anything like that. Would they?
- Robert Montgomerie