Candidate says he will cut taxes for largest voting bloc

Although claiming to be all about change, presumed Democratic candidate for president, Barack Obama is promising to cut taxes for American's single largest voting bloc: the middle class. I genned up a spreadsheet with all the promised middle class tax cuts made by successful presidential candidates during my life time and discovered that if they all had been actually enacted, the government would send each member of the middle class about $1742 at the end of each year.

Apparently middle class tax cuts aren't all that they're cracked up to be.

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California Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger is unusually quiet about the sudden doubling of gasoline prices. And this time it's not because he is so gawd-awful rich that he hasn't noticed. This doubling of gas prices is really helping the state budget crunch. You see, Californians pay state sales tax on gasoline. State coffers are pulling in about twice the revenue they did a year ago off gas sales.

Oil speculators have done to Californians what politicians were to chicken to do: raise everyone's taxes. You won't hear anyone in Sacramento complain.

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Even though Senator McCain has finally seen the wisdom in drilling for offshore oil, he hasn't yet come around in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. So if being held hostage to OPEC and market speculators isn't enough, I have one more reason to go full steam ahead that no one can argue with, and I'll sum it up in two words: reality TV.

Let's face it, Ice Road Truckers is OK, and so is Blackgold. But Ice Road Truckers meets Blackgold with caribou thundering across the small screen would be incredible!

Sure, the environmentalists make the point that even with ANWR, we're still a third-rate oil producing nation, but with "Ice Road Blackgold Truckers" I think we could assure our number one position in the world of reality TV for years to come. I can even envision a certain "Man Vs Wild" element to the production.

Come on! You know I'm on to something here. Please sit down today and write a letter to your representative, senator, and cable TV programmer, urging them to open ANWR to oil exploration.

I thank you. The nation thanks you.