Today, Dow Chemical announced that they will raise prices by 20% across the board.  Dow is a critical supplier to virtually every industry imaginable.  These costs will be passed right on to the American consumer, who is already bearing the brunt of the economic mess the government has put us in.  Dow CEO Andrew Liveris put the blame right where it belongs:

“For years, Washington has failed to address the issue of rising energy costs and, as a result, the country now faces a true energy crisis, one that is causing serious harm to America’s manufacturing sector and all consumers of energy…The government’s failure to develop a comprehensive energy policy is causing U.S. industry to lose ground when it comes to global competitiveness, and our own domestic markets are now starting to see demand destruction throughout the U.S.”

I’m sure y’all have heard of the global warming skeptic petition that has garnered 31,000 signatures from the scientific community.

That’s a whole lot more than the 2,500-member UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which claims there is a “consensus” on man-made global warming.

Mark Degasperis was furious his mother spent five days on a stretcher at Toronto Western Hospital waiting for a room with 25 patients ahead of her — until the Toronto Sun made a call and she was suddenly moved to a room yesterday.

“They were giving us the same old song and dance why she was in the emergency department with only a sheet draped around her. I couldn’t even call her because she didn’t have a phone,” Degasperis of Georgetown said.

Heather Degasperis, 60, has a dangerous bacterial condition and was sent by her doctor to Toronto Western because it has the experts for her condition.

“She is not well and wasn’t able to sleep and she wasn’t getting any better. She needed peace and quiet to sleep.

“This is a terrible environment. I suggested taking her to another hospital, but we were told there are long waits across the region and the doctors we need are here. So there was nothing we could do,” Degasperis said yesterday.

“I’m angry we pay such high taxes and the more money we throw at the health care system the worse it gets. People shouldn’t be lined up on stretchers in the emergency department. If you are sick you should get a room.”

The Toronto Sun

I just astounds me that there are Americans that still support this kind of system here when you constantly hear about these horror stories.  I could post something like this almost every day coming out of one of these Socialist countries and yet the idiots continue to follow Obama around mesmerized by his empty words because they sound good.  The left is definitely succeeding at turning Americans into government dependent morons.