Should the President do something about the price of gas? Would that be socialism?

He can do something by imposing tighter regulations on wall street speculators. Unfortunately the Republicans are blocking him.

Mike: you don't have a clue what you are talking about. Do you really think they would lower their prices and make less money voluntarily..? Get real idiot.

Your question is not about the high price of gasoline, it's about the lower value of dollars. Aside from the downward correction in the value of items that had been artificially overinflated prior to the current situation (housing for example,) everything is going up in "cost" because more and more money is being injected into the economy. Oil is simply particularly sensitive because, it's always in demand and is a global, readily consumable commodity that moves everywhere and in high volume.

The price of everything will continue to rise until the dollar stops eroding in value. It's almost impossible to take money out of the economy, but the authorities could at least stop creating more of it; no more quantitative easing and higher interest rates for a start. However, the belief is that this would trigger another big downturn in the economy, and so they don't want to do that. Even if they did take such a difficult step, it would be quite some time before prices stabilized because there's usually a delay in widespread effects, and prices would probably level off well above what we're experiencing now because of that delay.

He should announce an all out effort to support domestic oil exploration, lifting all geographic restrictions. Government control of oil and medicine would and already has made both much more expensive, less available, and lower quality. Do you think the government has a track record of running things efficiently?

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No socialism is an economic system. The government regulating the oil market is not socialism.

He should get rid of price floors and ceilings so that gas stations start undercutting each other to steal customers.

Same way with perscription drugs.

He should also allow people to buy insurance across state lines to encourage competition and bring down price.

You do quite have the grasp of what socialism is but your not along as the second poster shows but the question is what would you like him to do?

Everything the president does is socialist, according to conservative idiots.

If the government does something it is socialism, if they do not, they are not caring about the people. Damned if they do and damned if they don't.

No that would be Democratic Capitalism but yes I think Obama should do something.