Too Down To Write

For a long time now,I've been too down-hearted to write much. So much wrong in the world, so little being done to fix it. Nothing I can do except use less energy and save what money I can.
The poor are already being squeezed, and it's just going to get worse. It's going to start really squeezing the middle class, and I don't know what those geniuses who are running up the oil prices are thinking. By creating an artificially high price because of perceived shortage (when in fact, there is no shortage) they are destroying the economies of many nations, not just ours. What is the real goal of the speculators? Is it just blind greed, or is there something more sinister at work?
Are they trying to bring down civilization? Are they the new terrorists? If they are, they are succeeding far beyond the dreams of Ben Laden. The riots that have broken out in some places, not in the U.S. yet, but that will come as gas goes higher and higher and people who already can't afford to eat lose their jobs.
We must get the speculators out of the commodities markets, and restore some common sense and common decency to our society. (Yeah, like THAT'S going to happen!)
I fear the end may be very near for our country, and it may be too late to turn things around. Too many years of the greed of the wealthy run amok have ruined things for all of us.