Many people are certain El Presidenté Jorgé Arbusto George McChimpy Shrub Bush/Hitler, aka President George W. Bush has great mystical powers.

Just ask them and they’ll tell you with straight faces he’s the world’s biggest criminal, worse than Hitler, Stalin or Saddam Hussein.

Not only is this seemingly friendly, family man with a beautiful and gracious wife and two beautiful daughters the worst man to ever live, but he’s also stupid, as proven by his degrees at Yale and Harvard.

Many will tell you of his great powers to bring about hurricanes that destroy only the poor parts of a city that is below sea level, or his powers to cause tornadoes in the Mid-West, and all the time twisting his moustache and rubbing his hands together in terrible glee.

He even forced people to buy houses they couldn’t afford and thinks the government shouldn’t bail them out for being stupid.

Well, last night while speaking on the telephone to Guss about a family matter, Guss all of a sudden said, “Holy cow!” I asked him what he was talking about and he told me all about this ABC News report, titled Globalization; In Reverse.

He gave me a brief description and I immediately went to the nearest computer to look up the story on the ABC News site.

This wizard has done it again! He has deliberately raised the prices of oil as we all know and now the chickens have come home to roost.

Let me explain:

As the cost of shipping continues to soar along with fuel prices, homegrown manufacturing jobs are making a comeback after decades of decline.

While it once cost $3,000 to ship a container from a city like Shanghai to New York, it now costs $8,000, prompting some businesses to look closer to home for manufacturing needs. [...]

[...]Furniture designer Carol Gregg used to have her signature Chinese chests assembled in China, but such a luxury no longer seems viable, considering that some of her pieces now cost five times more to ship.

So now Gregg is having the chests made in North Carolina, simply because its cheaper.

Some large companies like Crown Battery are cutting expenses by moving jobs from Mexico to Ohio. And hair care company Farouk Systems plans to shift all of its production from China to Houston this summer — bringing with it 1,000 jobs.

The rise in transportation costs are fueling what some economists are calling “reverse globalization.” For instance, DESA, a company that makes heaters to keep football players warm, is moving all its production back to Kentucky after years of having them made in China.

“Cheap labor in China doesn’t help you when you gotta pay so much to bring the goods over,” says economist Jeff Rubin. [...]

[...]“In December, we had three employees here. We were just getting set up. Now it’s 14,” says Casey Hearn, who owns a furniture manufacturing business in North Carolina.

Other sectors of U.S. manufacturing may see a boost in jobs as well. Rubin says the U.S. steel industry is poised to reap benefits.

“It’s not just about labor costs anymore,” says Rubin. “Distance costs money, and when you have to shift iron ore from Brazil to China and then ship it back to Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh is looking pretty good at 40 bucks an hour.”

Just when everyone had been convinced by his bumbling style he makes it look like wizardry. Don’t you see his grand, evil plan?

He deliberately personally ran up the cost of energy so offshore manufacturing jobs would be cheaper to produce here than in other countries.

This news being reported on one of the alphabet networks must have the Democrats pulling their hair out.

And his timing is just right. Remember in 2004 Madeline Albright speculated in the Green Room of a Sunday show that Bush probably had bin Laden captured and would show him before the election?

Nah, he didn’t need that to get re-selected er elected. He was saving that for the October surprise in this year’s election.

This just proves the theory by some people that he is the anti-Christ himself. Yessir. He causes natural disasters all the way back to the bubonic plague, kills people with impunity and deserves to be impeached this very moment because the energy prices are so high. This according to Lou Dobbs in one of his fits last week.

Seriously, I’ve tried to make this post tongue-in-cheek and have had fun at President Bush’s expense. He is a man I personally admire even with his warts and all.

I do want to say that the jobs coming back home are a wonderful thing to happen for the American workers. I also recognize they are not enough jobs to give all those who want to work a job, but maybe it’s a start, and a darned good one at that.

We can’t let this be a big story though because then Obama will have absolutely nothing to campaign on except his experience and his vision for America’s future. There’s no there, there.

What a terrific form of storytelling country music is today and has always been.

This recent Trace Adkins recording is no exception:

Enjoy!