A Darker Future For Us

What an excellent article, I look forward to the book.

The McCain Campaign:

John McCain has proven himself in this campaign to be an angry low road politician who failed miserably to show himself to be a fair and decent individual, with the stature to rise to the Office of the Presidency.

Leading a campaign that (even though major news orgs constantly debunked his ads) almost exclusively resorted to the constant barrage of outright lies, distortions, and the sleaziest of attack ads. Showing himself, instead, to be a little man, he displays a nasty, divisive and confrontational attitude with limited vision and dimension of thinking. He is minimally accomplished as a statesman and, as shown by his own actions, is conspicuously absent of the temperament and the diplomatic and leadership skills necessary to adequately represent and lead this nation in promoting international respect and cooperation on the future world stage.

The United States can do much better than John McCain, On Tuesday, I am betting the nation will agree.

Only Obama, the Carter of the 21st Century can make this worse.

Only Obama can make it worse.

Much of the constant increase in health care is the greed of the pharmaceutical companies..If they put the billions of dollars they spend on consumer advertising back instead into research and development health care would go down considerably. I do wonder if there is anyone out there who still believes that the pharmaceutical companies actually careabout curing anything? Its all about money as the cost of prescription drugs has risen faster than the annual rate of inflation for years now. Of course it really helped when the lobbyists of the pharmaceutical companies along with the Republicans included in the Medicare prescription bill that Medicare could not negotiate for lower drug costs. Go Republicans and continue to support the big corporations like the pharmaceuticals.

We've gotten far to used to cheap energy, too focused on consumer spending (keep up with the Jones'), and too self absorbed. We've forgotten what it's like to look out for each other, and think of the future beyond what's on TV tonight, and is there enough beer in the 'frig. There is a *lot* that needs fixing in this country and we can do it! We just need to focus on the long term, and fix infrastructure, education, and health care for starters, and get more energy-efficient while we're at it!

Bush and company caused this mess by allowing deregulations for banks and finance companies because the housing bubble was getting to good and the average American could not afford them on their measley wages and the fact that the good paying jobs got out-sourced and companies off-shored to avoid paying taxes; yet Bush gave large corporations taxes anyway. The the average conservative doesn't get it! They just think Obama is only going to help the very poor. Which might be you in one month if your job gets shipped overseas! Most people today are up to their eye balls in debt! LIving on credit. Well, soon even that won't get up the pace. I repeat the Republican administration for 20 out of the last 28 years starting with "de-regulating" trickle down theory (not - it didn't work) Reagan. Stop worrying about being nationalized.. hey Cheney and Bush started it already by buying stocks in banks...it's happening already.. it won't take Obama. Obama may be your best bet.. yet conservative just don't get it.. they just don't see it! If you are smart you will vote for Obama.. he will get you out of the mess knuckle head lobbyist loving Republicans got YOU into! Republicans work for large corporation lobbyist... and could care less about you the average American...they take from you to give more to the rich....so the rich can further rip you off.. but you don't see that.. ...so your'll vote Republican and the same crap will continue.. but only get worse! Republicans work for oil companies.. so you won't see any "green" jobs coming about if they get elected...

SUSTAINABILITY has been a big criticism against the American model of affluence. There aren't enough resources for everyone globally to follow the U.S. model, and it's looking increasingly unsustainable for the U.S. as well. Energy gets a lot of attention, but one reason the country is so dependent is suburban sprawl. The whole model there seems designed to maximize consumption of everything, even though much of that consumption is wasteful if compared to western Europe. Another big problem is companies in the U.S. ALWAYS trying to channel productivity gains into higher earnings rather than more leisure time. The end product is houses and apartments full of "stuff" that goes unused or underused because the owner has to be at work all the time! Vacation allotments are meager, and tying extra weeks to years of service is meaningless in an economy where people have to switch jobs several times in a career. Especially ridiculous is when the "stuff" overflows the house and the owner rents a storage shed rather than facing up to the imbalances and absurdity of it all. Most of my "stuff" came from thrift stores, where I'm always amazed at how much there is and how little use it had gotten. Let someone else take the depreciation.

The problem with Obama is a simple one. One association does not a radical make. But in Obama's case, the list of left-wing radical mentors and associates is seemingly endless, (Davis, Ayers, Wright, Khalidi , etc., etc.) with a new revelation practically every day. With that trend, a picture begins to emerge, and that picture is that Obama is as steeped, not in just left-wing political thought, but in radical left-wing economic and race ideology, to the same extent that Pat Robertson was steeped in the ideology of the radical Religious Right. I would not have voted for Pat Robertson for dog catcher, and for similar reasons, I will not vote for Obama.

Learn how to spell Affluence

Wakey wakey.
This article is pointless because it still subscribes to the idea that economic growth can go on forever. Arguing about different ways of increasing growth is like a junkie arguing over different ways to inject.. in the eye? between the toes?
The carrying capacity of the planet has been massively overshot and it's only going to get worse, with nine billion people on the planet. It's time to start talking about a steady-state economic model. Either that, or start tooling up for the coming global resource war. Oh, that's right.. it's already started, unless you think Iraq got invaded for the cause of Freedom, Democracy and Access to McDonalds.
Damn those Iraqis for putting their country on top of American oil! What were they thinking?

Maybe it is the American education systems inability to teach the most basic skills. Say for instance spelling! last I checked affluence was spelled a-f-f-l-u-e-n-c-e not affulence. Nice job copywriters!

Vote for McPlain, we'll gaurantee you a McJob!

Vote for McPlain, we'll gaurantee you a McJob!

Sorry for the typo should have read United Nations General Assembly

This week there was a good example as to why most of the world's inhabitants look at the USA as the real maverick of the globe. The United States General Assembly voted incredibly 185-3 urging the USA to end the almost half century embargo/blockade of Cuba. There were vivid comments from many if not most of the so called friends of the USA.. Will the USA change - Who knows?

"Spreading the wealth is good for everybody." Conservatives dont believe in spreading the wealth- right they say this is wrong! So they believe in the opposite of "spreading" which is hoarding, monopolizing etc.


Plutocratic ideals are their mainstay!
Study the last eight years and there is is- "socialize the debt and privatize the wealth!" This is the most un-American of all policies! I suppose that its just fair for the middle class to fight wars as well?

I suppose its fine to finance arbitrary wars based on subversion but not to fund the heath care for the citizens who are paying the taxes for the arbitrary war?

Its just fine to pay the hailburtons billions of dollars- on no bid contracts for the privatization of certain functions of the war but underpay and under fund the education and heath care of the real American warriors and their families!

Hypocrites we have seen your ways-
greed is your flag!

You know who to vote for!