This vid was one I found on a site called Deprogram.net. The vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoA3wHi9iDE, is by a guy from the Center for Global Research known as Michel Chossudovsky. He argues that the current policies + TARP will eat up almost all of the US's GDP (which I've heard is more a service economy rather than a manufacturing economy).
What's your take on this vid after watching it?
Hmm...
EMK
Everyone seems so concerned of leaving a whopping debt to future generations. If we don't fix things in time,,,, WHAT FUTURE GENERATIONS? We are here NOW. Fix our economy, fix our ecological mess and maybe, perhaps MAYBE,,,, the generations to come will have a CHANCE to pay back whatever debt we leave them, if we fix it in a thoughtful and systematic manner.
If there IS a God,,,,,, he gave us the intellect (well some of us!!!) and dexterity to follow in "His" footsteps. "In his image and likeness." Doesn't likeness mean with the same potential?
If there is NO GOD,,,, we better get off our duffs and dig in to do the job ourselves anyway.
To me it is fairly irrelevant if there is or isn't a "God."
God gave us the tools and we used them to create this mess. Therefore,,,, isn't it up to us to fix it?
As far as enough time,,,,, well, time and space are relative, right? So if not "this time," then next.
The diversity of time line scenarios converge and intersect at intervals. Lets merge the convergence into a smooth future time line of peace and harmony rather than splitting the avenues of our future into tiny bits of fragmented DUST that will travel no longer into realms of time and space.
Thanks,,,,, for the opportunity to chime in. Irp Snerple The Rabble Rousing Pleiadian Dragon/Lion
www.jamwave.com/IrpSnerple
Somebody once said the first 100 days of the presidency can be regarded as the President’s honeymoon, which I took that to mean with the media journalists in our country; well stating it simply “I don’t see that happening with our newly elected President.” Furthermore, when our President took office less than a month ago, negative journalism for the most part began.
Perhaps “negative” is a bit to strong and not the exactly the correct definition, perhaps the recently created word of “spin” is more befitting of what I see coming over the airways, which includes the online news services and television.
Whatever, my feelings are when I view the RSS banner headlines I subscribe to, from what I consider two leading sources of political news, and they’re casting our newly developing administration and the presidency in a negative light with over half of their articles devoted to day after day of negativeness then I feel absolutely justified in labeling them “negative.”
One provider is the Time Warner organization, which includes CNN and Time, while the other is Politico, which I often quote in my blogs when I find there “factual” reporting available. I desire news coverage which lets me decide my opinion on the story being covered, not the commentator’s or the author’s mostly slighted opinion.
As an example, I believe in President Obama’s Economic Stimulus package, but if I followed the supposedly good advice from everything I read from the two aforementioned agencies I’d have to write my congressional representatives and request their “no” votes on the package.
Out of all of the mostconfronting ideas that this election has brought to light for me personally isone that I did not expect. I am a very strongly opinionated person, to a fault,and as a result I find it extraordinarily difficult to empathise with otherswho posses contrasting opinions, failing to comprehend that there is a thinkingoutside of my own, right or wrong, that anyone could possibly, really and honestly feel that way. I have now been forced to face the notionthat as adamantly as I feel about a subject, as sure of my correctness I am, astruly positive I may be that I am in fact some how morally and intellectuallysuperior to those who disagree with me, as much as I insult them and call themnames belittling their intelligence, they might feel just the same about me. Theyare too so unmovably sure of their ideas. For whatever reason, be it apersonnel experience or the grapevine, they think differently to me.
Their headspace is notjust like mine.
They are not shirkingaway from how they really feel and know to be just to serve some minor purpose(like my irritation), that is whatthey really believe.
And there is no one tosay who is in the right. That is humbling. I may not be able to begin to comprehend the notions thatequate to their thinking (a problem im sure they face vice versa) but I mustrespect that they do feel that way that they are no more undeniably in thewrong (or right) as I.
Now I am also confronted unexpectedly withthe idea that there is no absolute right or wrong, in anything, not justpolitics. No opinion, no answer to any question, no matter who posses it orproposed it, is completely with out a doubt, 100% correct. There is no true force that has theright answer written on the back of a palm card waiting for some one to ringthe buzzer, to buy the right vowel or propose the perfect consonant. There is no grand prize at the end ofthe day accept for your own pride in your principals.
Though some people areundoubtedly racist and ignorant, I must comprehend that they feel that way, seethat that are people who really harbour those thoughts, and I must not think meundeniably right, even if no adequate thought or evidence to the contrary canbe provided, no matter who was voted president and who history hails, whosociety looks down on; there is no absolute right or wrong, no certain truthanything.
Not in anyway do I valueless my own Ideas, or doubt them, I am still passionately firm in my personnelbeliefs and interpretations of the world around me. I now have a more open mindto the idea that other peoples cogs turn in different directions, at leastacknowledging, if nothing more, that my thought process and personnelexperiences are not mutual to all or many for that matter. No matter how manyothers may or may not share my opinion, out side of maths class, there is noundeniably correct answer to any question.
Well, the election is over and Barak has claimed victory. I think it was a fair contest; both major parties took some aggresive positions and threw a lot of mud at one another. It appears that the best man did win. Barak is young and energetic, qualities that will be of advantage as he takes on the dubious task of saving our nation from the fires of hades.
I did not vote for our president elect but I do support him now. Simply because he is our leader. It brings me joy to hear his speeches and see his handsom face on tv. However, you will not find me expressing any zeal like so many others. I am hopeful about his presidency and am motivated to participate in the rebuilding. I think I will feel comfortable under his leadership.
You see, I like Barak; I do not like his party. He campaigned as a centrist and, so far, his cabinet picks reflect that. I only have one piece of advice to offer: Why wouldn't Barak give Ron Paul a position in his White House? No doubt the Obama organization admires the Ron Paul Campaign for liberty and mimics their strategy of grass-roots involvment. Giving Paul a cabinet post would earn Barak major points from republican minded peoples. Not only would it be a good stratigic move for the democratic party but I believe Ron Paul is a true genius. He has a real vocation to public service and needs to be a part of this reform era.
Earlier I said that Barak was the product of evil. This was a miscalculation, or, rather, a misrepresentation of my opinion. The entire democratic party seems bitter over history. Many want what they think is vengeance but in reality is just plain revenge. Remember what grandma always said, "Two wrongs don't make a right."
Monday Morning Coming Down
The original title to the song was “Sunday Morning Coming Down” by Kris Kristofferson.
There’s still a buzz in the air. A national high that even the most dedicated of ignorant George Idiot Bush fans cannot shake. The country feels like it’s going to be ok. Of course the economic crisis is still getting worse. I just wish those still in charge would take responsibility for what has happened and tell the truth. We are in a recession. We have been in a recession for a while now. Gas prices are going down but thousands upon thousands of people are losing their jobs. Gas can be fifty cents a gallon and if you don’t have a job and are broke you are still not going to be able to afford it. Incrementally, everything is going down, so incrementally the status quo at least for the rich is staying the same. That middle ground is where the damage is being done. These are people that haven’t lived as the poor. It will be devastating. I went from being comfortable, safe and financially stable to homelessness so I know what it feels like. I ended up that way for a number of reasons and all of them are my fault. I am completely responsible for everything except responsibility itself. A bastardized Sartre quote. I think it was Sartre, it might have been Nitche. Either way it doesn’t even pertain to what my original thought was. Focus this morning is nonexistent.
We are all looking for a savior, even the non-believers like me. Saviors don’t have to be god like, or the second coming of Christ. Saviors can just be individual’s that seize the moment and the moment becomes a thing of beauty. This nation, the world needs that savior.
In my fifty three years of living on this beautiful planet I have been witness to some of the most terrifying of images. I remember as a young boy watching on TV the three men that were hanged down south. I remember watching the blacks of this nation marching and being beaten and hosed down. I remember thinking even as a young boy that this just wasn’t right and I remember thinking that what they were doing, marching against this government, and this nation of hate was the bravest thing I had ever seen. I remember thinking the same of the young people, the hippies as they marched and protested against a government that was failing them. I would watch Martin Luther King Jr. speak and was moved by what this man said. I was devastated when he was murdered. It was the second time in my life where I really thought that the human race was hopelessly destined to destroy itself.
I remember watching our president John F. Kennedy be gunned down and I remember his brother’s fate being the same, and as all of the stories unfolded in the arcane process that we used to think was profound technology we all watched as our nation crumbled one individual at a time.
The Viet Nam war and Tricky Dick Nixon was the final straw for me. There seemed to be no hope left for our nation.
When I was a young man my first wife and I were democrats and we were liberal democrats. I even had opportunities to run for a couple offices but I knew on some instinctual level that I was a dope fiend and drunk and that my rebellion toward government and politics would not work in conjunction with being in government or politics. Who knew they were all dope fiends and drunks themselves. I sincerely felt that I was of more value as a protestor of the wrongs and injustices. I still feel that way minus the drugs and booze.
Jimmy Carter was the last president I voted for until John Kerry. I didn’t like John Kerry. I felt from the day he announced to the end of the election that his motivation was like a spoiled rich kid that thought running for president would be cool.
I liked Jimmy Carter. I still like Jimmy Carter even with his ridiculous statements that he has made recently. I felt that Jimmy Carter was a good man and he was. This made him a terrible president. It is only fair to the Carter administration to note that Jimmy Carter was also hit with a number of things that were out of his control. The hostages, the economic situation and the general chaos going on in our country and the world. After Jimmy Carter I promised myself that I would never vote again and would start a campaign to get others not to vote. I believed that the opposite of apathy, the honest decision to not vote for the lessor of two evils was a profound and powerful statement to send to our government.
I went to the polls and voted for John Kerry feeling like I was being raped but I hated George Idiot Bush and his band of liars, thieves and murderers so much that I felt that I had to do something. That election only cemented in me the conviction that the whole process was hopeless.
I would be lying if I said I have been an Obama supporter from the beginning. I wanted Hillary Clinton to be elected president. My reasons for wanting Hillary to win are strange in that I felt it was time for a woman to finally be recognized as a viable, equal force in this nation. Being the father of a daughter, a lesbian daughter, I knew all too well the cruelty and injustice that is brought down on the women of this country and the world. I was disappointed when Obama became the hope for the Democratic Party.
I started searching out information about Barack Obama and I decided that he was a good and decent man who really wanted on a very complicated and simple level to do what was best for this nation. Barack Obama was a young man, especially for president and he embraced the new world with all of its technology and possibilities. I found myself excited but also cynical and skeptical whether he could win. The most powerful statement to be made in this country would be that the American people voted a black man into the white house. This one act would change the world forever.
Barack Obama didn’t win by a few hundred thousand votes. It was in all respects a landslide win and I sobbed as he went over the one hundred and seventy electoral votes needed to become president. I cried the next day watching the effect this had on our nation and on the world. I for the first time since I was a young man felt excited about our country. I felt hope and a tremendous sense of relief and it felt so foreign to me that I thought there might be something wrong.
I didn’t vote. I regret that decision now but I also hold to my own beliefs that, for me, to become a part of a system that I still believe is so flawed goes against my principles. Hell I regret it on a very human level. My vote would have been another vote in the mass exodus to change.
If this election would have been close like the last two we would have seen a much different turnout. We would have to relive the terrible election of Al Gore and I don’t think the end results would have been in Obama’s favor but instead we saw the American people stand up in unbelievable numbers go to the polls and vote this man in with numbers that cannot be denied. The system worked again! The system worked because there was no doubt in anyone’s mind who won the election. There was still corruption in the polling stations. There were still those evil things that go on during an election but the people came out in numbers great enough to overpower all the bad politics and elect the first president to actually be elected by the people since Lyndon Johnson.
The power of this grand nation of ours is that there are those times in history when the people decide what happens. The concept of freedom and democracy and the constitution shine through which brings even to a cynic like me a hope, a regeneration of faith in the human spirit.
Ah the buzz is still going but the buzz will wear off and we will be sitting with a wonderfully intense hangover looking through half opened eyes watching very closely what takes place and no matter how hard we try not to set unrealistic expectations on this man, we will. We don’t have a choice. We have spent the last eight years being held prisoners in our own country, our own communities and our own homes, if we were lucky enough to keep our homes.
We didn’t wake up the next day and the poor were no longer poor, our young men and women weren’t being killed in faraway lands, our economy miraculously turned itself around. We did however wake up thinking that there was a ray of sunshine shining down on us and warming our hearts to a new generation, a new destiny and a new beginning for our still infant nation. There was and is hope.
Government is not designed to succeed. No government in the history of the world has succeeded, well except for the Chinese, they have been at it for a long time, but essentially the rule of the people isn’t designed to succeed. Good government is designed with provisions that basically have the ability to look into the future and to set standards and requirements that allow this government to adjust to changing times, ideologies, concepts and beliefs and hopefully as a government grows and continues and changes each time that adjustments have to be made they will make that system stronger. The precarious element in the equation is that a government has to be on the brink of complete collapse and devastation for the adjustments and refinements to work. This makes each one of these moments in history so unbelievably beautiful when they work and so unbelievably devastating when they fail. The fall of governments almost every time is because of the melding of government and religion.
George Idiot Bush and his band of liars, thieves and murderers took our country closer to the edge than it has ever been. We were standing on the precipice of complete failure as a democratic nation. We were hated by most of the world and our respect as a nation was gone.
The history books will not be kind to George Idiot Bush as they should not be. The history books haven’t been kind to Nixon and other idiots and lunatics we have elected. I just hope we don’t allow another idiot or lunatic to bring us this close again because the history books after the fall will not be written at all. We have, this time, made a decision to make sure this doesn't happen at least for the next eight years.
I cannot imagine what it must feel like to be a black man, woman or child in this country today. After countless years of abuse, hatred and oppression they have been given a new hope, a new vision and a new sense of community and belonging. I only hope that women will also see that day for them. It is a travesty that Sara Palin became the representative for women. She was just so far out of her league and the Republican Party knew this and pulled this stunt anyway trying to play sports instead of politics. Sara Palin is obviiously responsible for her own actions during this election but she is not to be blamed completely for this.
I ask one thing of Barack Obama, “Do the best you can for the nation that you love.” Take the love and dedication that I see you have in your wife and children and bring that to the American people. You will be the greatest president ever if you can do that. I have one more request. Stop the persecution that is going on towards our gay and lesbian communities. Stop this insanity.
I want my daughter to also believe that she is an equal in this world. I want her to know that as a woman she is just as important as any man and as a lesbian she is embraced for her love to her partner and the life that they live which is so much more genuine than majority of heterosexual marriages.
All the statistics in the world don’t mean squat. My daughter as all women, gay men and lesbians should not have to be enduring the blind insane religious persecution that they are being made to endure. The whole process is beyond belief to me. It appears that those hateful, racist, prejudice and religious of this nation knew that they were losing the battles on their terrible actions toward the minorities so they searched out another minority, a different minority to throw their hate toward.
My daughter is a profoundly beautiful and successful woman in the life choices that she has made her own. She lives every day of her life in comfort and confidence in her choices. She loves and respects life and all that is living and she deserves to be treated with respect for her choices in her own life as all gay and lesbians do, as all women do, as all minorities do, as all human beings do. Stop this insanity.
We are all completely responsible for our lives and the actions and paths that our lives take except for responsibility itself.
Hippy Mike
Stand proud.
Walk with your head up and your heart on your coat of arms.
Greatness is your name. Excellence is your native tongue.
Beautiful is your complexion. Powerful is your race. Stand firm in your stance.
Believe this moment has arrived.
Let your voice be heard from the burning sands of the mojave to the blowing winds in Chicago.
Let your light be seen from the lighthouses of Maine to the space needle in Seattle.
Let your seeds be planted in the plains of Nebraska and watered by the mouth of the mighty Mississippi.
Let your hammer come down on hatred and your shield protect the oppressed.
This is your day. My day. Our day.
We cried and you comforted us with your words.
We had a dream and it came true. You are the angel of hope we begged for.
More than ever we need you.
We understand your journey has been a long one thus far
But it only gets longer.
You are our commander our executive. You are the change we require.
You are our president.
Lead us President Obama.
This is your job our dream your destiny.
Ok some of you may think oh voting that is a waste of time we already know who is going to win, Obama. Even though there is a high chance still exercise your ability as an American citizen to go out to the polls tomorrow and express your political views. Go out there and help America to have a beneficial next four years so we do not end up with another four years of the same or worse. This election is pinnacle; it will change how America stands both Domestically and our Foreign Image. The election of a great leader that can rally the people of our wonderful country together to become a shining beacon of HOPE for the future. The whole world is hurting and it is America's perfect opportunity to make a CHANGE and help the world get turned around from this current economical slump. OBAMA is the CHANGE we need! Please I urge you go out and VOTE make your opinion known. YOUR OPINION MATTERS! VOTE OBAMA '08
One of my colleagues (who I think would identify himself as a fiscally conservative, undecided independent voter) recently shared the following comment on our choice in this year's election. He said it stood out to him as a calm, thoughtful analysis of both McCain and Obama. I wholeheartedly agree and would recommend sharing this with any undecided voters you may know.
The full article can be found on the New Yorker's website:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/10/13/081013taco_talk_editors
And here is a small excerpt from the article's conclusion:
"We cannot expect one man to heal every wound, to solve every major crisis of policy. So much of the Presidency, as they say, is a matter of waking up in the morning and trying to drink from a fire hydrant. In the quiet of the Oval Office, the noise of immediate demands can be deafening. And yet Obama has precisely the temperament to shut out the noise when necessary and concentrate on the essential. The election of Obama—a man of mixed ethnicity, at once comfortable in the world and utterly representative of twenty-first-century America—would, at a stroke, reverse our country’s image abroad and refresh its spirit at home. His ascendance to the Presidency would be a symbolic culmination of the civil- and voting-rights acts of the nineteen-sixties and the century-long struggles for equality that preceded them. It could not help but say something encouraging, even exhilarating, about the country, about its dedication to tolerance and inclusiveness, about its fidelity, after all, to the values it proclaims in its textbooks. At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness. It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. That leader’s name is Barack Obama."
Oh Sarah IS as much a dim-witted buffoon as her interviews showed. What people failed to realize going in, is that she has one important skill: Sarah can repeat lines from a script very well. She just can't follow-up.
Now with things being "even" (more or less) the battle will remain only as crazy as it has been (Hey, I'm trying to be positive here). And the momentum IS in our favor, that will be hard to correct and I don't think that re-energizing the base will do much toward that.
Dear Senator Obama and all Congressional Democrats,
I am writing to you regarding the bailout package that failed today. While I am not one to support Republican behavior, I am VERY grateful they defeated such a flawed piece of legislation. I don't agree with the reasons they voted it down, but I am thrilled that they did. I urge you to work on putting together a piece of legislation that is actually useful & responsive to the needs of middle America.
Editorial from Jonathan Freedland of the British newspaper The Guardian on the upcoming US election."If Sarah Palin defies the conventional wisdom that says elections are determined by the top of the ticket, and somehow wins this for McCain, what will be the reaction? Yes, blue-state America will go into mourning once again, feeling estranged in its own country. A generation of young Americans -- who back Obama in big numbers -- will turn cynical, concluding that politics doesn't work after all. And, most depressing, many African-Americans will decide that if even Barack Obama -- with all his conspicuous gifts -- could not win, then no black man can ever be elected president.
But what of the rest of the world? This is the reaction I fear most. For Obama has stirred an excitement around the globe unmatched by any American politician in living memory. Polling in Germany, France, Britain and Russia shows that Obama would win by whopping majorities, with the pattern repeated in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. If November 4 were a global ballot, Obama would win it handsomely. If the free world could choose its leader, it would be Barack Obama.
The crowd of 200,000 that rallied to hear him in Berlin in July did so not only because of his charisma, but also because they know he, like the majority of the world's population, opposed the Iraq war. McCain supported it, peddling the lie that Saddam was linked to 9/11. Non-Americans sense that Obama will not ride roughshod over the international system but will treat alliances and global institutions seriously: McCain wants to bypass the United Nations in favour of a US-friendly League of Democracies. McCain might talk a good game on climate change, but a repeated floor chant at the Republican convention was "Drill, baby, drill!", as if the solution to global warming were not a radical rethink of the US's entire energy system but more offshore oil rigs.
If Americans choose McCain, they will be turning their back on the rest of the world, choosing to show us four more years of the Bush-Cheney finger. And I predict a deeply unpleasant shift.
Until now, anti-Americanism has been exaggerated and much misunderstood: outside a leftist hardcore, it has mostly been anti-Bushism, opposition to this specific administration. But if McCain wins in November, that might well change. Suddenly Europeans and others will conclude that their dispute is with not only one ruling clique, but Americans themselves. For it will have been the American people, not the politicians, who will have passed up a once-in-a-generation chance for a fresh start -- a fresh start the world is yearning for.
And the manner of that decision will matter, too. If it is deemed to have been about race -- that Obama was rejected because of his colour -- the world's verdict will be harsh. In that circumstance, Slate's Jacob Weisberg wrote recently, international opinion would conclude that "the United States had its day, but in the end couldn't put its own self-interest ahead of its crazy irrationality over race."
Even if it's not ethnic prejudice, but some other aspect of the culture wars, that proves decisive, the point still holds. For America to make a decision as grave as this one -- while the planet boils and with the US fighting two wars -- on the trivial basis that a hockey mom is likable and seems down to earth, would be to convey a lack of seriousness, a fleeing from reality, that does indeed suggest a nation in, to quote Weisberg, "historical decline." Let's not forget, McCain's campaign manager boasts that this election is "not about the issues."
Of course I know that even to mention Obama's support around the world is to hurt him. Incredibly, that large Berlin crowd damaged Obama at home, branding him the "candidate of Europe" and making him seem less of a patriotic American. But what does that say about today's America, that the world's esteem is now unwanted? If Americans reject Obama, they will be sending the clearest possible message to the rest of us -- and, make no mistake, we shall hear it."
My first reaction was that I sent Obama another contribution as a way of saying thank you for Friday night. It was worth far more in entertainment than going to a theatrical production at the Music Center! What follows is more of my reactions to the presidential debate at the University of Mississippi with Jim Leher as the moderator.
Senator McCain varied from looking scared to looking contemptuous to looking silly. And that with getting off easy on the questions. I wish Leher had asked him the following:
How was the S. and L. crisis similar or different than this one and what did you learn from your role in it?
Do you not think that your role in supporting deregulation through the past 25 years or more has something to do with the situation we now find ourselves in? If you don't, who is to blame?
You make much of the fact that you are a "maverick" and have disagreed with the policies of your party and worked across the aisle and often say in your speeches that Obama has not done either. Since it is a fact that Obama has worked with Republicans in both his time in the Illinois Senate and in the U. S. Senate, does that not put your honesty in question? Could it be that Obama has not challenged his party's policies as much as you have challenged your party's policies be because your party is more often wrong on the issues than his is?
Why do you keep suggesting that your negative campaign ads would not be happening if Obama has been honoring your suggestion to join him in frequent town hall meetings? How are the two related?
Considering all the concern shown in the public's responses to Governor Palin's interviews with the press, concern that she is not ready to be president, do you regret your choice for vice-president?
Barack Obama, on the other hand debated with calmness and dignity and gave reasoned responses, while McCain seemed angry and stuck in stump speech accusations that have been proven to be lies. Naturally, this put Obama in a defense posture, frequently having to state "That's just not true!" I had the feeling that McCain's strategy was to do this so often that Obama would have to hold back his interruptions on some denials just to move the debate forward to other topics of more importance.
Obama's ability to speak directly to the camera audience and to McCain when called for was such a contrast to McCain's either looking down or at the audience in the hall, totally avoiding even a glance at Obama made Obama appear much more confident and in control. It was interesting to note that Obama often referred to his opponent as "John" while McCain always referred to his opponent as "Senator Obama." It made it seem as though Obama knew McCain better than McCain knew Obama.
Several times Obama gave McCain credit for making a correct statement, saying such things as "You're absolutely right that taxes are high on paper, you're right that earmarks have been abused, you're right on the need for more responsibility" and in every case he followed his agreement with a qualifier. You're right about this much, but not right about the rest. My favorite was when he said "You're absolutely right that presidents have to be prudent in what they say. But, coming from you, who in the past have threatened extinction for North Korea and sung songs about bombing Iran, I don't know how credible that is."
Good debating tactic to acknowledge your agreement with your opponent on some points. McCain never once gave Obama credit for getting anything right that I recall. I wish Leher had asked Obama to explain why his first response to the Russia/Georgia conflict was that he recommend both sides to show restraint and why he thought McCain or anyone would be critical of that.
All in all, I think it was a great night for Obama and I'm looking forward to the rest of the debates where I'm sure he will continue to shine!
Breeze Bryson
September 27, 2008
Watching the speech[sic] last night was showing me nothing new from anything last week. I agree more with what Suze Orman said on Oprah two days ago concerning the current situation, though I also suspect other things. (I've had several posts on the economy in my blog). And frankly, I don't think that the government buying anymore financial properties and/or mortgages (except the Fed, IMO) will stabilize anything. Buying up the stuff, including the debt will only permit another crash like this one to recur.
Besides, I have other questions as well: Assuming the bailout goes through...
Too many crazy things have been going on! I don't profess to know it all, though.
Debate, discuss, just like WE SHOULD!!!
"The society's deprivation relies/ not on our differences/ but the separation within."
--Linkin Park, "Frgt/10"
"Watch Your Rights!" (StahrT)
Even if you don't care for Ron Paul, skip over to about 5:00 min of this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv6rQ0U01Yc (Bernanke talks about the origins of the Federal Reserve).
Here's the Federal Reserve Act: http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fract.htm
And Wilson's quote after signing it: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Woodrow_Wilson#.22I_am_a_most_unhappy_man....22
Oh, I think we, the people (Read Article I, Sec. 8-10 of the U.S. Constitution) have an issue about the Act, Bernanke!
See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt_GhcQ5EtU (Props to George Pridonoff's Blog).
Read or watch the links first and bring up the debate!
Until later,
I support Senator Obama because I believe that he is the best candidate to solve the problems facing our country. Senator Obama has the judgment, the vision, and the leadership necessary to bring the country together and move forward (not backward, like McCain). Senator Obama has had many experiences in his life that show me he is ready to lead our country in the right direction. He went to Columiba University on a scholarship, graduated at the top of his class, became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, and he could've done anything he wanted with that kind of resume. What did he choose? He chose to help poor people in Chicago's South Side! Obama is the REAL DEAL!! Since then, he has gone on to become a Constitutional Law Professor, an Illinois State Senator, and US Senator. He has consistently shown inspiring vision, good judgment, and the ability to bring people together. I'm sure he would become one our country's greatest presidents. McCain, on the other hand, has a terrible record. His only accomplishment seems to be that he was a POW. Since then, he has been a corrupt, pandering, lying politician. After his involvement in the Keating Five Scandal, he built an image (only the image) of being a "maverick". But since then, he has flip-flopped on EVERY important issue that he stood for... Bush's tax cuts, ethics reform, regulation, immigration... EVEN TORTURE! After 26 years of getting nothing done in Congress, McCain pretended to be the candidate with "experience" (he's only experienced in failure), but now pretends to be the agent of change because his party has ruined our country over the last 8 years! McCain has no principles, thinks the American people are all idiots who will believe his lies, and will do anything it takes to win. Then, after becoming the GOP nominee, for his first major decision as a presidential candidate... he picks Sarah Palin! He could've easily picked someone who had more experience, more qualifications, or the ability to work in a bipartisan way. Instead, he chose Palin, who not only has no real qualifications to be VP, but also is the most polarizing figure in politics. She is pro-life, pro-guns, pro-war, pro-drilling, pro-creationsim, and pro-lobbyist. She has consistenly lied about her record as a "maverick" and "reformer", while the truth is she has asked for money in earmarks than any other governor in history! Rather than bring the country together, John McCain decided to pick someone who might ignite a culture war to help him get to 51% in a few battleground states so he might have a chance at winning the election. That was a purely political decision, it wasn't the best choice for the country, and it shows how McCain would make decisions as president. Not to mention, McCain is a 72 year old man with a 1,500 page medical history. It is very possible that if he did win, Palin would become president! He met her ONCE and a had a 15 minute phone conversation with her before making this extremely important decision. That tells me one of three things about McCain - Either 1) he is insane, 2) he does whatever his lobbyists tell him, or 3) he just doesn't care enough about the country to make a better decision. Either way, he does not deserve to be the president. So, for those reasons, and so many more, I completely support Senator Obama for president. I've been paying a lot of attention to politics and the news for many years. I understand the important issues and I know why experts say Obama has better solutions on EVERY problem facing our country. If more people would do their research on the candidates, they would agree that Obama is the best candidate to lead our country. Instead, people are busy with the problems of their own daily lives (many of which McCain helped to create) or they are easily distracted by the nonsense in the media. I'm hoping people will see the clear differences during the debates, and that Obama can help lead this country on the path where we belong, to a better and brighter future for all Americans!
