Tell Lieberman he’s a disgrace to his faith and Country for putting money over people. http://ping.fm/bJIqB
“Two-thirds of the energy in the fuel burned to produce electricity is lost in the process of generation and delivery.”
Solar World Round Up 11-06-09
While the GOP keeps up the steady drum beat about doing nothing to address health care – in other words doing the insurance companies bidding. America falls behind.
I’m sure the GOP will be staking out the same do nothing position when it comes to energy reform doing Exxon/Mobils bidding, and America lags behind. The Status Quo wants every last one of our dollar bills for themselves. Who cares if they cripple the entire national economic system and chew up our “disposable” income crushing our economic backbone – small business.
Meanwhile China is spending multiple billions of dollars on clean energy technologies across the board, wind, solar and electric cars while we fight to preserve our outdated business models and the enormously rich and vastly few they benefit.
Hurry up and pass this health care reform so we can reform the energy sector and spur on jobs for our unemployed. Boehner doesn’t even know the difference between the Constitution and the Deceleration of Independence and he wants to run Congress. He doesn’t speak for me that over tanned freak. Get off the golf course and pick up a history book asshole.
Here’s the rest of the world beating us to the punch while we protect the uber wealthy’s profit margin on outdated health care and energy systems.
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Big Government is the Problem – Guess Again
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Big Government is the Problem – Guess Again
I ran across this quote again – “When the government gets involved, everyone loses in the long term,” posted by some empty headed student in one of those big Texas universities. I have been listening to this shit since Regan got elected. It just gets repeated over and over again until a certain type of individual actually thinks its true. The only scenario where government would be a bad idea is if people where angels. Well mankind is far from angelic. We are base, short sighted and driven by greed, jealousy and envy, and some would argue that’s our good side.
The fact of the matter is that when government (a.k.a. – law) wasn’t involved men shot men in the street and banks were robbed – the pablum puking repetition of the rhetoric that government is bad serves no purpose. This is a nation of laws – not dictators or armies or royalty and it’s a better system than most. But it is government who put that system in place and it is government that is supposed to manage it – not lobbyist. And it has to be big to effectively manage a continent with global interconnectedness and relations you freakin’ idiots.
A well thought out system of checks and balances however can be corrupted when “individuals” sell out.
The problem is our lazy uneducated population from which we draw individual representatives from and how easily their morals are bought off to stay elected or gain title, power and stature for title, power and stature sake. The system as now rigged by individuals requires a ton of cash to keep your job as a representative but that’s no excuse for selling out or an excuse for citizens to be apathetic.
The solution is campaign finance reform. And I would remind everyone who insists on making empty headed statements about government being bad to step back and think about it. Hyper self interest and a slavish focus on the bottom line may work for an individual business model but it is one helluva lousy way to run a Country.
I would remind the geniuses that swallow the rhetoric that running an individual business and governing (ie managing) a Country are two different things. It’s a question of balance. When one sector of the market gets a choke hold (monopoly)on the macroeconomics and structure it thwarts and stifles economic growth and inventiveness across the whole broad market.
The inverse is actually the truth – when government doesn’t get involved everyone looses in the long term. It all depends on what we the people tell the government to do. The government is our tool. When we hand it over to individuals, corporatist or the military its function of oversight, and ethics gets abandoned.
The single mindedness of one market sector and its laser like focus on its one business model doesn’t take into account the ramifications or unintended consequences of its actions across the whole market nationally and internationally.
To put it in simple terms your State forests would have been clear cut by now because individual market sectors have zero self control when its only focus, goal, and pursuit is to maximize profit. Why do you think overfishing is an issue? Because the individual corporations, companies and businessmen say – the next guy can cut back I’m making as much money as I can.
No one cuts back until a law and a power able to enforce that law is passed by the majority to ensure our collective survival and the continuation of that market and all that is linked to it. That law and that power is called Government. Without it and this isn’t hyperbole we return to the wild,wild west. And in case you didn’t know it no amount of being right has ever stopped a bullet.
So wise up and get a clue. People are now so comfortable they think government is bad. It is government that has provided that comfort by replacing the rule of the gun with the rule of law.
Without laws and because of deregulation the economy goes through boom and bust cycles rocking everyone’s world. Unless you are okay with all that and would like a return to the gun model of running a country, city, town and street I suggest you pull back and think about who is telling you Government is bad?
I’ll answer that for you. It’s the individual self interested who have been restricted in their pursuit of profit because they do more damage than good to the big picture.
They have no moral compass or long term understanding built into their business plan of maximizing profits through any and all means or when it comes to making a quick buck, and to everyone else be damned.
If the free market is so all powerful how come it can’t get a foot hold in Hatti? Because it’s the rule of the gun on that island and not law. If there were no laws there wouldn’t be a global economic infrastructure and corporatist mechanism in place for you all to worship at.
As usual mans sight needs to be raised up from staring at his own belly button. Part, a small but loud part, and very well funded with national media outlets at their disposal echo the chant of laws are evil (they call it regulation or government because we all know laws aren’t evil – they are set up to prevent evil) and claim what holds it all together and props it all up as evil because their particular financiers are encumbered by governance.
Romanticism of rugged individualism (the retarded cowboy) has never saw beyond itself or governed effectively. Greed is not good and Clint Eastwood isn’t going to ride into town and save us all from the evil Bush-whackers. We save ourselves by governance and the rule of law.
Pick up a history book and go back to economics class. Although the individual profit whores (Bush-whackers) don’t want an educated public because it would screw up their schemes of power and manipulation. It’s too hard to manipulate an educated population with empty headed slogans and fear – Government is bad – yeah right – guess again.
Paul Burke
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I just pledged to support a primary challenge to any Dem who helps block health care reform. http://bit.ly/2Yk3Ex
Break Up The Insurance Companies – Like AT&T!
The fact remains that big insurance by refusing care to patients and reimbursement to doctors over typos has ticked everyone off. They have a monopoly over the whole process and a well financed lobby team (including Liebermans wife) and representatives on both sides of the isle.
A friend of mine recently laid off just he and his spouse is paying $2,500.00 dollars a month for his COBRA. Health insurance costs more than his mortgage. Anyone taking up the insurance industry’s cause doesn’t know what they are talking about.
If you think the insurance companies are going to voluntarily lower their cost while having a monopoly over the process – you are being disingenuous …Over 60% of all US bankruptcies are attributable to medical problems. Most victims are middle class, well educated and have health insurance – (The American Journal of Medicine)
The insurance companies and their representatives in Congress would love to perpetuate a business model that is crippling our overall economy – a bunch of great Americans aren’t they?
90% of the wealth concentrated in 1% of the population is no way to run a country but a heck of a way to establish a royalty ruling class. Yacht sales can not sustain 350 million people. I’m for the public option, competition and a level playing field or break up the big insurers like we did AT&T.
Paul Burke
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This article from the LA Times is Tremendous!
Solar World Round Up – 10/30/09
While the oil still flows in the waters off Australia’s Coast – the status quo back home isn’t going to give an inch. Anything the progressives want we are going to have to take from them. If we do nothing we’ll have oil spills everywhere, mercury to breath, mountains destroyed, the extinction of tuna (that means no more tuna fish sandwiches everyone)and more and more nuclear everything, waste, subsidies and proliferation.
The dirty energy extractors and their profit margins are going to march the economy and our collective, global survival right off the proverbial cliff. They can’t stop themselves. They know better but they will try and eliminate any and all competition stifling innovation and any and all competition.
Thank god for Europe. They are a little more sane when it comes to global, environmental and economic survival. They know its a balancing act. Winner takes all, dog eat dog, rugged individualism leads to ruin, pollution, and war.
Those are the facts so we better stay on top of our elected leaders and kick to the curb anyone who stands in our way of a more perfect, equitable and sustainable world.
When we are done with health care we have to fix Energy, Wall Street, Election laws and the Tax Code. This all has to be done or we loose the world to the dirty fuel extractors and their addiction to short term profits. People of vision stay strong and focused our time is NOW!
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Australian Oil Rig Blowout Creates Environmental Catastrophe – (With Photos) http://ping.fm/tDHF7
Australian Oil Rig Blowout Creates Environmental Catastrophe
WASHINGTON (Oct. 28, 2009) – The impacts of the nine-week West Timor oil rig blowout are creating an environmental catastrophe for wildlife and ocean ecosystems, Defenders of Wildlife said today. In August, the West Atlas/Montara offshore drilling rig, widely touted as a “safe, modern” operation, suffered what the rig’s operators termed a “loss of well control.” Despite three attempts to stop the resulting massive oil spill, oil continues to leak into the surrounding ocean.
“A global-scale environmental catastrophe so large that it is visible from space is unfolding in one of earth’s last marine wilderness areas,” said Richard Charter, government relations consultant with Defenders of Wildlife, “It is time for the dithering, excuses, and failed response efforts to end and for the international community to get the full story on how and why this spill has been allowed to continue for so long. This persistent mess is too big and too damaging to hide any longer.”
Estimates of the volume of oil spilled since the August 21 Australian blowout have now expanded as much as five-fold, to more than 9.7 million gallons, while the oil slick has covered several thousand square miles of ocean waters. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate is now discussing allowing essentially the same kind of “environmentally-responsible” offshore drilling to go forward off the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida’s Gulf Coast and Panhandle beaches.
“If anything like the Australian blowout ever takes place off of the Southeast U.S. beaches or in Florida waters, the economic and environmental consequences will last for decades,” Charter emphasized.
Worldwide, conservation interests have become increasingly concerned as satellite images have shown that the mega-spill has spread from Australia’s whale and sea-turtle rich Kimberley Coast into distant Indonesian waters as well. Three prior attempts to stop the flow of oil have failed, and a fourth attempt this week had to be postponed due to equipment failure.
Satellite imagery of the spill can be downloaded courtesy of Skytruth
and here:
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Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities. With more than 1 million members and activists, Defenders of Wildlife is a leading advocate for innovative solutions to safeguard our wildlife heritage for generations to come. For more information, visit www.defenders.org.
Thanks to the Friends of the Lower Calaveras River for the repost of this press release
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