The budget and now it begins the end of life on Earth as we know it amazing to see once you know.
“Americans don’t want a spending freeze at unsustainable levels,” said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. “They want cuts, dramatic cuts.”

Boehner said that Obama’s budget “will continue to destroy jobs by spending too much, borrowing too much and taxing too much.” ABC

Unsustainable levels well old Mitch did get that part correct just used it in the wrong context. Then Boehner and destroy job’s again sort of on the right track destroy the Earth’s ability to sustain life. If the truth be know these wise old Owl’s more like buzzards are kind of going 180 degrees in the wrong direction and that’s a big miss old boy’s. If the truth be know and so far it’s not let’s see maybe a declaration of survival from the big cheese of the free World and the next two years should prove that to be true unless they turn off the Internet maybe use a few of the idea’s that were used in World War Two and the economy although this time a little tuffer. I would think tax carbon and return the tax back to the people so they can pay the bill. Research on a grand scale might be a good idea and high speed trains look’s good on paper maybe just new tracks so trains can bring the materials needed to build clean energy and food. What will we see from the so called leaders in the coming week’s the lawyer types well when there lip’s start moving watch the illusion spread through out the land like little bubbles tiny little bubbles. Let’s not forget the other side of the equation the private sector although it’s kind of one the STATE! I find the best place to watch the little angles from the private sector on the financial channel’s here in the STATE and such well dressed angles with every hair in place and when there lip’s start moving correct illusion tiny little bubbles spreading Worldwide remember about three years ago don’t forget. And so it goes I guess we could build our own Pyramid for a little rally here and there but maybe a wrestling match or football game heck we could watch Gaga Gaga come of her shell a much better way to go at least for a few more year’s. Galileo Galileo

A few quotes for the wise old Owl’s or old boy’s with an IQ it seem’s of about .05 and that could be pushing it.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo

Throughout the 19th century it was common that many new European immigrants came across the Atlantic not with the intent of learning about the Senate or Congress but rather of going to the Western Frontier and seeking to claim new territory from the Indians which had not yet been “civilized” in the standard sense. This provided society with a kind of “disposal outlet” for the types of people you suggest, but such people were always here. After 1890 the Western Frontier was exhausted, but for three-quarters of a century afterwards the idea still persisted among white people (blacks had less cause for illusion) that something called “The American Way” still offered a route up the ladder in a way which followed the tradition of those pioneers who had settled the Western Frontier. In the last half-century it has become increasingly obvious that this option has been exhausted too. The result is reflected in widespread social disorientation somewhat akin to if the Western Frontier had just magically vanished in the early 19th century. But the phenomenon which you’re describing was always there.

bozh writes yet another contradiction …

neither a spear, nor money, gun, capitalism can function– only people function. …

“In a way, there is no CLASS WAR”. i saw rosemarie’s post after i posted above comment. i agree with R.’s observation that in u.s. there is no class war. imo, not eve traces of it.

Yes that’s right bozh denies that capitalism is the problem but wants a class war.

neither a spear, nor money, gun, capitalism can function– only people function.

“In a way, there is no CLASS WAR”. i saw rosemarie’s post after i posted above comment. i agree with R.’s observation that in u.s. there is no class war. imo, not eve traces of it.

Yes that’s right bozh denies that capitalism is the problem but wants a class war.

How did we get to the point that makes it patriotic to cast an uninformed vote ????

That’s a good question. I know I’ve disagreed with your stance — probably out of frustration — that I take as of blaming the voters but the question you’re asking is a good one to examine.

Why is there such intellectual laziness?

[1] The dumbing down of education. Cuts in education has been going on now for the past 30 years and there seems to be no end in sight.

[2] People are working too hard and there is no time to engage in politics

[3] The lack of community and atomization.

[4] The inability of writers to provide real analysis, answers, and vision which essentially misinform those who are truly sincere in finding answers.

[4a] For example, why can’t we envision a moneyless society. Why are we trying to fix the monetary system — a system of inherent inequality. Why is the Liberal/Left still promoting Keynesian solutions that have failed to solved problem and only prolonged Capitalism.

[4b] Thus are those who think they’re “informed” truly inform?

Anyway those are just some thoughts but you are raising a valid question.

Sadly, all it would take would be a few days of doing nothing – a boycott of everything, except essential medical and safety services… a non-violent revolution. Our culture of worshipping the ‘haves’ and victimizing the ‘have-nots’ will prevent any such boycott.

It is amazing how many adult voters in the US cannot name the vice president or the branches of government. They should make the decision to not vote rather than cancel the vote of an informed citizen, but that is not going to happen. How did we get to the point that makes it patriotic to cast an uninformed vote ????

one day, i suggest, a struggle betwn lower and higher classes for control of u.s. governance and constitution [which now appear to control u.s. governance totally] may arise, but only, imo, if the huddled-exploited serfs r lead by apolitical party.

unfortunately, even nader –and not only high dissidenting class– spurns just that!
tnx

torturing, enslaving, enserfing, overtaxing, throwing people in dungeons, etc., began long before money had been invented.

a gun, tank, warship, money, capitalism cannot even pich anyone let alone divide people and turn them on one another, like one wld train dogs to kill or maim each other.

it is done to us by humans only. and most of them believe in gods– or, at least, say so!

it’s not god, nor wolves, nor devil, or devil-god who have turned us into behaving savagely against not only ‘aliens’ but also domestics.

and we became savages at latest ca octomillennia ago. and if present thinking remains, we shall remain savages ?forever! tnx

We need a real CLASS WAR. Won’t happen anytime soon. Too much propaganda has put Capitalism in a protected place in the culture. People still think we invaded Iraq to “protect our freedom”. Until people are informed enough to follow the money, there is no hope. It is hard to be informed, while living under a bridge.

Money inherently creates inequalities — regardless of how its created. The adage is that “if everyone has money then no one has money” ring true. Bernake will not bail out the people because Bernake doesn’t serve people as a class. He serves the banks and the rich as a class.

Money at this point in history is anachronistic and obsolete. Money is really a means of control — NOT an “accepted” means of exchange. There were many societies that function WITHOUT money. They were destroyed by the Europeans who turned those people into commodities. A quick study of Central American or Brazilian history provides excellent examples of this. In other words money is “accepted” by FORCE. So this idea that money is a given is bogus and part of the system of indoctrination.

The main cause of inflation is money itself. Without money there would be NO inflation. Money also prevents access to resources. It is not the money “supply” that causes depression. It is the people inability to get what they need. The reason for the tremendous amount of personal debt was the backlash against labor starting in the 1970′s. Since wages became stagnant due to government policies that attacked unions and trade agreement that allowed businesses to export jobs means that in order to maintain living standards people borrowed — especially for homes. Why people must put themselves into debt to obtain shelter is not address here. This has nothing to due with the monetary system but everything to do with Capitalist power.

Also businesses function for PROFIT & profit GROWTH — not the money supply. Businesses need credit to expand their operations in order to increase their profits. One way that businesses increases their profits is by attacking labor. This approach is why the banks were flush with money. This is how the wealth were extracted from workers over the past 40 years.

Also Obama’s “stimulus” is why the “Main Street” argument is bogus. If the banks started lending to “Main Street” tomorrow, the correction would be temporary. The poor still has to spend most of its money to the small business make the petty bourgeois richer while the poor obtains temporary relief. The trend will eventually yield the same outcome especially as profits growth stagnates. The demand for profit growth is what creates concentration and concentration yields monopolies (oligopolies) which then concentrates power. These contradictions are fundamental to Capitalism. The monetary system only exacerbates these inherent contradictions.

The government debt was caused by the huge tax cut given to the rich while increasing the war budget and the class war against workers. Neoliberalism (Reaganism/Thatherism) institutionalizes government policies that favored the rich and weakened labor. Articles that waste our time about the Fed rather than calling for the complete eradication of Capitalism (including money) is rhetoric to not raise taxes on the rich. The author here makes no call to rescind the 1981 Kemp/Roth tax cuts and to restore the then top rate of 70% income tax and 50% Capital gains rate and the graduated 15 tax brackets that captured the high end incomes. No none of that — its all the fault of piece of paper (or digits) crap that don’t need anyway to engage in the human activity needed to have a sound, compassionate and rational society.

Substantially below-normal rainfall since October in Northern China has not only put the crop at risk but has also caused shortages in drinking water affecting over 2.57 million people and their livestock, FAO said.

“The ongoing drought is potentially a very serious problem,” the Rome-based agency’s alert said, adding that the main affected provinces — around 5.16 million hectres — represent two-thirds of national wheat production. AFP

Capitalizing on stockpiles of cash, good credit and “cheap money” secured by uber-low interest loans and back-stopped by TARP, the big banks and large corporations – together with a small army of investment funds – have been having a field day speculating in potentially lucrative but nevertheless risky ventures, inflating as they go various commodity prices such as wheat, corn, hogs and similar commoditized foods, as well as health care, precious metals and oil – and raising the possibility of igniting dangerous currency wars through revved up currency speculation. Geraldine

Is there a better way and stay tuned well so far stay tuned to what maybe Huckabee singing somebody is going to get the shaft. Here’s two chart’s that I have never seen on MSM never now the price of gold that the last time I checked you can’t eat or oil that to drink might not be a good ides we are showed on a daily basis.

{http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/}

Growth you can believe in and yes you can measure GDP with that chart with a little lag time.

{http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/decadaltemp.php}

When the jet-stream is blocked by high pressure it dips southwards and lets freezing air flood in from the Arctic regions and why the high pressure a warming Earth. Now in the summer this summer will not be boring and note that chart is from NASA that sure seem’s to be on house arrest from the wise old Owl’s. I guess I could have put the chart from NSIDC that I have never seen on MSM never the ice in the Arctic. So I guess these scientists in Colorado are also on house arrest Galileo Galileo. Go shopping well am thinking a few 2 by 4′s some deck screw’s and a sold plan to build a Pyramid with a dollar sign running through it again wouldn’t want anybody to get confused. I wonder do you need a permit heck I’ll bet Bloomberg would be more than happy to give us one. Oh that carbon chart remember Lost in Space Danger Danger Danger and I’ll bet Will Robinson could help build that Pyramid.

{http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/tassava.WWII}

From the beginning of preparedness in 1939 through the peak of war production in 1944, American leaders recognized that the stakes were too high to permit the war economy to grow in an unfettered, laissez-faire manner. American manufacturers, for instance, could not be trusted to stop producing consumer goods and to start producing materiel for the war effort. To organize the growing economy and to ensure that it produced the goods needed for war, the federal government spawned an array of mobilization agencies which not only often purchased goods (or arranged their purchase by the Army and Navy), but which in practice closely directed those goods’ manufacture and heavily influenced the operation of private companies and whole industries. EH