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Peter P
2012 Jul 25, 3:16pm
I doubt other countries are doing any better. I don't think we should look to change anything as a society. That is likely to be futile. Perhaps we should just do our best individually and tomorrow will be better.
Serpentor
2012 Jul 25, 3:32pm
zombie apocalypse.
well.. I think its going to get worse before it gets better. Most people are so fed up and brainwashed they don't know both the dems and the reps are all the same. Tea party started out with good reason, but its now a mindless mob controlled by the Koch brothers, Occupy wall street never had a chance. They are spending too much time smoking weed and occupying crap to really make a difference. They don't care about change, they just want to protest. No organization, no goal, no strategy.
I had high hopes for McCain.. he was all for campaign finance reform and fighting the good fight... until he went off the deep end and picked Palin. Sure there are still good people in some areas of the government, but the vast majority are fucking corrupt because that is the system they work in.
Obama and change? his policies are not much different then the Bushes and Reagan. RMoney is the definition of the 1%. We are fucked.... ApocalypseFucked.
The most glaring "problem" with this country is our collective health. Mind, body, and soul. Most importantly, the body part, because that is the easiest one to address. Bad policy has yielded terrible results. Its something people can do on their own, given good information, and some willpower and a little work. The Western diet is at the root of so many of our societal problems, and the government is implicit
It is impossible to be healthy in the mind and in the soul, if one isn't properly fueling their machine. You truely are what you eat, and we eat a bunch of crap
Be the change you see in the world
Gerald Celente: “When People Lose Everything, They Have Nothing Left To Lose, And They Lose Itâ€
Peter P
2012 Jul 25, 4:08pm
It is easy for someone in America to say he has nothing to lose. Just look around in other countries, it could have been much worse. My point is that if you think you have nothing to lose, acquire something (legally) and make sure you don't lose it.
Serpentor
2012 Jul 25, 4:26pm
You truely are what you eat, and we eat a bunch of crap
May I recommend a sushi diet?
Eat braaiinnsssss.......
xrpb11a
2012 Jul 25, 10:40pm
mercury poisoning or an inept chef mistaking the fishanus for the fishtummy....
You truely are what you eat, and we eat a bunch of crap
May I recommend a sushi diet?
xrpb11a
2012 Jul 25, 10:43pm
synchronized shopping, net coordinated, to jumpstart the industrial cycle.
the infrastructure is there, we just need the code and parameters...
xrpb11a
2012 Jul 25, 10:52pm
Target products that use a wide range of components that involve the greatest number of industrial sectors. And everybody purchase all at once. empty the stores. force businesses to increase capacity to meet demand. Let loose the Titans of Shopping!!
synchronized shopping, net coordinated, to jumpstart the industrial cycle.
the infrastructure is there, we just need the code and parameters...
xrpb11a
2012 Jul 25, 10:55pm
Government tax breaks for incentives. 0 interest loans for those without the cash to participate. tee shirts...coffee mugs...ball point pens...for all who join....
the key is SYNCHRONIZED SHOPPING.
every body buying the same shit, all at once....
Random Musings
Been doing a lot of thinking lately – forgive me if I ramble, but I always appreciate (most) of the comments from the pat.net crowd, as you guys (and gals) span a wide swath of the continuum, across both sides of the aisle.
Preamble of the declaration of independence lays it out pretty good. The power to govern resides with the people. When that power runs amuck, it is not only the right, but the duty of the people to abolish it, hit the reset button and start again… but we can’t just make such a drastic move on a whim. We need two things – just cause, and more importantly a reasonable chance of coming up with a better path forward. No sense in throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
In the past few years, we have send a lot of ire directed against the “1%â€. It’s not the fact that some are rich that bothers me. Any society has winners and losers, top and bottom. It’s the sense of fairness. There is a underlying belief that, in America, we are all given (as best we can) an equal opportunity. That may be an ideal more than reality, but the ideal is what we were founded on, slavery non-withstanding.
The problem (or at least my problem) is that appearance is that corporations and “big money†have bent the rules so far in their favor that very few can get a toe-hold to try to dislodge the entrenched establishment and foster meaningful change.
We see banks and high net worth individuals get preferred loan rates. We see congress engage in insider trading, the courts rule that a “cooperation†can make unlimited contributions to political campaigns – lobbying on steroids.
Yet, I can’t say that government ignores the will of the people because, I have yet to hear a cohesive idea of what the people want. Look at the occupy Wall Street – its origins (noble or not) generated a ceriman inertia – but it faded due to a lack of direction and objective, obtainable goals.
I hear both sides complain about all that is wrong with our country.. I don’t want to sit idly by, but I have very few ideas on how to fix it. If America is to become a leader in the modern age, we need to have some painful intelligent discussions about the world and our place in it. From how technology has impacted geopolitics and human capital to what our biggest challenges will be going forward, not just two or three years out, but twenty or thirty years out. We need to have vision and foresight, not shortsighted election cycle politics that we are all to familiar with.
The only idea I have to bring to the table is phasing out the social security system, which I posted before a few years back. But certainly that is only one of many issues that needs to be addressed, and many not even be the most pressing.
So my fellow Patrick.neters – what do you see wrong with this country? Where do you see us five, ten, even twenty years out? And most imporatnly, what would you change today in order to reap a better tomorrow?