Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Saturday, March 26, 2011

The Lost Country

Bob Herbert, in his last column for the New York Times, argues that this country has lost its way.
Limitless greed, unrestrained corporate power and a ferocious addiction to foreign oil have led us to an era of perpetual war and economic decline. Young people today are staring at a future in which they will be less well off than their elders, a reversal of fortune that should send a shudder through everyone.

The U.S. has not just misplaced its priorities. When the most powerful country ever to inhabit the earth finds it so easy to plunge into the horror of warfare but almost impossible to find adequate work for its people or to properly educate its young, it has lost its way entirely.
You ought to read the entire thing. Keep in mind that what Herbert is talking about is the de facto platform of the GOP: Impoverishing the middle class, perpetual war, government by and for the rich and the corporations. Elections that are almost a sham in that no matter who wins, nothing ever changes.

That is a recipe for long-term disaster. Yet nobody, outside of a handful of bloggers and columnists, seems to give a frak.

We are so screwed.

2 comments:

Underground Carpenter said...

Hi JAEBMI,

"… de facto platform of the GOP: Impoverishing the middle class, perpetual war, government by and for the rich and the corporations."

Seems to be the de facto platform of the Dems, too. Obama is trying his best to push the "perpetual war to enrich Halliburton" thing.

WV: busnis

Dave

Anonymous said...

A lot of people over the years have observed that Americans behave as though neither events in the world around them could affect them, nor their actions impact the world. My guess is that rather solipsistic cultural attitude is at least partly to blame for the political apathy.