Cheat Sheet

We must have the smartest and the healthiest workers in our monetary based, economic democracy. Obama is spot on with his plans to recover and to rebuild through education and good wage paying jobs. No strong democracy can exist without these fundamentals in place.

I think PE Obama made a very compelling argument for his stimulus package, it's about time money was spent on the American people and getting this country back to work and less on these unecessary wars!!
If we can spend trillions on a war with no end in sight still, then we can surely spend money in this country and get our infrastructure up and running, build our roads and schools instead of devastating a country just to rebuild it!!
Talk about fraud, waste and abuse.... it's been done over and over during this war!!!

In our eagerness to engage prez-elect Obama, aka FDR/JFK, and enable his socio-economic therapeutic programs, we must take care to temper his swaggering omnipotence, and avoid the disasters that can accompany even the most benevolent exercise of an unrestrained electoral mandate. The recent one billion gallon sludge spill in Tennessee can be traced directly to 1933 when FDR, with the slavish acquiescence of his minions in the legislature and the judiciary, vested the Tennessee Valley Authority with almost limitless imperial power over all it surveyed. The TVA, just like other government-created autonomous agencies like the NY State Thruway and the Port Authority, not to mention Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, have unchecked powers that would be the envy of any despot. They were instituted as all-powerful, independent agencies initially and ostensibly to promote a highly desirable public good. The toxic industrial offal that is poisoning the Tennessee landscape, along with the sub-prime mortgage debacle, should serve to warn us that even the most well-meaning and productive programs must be tempered with careful and moral foresight that will institute vigilant and effective regulation to prevent, or at least minimize, the undesirable consequences that inevitably result from the exercise of unchecked power.

I'm so sick of this tired, polluted, and indecent politcal system. I really am. They're dragging us down, folks. Time to become less a nation of "sheeple" and more a nation of people.