"I did not think anyone could get this country back on it's feet after the BUSH 8 years."
Had he done 10X as much for energy and climate, we'd be doing decently right now. Instead, he gave us cuts in home heating assistance in exchange for letting him have a tax cut for himself.
Instead of 1 million unemployed youngsters planting 1 billion trees and watering them, he gave us Koch tax breaks.
He's spending 10 bucks an American on the smart grid (and that's 10 bucks more than all previous admins combined); China is spending close to 300 bucks per person, and they have a lot more people than we do.
We're toast...20 years of...
(I'd make it more saw-tooth than horizontal... a slow comeback each time, but never reaching the previous high.)
From today's Oil Drum, somebody saying what I have said about Egypt, altho I'd still try the US if I had 20 of my best Drum friends around me and wartime powers like FDR....
..."The only possible snag is that after one breaks everything, well, then everything is broken. Given the mostly awful historical track record of revolutions, what are the odds, really, that it would be a better place rather than an even worse, burned-out wasteland?"
Cinch on June 8, 2011 - 11:52pm "Lots of Egyptians are asking the same question right about now. No sane politician would ever want to lead Egypt now or any time in the future. The same can be said of America, a dying empire." |
