Dan Eden, I call what happened to America-Bushonomy.

To Dan Eden, I believe capitalism happened.
This is what capitalism looks and feels like.
The robber barons at the top got away with all the money.
I hope some of the rigt wingers are making the connection!

Don’t ever again let a cocky little squirrel from Texas tell you that he is giving the US bankroll to the corporations because its really their money and they will use it to make more jobs.
You see now how it works don’t you? They run with the money to off shore their bankrolls and their factories.

Capitalism has failed. People are out of work but the important work goes begging: green conversion, reforestation, rebuilding delapidated infrastructure, improving mass transit, growing healthy food. And my personal “favourite” quirk of capitalism: where thousands are homeless while thousands of homes stand vacant.

Bravo! That’s quite a system and it has to go.

hello. my opinion is unchanging that the oil barons created this state of affairs, and the sooner we convert away from gasoline burning automobiles, the sooner billions of autoworkers can return to work. the sooner currency is returned to gold standard, the sooner the petrodollars will stop destabilizing global economies. 67% of our oil is used in gasoline, and we could reduce that to 7% within four years if the world would awaken to the truth. we are addicted to oil and need an intervention, a rehab, an all-out brain cleansing, a goddamn exorcism…