Well GOM,
start a movement, go to D.C. and meet your congressman and get him to sign a pledge—not the Norquist pledge—but one that says not a single one of his/her people will go to lobbying firms no less than five years after current employ—and get him/her to promise never to lobby and to return to private life. All the problems did not start with Obama, nor Bush. They started with the U.S. Senate and Congress wanting to enrich themselves (see Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff about that) The gated communities in Arizona are filled with people whose portfolios depend on profits from low wage labor and their refridgerators are filled with food picked by bottom level workers. We have privatized wealth in this country and socialized loss. We can argue forever about Keynes and Heyek but both have flaws as we humans transition from living off the land to living interconnected and interdependent in total urban settings.This means that more than ever there has to be constant education to create innovative, industrious and adroit minds.This means funding pre-schooling and tertiary education. Germany has done very well matching natural skills with appropriate education and work. We Americans are too fixated on striking it rich as we idolize those who maximize capital and ignore all others. It takes a lot of different people to make society work. We will see about Iran. We have meddled in that part of the world for a long time and are just now paying the price. Our energy costs are subsidized by our military presence—no one pays the real cost at the pump; but do we need 11 aircraft carriers? Do we need the troops in Germany? The Electorate has to know what is going on and get off their butts and work for change and pay less attention to American Idol…..
As far as genetically inferior people go—no race has a monopoly on that.

In response to GOM’s statement I’d like to state problems and the dilemma created economically: 1)agriculture & construction & landscaping industries are low bid businesses that automatically become home to the cheapest labor available—so while say Toll Brothers Builders(NYSE-TOL) get high profit margins the rest of society has to bear the cost of illegal emigrants. And 2) while we have the finest military in the world with the best weaponry and training, companies such as Lockheed Martin are unfortunately the biggest corporate welfare companies. There is a very high cost for keeping engineers in constant employ and a business structure tuned to designing and producing near dreamlike weapons that the Pentagon asks for. The point to be made here is that our problems are complicated and involve a host of factors that somehow or in someway often have adverse consequences. The VERY first problem to be cured is the ending of Congressional staffers and politicos fast access/quick turn around into high paid jobs as lobbyists after their congressional time has ended. The SECOND problem is that the electorate needs to take time to do homework on the issues so as not to be deceived by a media reliant on selling sensation over substance.They have to sell ad. space as we all know; they have mortgages and kids in school like so many of us. That is a cultural issue and is something not solved in any short time frame. We really harm ourselves as a nation and as a society when we use time and energy to express anger and frustration against our fellow citizens instead of acting in calm ways to rationally decide how we are going to succeed in the future. This really demands that the electorate study issues from all sides and not take any one angle for ideological purposes.

Grumpy Old Man:  I hope, for your sake and the sake of folks around you, that your post was ironic.

If it wasn’t, I have to say you are one of the most shameless and shameFUL racists we’ve seen on this site.

Hey, Mensch, I’m familiar with a number of leftist ideas about an improved economy, but you’re not going to hear them listening to Fox News or PBS.

The Republican Party has been pursuing white racists since Richard Nixon realized it was the way to attract Dixiecrats and blue-collar fascists. I find the white nationalists’ presence simply a bit more blatant than the continual din about welfare, crime, and immigration, all words used to replace nigger.

And you might read a little history, GROM, and check out who built those edifices in Washington, DC. You would perhaps be less grumpy if you stopped poisoning yourself with hate radio and TV and their continual drunken/drugged vaunting of the white European male.

Good for them. We need to listen to the critics of immigration and “affirmative
action” (racial patronage). European Americans, and more specifically the Anglo-
Celtic people, built this country. Why can’t they organize and advocate for
themselves, rather than allowing themselves passively to be dispossessed?

Please read Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank’s report on the CPAC convention from Saturday last. Our country has serious problems to address and solve. Invectives and rhetoric are not solutions. The Left needs too, to come up with credible ideas about managing the economy in ways that will benefit the whole of society.

Damn good thing I don’t live in the US!

As a Native American, I’d be in the crosshairs of all those genocidal goons with their White Is Right crapola.

It’s bad enough being in the crosshairs of the White Is Right genocidal goons that post here on Truthdig.  The infamous Ardee, for example.

CPAC just another Christian, male white supremacist mega group meeting. The Klan without the hoods, the Nazis with out their swastikas, the Christian Fundamentalists without their crosses but what they want is homogeneous to their needs. One “race” one culture, one religion, one form of Capitalism an one way to live—their way. All others prohibited by their law.

What it comes down to is that over all they have no problem with people of different genders an skin colors believing as they do. Just so long as they are separate they can stay “equal.” Should they ever get their way in our country.

Please pardon the typos in my last comment.  Eating breakfast while typing is not something I have mastered well.

CPAC’s invitation of white nationalist proves that in spite of conservative’s efforts to display an Egalitarianism and acceptance of people of color its racism and bigotry cannot keep it’s stupid mouth shut.

We often hear conservatives boast of people such as Herman Cain and Allen Keyes as their African American standard bearers; and we see conservative churches, in their televised church services, focus the camera on a few African American and hispanic families in order to say to America, “See, we’re not racist amymore”. 

But the ugly truth, that those such as CPAC cannot hide, is their belief that America was great only when segregated, when power was white. Their anger still boils over when they think of “the pedestal that could have been theirs, but have lost”.  And their “acceptance” of those different than themselves comes with the whispered condition, “Only if you behave”.