One of the biggest problems facing America today is....
NOT WHAT IS TO BE DONE?....BUT RATHER HAVING THE POLITICAL WILL TO DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
Consider:
1. AMERICA NEEDS NATIONAL HEALTH CARE: Sooner or later the US will have to join the rest of the industialized world and establish NATIONAL HEALTH CARE. Whether the Canadian model is used or the Austrailian or the British or the German...MAKES NO DIFFERENCE. National Health Care would do more to save American Industries that anything else. No longer would American Companies have to flee to China or Canada or ANY PLACE ELSE to avoid the crushing burden of OVER-PRICED HEALTH CARE COVERAGE.
Of course the INSURANCE COMPANY LOBBY, BIG PHARMA AND THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT stand in the way.....
2. MORE TAXATION OF THE RICH: The US tax code simply MUST be make more PROGRESSIVE to provide for the needed spending on infrastructure and social services in the future. The Rich BENEFITED MIGHTILY DURING THE BUBBLE YEARS to the point where WEALTH IS NOW VASTLY CONCENTRATED IN THE TOP 10% OF AMERICANS.
THE AMERICAN CONSUMER ECONOMY CAN NOT SURVIVE THIS VAST CONCENTRATION OF WEALTH IN THE HANDS OF A FEW. A SOCIAL SAFETY NET HAS TO BE RE-ESTABLISHED SOON.
3. STOP SUPPORTING ISRAEL'S ANNEXATION OF THE WEST BANK AND GAZA: For all of the rhetoric about the West Bank and Gaza EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THE ISRAELI ULTRA-RIGHT WILL NOT ALLOW A PALESTINIAN STATE ON THE WEST BANK.
Ultimately, this is going to result in a BATTLE FOR THE TEMPLE MOUNT and a large middle eastern war that could send oil to $200 per barrel and kill the global economy and end America's capacity to finance it's debts.
ISRAEL IS LEADING AMERICA DOWN THE PATH OF DESTRUCTION. BUT CAN THE ISRAELI LOBBY IN THE US BE STOPPED AND WILL THE LEADERSHIP IN ISRAEL STAND UP TO THEIR ULTRA-RIGHT ANNEXATIONISTS...?
4. THE CONTROL OF THE MEDIA BY AMERICAN ULTRA-CONSERVATIVES MUST BE STOPPED:
The mainstream media in the US has allowed the crackpot right wing to dominate the political discussion to the point where totally irrational positions are now touted to the vast uninformed American population as viable policies.
The religious mumbo-jumbo that Americans have been fed makes the US the laughing stock of most of the modern world....creationism and mystical embryo worship has made American science second class.
Homophobia and Gay Bashing are the new whipping Boys of the ultra-right, replacing Blacks. ALL OF THIS IS DONE WITH AN CLEAR INTENT TO CONTINUE LOOTING THE US ECONOMY WHILE THE IGNORANT BUBBA CLASS IS DISTRACTED WITH WEDGE-ISSUES. BUT WILL THE ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS BE ABLE TO PUSH THE BUBBA CLASS INTO FACSISM....?
THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA NEEDS TO WAKE UP TO THE THREAT POSED BY THE REPUBLICAN RIGHT.
