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TIRED OF NUTTY IDEAS FROM LEFT AND RIGHT? TRY A FEW FROM THE EXTREMIST CENTER
Paul Rosenberg, Open Left
We can provide universal health care, like all other advanced industrial nations, and cut costs to 12% of GDP or less, like all other advanced industrial nations, while still allowing insurance companies to skim 30% off the top.
We can militarily subdue Afghanistan with enough troops and machismo, even though no one in history has ever done this before.
We can successfully deal with global warming without even trying to reduce atmospheric carbon to 350 ppm, which is what the world's scientists say is required.
We can fix the financial system without actually fixing the financial system, simply by trusting the folks who helped bring us the meltdown in the first place.
Money is speech.
Corporations are people, with all the Constitutional rights that entails.
Spending hundreds of billions of dollars on weapon systems that don't work, and/or aren't designed to fight enemies that actual exist means you are "strong on defense," even if you did everything human possible to avoid serving in a war zone when your country called. Questioning the wisdom of doing so makes you "weak on defense", even if you are a war hero.
We can provide universal health care, like all other advanced industrial nations, and cut costs to 12% of GDP or less, like all other advanced industrial nations, while still allowing insurance companies to skim 30% off the top.
We can militarily subdue Afghanistan with enough troops and machismo, even though no one in history has ever done this before.
We can successfully deal with global warming without even trying to reduce atmospheric carbon to 350 ppm, which is what the world's scientists say is required.
We can fix the financial system without actually fixing the financial system, simply by trusting the folks who helped bring us the meltdown in the first place.
Money is speech.
Corporations are people, with all the Constitutional rights that entails.
Spending hundreds of billions of dollars on weapon systems that don't work, and/or aren't designed to fight enemies that actual exist means you are "strong on defense," even if you did everything human possible to avoid serving in a war zone when your country called. Questioning the wisdom of doing so makes you "weak on defense", even if you are a war hero.
posted by TPR | 11:18 AM
1 Comments:
It's really very simple. You can't have change without actually changing something. And when things get changed, somebody is worse off or at least thinks he is. So we get societal gridlock. The ultimate result of this is that we will have very little or no real control over our destiny as a people. We are so afraid of having tomorrow be different from today that we become fearful of the future: we want everything to stay as is is, for better or worse. Problem is, nothing is static.
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