would be hard for them to do anything without all the power some of the red states currently provide for them!
if California kept all of the money that t sent to the fed it would have no problems. We would be bad ass and export to the rest of you sucking up even more money.
would be hard for them to do anything without all the power some of the red states currently provide for them!
What will it take for all us to finally rally together and figure this out? Another 9/11? Another WWII?
did i say we would all boycott each other? no.
Texas and all the other red states need to split off and form their own shithole of a country, while the rest of us move on.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/oil_reaches_louisiana_shores.html
This is shameful. This has probably already been posted, but I felt the need to do it anyway.
I love this country dammit, but we can't seem to get anything right. Terrorist attacks on our soil, wars, Katrina, oil spill, healthcare reform, financial reform, meltdown, etc. etc. etc. Where does it end? If we tried to go the moon we'd probably end up crashing into the sun at this point (allow me a little creative license with that analogy).
This country is being split apart, the identity and culture torn to shreds. We're nothing but sycophants of the world right now, destroying ourselves, our economy, our health and now our environment. This isn't some hippy, tree-hugging bullshit.
What will it take for all us to finally rally together and figure this out? Another 9/11? Another WWII?
Apologies in advance for the particularly emotive style of this post. While we all sit here and bicker and moan about such minutiae like not getting equal media coverage for conservative issues that no one cares about, our beaches are being destroyed. Our economy, our culture, our global competitiveness and then our beaches.
What can be done to truly reform this country? Forget politicians. Forget parties. What can we do? At some point you just have to acknowledge that it's too damn broken and you need to start near zero and rebuild.
I know a handful of techs at my local plant, and they def NOT leaning left
probably also matters where you live *shrug*
You'd play hell finding any lefties like that in Tennessee. Our lefties are predominantly the very lowest of society and those who are highly educated but in soft sciences or the arts (and typically employed or funded by government.) Really depends more on location than anything else.Well, Eastern Ontario... also I said professionals, not techs.. But yeah, I'm sure it would depend. The point is it is certainly not at all void of "progressive minded folks". In my area the research lab/plant is the only reason the liberal, NDP, and Green parties get any votes at all in the conservative dominated riding (military base is a boon for the Tory votes).
There is nothing that can done. That's the problem with a massive one-size-fits-all federal bureaucracy. People in a town of 300 in South Dakota are treated exactly the same as those in LA. States laws are a quaint reminder of the past when New York might differ from Kansas in how they handle problems. We're now all just automatons in the federal machine and people are lashing out to one side or the other. It's a polarizing environment when you tell 300 million people that they have to all be the same.
You'd play hell finding any lefties like that in Tennessee. Our lefties are predominantly the very lowest of society and those who are highly educated but in soft sciences or the arts (and typically employed or funded by government.) Really depends more on location than anything else.
I always wondered where the hell the USA found its left folk.. I mean we have some nuts here as well... but the Green party has a huge presence in the physicist/engineer dominated lab. Hell, half of the staff bike 10miles to work every day... they bloody ski there in the winter. Eco nuts would put some of them mildly. I think a lot of it has to do with these being VERY intelligent chaps that realize that we play the hand we are dealt.. One cannot invent infinitely dense, infinitely clean energy over night. Fission may be one step towards that and science moves one step at a time. We also used to produce a LOT of medical isotopes. Utopia is nice to think about but only if it helps you move towards it, we all understand we are on an asymptote.
Mind you, I couldn't say how much of that is due to economics as the conservative have a fun time selling off parts of our crown corporation (and are doing it as we speak)... puts some folks off I suppose.
That aside, nuclear gets a hugely bad rap. It must be done well, as poor storage of used fuel can be devastating. But it is quite safe. Granted as with any current energy dense means it could be safer.
I largely agree about nuclear, although its need for huge cooling reservoirs has devastated our obligate river dwelling fauna. Still, it's by far the cleanest from of energy we have at the moment, and a prosperous society can preserve its species with some judicial tinkering with the reservoirs and remaining rivers.
I think a lot of the political spectrum is economics. If you're near the bottom economically, you need some pretty strong ethics to not be vigorously in favor of redistribution. On the other hand if you're near the top you can afford it and may feel guilty about having more wealth, especially if it came easily or through others' hard work. If you're in the middle class, then probably your politics are shaped more by those around you, as you probably won't lose or gain that much either way. And of course if you work for government then you'll be much more likely to support government growth and higher taxes, and oppose those that wish to cut government.
Quote: Originally Posted by Kadarin Texas and all the other red states need to split off and form their own shithole of a country, while the rest of us move on. this^^^ we are too different.
But never fear I'm sure us blue states will have lax border security so you all can come for jobs
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Ahh, I'm rambling. To cubeless' perhaps valid point, I just keep getting frustrated that we can't all agree on the problems and discuss potential solutions in a non-partisan manner. The people can't do it, the politicians can't do it and government can't seem to execute it. Fail all around.
this^^^ we are too different. But never fear I'm sure us blue states will have lax border security so you all can come for jobs
If only it were as simple as seperating along state lines
I,m in Texas and I'll asure you I'm as blue as blue gets as are roughly 9 million of my fellow Texans, but unforetunately we share the state with about 11 million repub bumkins
It's almost unbelievable just how clueless the usual Righties are about this oil spill. This isn't like Katrina, where the govt has the kind of resources to assist the displaced people, dam off the levee breaches, pump out the water and move on from there.
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Only in the fevered dreams of the rabid Right...
you are... rambling, that is... why do things need to be done in some mythical kumbaya manner? y'all just passed the biggest, most wonderful piece of legislation in the past 50 years!!! wtf do you mean nothing can get done?
and the admin, since it's regulatory arm had such a good handle on regulation and safety, had just approved a bunch of offshore drilling, too... they're doing all kinds of good stuff...
What can be done to truly reform this country?
Forget politicians. Forget parties.
What can we do?
At some point you just have to acknowledge that it's too damn broken and you need to start near zero and rebuild.
this^^^ we are too different. But never fear I'm sure us blue states will have lax border security so you all can come for jobs