a previous thought

how will staying in iraq not make us go bankrupt? 

will someone please explain how looking for more oil will solve anything as far as our economy goes? 

how can we still not have an answer to an alternative energy that doesn't cost more then its worth?

here's what i really don't understand though: how did our government not see this coming?

they had to have thought 'well maybe oil prices won't drop when we destroy iraq, and all of its infrastructures, but go way up because we'll never be able to force a democracy on these people.'

did they not figure out the chain reaction of when a gallon of gas goes up in price that people have to readjust their spending priorities in order to function?

i mean obviously the excessive, materialistic spending, is going to crash as the average person is forced into paying $4 a gallon with a constantly weakening dollar. even worse though, is that all products (from air travel to milk) keep going up in price because our society is so deeply integrated with the usage of petroleum. 

i guess my question to you, well 50% of you- how can this country possibly be thinking about putting another Republican into office?

mccain used to be a moderate-republican with 'new ideas' (the maverick, right?), but if you look at all of his current positions, he has become the standard of a douchebag, do-nothing, puppet, republican. there will be no reaching across the isle, the same as the current administration... unless maybe he can cook up enough evidence to start another war.

i'm looking toward the future trying to figure out how our country is going find its way out of a recession that isn't even in full effect yet, and won't even start to turn around until the 3rd quarter, at least in the markets (estimated by the same analysts who didn't see the bear sterns collapse coming).

what bullshit product are we going to sell the world? how are we going to get ALL of our money back from china? why did so many fucking idiots not read the small print when buying a house?

there can be no more 'hands-off capitalism' policy coming from the white house. somebody has to do something. our country can not be run by a party that thinks the government should play a minimal role (especially in natural disaster aid) in everything except in war.

the middle east has been warring since fucking cain and able. the u.s. can't change that. no matter how sweet we think democracy is, two warring factions will not just come together, never mind that area's problems with Israel. 

we need to start withdrawing troops now. we need to stop running the country's debt up by 4 billion a week. then MAYBE we can figure out the next trend that will save the world, keep 'American the Great' in power, and turn the corner on our deficit.

why are we not demanding a major change in the way our government functions? we care more about who is wearing their goddamn flag pin or not. for fucks sake, they're running for president, how much more patriotic do you have to be then saying, 'i want to lead this country'? 

America is not just going to come back from this with everyone sitting on their hands, waiting for somebody else to fix it. we have to go back to what this country was founded on- the balls to say 'we are not in a good situation- let's fix it.'