Organic-Guy's Comments (593)

“So long as the vitriol from the right bends our foreign policy and domestic policy towards violence and action before thought we will continue to lose our way. I have seen the enemy and it is us?”

“Now our national security is being compromised by this ridiculous republican purity test.”

“Most of the deniars I've spoken too are just living in fear. When I talk to them I find that most of their thinking is fear based. Not afraid of anything in particular but they seem to just have fear in their system and it drives them to some very unhealthy thinking and actions. Fear just does that to us most of the time.
Doubt as your friend expressed can be healthy. Doubt can lead you to the truth if applied to the pursuit of more knowledge and understanding. Fear warps our thinking and stops the conversation as near as I can tell. Maybe that innate fear i see in people is some primal force or maybe it's environmental, developed over time. I'm not sure.
What I found can work to change minds is to put a person at ease by first, not blaming them for the problem directly as if they are bad people. Reassuring them that we are all in this together. We all got here together and will get out together and that there are solutions helps.
Some will never even try to understand and they are a small group I think. I generally remain silent when I find myself around that type. I don't want to squander my energy yelling at stones.”

“The Homeland Security Agency itself is a grand example of closing the barn door after the cow got away. It was the Bush administration's way of looking like it was doing something and covering up the fact threat they let 911 happen. We already had a homeland security agency. It was called the FBI and FEMA to deal with after action issues with far less cost and fanfare they could be doing a better job had we not allowed Bush to cover is back side and make himself look like a hero when in fact he is responsible for the biggest intelligence failure in history called 9/11. Homeland security was one of the biggest, most wasteful expansions of government we ever had and it will never live up to it's promise. We can do more with our existing agencies and waste a lot less money doing it too.”

“Phil Graham, the master of disaster, is the last person anyone should be listening to right now. Putting this law back into effect with some modern tweeking is what should have happened months ago even before Obama came into office.
Right now, as things are set up, Wall Street and the mega-banks have no incentive to trade and do business with the middle class. There's more fake money to be made trading between themselves on make believe trades of paper and risky bets at the roulette table. Why make 100,000 dollar loans at 6% that pay off in 20 years when you can make 100 million dollar loans that pay off in days rather than years? Those at the top of this stinking pile don't create wealth anymore, they have reduced life to a spread sheet and they've removed themselves from the concept of public good and real wealth creation and venture capital. We can't grow our country if a 90% of the money is tied up in a gambling parlor.”

“At a meeting about health care last month, moderates pushed to table climate legislation in favor of a jobs bill that would be an easier sell during the 2010 elections, according to Senate Democratic aides.

This statement is what's wrong with the conventional thinkers in power today. A good climate change bill is a good jobs bill and they needn't be separate or opposed to each other. This is a false choice. However, cap and trade is a dog that won't hunt. A good start on climate legislation would be to eliminate the corporate welfare in the present fossil fuel economy. We still give away leases on public land to oil and coal companies for a song and in some cases we even use tax payer dollars to build roads into wilderness for them to get their dirty job done. The oil depletion allowance and subsidies like it still exist. Stop subsidizing nuclear power development and research and funneling money into industries that work against the future. Corporate welfare is the problem. Wars are just another form of it. What do they cost? Imagine funneling the hundreds of billions we've wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan into clean technology.
There are so many other clean technologies that we already have and extraordinary improvements on the drawing board that with a just a little venture capital from Wall Street could deliver us into full employment and a clean economy in under five years but politicians and investors are gutless wonders without imagination.”

“The republican party manipulates the data to say what they want it to say because they are dillusional about how they are now perceived in the country.
Many people, including myself are opposed to "THIS" health care bill, not health care reform generally and although they keep repeating that this is a "government take over of health care" the majority of people know this is not what's on the table even though we've been asking for it and the president campaigned on it. Indeed, most of us want more government involvement because we can see that private industry and Wall Street can't be trusted to do the job properly. The Wall Street 19th century capitalist model can't work in health care. It is the antithesis of what health care requires. Health care is, by nature, a very risky business.
Republicans actually like the corporate welfare approach that came out of this because they win either way. If it passes all their buddies in the health insurance industry do much better and all the members of congress who own stock in health care insurance companies stocks go up in value. They can demagogue the bill too, as government take over legislation and play to their base who still cling to the failed dogma of Government can't do anything right. The sad part is the democrats handed them this gift on a silver platter. Frankly I think they're all in on this charade together.”

“What he said. Couldn't have said it better. Thanks for speaking out.”

“the senate also broke the rules of the senate to pass the drug benefit back in 2003 by keeping the vote open long after the rules say it is supposed to be shut down. The gimmicked the whole thing so they could deliver billions to their friends in the drug companies right out of the pockets of the american people. there were no cost controls in the bill and medicare was denied the right to bid in the open for the drugs to bring down the cost. It was a give away to the industry.
I watched this play out with horror and we're still paying for it today.”

“I suppose if your primary news station is fox then you might feel like she does. I'm mad too but for reasons of substance and law. I know my senior mother will be okay and God isn't so easily offended.”

“George Bush killed hundreds of thousands of people without cause and shredded our constitution and bill of rights whenever it got in his way and we're still paying the moral , social and financial price for this deceit. and Fox continues the legacy to this day. Being angry about this is fine with me.
furthermore, there is no left wing agenda other than free speech and thought or things like that. There are simply sheep on the right who are willing to believe anything some one with an R in front of their name says without question and those think critically on all issues and people and make up their own minds no matter what party is speaking.
Grow up fox.”

“Fewer Planes, Higher Fees And More Delays Greet Travelers This Year.

Let's not forget bed bugs!”

“Frank Zappa in his album/play as the central scrutinizer predicted that the government was secretly making laws for the future the enforcement of which would give us all one thing in common. That we would all be made to be criminals because the laws would deliberately be made to trap everyone so the government could control us. How prophetic he was. Now, the white zone is for loading and unloading only.”

“Booooooooo. Throw the bumbs out.”

“Landrieu is such a fraud. Her defense is that this bill will give "Boost" to the private sector?!!! She's obviously in the pocket of the insurance companies and she's so blatant about ti it makes me sick. they don't need a BOOST. WE DO.
I think the real story will be if some good reporter looks behind the curtain and finds what these companies gave her as bribes to do this bad thing. Oh ya. They call it incentives now. Sorry.

All of these guys are very sad people whio have sold the American people down the river at a time when we really do need a hero. Since Obama decided to join the corporate elite we have to look for another one. I have a feeling we're fresh out. They all got incentives to be weasels.”

“This is what a one party system looks and feels like. No justice and no alternatives.”

“A mandate without cost controls is slavery. No public option. No single payer. No breaking the insurance company's anti-trust protection. No medicare buy in. This bill doesn't even seem to be constitutional. It makes us all slaves to the corpocracy. My suggestion is that everyone boycott it if it passes. do not buy their crappy over priced insurance and do not pay any tax or fine the government levies when you don't. I f we all stand together we have the numbers to rid ourselves of this tyranny.”

“Maybe he should stick to reporting the news and not be so quick to judge. He's rich and has health care from a multinational company and he's been there for a long time. what does he know about the plight of those in need and how the world looks to them? nothing. He's arrogant and his opinion counts for nothing.”

“Americans need new cars. all three major auto makers could sell everything they produce if they would start to finance them more easily and stop being so stingy. They only want to finance cars to people with good to excellent credit. most people's credit, even those who are working and/or managed to hold onto their businesses have terrible credit now yet the car companies and banks in general still hold to the old standards of lending and then they whine when they can't sell enough or the bank goes under.
the corporations are living in a fantasy land.
It's not the unions that are killing these companies it's the elitist owners and executives that haven't got a clue what just happened to everyone.”

“yup”

“This tepid step back into the market by employers will continue this way until the all the banks decide to stop being so stingy and lend us small businesses some money with the same easy terms the big banks and Wall Street are getting. Until then, expect more of the same.
It wouldn't kill them to renegotiate new terms for people's mortgages based on market rates either instead of kicking people out and reselling at or below market.”

“What?”

“Sadly. I agree.”

“"Thirty million people without health insurance stand to gain coverage under a deal announced on Saturday by Senate Democrats."
Ya. After they're forced to pay for it. what a bad joke this turned out to be. the United States government is mortally corrupt and serves the corporations of this world and cares nothing for it's people.”

“Obama has turned out to be a schill for the corporations on almlost every issue. Essentially a fraud. He might as well have an R in front of his name on camera. Feingold is right to blame him for this. There's no substitute for the support of the president when you need something important done.”