Organic-Guy's Comments (509)

“The republican plan to return us to feudalism and the creation of a permanent underclass that pours money upwards to the top is almost complete. If they can rid themselves of just a few more pesky regulations and kill all the weak ones by denying us health care they will have it.”

“The republicans will oppose anything that impinges on the rights of corporations to screw the public out of every dime they earn. The reign of terror continues.”

“A bankrupt country erects a useless building it doesn't need that consumes gobs of energy for no purpose built by slave labor with a view of the ocean swamp created by their failed palm tree island project.. What are they celebrating? If aliens ever visit this planet after civilization has failed, they will look around this burned out hulk of a planet with no atmosphere and empty structures with no purpose for a while, shrug their shoulders(assuming they have them) and go away muttering one word under their breath. IDIOTS!”

“All the democrats have to do to win is be Democrats and do the things the people who elected them to do want them to do instead of siding with the republicans and feeding our tax dollars to fortune 500 companies and selling out our nation and democracy itself. No more corporate welfare.”

“Even the alternative energy crowd suffers from the legacy of top down thinking. Centralized power plants of any kind are a throw back to a time when technology was crude and education was lacking. The amount of money these projects take to launch and maintain would be better spent on an "electro grid" idea like Al Gore spoke about a few times. Energizing as many homes and buildings as possible first right where they are first would reduce the need for centralized power plants, transmission lines with their inherent energy losses and habitat destruction.
The green energy movement is being high jacked by a bunch of greedy venture capitalist determined to make all the same mistakes we've been making since the dawn of the industrial revolution. all this capital needs to flow into small, local banks for local projects first. It will cost a tenth as much as these giant projects and then we could evaluate what larger projects we still need.”

“Beyond rhetoric the north Koreans could make a gesture like releasing the Pueblo still docked in north Korea. The ship is worthless but the gesture would mean a lot. This would be a show of good faith that would cost North Korea nothing.”

“Because it gets us somewhere beyond visceral satisfaction from the gut. Bellicose rhetoric and insults are the realm of children not adults. When you do the same thing over an over again and nothing gets better it's time to try something new.”

“Bush turned Iraq into a mass grave on;y he did the killing right out in the open for all to see.”

“You know full well that the messed up procedures that lead to the immunity and confessions were no accident. Federal prosecutors at that level don't make these kinds of amature small town cop mistakes. The Bush administration knew that if they operated in certain ways at that time nothing would happen to these men if they ever went to court. This was all preordained.”

“Nice to have a billionaire telling everyone the value of working for free. I think the growth of charities is a sign of failure in a society not a sign of success. It shows us that we're not meeting even the minimum bench mark for creating a fair and equitable culture that values every person equally.
George Bush SR. hit on similar themes. I remember in the same week he stood behind bullet proof glass and refused to sign the assault weapons ban and later that week he gave the thousand points of light speech. both disingenuous pieces of tripe disguised as virtue for the working class and the poor. These frat boys make me sick. What do they know about the value of real work? They've always had everything and have never known hunger and despair.”

“This is a good idea but you still need to check what local bank you want to use. I've always used my local bank for 18 years, but since this whole economic melt down occurred they've become as bad a predator as the big ones. Despite having put over 2 million dollars through their system in the past 3 years, buying two houses and having paid off multiple loans they've restricted lending only to the wealthy of our community who don't need the money. They're cramming checks through that are written weeks apart from each other to control our cash flow during this period and collecting huge amounts of over draft and bounced check fees as a result. They delay our deposits so checks will bounce and do just about everything else I've been reading about the big banks doing. We're beginning to migrate our money out of there to a credit union after they turned us down for a consolidation loan yesterday after waiting two months for a decision. They won't even help us with invoice financing on guaranteed orders we have in hand. They've become horrible people, so be careful who you do business with. Ask around and read everything they give you when you're signing up. Even hire a lawyer if you can afford one. don't trust any banker.”

“This is a good idea but you still need to check what local bank you want to use. I've always used my local bank for 18 years, but since this whole economic melt down occurred they've become as bad a predator as the big ones. Despite having put over 2 million dollars through their system in the past 3 years, buying two houses and having paid off multiple loans they've restricted lending only to the wealthy of our community who don't need the money. They're cramming checks through that are written weeks apart from each other to control our cash flow during%”

“This whole bill was a payolla scheme right from the beginning with all the players buying in and extorting what they wanted. The people who are most effected were completely left out of the loop and all their concerns ignored.
I wrote letter after letter to the white house and my senators and even though my congress people from Vermont were of mostly like mind with myself very little if any of what we asked for was included in the bill. all the candy for the insurance companies and corrupt congress people were included though. If only I had had a million dollars to put into each letter. Maybe then i could of gotten something I wanted.”

“This just proves that, without a doubt, the Republican motto is, "Party First, country be damned."”

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

“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.”

“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.”