Over40's Comments (66)

“What do you mean by "real economy"? Gold?”

“Yes, exactly!”

“Actually, there are a lot of us who need any information on this subject we can get.
The comments provide most of the useful information but whatever .....”

“Sad, but true.”

“There may be more truth to what you say than any of us want to admit .....”

“You have it right. The corporate and other powerful interests have very smartly used
the republican party and wedge issues to divide the middle class electorate and I must
say it has worked wonderfully for them. On top of this, the middle class has largely rested on their laurels for the last 30 years without realizing or taking responsibility for the fact that rights and the
progress made have to be continually defended. And another poster mentioned people watching "Dancing with the stars" and munching Cheetos" and yes, that kind of mindless apathy is definitely a real problem that has been carefully cultivated by the same powerful interests. Is it any coincidence that there's nothing on TV outside of PBS (which, thank God, we still have) that requires a thinking audience?

Also, before some smart-mouth under-40 person blames the Boomers for this mess, let me say
that it really took off with the Reagan administrations and I totally doubt the boomers voted for Reagan en mass. He got in with the votes of our parents and the generation immediately after us.”

“Love this article and all the comments. Thank you.”

“This was far more interesting (to me) than the original post. Thank you.”

“Not to mention cracker-box 3000-5000 SF houses ....... insane ...........”

“Ditto. Ditto.”

“Precisely.”

“I just copied the last half of your post, said it reflected my sentiments exactly, and sent
it to my congressional reps.”

“Thank you for this post! Anyone who cares about animal rights to humane treatment can donate
either to the Humane Society's legislative fund or directly to Cucinelli's opponent. I will ........”

“Amen! Amen!”

“This should be re-printed in every major newspaper and news website in the country.
How can we make that happen?

The author has distilled the facts in such a way that makes it crystal clear how the country has
been lied to and manipulated and the results of being taken in by it. We can only make headway
towards righting the ship if we all have a common understanding of exactly what has happened
over the last 30 years (not the last 2 years!) and what needs to happen to fix things. Maybe we
need to earnestly look for a current day Eisenhower. But even Eisenhower could not fix things
if the country as a whole was not behind him. Let's pray that it doesn't require another WWII to
put all of us in that state of mind ......... (global warming, anyone?)”

“Maybe the lack of interest in the Emmys has to do with the appalling state of television fare in general.
I stopped watching ten years ago and haven't returned.”

“What a shame!!! Hopefully, some far more competent and passionate filmmaker will make another film. People are shockingly ignorant of what Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine contains. The power that corporate interests have have gained over the last several decades is simply horrific - everthing from what you describe, ot the pharmaseutical and insurance interests that control our healthcare (or lack of it!) to the corporate farming interests that knowingly poison and polute our food chain and keep livestock in unthikable conditions, to the military industrial interests that Eisenhower warned about, to the financial corporations that have just robbed us blind and on and on.

These interests have an obvious desire to keep the public in the dark and have been quite effective using their right-wing politicos to divert public attention and education by using wedge issues to keep people distracted and willfully ignorant..

Anyway, thank you for this post.. We need a thousand more like it.”

“Very important post. Every year that goes by I am more and more appalled at what is going on
and most of it has to do with factory (ie. corporate) farming. If they aren't poisoning our food supply
with pesticides or herbicides, they are giving us genetically "modified" food or feeding artificial
hormones to our cows, pigs and chickens or they are torturing millions of farm animals in the name
of expediency or feeding them other ground up animals, completely corrupting the natural scheme
of things. How on earth has it come to this? How have they gained such omnipotent power to do
these things without ramifications and how on earth have we let them? SOMEHOW, we have got
to turn things around!

And yes, we do NOT know how all these chemicals are playing subtle havoc with the internal systems.
particularly the nervous systems, of both fetuses and adults - I fear it is much more than we know.”

“Thank you for having the courage and commitment to come forward and say this. This is true patriotism. Everything you say is true and needs to be said and acknowledged. Thank you again.”

“WHAT is your problem?? Grow up and leave Elizabeth Edwards alone!”

“The post before was meant as a reply to the post by csavage.”

“Very good point!”

“I have the exact same reaction .......... I always switch the channel.”

“The abuse of animals, whether it be in circuses, factory farms, puppy mills or in their natural habitat
that we have made intolerable (see a recent NY Times story on whales) - HAS GOT TO STOP.
We must vote with our wallets and then spread the word and support animal rights and protection
groups. Thank you for writing this article.”

“excellent comment - thank you.”