This comic strip is the funniest indictment of America I've ever seen. A must-read.
My country has reached a cliff. Do we continue over it or do we try to turn to the side and find a gentle way down. Those are the only options I see. With a collapsing economy and a looming fiscal shortfal in the trillions of dollars ($1,000,000,000,000+) what avenues are there to a return to the old way of life? None, as far as I'm concerned. Our standards of living will hopefully remain stable, but we need to seriously consider altering our fiscal behavior.
And the best way to do that is, of course, coexisting with our environment more carefully. Reusing and recycling old materials may not produce new manufacturing jobs, but it will save personal income and landfill space, not to mention natural resources. Eating locally reduces carbon fuel consumption, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and is healthy for you, the individual. And the most important, water. Reducing water usage prevents the creation of new jobs in the damn and aquifer sector, but instead allows the planet to sustain human life into the twenty-second century and beyond. Green jobs can be created in each of these sectors, thus ofsetting the losses of "traditional" jobs, but none of this will happen until consumers demand the change.
That is all for now. I return you to your CES coverage, or whatever else you might be doing.
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I think those are good suggestions for how we can improve and maintain our own lives. I'm not sure that they are up to the scale required to deal with anything like the national debt or budget shortages. Those are such gigantic numbers they are beyond an abstraction. I propose a loftier goal, not unlike Kennedy's speech in 1962 where he makes space travel national policy and where he proposes going to the moon with in a decade, I think we should look into time travel. Then we could send someone back, maybe have them pop in on Clinton mid-nineties and suggest he should be more mindful of what he does with his cigars. That would probably prevent the election of George Bush, 9/11, financial turmoil, my weight gain...maybe I could have quit smoking?
I agree, except for 9/11. Your weight and the cigarettes are totally President Bush's fault.
My suggestions probably won't fix the economy, but they would go a long way to helping our future generations pay off our debts, and they're just good ideas, IMHO. :)
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