whats wrong with just demanding legislation towards freeing ourselves from oil, The Middle East, Fricking Chavez, etc.....Before you'all get up in arms, I'm also all for the private sector to take a more agressive lead and innovate new technolgy to ween us off dependence of others, and guess what, it wouldn't hurt the enviorment niether..a win win situation for all.
On the one hand, you make a good point, no argument but who owns and controls the legislative process via the K Street lobbyist? Who's likely to craft legislation that in the end will benefit themselves and stick us either back where we are at or in some new situation that screws us over? The history of the last 150 years of this crap is staring us in the face yet we go right back and stick our hand in the same ole' snake hole and then we scream when we get bit! Sorry man, I'm just not going there anymore.
Diesel, the private sector can be done but it does take work, I won't kid you there and it's no utopia either but it can work and at least it doesn't centralize and concentrate power for a small few to manipulate. We lost reality that spread and disbursed power is as much and more so important check and balance than the 3 branches of gov't. Amendments 9 and 10 are just as important and IMO moreso than the doctrine of seperation of powers. Fact is, it's a part of that doctrine. What effect could a VP Dick Cheney and friends have if gov't was limited and divided and those of you terrified at the thought of President Hillary should also ask what would you have to fear of her if said were also true in her case? Changes things a lot doesn't it?
Don't you just hate my guts when I do that crap?
You are 1000% correct that we now live where so problems and solutions intersect and yet we're still to dumb to see it. I've cut my energy use at my home over the last several years by 60% and I'm not done yet. My ultimate goal is to be grid free and it is doable but it does take work and doing some of your own research. And you sit right now before the gateway to the knowledge of how to do it but instead of stepping up and leading, your solution is to have someone else do it for you. And they do it to benefit themselves and not so much to benefit you and your neighbors. Are we again telling Washington that we are stupid sheep and for them to lead us? Seems that way to me!
SLOGAN MASTER! Geez guys, I can't believe you don't know this one.
None other than good ole' Jesse Jackson.
AV8,
The point was that certain politicians create themselves as personalities and therefore create cults of personalities linked to a cause but the ultimate aim is to pull into themselves power and prestige of being at the center of people's attention. They had no musical talents to be rock stars so they became political figures instead!
