Where we are now- an oxygen suppliment.

Let us all take a deep breath, and then say out loud where we stand here in Murika, anno domini 2007.

Here in Murika, we say we are a free democracy, and the model the world should emulate.

But we, a democracy without habeas corpus, are this very day torturing prisoners of war, in outright abrogation of international treaties.

We, except for a handful of dead enders, have given up any pretense that the invasion of Iraq was about anything but the oil.

We have had crooked elections, stolen with the complicity of the SCOTUS, and the limp opposition party since the turn of the century.

Our government is broken, checks and balances are notable in their absence. We left billions of dollars on pallets, to be stolen in our occupation. We left radioactive waste and ore to be wallowed in by Iraqi citizens who are dying for the theft of a plastic barrel. We allowed the looting of the source of western civilization with a mere shrug and a 'shit happens' attitude.

In light of the most criminal administration in the US history, the speaker of the house still refuses to do her constitutional duty and impeach, attempting some sort of fantasy league bipartisanism.

Our fourth estate, given protection under the Constitution for its essential role in a democracy, has been corrupted by the right wing propagandist movement. It is using those protections to distort the reality of our surroundings to the Murikan citizen, such as they are.

Our business community has abandoned Adam Smith for Gordon Gecko, and have enshrined greed into law. Accounting principles now in use are more abstruse and less relevant to real economic life than quantum physics is to Newton.

Our expanding industries are led by military contractors prisons-workers and prison labor, security, and mercenary forces. Everything else is contracting.

The domestic content of our military supply chain does not extend down to the production of things like electronic components. Forces fighting for us are chronically undermanned, undersupplied, and we are trying to start a third front in our war for control of oil and gas. Oh yes, did I mention that our war for oil is being fought on credit from our major oil competitor in the future?

We are about to be the only major nation not actively trying to reduce CO2 emissions. Even China is acknowledging the problem.

We are the only so-called modern nation to lack universal healthcare.

We get less vacation than any so-called modern nation.

More of our population is in prison than any so-called modern nation.

Our distribution of wealth most resembles a third world resource providing state than an industrial democracy.

We have lost factory jobs because our workforce was not well enough educated. Our president believes in private schools.

We are 14th in infant mortality.

Bush just vetoed SCHIP for the second time.


I am not sane anymore, and part of it comes from believing a better world, and seeing the apotheosis of greed and, stupidity, and hatred in place of community and the common good.

I don't want to die in Murica, and I don't know how much longer I can stand to live in it.

And that is what I say when I am out of breath.

yep, I agree. :(

one of the Founders, I think it may have been Ben Franklin, said that it would be up to future generations to protect and nurture what they had wrought. He was afraid there might come a time when people simply wouldn't be up to the job. I guess that would be us.