The failure is complete. A catastrophic “war of choice” in Iraq. Economic recession at home.

from OurFuture.org:



This is the intro to "Making Sense: A Progressive Guide to Kitchen Table Issues"

Making Sense: Introduction


The failure is complete. A catastrophic “war of choice” in Iraq. Economic recession at home.

As the conservative era—launched with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980—comes to its end, we are left with the ruins: Gilded Age inequality, record foreign debts and trade deficits, worst corporate crime wave since the Robber Barons and crippling public squalor in a country that is literally falling apart. Home values collapsing, wages declining and the cost of health care, tuitions, gas and food soaring. Katrina’s disgrace, Halliburton’s cronyism, Enron’s corruption, toxic toys, poisoned school lunches and casino banking. The list can go on.

Americans now are looking for change. 2008 has the potential to mark the end of this failed conservative experiment—and the beginnings of a new reform movement. Already progressive movements have helped drive fundamental issues—ending the folly in Iraq, launching a concerted drive for new energy, challenging the corporate trade agenda, demanding fairer taxes, championing affordable health care for all and calling for reinvesting in America. Democrats have prospered by making themselves the agents of that change.

This isn’t, however, simply a partisan divide. Conservative ideas and ideology have dominated our politics for three decades. 35,000 corporate lobbyists—more than double the number in 2000—now protect their special interests in the nation’s capitol. The right-wing Wurlitzer spews out vitriol designed to deceive and distract. Money still speaks loudly in Washington.

A new era of progressive reform can occur only if Americans mobilize to counter the influence of entrenched interests. The wealthy continue to torpedo fair taxes. Wall Street resists a trade policy that works for working people. Proponents of new energy must overcome the Big Oil lobby. Health care reform will be fiercely resisted by the insurance companies and the drug lobby.

Progressives will have to mobilize, argue the case and cut through the propaganda, the fear campaigns and the well-funded lies and distortions. "Making Sense: A Progressive Guide to Kitchen Table Issues" is designed to help in that process. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.ourfuture.org/making-sense-introduction

enough is enough.

Complete failure is mission accomplished, creates poor people all over the globe.

Numbnuts still has 10 months to go and a big "to do" list. We've yet to have a total monetary meltdown. There's still time for another Katrina or two. And we can expect his parting gift to the American people will be to bomb Iran as he's going out the WH door for the last time.

It really solves a number of problems.

What if we had invested the money spent to date on the war in infrastructure and social programs such as healthcare?