Obama lost his political capital when he coddled wall street, not to mention the wars in Iran and Afghanistan. He's doing better than Bush did,...
Outside the box is where I'm comin' from, lol (I'm actually in CT, not too far from oldwolf). You're right though, factors I once considered...
I haven't stopped looking into this, but I haven't implemented any of it yet either because I've concluded that the monetary and environmental...
It depends on if you call catering to wall street greed "socialism." I mean, it's socialism if you're a banker receiving a bailout, right? Then...
I'll never forget when dubya "won" the election against Al Gore, I thought "how bad could this be?" If I'd only known... ...and yet if we could...
It comes down to how you interpret history, and what you think is important. The Bush legacy has seen the biggest decline in the middle class...
Some may argue Clinton laid the ground work for the decline of the middle class, because the Clinton administration was responsible for NAFTA, so...
Thank you for the insightful post, Sunandsalt. If you were a farmer, would you want to plant Monsanto seeds, knowing the potential outcome could...
I agree, in the sense that the rejection of materialism may be an idea most of us have entertained for a long time. Now we've got no choice....
Good to hear someone's listening, thanks man. Mother Earth News is a fantastic resource for self sufficiency, and, well I'm sure the Dead never...
Experiencing the immense beauty in all that you see.
and the Chinese, and.... Some things never change, they just shift until enough people get pissed off, then they "fix" it, or misrepresent it...
I've observed the same with communes, you gotta be careful. I've heard the most important factor in making a commune work is having rules clearly...
Leadership is the problem. Most leaders have good intentions of helping their constituency and changing the system until they get in there and...
Capitalism in its purest form is profitable. It has to be, by definition. What we have isn't really capitalism, it's more like government...
The Greedheads are doing what they've always done, giving us the illusion that we are the problem, not them. Their tactic is to rob us blind...
You got it, only it's already happening. What the Greedheads don't seem to understand is they need us to survive. Without someone to buy the...
Agreed. By "independence" I was thinking more in terms of self sufficiency and independence from corporate culture than from each other, but...
The Reverand's on to something I've been harping about for a while now, namely that we are changing the world, and it's not just hippies either....
I agree that older is not necessarily wiser, and sometimes I wonder if it's not the other way around, like as we get older and more entrenched in...
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