Friends letter to their city paper: Vote for What's Real

[katty]

VOTE FOR WHAT’S REAL

Let’s cut through all the spin, lies and election-year 527 blather. This is the most important presidential election in our lifetime. The next president of the United States will preside over:

1)An economic depression that will exceed the dimensions of the Great Depression of the
1930’s because of economic globalization;

2) The threshold for an imminent tipping point in climate change that will, if not addressed now, devour every coastal region in the world and permanently disrupt weather patterns and agriculture globally;

3) Unprecedented global instability, due to environmental refugees and global economic
chaos, requiring the ability to negotiate, utilize diplomacy and forge working partnerships with other nations as never before;

4) World recognition of Peak Oil, which has already arrived with the urgent need to re-build local manufacturing and farming infrastructure because global transportation and shipping as now required by our trade policies will cease to be cost effective.

Are we really willing to choose our next leader based on a personality contest, racial and gender biases and wedge issues rather than real issues?

Economy: The current economic crisis will not be fixed by short-term bailouts as supported by President Bush and John McCain. The $700 Billion bailout Bush proposes, with no regulation or oversight, will not go to your local banking institution: it will go to institutions referred to by the Financial Times as the “shadow banking system.” These are hedge funds, private equity firms and other structured investment vehicles that deal in what is called “derivatives.” Derivatives are the equivalent of legalized gambling; using highly-leveraged funds that frequently have nothing to do with anything real. Wheat and corn are real; bets that the dollar will fall against the yen are gambling. The global shadow banking system currently has One Thousand Trillion dollars worth of these derivatives falling now like so many dominos. Meanwhile, the entire global GDP is only 60 Trillion Dollars! Do we really want our dwindling middle class to bailout firms with One Thousand Trillion dollars of failed investments? John McCain began his political career enmeshed in the Keating Five scandal, in which similar failed tactics destroyed the Savings and Loan industry. Many of his associates went to jail; McCain was censured by Congress; and the American taxpayer lost their life savings and paid the tab as well. John McCain has always voted to stop regulation and oversight of the financial industry.

When will moderate Republicans start to vote in the best interest of average people instead of the top 1 percent?

Climate Change: John McCain gives lip service to the issue, while Sarah Palin denies climate change is man-made. She also believes the world was created six thousand years ago and that God can fix global destruction in the blink of an eye after “The Tribulation!”

Oil: John McCain and Sarah Palin support Big Oil and clamor to increase drilling rather than curtail global warming with newer technologies.

Diplomacy: John McCain remains entrenched in a Cold War mentality, with many retired military leaders fearing a McCain presidency. His quick temper has no place being near nuclear launch codes, they say. Sarah Palin, who embraces a radical rightwing End time’s theology, would mold her foreign policy to fit her fervent desire for Armageddon. Without the battle of the Final Days, her Messiah cannot return to earth. Let’s see how well she does with Iran’s leader, Ahmadinejad. We will need the cooperation and, yes, assistance of other nations to weather the storms surrounding us. An arrogant exceptionalist attitude toward other nations will bring ruin to our Republic.

Barak Obama is not perfect, but he is respected by other world leaders. He is measured in his thinking and can be trusted to fight for the interests of ordinary Americans. If Americans cannot put aside wedge issues, racism, economic and religious fundamentalism, then our Republic will drown in the wastewater of our stunning stupidity!

[southpaw]

1. Impressive!

I hope it gets printed, and I hope many people endeavor to read it!

[katty]

2. yeah, my friend is a good writer-done this many times