8 Years of Homeland Insecurity: Signs of the Times: No JOBS, No HEALTHCARE, No JUSTICE, No PEACE

[omega minimo]

9/11: Celebrate 8 Years of Homeland Insecurity with BIG Signs of the Times: No JOBS, No HEALTHCARE, No JUSTICE, No PEACE.

Whose legacy is that? -- BUSHCO
Where are your civil rights? -- GONE
What has been done to hold Bushco accountable? -- NADA
President Obama and Secretary Duncan promote charter schools, privatization of education as "reform" of education
-- WHERE ARE THE JOBS FOR THESE GRADUATES?
Obama's speech: Believe it "makes more sense to build on what works... than try to build an entirely new system..."?
-- THE FOR PROFIT SYSTEM ISN'T WORKING. YOU DON'T HAVE TO REINVENT THE WHEEL. MEDICARE FOR ALL.

Thom Hartmann said last night's speech would determine whether Obama's was an FDR presidency or a Clinton presidency. As one who predicted before the election that, with either Hillary or Obama, we would have another Clinton presidency, I am not "disappointed," having had realistically low expectations; those were based on the march of Big Business replacing Big Government since Ronnie Raygun got the ball rolling three decades ago.

Mr. Hartmann also pointed out that every other major industrialized nation makes it ILLEGAL for a middlebroker to be profiting from the process of keeping or making people WELL. Was that in the speech last night? Why is healthcare profiteering not illegal here also?

The SYSTEM is not working. Neither are the PEOPLE.

The PROFITEERS are still in charge of government and elections. They've got their sites set on the PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM next.

Celebrate 8 Years of Homeland Insecurity. FREEDOM'S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxk_DoJ8dNQ

[lapfog_1]

1. Jails, military, healthcare, power utilities

not to mention the former regulated near monopolies... phones, internet, broadcast TV, airlines, banking, and insurance.

What's next on the agenda of the Free Market Ayn Rand idiots...

Schools and water.

And less regulation for food production.

Pretty soon, we will be Somalia or Mexico. Literally.

[omega minimo]

2. While public infrastructure is dismantled... So that's why the illusion is propped up?

For now.

[HillbillyBob]

8. After our own personal preview of the current Depression in 2002.

We had a really bad couple of years. If not for the good folks at Second Harvest we would have starved that is no joke or exaggeration.
I had my disability income and partner had the occasional contract job, which individually paid well, but were very infrequent. We almost froze in a house with no heat, we managed to get a kero heater and put piece of styrofoam in the broken windows. We did buy dog food to keep our too girls alive.

When my partner got a job in another town we moved from Asheville..I really liked it there, but ya do what you have to.
We started thinking about how we could make things a bit more secure after four years and two rental houses that got to expensive and had mold problems.
We bought this place it had been empty for almost 3 years but it was a fairly new house compared to the 1924 place we were in. The owners rented it out and the tenants trashed it they the owner walked away letting the bank take it.

So now we have a little place that did not cost much we got it for about 40% under market.
We started paring energy cost with the goal of being nearly fossil fuel free, and want to put in solar to power our well pump, solar water heater we have the body for it but need the rest when we can scrap up the funding and solar power for the house we are almost down to where we can get by with an off grid solar set up for about 18g.

We have been growing food and the house is large enough to take in friends or relatives if we need to and we have been trying to learn to do things so that after this Depression is over we can help others.

[omega minimo]

11. Sounds like you made some sweet lemonade

out of those lemons :toast:

[omega minimo]

14. I like Meyer lemons

[HillbillyBob]

18. Well we figured that we would not get any help from much of anywhere

so we did the best we could, working it out and doing research via the net.
In fact I looked at 100s of houses for sale, sorted through and kept 150 or so possibles, talked each over with partner, went out and saw about 40, most were tossed out of hand as too far gone or too far out or in one case "the Hills have Eyes" creepy.
I can do work, but we needed a livable place soon, Our rental had been sold and the new landlord said "You fixed it up so nice I'm going to raise the rent by 300$ a month to 1275, we were barely getting by on as it was, we needed the fence yard for our dogs and most places wanted a big deposit to have pets.

Our girls are well behaved one is my aid dog. I could have forced a place to take us because the ADA says aid dogs can be anywhere, and are usually trained to a high degree. Dora is so smart she talks..a bit hard to understand but she does talk.. She does not make friends she gathers fans every where she goes. It is rather amazing.

We started collecting heirloom varieties of veggy seeds. We had a good garden last year, my partner did most of it because of my disabilities.
This year I was in hospital and it rained out what did get planted and most of that died when we got dry. We plan to put in some tanks and catch rain from the roof. Next 5grand we have loose.

When I came out with Dora and she saw the 2 acre yard and bunnies and squirrels to chase she was IN. We did ask her opinion.
I brought partner out. He was hesitant because it was so much work, but it had space for gardens, fruit trees, privacy, and Dora and Ashley thought it was next to heaven. We now have 2 more dogs who are rescues too.

We did alright, but it took time and persistence and when we found the place we had a really helpful ReMax Realtor and his Mortgage broker who worked very hard to get us a reasonable loan and we used my partners VA benefit to get a 6.24% fixed rate(we insisted, fixed or no deal), we made every payment on time and were able to lower the rate after a year to 5.18%. Yes there was some luck it was about time something went better.

We are happy here and love the place the folks are great, there are a few jerks around, but such is life. It has turned out fairly well for us here.

[omega minimo]

21. Considered setting up a little writing studio back there?

Your stories are great. :toast:

[Vidar]

3. You've summed it up extremely well. For all his potential, Obama has

done little to rectify the true betrayal of this county. Recommended.

[omega minimo]

5. Appreciate it, Vidar

I don't want to know this president. Really.

The sports team attitude prevails though, of protecting "our guy" and not looking closely at the issues or the bigger picture.

Someone who has Unitary Executive powers wants to pursue "bipartisanship," diss the left in a speech but not the right (per Sirota) and accepts an apology for an act of contempt during his speech to Congress?

[truedelphi]

23. +1! n/t

[omega minimo]

4. Rah! Rah! Sis! Boom! Bah!!!

and a baby's arm holding an apple
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgjfi1DU1mQ

[omega minimo]

13. .

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. The new boss has met the real bosses and decided to play it their way.

Which, as you said, is hardly a surprise.

[omega minimo]

7. and I don't assume that's entirely willingly

although reportedly this candidate has taken more health insurance industry money than.............................

The discouraging part is how blatant the racketeering in and of government has become -- and that it's still not clear enough for some... :spray: Wonder who's in charge of the catapult these days.

[omega minimo]

15. right

[Uncle Joe]

9. It seems to me that

"too big to fail" has increasingly become the government refrain; with the result of ever creating rigid immovable objects, I believe the net result of such strategic non-thinking will inevitably lead to "nothing left to lose;" thus spawning an irresistible force.

I hate kicking and recommending some threads; but feel compelled to do so, this is one of those.

Thanks for the thread, omega minimo.

[omega minimo]

10. Thanks for the cogent -- as always -- comments, Uncle Joe

:pals:


""too big to fail" has increasingly become the government refrain; with the result of ever creating rigid immovable objects, I believe the net result of such strategic non-thinking will inevitably lead to "nothing left to lose;" thus spawning an irresistible force."

And when dominoes fall...........

[omega minimo]

12. Truth hurts

[Hannah Bell]

16. k

[Greyhound]

17. Nothing to see here, ignore the man behind the curtain, he's "our guy" now.

:kick: & R

[omega minimo]

22. When DU was fighting tooth and nail over a white woman and a black man

I looked at them and saw two Players.

:shrug: Here we are.


Damn that Nader
:sarcasm:

[jakeXT]

19. I bet a couple of jobs will be created for the $3.4 billion DHS complex

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6520653

[omega minimo]

20. "It will help us build that culture of 'One DHS.'"

No money for healthcare. :evilfrown: