The time to tell the truth is nigh. Obama lacks the courage to tell America happy driving days are over. Consider the electric car. Even if a 100 million of these were built in the next month, the electric grid could never supply enough energy to keep these vehicles on the road unless they were so efficient as to defy state-of-the art technology as it exists today. Obama had his chance in the first month of his administration to really make change happen. What he did instead was to hire the bozos who created the economic disaster we are now facing. We are in desparate trouble that requires the kind of change that can get one killed.

Things Obama should have done:

1. Abolish the Fed. It is a private cartel protected by government run by bankers (GS) for bankers. (An act of Congress can do the deed without a problem.)

2. No TARP money. Sweden let their banks die when they had a crisis and their economy rebounded in quick fashion. Why should we the taxpayer pick up the tab for criminal investments.

3. Let the banks die. Protect depositors, screw investors. They bet on bad investments and lost.

4. Restore Glass-Stegall.

5. Criminal indictments on the Banksters

6. Criminal indictments on the BA

7. Cut defense spending

8. Single payer healthcare, period. Insurance companies, like CC companies are tied into central banking. Any questions?

9. Get out of Iraq and Afghanistan. Why are we there?

Also, I am sick and tired of hearing the words young and inexperienced as a way to explain why Obama has done nothing but cave in to the banksters that run this country. That’s crap! Common sense and intelligence combined with a little bit of research will tell anyone what’s wrong with this country’s finances. I learned how money is created in this nation and it’s not rocket science.

Factoid: We are past peak oil. It will never drive the economy again. Why? The world consumes 84 million barrels of oil per day. Iraq has 116 billion proven reservers. In 12 days, the world consumes 1 billion barrels of oil. Ergo. Iraq can supply the entire world’s thirst for oil for approximately 3.16 years if consumption does not increase. (12 X 96.7 = 1160 days (3.18 years) or 116 billion barrels of oil. Because oil reserves are in decline, the economy must depend on new resources to survive. Obama’s current course is nonsensical because cheap energy in the quise of oil will never return to the “good old days”.

If Obama’s to save his administration, he has to take charge and kick ass, qualities I don’t see at this point in time. We are on the brink of failure and violence as we slide into depression and despair, not a good place to be in when Global Warming is factored into the equation.

Great presidents lead. Right now, I put Obama in with Woodrow Wilson, the ineffective intellectual who abdicated this country’s right to manage it’s money (the Fed, 1913, The IRS, 1912), an act he considered to be the worst thing he ever did as president.

Great article BTW.

I really dig your post. It addresses all of the issues that should have been on the front burner for Obama. These issues are so obviously serious to those Americans who have the intellect and concern for our nation’s welfare.

Unfortunately, Washington has a much more profound allegiance to interest outside of the American welfare.

Obama’s compaign promises were no more relevant than any other politician’s promises…since the raising of the first flag of our orignial 13 United States.

He sold America with a promise about making bad political promises good.

Now…well, those of us who understand the complexities and the overwhelming severity of our broken system of government and the election process see the “greater population” fall back into the fetal position, sucking their thumbs, hoping for a new savior to come along who will make a more spectacular and grandiose promises to cling to. Those who are more acutely aware stand by in small numbers…feeling an enormous sense of awe and powerlessness.

Meanwhile, back in Washington the resounding mantra that repeats itself in the back of the minds of every politician, “We can do anything we want, and the American people won’t do a damn thing about it”…this quote is compliments of SlippedMickey in RR. Thanks Mick.

We all know that Mick isn’t the only one to make that comment, many have…but not enough across our nation to rise up and say, “enough is enough”.

When it hurts bad enough and long enough, will it be to late for American voters to make a stand and dissent to the behaviors of our Corp/Government. Will we be able to collectively “go to any length” to restore We The People’s voice?

To Boldly Go…
Anywhere there is sanity…

The time to strike was in the first month after the inauguration, when hope was up and anger at the criminal financial institutions was high. Too much time is being squandered by trying to build consensus. Too much was given away trying to be bi-partisan. Now dissention among the Ds is mounting – I believe the saying is “Snatching Defeat from the jaws of Victory.”

Too much “religion” pervades the political discourse; the religion of mythological “free enterprise capitalism.” Capitalism, corporatism, globalization are amoral concepts and there is nothing “free or fair” about them. We cage lions and tigers for our safety and the same should be the case for other amoral predators (i.e., banks, insurance companies and other corporate entities that would do us harm).

If only half your recommendations were adopted we’d be a long way to restoring the national health, wealth and good sense that has been thrown away since the days of “Saint Ronnny” the PR master (and mediocre president).

I am glad to see you opt for single payer healthcare. See the following:

Former CIGNA exec says Michael Moore’s “Sicko” was right, health care is better in other countries and the health insurance industry is actively trying to use scare tactics to deceive the public.

http://themoderatevoice.com/38938/former-cigna-exec-on-secret-plan-to-discredit-sicko-universal-healthcare/

Your comments on peak oil should be a heads up to our CHB readership. In 12 years or less years it’s going to be a dog eat dog environment as to who gets first “dibs” on the remaining oil reserves available in world markets.

With the value of the U.S. dollar imploding due to the our counterfeiting leadership; I suspect oil will be in the $15o plus bbl range on a regular basis with gas in the U.S. sitting at $8.00 plus at the pumps.

So don’t get lured into buying some glitzy gashog courtesy of our failing to recently reorganized auto industry. They will not be a bargain at any price…!

I’ve been taking a self-imposed vacation from CHB, but your post piqued my interest and thought I needed to come aboard and make comment. : )

I dropped four Douglas fir this AM, about 24-32 inches at the butt, all about 60 feet tall, limbed and bucked them to sixteen inches; followed by splitting the wood for the upcoming winter. I started at 5am. It’s now 230pm PST.

It’s labor like this that makes one realize the value of “sweat” equity in a buck or an ounce of gold against the resultant superciliousnes of Obama & Co and those before him in recent memory concerning national monetary policies among many other issues… /:|

Carl Nemo **==

p.s. Thanks Doug Thompson for hopefully the first of many “storm cloud” articles concerning Obama & Co.

That’s not to say that we need to seek out alternative energy sources, but we don’t have the technology right now. Conservation is important, of course, but the urgency of “peak oil” is another scare tactic they use so we run to them for any and every wild-ass scheme they come up with. At our expense, of course.

Peak, easy oil is a soon to be reality…! Rest assured that the multi-billionaire mattoids that control this planet could care less about providing continual cheap energy by developing known technology for stripping the billions of barrels that remain in the earth’s crust.

Just visualize for yourself. You are a corrupt, mega billionaire with both “hot” and cold running maids on your estate along with other minions, living possibly somewhere in Switzerland or some other sybaritic enclave nation that the unwashed masses never frequent.

You read the headlines of the gas lines and the accompanied violence due to shortages. You’ve long since cashed in your soul for the pleasures of the here and now. You haven’t been at the wheel of a vehicle in years; if ever, since you have chauffeurs to transport you about etc.

You have absolutely no incentive, kinship or need to provide cheaper oil and its derivatives for an over supply of planetary consumers… /:|

Carl Nemo **==

Thank you guys. I really appreciate your comments. It’s good for the soul. All of your posts really reinforce the fact we are in trouble and no one is taking the tough stand necessary to save our once great nation. As to the oil equation, go to http://www.theoildrum.com to get a heads up from folks who follow the market. It’s a very dire picture to say the least.

Take care.

Bob Moran

PS. If you want to see more craziness, go to http://www.beyondrealtime.com to see, as Doug would say, rants on how tech impacts our society.

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Thanks again to R.E.Moran!!

Kent Shaw