I Think, Therefore I Am Too

ditto underconstruction

Great and very insightful post, wonderful metaphor.

Thanks for sharing it with us.

SF, your country's government did not even *have* a deficit when Big Dubya rode into town with his white stetson hat and his spurs and his goofy grin. I remember the pictures of his innauguration ball -with the wonderfully thought-provoking theme of Texas cattle ranching.



I also recall Bill Clinton leaving $200 billion cash in the desk drawer when he left the Oval Office -a government surplus, it was called. Not only did Dubya blow the surplus on tax cuts to all his Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Weapons buddies, but in his determination to play the John Wayne sherrif role, he swaggered into Iraq to finish what his Daddy started and into Afghanistan, to start another billion bucks an hour ****-fight against an enemy that has seen off the Mongol and Turk invasions, British Colonial occupation and the concentrated force of the Soviet Union. And in doing all that, during his eight years as the most powerful moron in the world, *HE* and Cheney and Rumsfeld and all the rest of those neo-con con-men racked up $8 trillion in government debt.



D'ya get it, SnowboardFreak? Dubya spent $8,000,000,000,000 killing people and getting soldiers' legs blown off and poisoning two countries with depleted uranium ammunition and undepleted hatred of the country that killed their children or shot a rocket into their wedding. And the only people to profit from it were the vomitous scum who produced the weapons or the dogs of war who quit the military then signed up as high-paid body guards and assassins, or the egomaniacal, acquisitive, psychopathic detritus of the country's sewers who helped $20 billion in US banknotes simply vanish onto the streets of Baghdad within days of "Mission Accomplished".



By contrast, Obama will increase the government deficit by another $1 (not two, one) trillion, which he will spend on programs aimed at shoring up American jobs as your rust-belt economy struggles to recover from the mess Dubya's Big Money buddies made of the world's financial system. Obama's spending program in part aims to correct a gross distortion of the US's self-image, in which it is the Land of the Free, and 30 million of your citizens are free -to die of preventable diseases because they cannot afford access to medical care. That is 150% of the population of my country who cannot see a doctor because they are poor. In the world's richest country, that is an abomination.



Go away and check what you think are the facts, SF, and when you understand what's really going on, come back and talk to me about Obama's government.

Sorry i'm cynical, hard to look up when our government has increadsed it's debt by 25% in one year with obama. Hard to look up when all these hybrid cars and wind generation farms are a bunch of BS. Cars can run on water, cold fusion has knowledgeably been prooved to work in the 90's, possibly long before that. Hard to look up when our government recently decided corporations can now donate as much as they want to political campaigns, and you thought our politicians were bought out ****** before. No, our government, and the people who bought it out, are seeking to enslave us under the RFID chip and the new world order.

Oh dear, Snowy! So young, and yet so cynical already? I know where you are coming from, my friend, but there are ways we can escape enslavement -not all of them involving drugs!- and there are things we can do to help each other break those bonds. Stuff like leaving comments on the stories of people you don't know! That helps, believe me!



LitGal, you are right that depression is a combination of internal and external factors. The condition very often comes with a desperate sense of being unable to control either. Thank You for your kind words.

great words man, so very true. The powers that be want to keep us depressed, and therefore suppressed and enslaved to them. Gonna take a lot to change that.