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i predict a bloody chaos for the u.s. unless we manage incomes better. moveon.org sent me an e-mail today requesting my thoughts on the political front today.
so i'm just sharing my answer with opera readers.


i've written two letters to newspapers to help so far... and will write

again whenever the issue interests me.

i think you should move on cutting taxes to underpaid workers and

socialize medicine as in england.

and of course tax the rich much more.
and take some money from the oil companies to feed and house the

poor and homeless. ok?

let's hear which up and coming presidential hopefuls are humanists.

and who are the senators and representatives in congress who are for

rolling back the damage bush has done.

thankyou for the work you are doing... i am an artist and have been

discouraged by the impossibility of affecting our government at

all.

you give me a little hope.

we don't need a bloody revolution, we need a turnover like farmers do

to regenerate depleted fields.
i predict that if the poor.... especially the hardworking poor don't

experience an improvement in their standard of living, there will be

an angry revolution and a lot of unnecessary chaos like the french

revolution. 'the terror'

can't the rich give a little back? what shall we call that? parity of

wealth?
our greedy economy will be our downfall.

http://www.moveon.org/

wet paintwriting in cafe'

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hello my Artman,

you are so right and soon this country will uprise and get back to the basics.

As the saying goes the rich get richer and the poor, poorer.

Today my sister who has insurance paid $10.00 as copay for her meds and the insurance company paid $1.20 where is the logic in that?

I use Canadian pharmacy now .. screw the prices here in USA..

Love
Eve

By zenya, # 26. November 2005, 23:52:47

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not necessarily my dear eve.... things can still get worse and people might just accept it as part of life... like the middle class disappearance and the phenomenon of both parents having to have a job to meet expenses.

and then of course there's the reality that everyone, the rich, the poor and the young are in debt. there's an awful lot of 'floating' value dependent on the future being rosy. but maybe the future will be just hunky dory and people who know economics are covering the bases... i have no idea.

thank you for your comment.

By I_ArtMan, # 27. November 2005, 01:32:55

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I hope people stand like they did in the 60s, those were the days..

By zenya, # 27. November 2005, 17:48:40

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right on eve.
where are the students? they're so complacent.

By I_ArtMan, # 30. November 2005, 02:40:27

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re "right on eve. where are the students? they're so complacent."

Scott, that's part of the real problem. No real protest on campus anymore. What's happening to these guys?

lokutus

By lokutus_prime, # 19. December 2005, 18:40:36

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it's a whole new breed... glued to their tv, games, online surfing is my guess.
word is they are right where the government wants them... scuttled.

the only 'doing' they seem to know is trying for fast fame with their friends in a garage working out immitative music.

that sounds really bad and cynical and i apologize to the probably many young visionaries and 'doers' who are sincerly examining their lives for the unique destiny they sense buried somewhere deep within their astral bodies. those who are experiencing daily unconscious prodings from their subterranean mind.

By I_ArtMan, # 19. December 2005, 23:03:50

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I must add this: my niece, a 20-year-old art student, is deeply into protest in the same manner that I remember from 1968-74. Is it sometimes misguided? In my opinion, yes, but the protest is more important. I don't think that they're all glued to their video games and MTV. As always, it is a combination of their commitment and their parents' instillation of values.

To the general theme I would like to add that I hope we (as USA voters) can perceive the idiocy of the current regime of "leadership" which harkens to the Gerald Ford days (oh, the diplomacy; oh, the statesmanship) and seems to think that Reagan and the first Bush did wonders. I am not anti-Republican, but the John McCains seem few and far between. It is not rational to decrease spending in general and then to decrease taxes. It is not rational to cut back on the ecological issues. It is not rationale to pursue war in Irag when the initial issue was to find bin Laden in Afghanistan. It goes on and on.

By pilchbo, # 4. February 2006, 23:42:55

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you're right of course.i watched the state of the union address closely and almost threw up... the pablum they are serving up alone is reason enough to impeach the president. call for national referendum to impeach the president for thinking we are stupid and for pretending to care. and yes, for war crimes... the terror of the situation is that he is just winding up to attack iran and korea. duh. it is a tarbaby, i keep saying. i am so embarassed to be an american right now. the spending scandals in iraq will continue to trickle in. the spending fiascos about new orleans and katrina will surface too. it's a gang to strangle money from the people. and he has three more years to finish, until we are fully gutted.

By I_ArtMan, # 5. February 2006, 00:16:49

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