Why Politics?

It has finally happened. Years of Republican extremist ranting, in combination with an increasingly dysfunctional government, has spawned a far right extremist party that is now holding our country hostage in the debt levels debate, and threatening to drag our entire country, and likely the world, into chaos and ruin all for the sake of broken ideologies and misguided policies. Read the Rest of the Article

Forget Generation X, Y, and Z. Should the youngest generations be labeled “Generation Screwed”? With the federal deficit sky-rocketing, the economy stalled, social services being slashed left and right, and a GOP that still refuses to raise the tax rate for America’s wealthiest, will the youngest generations in the United States be forced to bear the burden of decades of national mismanagement? Read the Rest of the Article

You read the title, and you read it right, violence is obsolete. Not all violence in all situations, of course, but violence as a top-down means of control is going the way for the eight track and Atari. Clear out another corner in the shed, violence will be looking for a place to nestle up and gather dust. Looking for proof? Take the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the fall of Murabak in Egypt, the revolutions in Tunisia, and every other faucet of the “Arab Spring.” Read the Rest of the Article

The economy has stagnated, no one can argue against that. With a slowing growth rate, and fewer and fewer jobs being added it’s obvious that we are in for a slow and painful recovery, at best. And keep in mind, that is at best. With the current financial crisis threatening to spread through Europe and disrupt global trade, the approaching deadline for unemployment which has been injecting billions of dollars in consumer spending into our economy, and the threat of major budget cuts Read the Rest of the Article