America is opposed to Iran having nuclear weapons.  Likewise, for North Korea.  Likewise, for almost any other country one can name. However, the U.S. is for it having nuclear weapons — lots of them.  In fact, the U.S. is the only country who has used a nuclear against another country.  This would imply that the U.S. cannot be trusted with such weapons.  But, in the screwed up thinking of America they see it the opposite.

Today, Congress passed a bill to allow loaded weapons in national parks.   America is a culture of destruction and it will be successful.  America will be destroyed with the very guns and weapons that it seems to cherish.

Iran should create nuclear weapons.  Everybody should.  America cannot be trusted.  To believe America about anything is foolish.  America is ruled by the rich with a hefty dose of religious fanatics.  Of course, America thinks their religion is right and disregards the hundreds of other religions.  Simply put, America is nuts.

Guns kill people every day in America.   This is because the gun lobby, National Rifle Association (NRA), is very powerful.  So, powerful that it added an amendment to a credit card bill to carry concealed loaded weapons into national parks.  The NRA is particularly nuts.   Plus, lots of those NRA folks are also crazy religious people.  With lots of money capable to buying one politician after another.

There is no changing America.  It is only going to get worse.  There is going to be more and more people who will continue to advocate destruction.  Remember, this is the country of torture and what many believe is some type of righteous torture.  America is as crazy as the aunt in the basement that nobody wants to see.   The world better arm itself against the crazy.

America is doomed.

Today’s new CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards are just a hoax.   They were originally passed in 1975, nearly 35 years ago.  The auto industry has been living with CAFE standards for decades but it hasn’t done shit to improve average mileage.  During that time, the auto industry came out with tons of SUVs and Hummers, all in the face of CAFE standards.  Today’s new CAFE requires by 2016 (8 years) that mileage be 35.5 mpg.  Big Fucking Deal.

It doesn’t matter because these standards can be changed.  All it takes is a little lobbying and a little amendment on some unrelated bill and the core of today’s bill can be gutted overnight.  It has happened before and it won’t be any surprise if it happens again.  This is why America is so utterly fucked up.  Special interests and money make all the decisions — it just doesn’t matter what is good for the country.  As a result, America is a country that is only good for a very small minority.

Today, hybrids get 50+ mpg.  So, what is the big, fucking deal about 35.5 mpg?  Why not 50 mpg in 3 months?  So what if there are a bunch of models that cannot meet it.  So what?  They just can’t sell those piece of shit cars and trucks until they meet the new standards.  If people need new cars, let them buy the ones that are available.

What is absolutely funny is that it was the auto industries success as eliminating the CAFE standards that caused them to go into bankruptcy.    They kept making those gas guzzlers and when gas prices went up people didn’t want them.  Just another example of what capitalism doesn’t work and doesn’t do what the market demands.  Instead, they get bailed out when they fuck everything up.  That is one thing American capitalism is good at — always doing the wrong thing and focusing on money in the very short term and fucking the future.

I understand that it takes time to implement new standards but it doesn’t take 8 fucking years.  When you have long time frames things just never happen.  Remember how the U.S. was going to convert to the metric system?  Lots of time to implement that, but there was also lots of time to eliminate it.  It got eliminated to the determent of America.

All of this is a bunch of bullshit because there are always lots of powerful people trying to undermine good ideas to make more money.  Well, keep it up because the joke will be on you as America goes down the tubes.

America is doomed.

America is more partisan and religious now than in the last hundred years.  This is not good.  There is no hope for this country.  Unemployment is getting worse.  Housing will continue to decline.  Climate change will not be addressed.  Even the new mileage standards on cars is way too late.  Congress is owned by lobbyists and special interest.  The country is all about money.  Letting people that have it, keep it, and exploiting people who don’t have it.  It is just the modern version of slavery.

Lump all the political parties together — it doesn’t matter.  This country is so utterly screwed up that it will never emerge better than it has been.  Expect more nationalism.  Expect more socialism.  Expect more infighting.  Expect more polarizing personalities. Expect more capitalism is the answer when it never really was. Expect more religious fervor.

There are no statesmen.  There are no rational people that can be heard over the ignorant, partisan, hateful speech.  No laws are passed for the people.  The rich rule the country.  Revolution will come in time when enough people are without hope.

States will continue spending more than than have.  Or services on the weakest in society will decline.  More homelessness.  More disadvantaged.  More hopelessness.

Expect more disease.   Less water and more pollution.  Poor air.  Climate change. Poor farming practices.  More pesticides.  More disease.  More crappy health care.

America is doomed

After reading several articles on today’s supposed agreement (like NY Times) between Obama and a group of health care industries, including the health care insurance industry, it is apparent that Obama is caving.  The America people are going to get screwed so badly in this deal.  Here’s the reasons why:

As long as there is still a health insurance industry that is for profit, health care reform will not happen.  It might change but not for the better. It doesn’t matter what they propose, like today’s plan to reduce health care spending by 1.5% per year.  Focusing on the savings is saying nothing about the quality.  They could agree to reduce it 5% per year and all it means, if they keep their word, is that less money will be spent on health care.  Shit, they could just declare to save 100% if they wanted.  Keep denying coverage and making it impossible for people to get quality health care — simple and done.  Any potential savings is possible.  In the end, people will still not get quality health care and people will die.  Meanwhile, lots of profit is taken out of the system to reward rich people.

As long as companies remove money from the health care system in the name of “profit”, the system is going to suck.  The only hope is streamline the entire system:  To control all costs through regulations — salaries, services, drugs.  Not allow any profits.  Monitor every aspect of the system for fraud.  Emphasize quality care for all Americans. Anything else and forget about calling it reform.  Just call it another scam on the American people.

America is doomed.

In today’s NY Times is an article that Americans are getting more thrifty.  They reported this as if it was some kind of surprise.  Of course Americans are spending less money, and it will continue to get worse — much worse.   More and more people are losing jobs and even those with jobs are making less.  Technology will continue to destroy jobs and companies will continue to send jobs to cheaper labor markets.  Manufacturing will continue to leave America as companies try to find ways to make things cheaper and keep profits high.  America companies (whatever that means anymore) are selling their products overseas but much of the world is suffering the same faith as America.  This is a downward spiral that is not going to stop, and another example of why America is so doomed.

The middle class has been decimated and will continue to be so.  More and more people do not even make a living wage.  The rich have a grossly disproportionate amount of the total income in America.  And when it comes to business selling their products, there is only so much that rich people can consume.  Plus, the government is going to go after rich people with a vengeance in the decades to come.   Not because they want to, but because they have the income and the government needs to collect lots more taxes.

As America Doomed has explain, it is all about jobs.   Not just any job.  Jobs have to make enough so that people have disposable income after expenses.  Everybody needs to make a living wage.   Income needs to be redistributed so that everybody has a minimum, lots of people have excess, and nobody has way more than they really need.

There is a big gang problem in the country.  Cities are having more and more difficult time trying to control the gangs, and it is going to get worse.  The solution to gang violence is good paying jobs.  Without jobs and skills there is no other choice than for youth to organize.  This organization may not look like the job your grandfather had, but make no mistake — it is work for the disenfranchised.  Yet, this work cost the society much because it is based on crime.  Let America keep building prisons and putting the oppressed into those prisons.  It will eventually bankrupt the country.  There will be more and more people that society has to care for.   If society doesn’t find a way to help poor minorities go to school and find good jobs, that same society is going to pay a much higher price trying to keep them in prisons.

People think that capitalism is successful because it brings out the entrepreneur spirit in people.  This is laughably wrong.  For capitalism to work you have to have people with money and desire to buy products.  Take away the demand and it doesn’t matter how much entrepreneur spirit exists.  America thrived based on one of the largest middle classes in the world — not any more. This is why the increasing poor, diminishing middle class, and increasing rich people spells certain destruction for America.

America is doomed.