One big one is technology, which is replacing whole categories of unskilled jobs piece by piece..

In 20 years, you wont be able to find work at any salary unless you have world-class skills or work in some 'technology-proof' field like politics or prostitution.. (And the competition to get into those areas will be fierce, so wages will fall)

to make up for the dissapearing pensions..

Unless current yields on investments rise hugely, and I just don't see that happening....

Read my post below..

Otherwise, we will all be eating out of garbage cans in a few years.. Or we might end up in Soylent Green..

Just kidding, but do the math.. People won't be able to survive on 401ks with current yields.. People need much more pay in order to save enough.. even if they cut their expenses to the bone.. (many are already doing that)

People need to either do that or stop buying everything nonessential.. which would kill the economy.

Another scary thought.. If everyone is selling their stocks at the same time.. yields will be even lower than they are now.. (lots of supply and little demand means low profits)

The US was the only nation left undestroyed by WWII and that has left an entire generation with an unrealistically optimistic view of what America is and what they can afford on what they make (which is in real terms, less and less)

Right now, borrowing against home equity is masking that somewhat.. but it can't last..

The only developed nation we are ahead of now is Mexico, from what I gather..

But we pay more than anyone else in the world.. we pay more and get less..

30% of every healthcare dollar goes to insurance companies.. Yes, thats right, it only buys us grief..

 The rest goes for other things, including subsidizing pharmaceutical research for the entore rest of the world..

Seriously. Lobbying and other forms of corporate contributions should be outlawed.

CORPORATIONS ARE NOT PEOPLE...

yes, single payer..   NOW..

If the Dems cant lead on this issue, they should merge with the Republicans on the corporation-oriented right and let another party become the centrist, human-being-oriented party..

No, we need something much better then France's system..

We have lost surge capacity.. if there is any terrorism, we don't have capacity for it. The system we have now is broken..

Hundreds of thousands of people are having incapacitating events like heart attacks or strokes, dying because they cant afford ANY medical care or prescription drugs that they need - this rationing is happening now and its criminal.

>That catalogues the seventy or so US foreign
>interventions in one places and examines their
>implications to the people of those countries, in
>deaths..
>
>And as such, its a unique work.
>Maybe the campaign against it is an effort to >stigmatize people who read it? I don't know.
>
>But I do know that I would never have heard about
>it if some wingnut had not vilified it on a blog
>I read in such a viterperative fashion that I
>checked it out at my local (independent) >bookstore. It was a mindblower. Very very scary.
>
>If Americans don't know our history in the covert
>'foreign policy' arena, then we are in a sense, flying
>blind in the world.
>
>The Cheney crowd probably hate 'Killing Hope' because
>it is in a sense, a listing of things that the US
>people need to know about that they don't know..
>
>Another thing the US people don't seem to know is that
>the Bush and Bin Laden familes are very close..
>
>I'm not saying that they work together.. But, looking
>at the history of dishonesty to all of us, its not
>impossible..
>
>But I think the possibility that the OBL tape was a
>forgery spewed to boost Bush's plummeting credibility
>ratings and divert people's attention from the many
>scandals is much more probable..
>
>But the old tricks aren't working.. perhaps we are so
>tired of their crap that our emotions are just all
>wrung out..

Sorry to duplicate this post but people were obviously trying to make it scroll away..

Deprive them of their hollow and false 'power' by rising above and seeing through their hatemongering and violence...

if we eliminated them and all their layers of bureacracy, not only would we be healthier, but we could also give every single American who currently does not have access to health care, access..

for free...

It was called 'killing those who are sick'

Such models of efficiency, they...

The GOP loves to call everyone else 'fascist' this and 'fascist' that but I think it's classic pathological projection..

We know their MOD.. War on the weak.. Social Darwinism..

Its all the same.. pick them off a few at a time..

And if we don't speak up, we're next.

So, I guess, basically, they think they are above the law and democracy is just a big joke.. on us..

ha ha.. we lose..

game over...

And as such, its a unique work.

If Americans don't know our history in the covert 'foreign policy' arena, then we are in a sense, flying blind in the world.

The Cheney crowd probably hate 'Killing Hope' because it is in a sense, a listing of things that the US people need to know about that they don't know..

Another thing the US people don't seem to know is that the Bush and Bin Laden familes are very close..

I'm not saying that they work together.. But, looking at the history of dishonesty to all of us, its not impossible..

But I think the possibility that the OBL tape was a forgery spewed to boost Bush's plummeting credibility ratings and divert people's attention from the many scandals is much more probable..

But the old tricks aren't working.. perhaps we are so tired of their crap that our emotions are just all wrung out..