Community Organizing: Mandatory Draft

OK, This I believe:

We are headed into a period of time when we will have VERY VERY high unemployment,
and especially with the "traditionally under-employed" population segments (hispanic/black teenagers...)

I think that one of the best things we can do as a society is to create a NATIONAL time of SERVICE, after High School (mandatory).

This service can be of two types (and will serve two different purposes), and would be up to the individual teen-ager and family.

Type One: National (US only) Service (and training)
Type Two: Traditional Military Service (and training)

Type two (military service) would ALSO go towards removing the volunteer (and CONTRACTOR) army.

Type One service would work to rebuild the country, as well as teaching valid skills to many different worker classes.

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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

Commentary: Oil at $131/barrel

OIL is now $131.00 per barrel. I did say here that I expected it to be$100/per barrel last year.


Well. What do the Stupid Arsed Republicians in the CONGRESS say????

DRILL in Alaska for MORE OIL....

ARGUH....

Look what happened.

After 35 years of NOT raising the Fuel economy standards (Corporate Average Fuel Economy--CAFE) standards Congress raised them this year, and Ford announced last month that within five years ALL of it's new cars will have a GREAT new automatic transmission that gets better FUEL economy.

What a bunch of idiots... They STILL don't get it.

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We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION.

We need a new deal.

We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

We need to FIX:
* A Living Wage
* National Single payer Healthcare
* National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Tax Reform
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure
* Lack of Training/futures


See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details on rebuilding society.

OiL Prices too! : 2007 update

Quick I told you so!


Look HERE

I Said (4/17/06) OIL would be $89-$95 per barrel by December 31st 2006.

So I was off by a year....

Hmmm...

Look at the rest of the top 10 predictions:

1 True
2 True
3 True
4 true
5 True
6 True
7 False (so far)
8 True
9 False (vista did go out, much to our frustration!)
10 False
11 (bonus) Half true. He did the Surge thing and brought 10% of 500,000 troops in!


Wow. I scare myself sometimes, now included

Politics: Rebuild U.S. Military Around A Corps of Engineers (Lyndon-LaRouche)

OK.. The Lyndon Larouche view on DISMANTLING the private MILITARY...

this will be after LYNDON LaRouche

Rebuild U.S. Military Around A Corps of Engineers Function, by Jeffrey Steinberg

HuMoR: Lyndon LaRouche -- Cult, Visionary, Fascist or Fool?

In the interest of staying relatively sane while
attempting to get my pool the color of a sparkling blue, I am going to examine an issue of very strategic importance to our country.

That is the transformation of the US Military into one that relies Heavily on companies such as Halliburton, and other "Private Military Companies" (PMC).


But first, we need to HONESTLY examine Mr. Lyndon LaRouche. I feel that I too would be marginalized and dismissed as simply a LaRouche-ite if I did not do this.

The wikipedia entry for Larouch starts off saying:

The LaRouche Movement is an international political and cultural movement which promotes Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas, including a number of conspiracy theories.

The organization includes interlocking think tanks, magazines and newspapers, national political organizations, a political action committee, and youth cadre.
Although the LaRouche movement is widely seen as a fringe political cult (or a cult of personality), the movement itself proclaims that Lyndon LaRouche is a central figure of international political and cultural importance, and that the movement is a necessary response to save the world from an ongoing and imminent global crisis. One critic has accused LaRouche of creating a cult of personality rivaling that of Joseph Stalin.

Why are we starting this discussion about the Military industrial complex, by discussing Lyndon LaRouche??

Quite simply, his "Executive Intelligence Review" for May 19th (last week) talks about the US military.

However he has his critics too. In a document HERE: (allegedly from B’nai B’rith
Anti-Defamation Commission Inc. of Australia / New Zealand, he is quoted as

believing in an impending world crisis engineered by an alleged cabal of
Jewish bankers based in Britain.

The "Grand Design for Humanity" is LaRouche's vision for saving
civilisation, which sees the creation of a dictatorship with LaRouche
at the helm, dedicated to the eradication of all facets of the
Oligarchy. LaRouche contends that popular support for this
dictatorship would only be forthcoming if he could prove that a
major crisis is looming, which could be solved with the rise of a new
charismatic and competent leader (i.e. LaRouche himself). The
impending crisis idea, as utilised by LaRouche propagandists,
usually takes the form of debtor countries reneging on their loans to
the International Monetary Fund (a supposed Oligarchy front),
thereby triggering a global depression.

Amongst a range of his "antisemitic canards" , LaRouche has claimed that The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion (the notorious Czarist forgery
depicting a plot by Jewry to take over the world) contains a “hard kernel of truth”.

Mark again...
I've gotta tell you...
Listening to this, this reminds me Way too much of "V for Vengence", the "comic" and then movie (Natalie Portman) that I said was an essential updating of George Orwell's 1984 See HERE for original discussion

What I said in a nutshell, is that the totalatarian state in "V" is way too close to 1984, and I could EASILY see this happening in AMERICA today.
However, thinking of LaRouche (and being Jewish) makes me afraid....
Afraid that if his kind of person/vision is accepted, then we are way to close to this depressing state.
Next....

A discussion of LaRouche's policies on Military Service, Compulsory Military Service, and RE-publicizing the American Army. (Getting Rid of the contractors again!)

Cheers
Markbnj


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