BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

(I don't fully agree, but this thought-provoking article makes points I myself have thought about many times in the last 10 years) A psychologist asks: Have consumerism, suburbanization and a malevolent corporate-government partnership so beaten us down that we no longer have the will to save ourselves? Why We've Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression By Bruce E. Levine Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States? Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been screwed because they know that humiliating passivity in the face of obvious oppression will demoralize us even further? What forces have created a demoralized, passive, dis-couraged U.S. population? Can anything be done to turn this around? Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not "set them free...

From my friends at PUMA UNLEASHED: Lets Face Facts- Electing Obama was the biggest mistake this country has made second only to Bush’s Iraq War The newly elected president of the United States is so far out of his depth, he doesn’t (even) stand a chance to “FAKE IT UNTIL HE MAKES IT!” At this time in US history, there are no models available for use as comparisons to previously depressed economic times. NONE! As much as pundits feel compelled to make comparisons to FDR-JFK, there are none. We are sailing at the will, in uncharted seas and at the whim of Mother Nature herself, my friends. Obama has never faced grappling with a problem as vast or unquantifiable as this economy even though he has surrounded himself with esteemed advisers like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates , George Soros and others as heavy weights in the Finance sector, even they are overwhelmed plodding slowly, ( Buffett lost a huge bundle in the stock mkt after he said…everything’s fine ) because this depressed economy h...