Luis L -- From what Thom says. Bernie does more speaking directly to the people than any other politician. My question is what are you suggesting?

There is a viable solution but we need to get started. Electrify and grade separate(over passes) the freight railroads with solar and wind energy. Large Concentrated Solar Power(CSP) like Ivanpah with molten salt storage can provide enough continuous power in the identified solar zones in the south west. Permantly removing the demand for 800 million gallons of diesel fuel would reduce the cost per barrel to make tar sands and fracking too expensive. Electric train are cheaper to operate and maintain. This would provide a cost and performance advantage over trucks. Which would reduce diesel demand even further. Diesel is the main profit of a barrel of oil. At the same time most Amtrak and commuter railroads share track with freight. Both passenger and freight rail service would be cheaper and faster thus providing better alternatives to driving. At the same time mainstream use of solar and wind would be growing. Demand for oil, coal and natural gas would(is) decline.

Use cap and trade to get it started then increase gas taxes as the price of gas declines.

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In American culture, religion teams up with Forbes 400 King Billionaires to sell us ignorance, fear, hate, and division like they were the most efficient political control resources; and they are. Surrender thy thinking to ascension card salesmen. Fear a dreaded imaginary devil. Hate Forbes media’s creations …the “hate-labeled” groups, ideologies, individuals or behaviors (producing a divided America). The product is a nation and a planet that are sold right out from under its clinically paranoid schizophrenic people …for the equivalent of beads and whiskey.
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Blind-Belief is dolt-whispering-snake-poison. Team Jingoism is on-the-hunt with blind-belief and lies for weapons and a mission to take no prisoners. The “Divide-and-Conquer Strategy” division advances all the goals of capitalism and fascism without conscience. An ascension card is a grave digger that covers all the fascists’ mistakes.
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Historically speaking, it looks like “ignorant” hunter gatherers have replaced spears and stones with preacher and Forbes’ media seeded stupidity and loathing, and hundred-shot barrel clips and bombs. The Roman Empire (now w/holy for 2,000 years) wedded to the opportunists of Forbes 400 Kings have turned the USA into a (fireballer-imitating) trigger-finger incubator, red-state cracker-oven warrior-mill, a CIA – Corporate Infantry of Aristocrats and bomb-boom shock-n-awe (like the goo-goo eye-candy 4TH-a-JuLIE) war-hatchery with coastlines.
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The private “internationally owned” Federal Reserve (Central/Monopoly) Bank has consecrated Forbes’ marriage-of-convenience to legislative rent-boy pimping Christianity with “IN GOD(‘s banksters of inside-jobs) WE TRUST” holy cards. Unfortunately, Forbes bought U.S. citizens off with big-boy and big-girl toys, (“Caesar’s Bread and Circuses”) mind-numbing sports, gene-pool runways, whimsical songs, fluttering symbols, pictograms of righteous masochism, and thought-shaping TV entertainment. And all that helped wash down and digest the fear, loathing, hate, and division …like it was legitimate food-for-thought and self-administered camouflage drugs for clinical paranoid schizophrenia. Profit-charter bankers of Fed Forbes 400 Kings sold us war insanity, self-inflicted cultural damage, and the U.S. Treasury debt with useful distraction and media lies. And Christianity waited, like a salvage yard, to pick us up when we are broken.
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Authoritarian worship "creates" the sheep that factually all-powerful billionaires love all the way to the bank. “Immaculate Conception” is their game. Forbes 400 King’s dolt whispering snake media are the conduit for (preacher initiated) “devil-hate” and its offshoot, (right-wing nut-job Fascist Media consummated), "hate-labeling." Divide and Conquer is still Forbes 400’s best torture tool against American neo-conservative dolts. Blind-Belief is a cancer that emboldens their “capitalism” to eat democracies, and enslave and cannibalize friendly and unfriendly cultures, countries, and “isms.”
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The corporate wars that press Forbes 400’s agenda uses pledge-flag and sports-hero believing American kids to grease the gears of the Military-Congressional-Bank-Oil-Drug-Box Store-Sports-&-War Corp’s Complex. Watching America’s sons and daughters use the Ascension Card to follow in the steps of a sacrificed (ascension card selling) masochist bastard son (J.C.) should not leave a sane person with “Thee Afterglow.” But a vast majority of Americans are being “magically screwed” by billionaires. Holy cards, paths and breadcrumbs left behind in the form of ancient tyrant’s breath (captured in a biblical windsock) leads straight to Forbes’ corporate (job-creator god-savior) slavery-w/a-night-pass jobs, their prisons, their armies, and the graves of a Christian death cult in America. ::
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I think that we need to Take a step back hear and look at what is in my mind by and large the biggest issue in this upcoming election. And that is voter fraud, and the wanton act by the richest among us to in a sence bye an election. What I would like to see is an all hands in commitment by both parties to ensure that this next presidential election is not hacked or incombered or incompetent in any way. I'd like to have some of our IT specialists from say apple, or Samsung, two corporations that in my mind are so big that they are outside the realm of political corruption, come in and offer up a new software protical that will insure that the elections in the U.S. from hear on out arnt able to be hacked. Since, these are two prime examples of corporations that actually depend on the welfare of the common people to afford their products, that it might actually be beneficial for them to go against the mainstream Republican billionaires, to ensure that their line of clientele, the common people of not just the Us but everywhere, get a fair share in their say as to how their respective governments should work, and hold honest true to life elections. I may be dreaming. But I've learned, follow the money. How do you get past corporate greed, and corruption, find the one or two corporations out their that rely on public need, as apposed, to corporate backstabbing for political gain. Apple couldn't give a shit Who wins this next election, all it cares about are how many people can buy it's products, Samsung couldn't give a shit Who wins, as long as people are able to buy their products. If we can prove to corporate entities such as these that it would be better to invest in the future of the middle class and the poor not only in our country but everywhere, why wouldn't, a corporation that had Steve jobs as it's head step in and make sure that things like electronic voting were unhackable. That way we the people could decide. Unfortunately we as a people are at a crossroads, which corporation do we run with??? Big oil? They will run is into the ground, natural gas, same thing. Big auto? He'll recalls are happening all the time for shit that kills people. No environmental corporation has been able to stand up against the polluter giants, so what do we do. Government is on it's knee's. to these people. And Let's be real. They are people. They breath the same air we do. They just would like a massive amount of us to ether work for them or die quickly. So they don't have to pay retirement and pentions. They want to get things back to lords and peasants. So Let's ask help from apple, from Samsung, from Microsoft, yes Microsoft, bill and his wife don't have anything to do with day to day operation, they contribute roughly 1 billion every year to charity around the world. Those are the ones we need to step in and help design a new unhackable voter process. Those are the ones that will look twards equality. Those are the ones that aside from bill, apple and Samsung and Microsoft, depend a great deal on we the middle class and we the poor, prospering, otherwise, they loose profit share.
Sun-zu. The art of war-look in improbable places for allies in your struggle. You may find nothing. You may find something.

I kill you with truth!!
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chuckle8 : So True..

Thom, you should be more worried and concern about Hillary Clinton.

Scott Walker will implode by the time the Republicans nominate their candidate. And please, Gov Walker is NO Ronald Reagan. Gov Walker does have an “ah shucks” simpleton delivery in his vocie but he truly lacks the “maturity” persona Ronald Reagan possessed. And, Gov Walker chatting about coupons and what great bargains shopping at Kohl’s can be, during his presidential announcement speech earlier in the week, was pretty laughable.

Here is why Hillary Clinton poses more of a threat.

Just read HP’s recent expose on Hillary's top fund raisers and donors; especially that of Lynn Rothchild (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-bundlers_55a6f70ce4b...):

“Lynn Forrest de Rothschild is back as a Clinton bundler in 2016. After Clinton's loss to Barack Obama in the 2008 primary, de Rothschild flipped her support to Republican presidential candidate John McCain. She backed former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman in the 2012 Republican primary, and Mitt Romney in the 2012 general election.”

When Hillary made her so-called concession speech to Obama winning the Democratic nomination in 2008, I don’t recall seeing not one person of “Diversity” amongst a sea of “White” faces. Hillary and MSNBC wants AA’s to think that they really have nowhere else to go other than to the front-runner Democrat Hillary Clinton, and that, the “lesser of two evils” is the only conclusion and choice Democrats will have in the General Election.

Also Thom, read today's Bloomberg’s article regarding Hedge Fund Titans to back Hillary (and so do Silicon Valley moguls): http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-07-17/clinton-donations-from-hedge-fund-titans-top-republicans

Now, seriously, Thom, after Hillary gets into the White House, are we gonna see the likes of a “Timothy Geithner” or “Lawrence Summers” advising Hillary to go “Bold” on Too Big To Fail, reinstating Glass-Steagall, demanding and implementing Dodd-Frank, prosecuting financial crimes? Will Hillary be “tough as nails” as many of her supporters claim her to be, when it comes to the XL Pipeline (one of her major campaign donors), the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Citizens United, GMO labeling and other establishment bullsh**t policies we’ve been hearing about from both parties, for decades? Will Hillary give tacit support, if not the green light, to Israel, regardless of SOS Kerry's recent negotiated efforts with Iran, to bomb or nuke Iran?

Just asking, as inquiring minds like to know.

Ou812 -- I often repeat what I hear on the radio without verification. Thanks for pointing out that I need to change my message to say we need a few extra dems in the senate. I wonder what that NY Times article was about. There was not even a cloture vote on employee free choice act with card check removed. Can you find one in the senate voting record?

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_111_1.htm

I would certainly like to know who those dems were that were bought off by Walmart etc. Those dems think it is undemocratic to experience the peer pressure of fellow workers, but think it is fine if Walmart can fire them if they do not attend an anti-union meeting.

The fact that the Kock Brothers financed Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered that "all the evidence to be destroyed" in this case (an exceptionally unusual legal practice) clearly shows how corrupt they are. Evidently, they DON'T want news reporters or historians to see at some later date just how corrupt they (or Walker) have been.

The Wisconsin voters who voted to put Republicans in charge of their government "screwed themselves" in many, many ways.

This Koch-funded election of a conservative majority in the Wisconsin Supreme Court gives a new definition for the phrase "getting off Scott free".

Have you noticed that all the Democratic nominees for the Presidential candidacy are from the northeast coast? Sanders: VT. Chafee: RI. Clinton: NY. O'Malley: MD. Webb: VA. Even if Joe Biden entered the race, that would just add DE. If a running mate is chosen mostly for geographical diversity, the same options would apply no matter who ends up as the Presidential candidate.

Austerity

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Downward we veer

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Disaster in high gear.

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The deal was done long before we ever got wind of it. In exchange for their promises (cross their hearts and hope to kill an infidel), Iran won't enrich or build a bomb. Yeah, right. Meanwhile, we've agree to provide billions of taxpayer bribe money. Assuming they at least want to play along, I suppose they could take our bribe money and ask the Pakistanis, or Chinese, or North Koreans to do it for them while they tweak their delivery systems or re-enforce bunkers, air defence systems, and the like. Meanwhile, we simply look stupid.