This country can thank capitalism and capitalists like Cheney for all of it's problems. Consumption and short sightedness.

Capitalism = money = consumption leaves out one important and simple piece of logic - which I defy any human to refute.

Earth has limited natural resources to sustain life.

What's the exit strategy for the human species? To die and go to heaven?

There is coming a point where there are less and less forests and oceans and clean air and water to sustain civilization not to mention life itself - except for microorganisms.

The world is now visibly consuming itself while at the same time destroying nature - which is the sole provider for all life on earth. Suicide.

Meanwhile we argue about religion and oil and money - when we should be looking for some other planets to inhabit or try to save earth before it's too late.

Inevitably people who think like Cheney - live in a vacuum - and are rationalizing about a world that is irrational at a cosmic level.

He suggests that it's the survival of the fittest - however he fails to understand it is the hungriest who will first assume control before they in turn destroy each other. And there are far more hungry than fit.

When there there are no more fish or animals or fruits & vegetables to eat. We have only ourselves to feast upon. Symbolically we are practicing intellectual cannibalism at the present.

Those in power will find ways to reduce the demand of the planets population on resources.

By depopulating the planet. Katrina was an example of one of the techniques that will be used as a result of climate change.

Nuclear war is an instant depopulation methodology.

Anyway - do you think a 73 year old John McCain should influence the future of our planet - or for that matter a housewife from Wasilla, Alaska?

The new economics must factor in the need to restore nature and to colonize outer space.

By playing deaf dumb and blind the republicans have taken the Nairobi Monkey trio made popular by Ernie Kovacs to new heights adding a fourth monkey = no brains

The added advantage communist China has - is they have no social conscience - something America is also rapidly moving towards thanks to the Republican ideology over the past few decades which is consume baby consume - drill for profits!!!!

recent history has proven that unjustified wars can be waged and valueless economic bubbles created for speculation by the wealthy who at the same time hedge their bets - and as a result our small businesses are eliminated and individual assets gobbled up by these same bettors. And when jobs are a form of financial slavery. The corporations who are owned by the wealthy are not only controlling our lives, they are selectively murdering us.. Our media, our Government - everything is controlled by the wealthy!!!!

Corporations in America now have even more power to buy our votes and more and more Americans will become financial slaves as employees - college graduates are recruited as peons and then widgetized to prevent them from leaving their corporate slave masters - employee telephones are bugged - and the autonomous structure of a corporation fits in very nicely with communism -

Now that corporations can openly buy our votes un-abetted by the constitution and as small businesses and self-employed workers are trashed for profit - assets in America will be owned by a smaller number of wealthy individuals and the large corporations they control.

Trust me this is not a mistake - the wealthy who are using the Republican party as a Trojan horse have been moving America in this direction for decades.

The irony is that socialism is taboo in communist china - why?? Because unlike capitalism socialism IS democratic! Yet the corporate communists in this country want us to believe otherwise. Corporations channel our taxes and our consumption in a manner that forces us to spend what we make to survive let alone thrive. Using mind control techniques and propaganda embedded in our life style - such as the media.

Corporatism & capitalism IS ultimately communism. Where one legal entity the corporation - owns everything and has rights that circumvent the rights of individuals and the constitution.