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March 15, 2005
Burning Question: Who Needs to Clean Up Their Act?
In recent weeks, we've asked you to point out the overrated and overhyped. Now, we want to know--who do you think should change their ways? And how?
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14 Comments(ok, so this is nuts)..If we, as a nation, got RID of the fast food and junk food restaurants and tobacco products; and lies and flat out fraudulent claims+products on the health food market, AND pass legislation that effectively addressed this stuff,....
We would be well on our way to being nation with healthier adults+children (physically and mentally), lower health care costs,we would make our way of life a million times better.
America is terrific at setting the standard for Freedom and Liberty, and even better at having NO standards for distinguishing between what is good for business,and what is good for health.
(ok, now back to our regularly scheduled reality)
How about holding our "crooked" politicians accountable for our tax dollars. The waste is
past astronomical; trips, limos, food, frivolous
entertainment,.... come on folks. We don't let
our children go into our bank accounts and spend
stupidly, why do we let our government representatives? They keep going to the bank while we are going to the poor house. Corporations have trimmed workers for a decade or more. TIME TO TRIM THE GOVERNMENT!!!!
In response to Metty Morgan, seems like you are voicing a rant straight out of 1970. Our politicians, crooked and legit, spend much less of our tax money on food, limos, trips, than they shovel around in ridiculous pork barrel projects or tip into their friends' pockets. Have you heard of Haliburton? The Republican charge to impeach Bill Clinton using Ken Starr wasted millions of dollars and you bring up something so petty as food or limos? Time for a reality check, Metty.
March 15, 2005 4:03 PMEnvironmentalists need to lighten up and allow the electric power industry to clean up its act. Coal burning power plants should install new tech that cleans up the burning and thus emissions of coal. No new power plants should be built burning natural gas, it is in short supply and will become scarcer. More Nuclear power plants should be licensed and built. The French design has proved reliable and efficient. The US should allow reprocessing of nuclear fuel to reduce the amount of nuclear waste and build fast breeder reactors to reduce the amount of recoverable Plutonium. Carbon based fuels should be used for transport, not stationary uses.
March 15, 2005 4:11 PMThe hype over the hydrogen car replacing the gasoline car hides the urgent necessity to start saving in gasoline wether it is taxing the guzzlers (or the gasoline), giving tax incentives to the hybrids and other low consumers of gasoline or bringing in more nuclear power on line.
March 16, 2005 9:36 AMevery one complains about the price of OIL.the oil companies say there is a shortage.I may be just a countryboy but it seems to me that if the people up north(i am from TEXAS)would convert to central heat/air as we are in TEXAS,then the need and cost of fuel oil would drop,causing the oil companies to lower the price of oil.It would seem to me that the air would be a lot cleanner.Electric heat/air is a lot cleanner. like i said countryboys donot have all the answers,but we do have some good ideas.
March 17, 2005 3:01 PMResources are limited. The population, both national and global is constantly increasing and the demand for those limited resources grows accordingly. Is anyone paying attention. We are supposed to be the big-brained, top of the heap, masters of the planet, but we act like a species of half-wits, with individuals and nations alike trying to replace one another at the top, fighting over and trying to protect an ever shrinking larder. The prevaling mantra seems to be 'I got mine,to hell with you'. Birth control/population control is the number one issue confronting us, whether anyone wants to admit it or not. One way or another, either through intelligent design and planning, or through war, famine, and disease, our population will be checked. And don't think we're going to hop off the planet and go anywhere else, at least not in time to avoid having to grow up and take responsibility for our actions. Our space program can hardly be called a program at all, and as far as the international space station is concerned, it's more like a house trailer in the middle of the Sahara. Of course the corporations don't like the idea of a stable population as do most governments simply because of the consumer/tax base problem is creates. What really needs to be fixed is the human races attitude about who we are and where we live.
March 19, 2005 6:09 AM
