tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25499814.post7651240730212303323..comments2023-10-30T04:22:31.056-07:00Comments on Blue Wren: Sturm und DrangWrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285813981508179421noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25499814.post-27098308975126281942008-10-14T19:01:00.000-07:002008-10-14T19:01:00.000-07:00Although I'm not in the lovely California mountain...Although I'm not in the lovely California mountains, here in Ohio (please higher power, let us be a blue state this time), I'm also enjoying the seasonal fluctuations. I start the day in boots, middle in sandals, boots again by night. <BR/><BR/>As for the world outside--I've been on personal news blackout since the last debate. I've long since made my voting decision. I too embrace Obama's idealism... that's just how I roll, and I'm pretty sure I'm too old to change.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12414588542878811510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25499814.post-27239086751085714022008-10-12T09:29:00.000-07:002008-10-12T09:29:00.000-07:00Both my nature and my meager pocketbook make me te...Both my nature and my meager pocketbook make me tend toward the "less is more" philosophy in life, Bill.<BR/><BR/>You're right about what brought this mess on. And I know it's going to be tough to give up the luxuries I'm used to, including good ol' Dr. Bronner's. I'm doing my best to prepare mentally and set aside a few of my dreams. At least, for the foreseeable future.<BR/><BR/>Ah, well. I've lived on a shoestring many times in my life. Now I'll adapt and learn to live on half of one.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the commment.Wrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09285813981508179421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25499814.post-13439799545943859422008-10-12T08:48:00.000-07:002008-10-12T08:48:00.000-07:00The comfort Americans generally enjoy has been add...The comfort Americans generally enjoy has been addicting... so much so that consumer desires have influenced Federal foreign policy. In order to keep US citizens happy there's been the steady progression of cheaper goods and more and more foreign oil. <BR/><BR/>To keep that addiction going, the military was used as a persuader - all the "small" wars since Reagan have been about positioning American presence and thus becoming outposts of Pax America.<BR/><BR/>President Carter in 1979 attempted to warn about an upcoming energy crisis and an over-dependence on foreign oil, and he was belittled for thinking such thoughts. Reagan told everyone Carter’s words were nonsense and that we could have it all - thus the beginning of a new foreign policy era. Reagan spent lavishly on a fancy new military, begging to be used, and he created a mega deficit. Unfortunately we are now seeing and living in the consequences of unchecked consumerism.<BR/><BR/>The problem is systemic - McCain is simply a product of the Reagan-Bush continuum and if he’s elected I suspect our woes will get a blanket tossed over them ... he will juke and jive with economic plans that do not go to the cause.. he will do the Reagan-Bush thing of blaming other countries and then do all the wrong things as we have seen during the past years.<BR/><BR/>All of us have to rethink how we want to live during the next decade or two. Will it be more of the go-go consumerism or will it be the old adage, ‘less is more’.willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15590217997145761582noreply@blogger.com