On American energy independence

"There is enough wind West of the Mississippi to supply three times the amount of power you currently use." --Dr. Helen Caldicott on American electrical power and possible energy independence. Link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAKZGse5SCw&feature=relmfu; Information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Helen_Caldicott

Tired of high gas prices?

Want to do something about it? Write your Senators and Representative in the House of Representatives and tell them you want and we need oil and energy speculation curbed as it used to be here in America, before the rules were changed, back in 2000.

Frustrating fights on several fronts--for all of us

More than anything else, it really frustrates me to hear working class people--people of not a great deal of money or "means", the middle and lower classes, if you will--rail against a new, government-sponsored single-payer health care system or other things we need.

Our health care system is broken, much as our financial system is, and needs fixing. The President is trying to bring solutions to the country.

Instead of fighting him and these programs, all of us in those middle and lower classes should be working with him, together, to bring about these fixes.

Keep in mind, we have to be unified and fight together with this White House and President on several fronts:

1) We have to push and fight back right now against the very wealthy, entrenched and powerful banking lobby which has virtually always gotten its way in Washington and which has been described as owning Congress, at least, if not Washington;
2) We have to fight the institutional investment firms;
3) We have to beat the hedge fund companies and their trillions of dollars;
4) We have to fight back against several fronts in this health care fight to fix our system:
a) We have to fight the doctors and their lobbies
b) We have to push back against “Big Pharm”, the drug and pharmaceutical companies
c) We have to win out against the hospital companies
d) We have to beat back the health insurance companies and their lobbies
5) We have to fight the oil companies and their ability to speculate on their products, raise the price of their products and cripple our household and national economies;
6) We need to fight the coal industry and its dirty mining and coal burning processes so we can clean up our air and reduce carbon and greenhouse gas emissions

So we have all this to do. It’s a big list and they are going to be long, tough, ugly fights, folks.

We have to hang together or we’re all hang.

And the President isn’t doing this because it’s fun or because he’s a “Socialist”, no matter what people like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly or others say.

He’s doing it because it’s good for the country—it’s good for you and me—and it’s the right thing to do.