Nov. 12, 2008 (World News Trust) -- As you
know, the Empire has selected a new emperor. The Mafia has chosen a new
don. The corporation has hired a new CEO. Are you brimming with hope
yet? Read on…
According to Reuters, (Nov. 11, 2008),
President-Elect Barack Obama has urged President-Select George W. Bush
to take “measures to help the ailing (automobile) industry on top of a
$25 billion loan packaged approved in September.
I could easily discuss -- yet again -- the
unspoken reality that America’s version of capitalism relies entirely on
socialized costs and privatized profits and all those who righteously
decry Big Government are choosing to ignore the massive state subsidies
that created and maintain Corporate America and “our way of life.”
But Earth’s problems are far worse than
state capitalism wearing a transparent free market mask. The auto
industry Mister Barack and his merry band of Democratic comrades so
desperately want to bailout and revive is and has been one the primary
causes for our planet’s environmental and social degradation.
Does the Chairman of Change know or care
that during the last century, an area equal to all the arable land in
Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania was paved in the United States? This area
requires maintenance costing over $200 million a day and the
surreptitious cost of the car culture totals nearly $500 billion a year
in the United States alone, much of that going to the sustentation of a military
presence in the Persian Gulf.
An Obama aide said Mr. “Yes We Can” has
suggested “accelerating implementation” of the current auto industry
loan package and “exploring avenues that exist under current law.”
Does Bilkin’ Barry the Baby Boomer ever
think about how cars create seven billion pounds of un-recycled scrap and
waste annually? With approximately one billion discarded tires littering
our increasingly paved landscape, let his loyal Obamatrons meditate upon
this: Every tire loses one pound of rubber per year, spewing minute
grains of rubber into the stratosphere and then back down to find a new
home in our water and/or our lungs. Has anyone told the Pope of Hope
about the innumerable eco-systems exterminated in order to make way for
highways, off-ramps, parking lots, strip malls, and other auto-centric
structures?
I could go on (and on) while BHO begs GWB
to identify “someone in charge of the auto issue who would have
authority to bring about reforms that would lead to a viable auto
industry.”
Here’s the equation: A viable auto industry
= a non-viable global eco-system.
Along those lines, there was other news Nov. 11… but it did not make the Reuters wire. The North American
Earth Liberation Front (ELF) Press Office announced: “We have one
message for the incoming Obama Administration: act to protect the
environment or the ELF will.”
Sounds like change we can believe in…
Mickey
Z. is a self-educated writer, personal trainer, martial
artist, and vegan who lectures on US foreign policy at MIT in his spare
time. He has appeared in martial arts films and was known as the
Underground Poet for hanging his poetry in the NYC subway. He is the
author of numerous
books, including, most recently, "CPR for Dummies" and "No
Innocent Bystanders". He lives with his wife Michele in New York City.
You can contact him here.
Visit him on the web at Mickeyz.net.