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Really, the most important part of saving America and the world is providing free public transportation. I believe using automobiles as the primary means of public transportation was the biggest mistake in judgment humans have made in the history of the world.

Almost all of us have had a love affair with their car. I am not saying that is necessarily bad. I mean a nice ride in the country on a scenic highway can be a real good thing. It can help you realize what a beautiful place we live in. To depend on these behemoths to go to the store, to go to work or to do anything other than recreation or sport is foolish.

How else could we do it? For the price we pay for our cars, insurance, fuel and taxes for the highways, we could have a very wonderful public transportation system consisting of a light rail system coming by your house taking you (and your bicycle if you want) to a neighborhood depot where you could board a light rail system to get to work (or the store or the movies or to the beach or to the heavy rail system where you could go anywhere). This would be so incredibly more healthy not only for our environment but for our mental and physical health. Even our immune systems would be healthier if we shared a public transport system.

I believe cars are making us crazy, paranoid, secluded, lazy and aggressive. Do you realize how much of your life is wasted behind the wheel of a vehicle? You really need to think about it. You likely spend eight hours sleeping and eight hours working; you only have eight hours a day left for yourself and your family. If you are entrapped in your car three to four hours per day in rush hour gridlock hating everybody around you for being in your way, you are either already nuts or you are probably on Paxil. This vehicle has become a part of you. And this is how you learn to relate to your fellow man/woman with hate and contempt because they are in your way. You are wasting thirty to forty percent of your usable life where you could be writing a book, working on your laptop, discussing how to fix the world with some really interesting new person you just met on the train or overhead high-speed monorail. Maybe you could be maintaining a very healthy life riding your bicycle to work.

Automobiles are an incredible waste of energy, environment, mental health, and resources.

It just totally disgust me that the automobile companies are still trying to sell you a vehicle that gets 10 miles to the gallon instead of one that gets 100 when we all know there is not enough fuel to power them unless we conquer the world and take the rest of the world’s oil supply. It sure seems that is what we are trying to do. Doesn’t it?

Our Government must think we are all a bunch of fools. I mean there is no way we can sustain our present day energy consumption, yet they are still trying to get us to use more. Our Government is foolish and that makes us all fools because we put them there.

Do you remember the BTU tax that Bill Clinton proposed? It was a brilliant tax that if it had been approved we would not be facing this energy crisis we are facing now. No, we all would not be paying more in energy cost. Most of us would be paying less because we would have learned to conserve. It will always be burnt into my memory the response from the Democratic Senator from Louisiana, “what is a BTU? I don’t even know what a BTU is.” Why are we putting Morons like this in office?

You are either a tree hugger or a death wisher. It’s a natural fact. We are wasting, abusing and destroying our resources so fast that if we don’t stop it now our grandchildren are not going to have anything of value left. I am not saying corporations are all bad but what is very bad about corporations is how many of them have gained the upper hand in controlling your environment to the point that many of you can’t even think for yourselves. I believe most of us are brainwashed into a state of complete fantasy. The horror is way to many of you just don’t care. The reality is not caring will destroy us. How many bumper stickers have you seen “I’m spending my grandchildren’s inheritance”?

Automobile use will be catastrophic in the end if we don’t start winding it down now. Continuing this behavior is madness. The real meaning of S.U.V is Stupid Urban Vehicle.

Here we are at the next phrase.

Provide for the common defense.

These times are treacherous. Our forefathers had the wisdom to accept that you cannot let government be influenced or controlled by religious influences. History has proven time after time after time again and again. Whenever religion has had control over government, people suffer; people are tortured, maimed and murdered. This has happened since the beginning of recorded history and it is happening right now. I don’t care what religion you believe; if you try to control government or your fellow man with your religion you are committing an act against God and humanity. Government is not there to serve anybody’s religious agenda it is only there to serve peoples basic needs. I believe if you really study religious and military history, religion is just a shroud to hide the real reason that wars are fought, to satisfy the appetites of greedy and corrupt rulers and regimes (in our case the American corporate-government complex).

It is so obvious that our greed for oil got us into this mess in Iraq. Certainly we must be prepared to do battle. More certainly it must be stopped. If your religion or your government is telling you wars have to happen you really need to think hard about why they are telling you this? Certainly it is not for Gods sake.

Our military should only exist to defend us from invasion and no other reason. We have no business trying to control politics around the world. We are insuring our demise by tooting our horn about being the last remaining superpower. It is arrogant, aloof and really not true. It is making the rest of the world hate us. I mean how secure do all these trillions of dollars worth of high-tech military hardware make you feel when all it takes is a flour sack of anthrax to take us all out?

We have shown how insensitive and uncaring we can be in Iraq. The whole world is going to turn on us if we don’t wise up. We must humble ourselves, wake up, and smell the rest of the world’s roses. They smell very nice also.

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