The End of the Age of Mindless Consumerism

The End of the Consumer Age

George Martin

December 5, 2008

So, your donation was successful in Georgia.

i don't disagree with you about a divided executive and leg. branch. the big problem has been the the republicans in the senate have voted as a block and stopped more legislation more in the last two years, than all of the rest of modern history.

this is crap. there needs to be "DELIBERATION" not blind party loyalty.

People diss Pelosi all the time for doing nothing. but they have sent over a lot of good legislation to the senate, passed bi-partison in the house, where it has all died.

so, I'm thinking Barrack will succeed in getting enough republicans to be effective, LORD willing (I know she is looking out for someone). we need a government that does smart things.

if you notice, i always return to the same themes, no left or right, just dumb and smart. Deliberation, the way John Adams designed the government to work.

i really like that republican guy on the senate i can't remember his name, who just says no to the Auto companies. his arguments are sound, and the car companies aren't. his name Slayer, or something like that. and I like the governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford. he has great reasons why continuing to bail everything out just ends up in the long run making us poorer, by further weakening of the dollar.

Instead of running all those bullshit commercials, why doesn't chevron and Exxon bail out Detroit? they and haliburton, and blackwater have all our money anyway?

and someday, you have to get straightened out about the unions. Yeah, they blew it starting in the 70's, but without them in the early years we would never have built a middle class. the idea of "united we stand, divided we fall" is true. but they did really blow it and piss off everyone back in the fat years.

and it's the middle class which is the engine of the economy. too bad the "trickle down" people have won, and look at the results.

i really think we are entering the end of the age of consumerism. I think the age of everyone in my block owning a honda lawnmower, a leaf blower, and all this other frivolous crap is over. the world just can't sustain nor has the resource to keep making all the crap the economy has depended on for "good holiday sales" . we are going to go into an austere time, where people buy food, clothes, and things they really need. I don't think the "old economy" which really died this year will ever come back. the planet just cannot sustain the EU, USA, India, China, and all the developing world driving SUV's and buying honda lawnmowers. the stuff is no longer available.

that's really why i started this company, and you will see it become a pioneer in the 21st century grid.

okay, that's my rant for today!

George