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The environment is a biggie debate issue. I have worked for an energy company for since I got out of college, so I feel somewhat close to the issues. There is a coal plant 10 miles NE of our town and also one 60 miles in the direction of Tulsa.
These coal plants burn 2 trainloads of coal every day causing a lot of lung disease.
When you develop domestic natural gas WHICH BURNS CLEAN --everybody benefits.

The government should give tax credits to individuals who help the environment by driving cool vehicles that get 50mpg, and tax (earmarked for energy
research) these
stupid pickups and suv's that one person is driving all over at 10-15 mpg.
The new
Nissan Sentra is a smaller example, but here is a family car that now has a 255hp engine that does 150mph.

One of the bigger factors in causing the September 11 attack was the stupid liberal attitude of so many politicians, hollywood, media, judges, juries, and so on--who protect the guilty under the guise of the rights of the individual, who represent corporate America as the bad guy, who represent the environment out of the perspective of easy solutions, takes God out of schools, made the OJ trial a racial/financial/publicity stunt and circus ignoring the facts, burning the symbols of freedom that so many Americans sacrificed their lives for, and so on....

The environment would already be a mute issue if Bin

Laden or any of the other Hate Religions had nuclear weapons. Their religious mission is to remove America from the world. They would not have hesitated to use nuclear bombs to take out American cities, even at the cost of the nuclear fallout making the world environmentally un-fit for humans to survive.

I love the environment and America as much as anyone, and I would like America to be around a few more years. Your health and future depend on the support and leadership that you give America. If Alaska is taken over by a new country, they would wreck the environment taking out the resources of alaska --American companies are the best in the world at addressing environmental issues. Saddam Hussein leaving Kuwait left over 500 oil wells burning for months before they could be put out doing irreparable damage to the environment. Why should Cadillac not make an SUV with a 500hp engine when there is no incentive for the American public to drive smaller vehicles? One good solution is tax credits for cool environmental vehicles with taxes earmarked to go directly to large/small corporations to invest in research to help the environment.

Everybody take care, I promise not to get on my soap box too often!!

-Bush4me, Republican

Hello from La La Land,
Hi Bush4me, I really appreciated your viewpoint on the current states of crisis but i have to take issue with a few things you mentioned.

...who represent corporate America as the bad guy, who represent the environment out of the perspective of easy solutions, takes God out of schools....

America corporations are for the most part shallow entities. They manipulate a mindset that allows them to profit at the expense of wise and sustainable living. We are drowning in unneeded gadgets and capitalistic notions of success. They have justified their creations and marketplace ideologies by telling us that we are free to choose what to buy, but they dominate our political systems by throwing money at any attempt to stop reform. A case in point is the Pharmaceutical companies. We have a massive war on drugs in this country. Or I should say a war on certain drugs. These companies have steered doctors into selling drugs to the people. Doctors are no longer individuals with wisdom and care as their main objective, but have been reduced to drug dealers. They can only know what the Pharmaceutical companies tell them to prescribe. Yet, a simple plant like marijuana is labeled as a dangerous drug. A drug that does not show up on any lists of casualties associated with fatalities due to drug abuse. The textile industries waged a war on marijuana in the early part of the twentieth century not because it was bad for the American people, but because it would threaten their industry (Cotton for example). The car industry has benefited greatly from their dependence on oil consumption and because their lobbyist and political ties are so strong we as a nation have been under the same tyrannical spell. Now we are leaders in the research, development and production of genetically modified foods. Why? Because it is good for us? No!
Because it is good for their economic growth. We have not done the research to prove that these bio-engineered foods will not play havoc on the ecological balance of our world. And we wonder why so many people gathered together in Seattle to oppose the WTO and their attempt to dominate the worlds food production system. I am disgusted by their attempts to profit off new and untested technology. We don't need it. But they do.

The next issue I have with your e-mail is your concern for God in the schools. I am a teacher and I understand how difficult it is in teaching relevant information to children. The problem I have with God in the school is whose god will be taught. We live in America. The land of the religious free. How do you teach a concept that has caused more wars than any force on the planet. God is an abstract. Christians modified their views on god from those who came before them. They stole ideas and stories much like screenwriters in hollywood. Teaching god is not only impractical but impossible. Do you teach creationism and deny the scientific discoveries of the last century?
Do you limit yourself to the teachings from the bible and ignore the rich teachings of Buddhism, Native American, Animism, and countless other understandings of divinity. What must be taught is not god but the commonalties between all religions and philosophies. Truth, Justice, Love, Compassion, Integrity, Patience, Kindness, and the ability to embody another beings perspective is way more important than teaching the white european story. We are an ignorant, unwise people. We have lost our faith and instead cling to shallow understanding because it will not get in the way of our not being able to stop and contemplate our lives. If we are to succeed as a species it will be due to our ability to adapt to a changing world. We do not need religious fervor or back to the basics thinking. We need to evolve to another level of living. One that embraces all points of view and does not waste time judging and condemning ideas that it views as unfit. America is the last staging ground for puritanical thinking. Once we evolve past our moral contraptions and stop reducing things to good and evil the whole planet will be able to evolve. We are so hung up on deviancy and right and wrong behavior that we can't see that life is much more complicated and fascinating than we could ever imagine. The problem with GOD is that he or she does not exist. What does exist is the great dance. The vibration of intelligence that moves through all matter and thoughts is alive and well. It does not need to be named and it does not need to be aligned with because it would be impossible to exclude yourself from. God is an old monological idea. We are a collective of movements and inspirations. And this collective force called humanity is not alone in the universe. We are blind in our ignorance to think that other forms of expression and creation did not also take part in the so called big bang. In the near future we will be invited to see other entities and life forms that share this mystery of life. The purpose is to grow and become whatever we choose. Once you realize that there is no need to judge, there is no need to control. Freedom is not just an idea but it is a way of living. Self-responsibilty should be our mantra. Government should be a guiding entity not a law enforcing, moral enforcing, control oriented force that it has become. It has lost its connection to the local, the community that resides close to the heart. The country that we are at war with is our self. These people in Afghanistan are us. They have not been evolving at he same rate of technology or consciousness but they are brothers and sisters. They are not the enemy. The thought forms that cause us to see ourselves as different is the true culprit.

Our forefathers had a great vision. It wasn't complete. That is why we are here, to carry the torch.

-VeganGuy, Independent