Doom and Gloom - this sums it up pretty good

We are screwed by capitalism. This guy sums it up pretty well. Oh, and communism sucks even harder so i don't know what is best.

This is a comment posted by lclark on alternet. It makes sense here is the direct link.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/143969/america_is_one_big_clunker_and_no_amount_of_cash_will_buy_us_a_new_one?page=2#comments

The traditional strategy in a recession was to do some road building to kickstart the economy and get money circulating. Now that would require not only increasing the national debt but importing the materials from outside the country because of the constraints of trade agreements. It would only create jobs for the manufacturing of concrete, steel, and heavy machinery in other countries and further inflate the dollar. What was once a working solution now further weakens the economy.Most countries recognize this and support a diverse economy that includes the production of goods as in the national interest and a issue of national security. Citizens here have been conned with the long term value of a globalist agenda and both the Donkeys and the Elephants have been instrumental in destroying the productive base of our economy through transnational trade agreements.Wasn’t that Al Gore pushing NAFTA on the Larry King show? And isn’t he back on pushing cap and trade as a way to bring about a “carbon economy” he is invested in?China has already taken the position that they will not take any steps that will reduce their economic growth and along with India are insisting that the western economies must act without their participation because of our previous “sins”. Another scam.In concert with crippling trade agreements has been the collectivization of commerce. Despite the lip flapping of the Donkeys and the Elephants about the real economic vitality of the U.S. being small business, we’ve seen the propagation of chain and big box stores, corporate farms replacing family farms, and larger and fewer financial institutions. The more you collectivize the more the profit becomes concentrated into fewer hands and the more it disappears from the community where it is generated.And of course there is the long term reduction of taxes on the most wealthy and the proliferation of taxes on the remainder of the population.The end result of trade agreements, collectivization of economic activity and the burden of taxes falling on the middle class has been our economic decline and the more insidious growth of a big brother government. As they remove the restraint on the multinational corporations they increase the restraints on small business and citizens.The government is simply corrupt. There is not a member of Congress that can run for office, especially the Senate, without the financial backing of special interests. To continue to believe that either the Donkeys and Elephants will legislate in the interests of voters is to believe in the absence of evidence. It is faith based politics, full of hope but lacking action. One effective solution to that would be for citizens to commit to vote 3rd party, ANY third party.Instead of the complications of new regulations and restraints we could build a new economy. For example, with existing technologies we could run our cars on hydrogen. The byproduct would be water vapor. It doesn’t require a cap and trade agreement, reduces foreign imports and dependence, and affects the energy monopoly. We no longer thrive by building the better mouse trap; rather we stop the better mousetrap from being build.The Donkeys and the Elephants are grazing on the Hill. When they relieve themselves it will trickle down to the citizens.