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  I would like to know the name of the person to rise in the USer Congress in the name of the American "consumer," instead of the American citizens.

  And I would like to be able to time-travel, in order to throttle the son-of-a-bitch before he could utter the words...

  Consumers are, indeed, trivial, and transitory. Citizens are substantial, and real. By transforming 'citizens' into 'consumers,' the discourse has stolen our dignity, and reduced us to ciphers in some vast economic calculus which we can never affect. Citizens have rights, and powers. Consumers have dollars, and are empty nullities when the money's gone.

   

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  On Stop calling Americans “consumers” posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago 6 Responses

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  What a GREAT IDEA. Unfortunately, it will only benefit those who can qualify for credit enough to buy a NEW car. Most of them are well-enough off that they do not NEED to conserve.

  Meanwhile, the poor who will be buying the cheap clunkers taht the middle-class turn in will still be contributing to the carbon problem, buying ever more expensive gas to feed their inefficient--but slightly newer--pieces of crap cars...

   

   

   

  On Congress gives green light to "cash for clunkers" bill; Obama to sign posted 5 months, 1 week ago 6 Responses

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  What makes anybody believe there's any chance of making the bill STRONGER, when the only impetus now is to weaken it? That's the way Congressional compromises ALWAYS work. You start with the least you can live with, and then watch as that becomes too much for the CorpoRats, and the least you can do with gets whittled down to nothing except cosmetics.

  How does anyone think that  provisions which are only in the Bill to appease the corpoRat interests can be taken out?

  The power is not with the environmentalists. It is with the energy CorpoRats.

  Think of what happened with the credit-card legislation. It was hyped as a great deal, epochal, a great victory! ut the ONE provision that would REALLY have protected "consumers"--capping the interest rates that could be charged--was stripped out of the bill with very little fanfare.

  The real danger is, of course, as so many other commentors have stated, that the corpoRat propagandists can take this bill and claim that it actually accomplishes something, and that it is enough. Can't you hear it: "We've suffered enough, by Gawd!"

   

   

  On Gore vs. Hansen: Enviros take sides in debate over House climate bill posted 6 months ago 57 Responses