We do not support the death of children living in slum conditions…

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We do not support graft and slums when we believed for years in the honesty of our Democratic Party to solve these things. We do not support Hillary or Bill Clinton being involved with such taint, or such people after all the years and good work they did for the Democratic Party.

It is imperative that we have a President at this time who is willing to take on the graft and corruption that exists in the infrastructure of this country.

We must have urban renewal programs such as those that existed in the 1970’s, in order to stave off further collapse of the American psyche. For Westerners to see what inner city conditions look like in Chicago is a disgrace. Not only for the Democratic Party, but for Republican Party and Americans across the board. I refer you to the piece I wrote on FDR’s “New Deal” and why I feel this might be a model that is necessary at this time to counteract such blight. Here is a referral to a book that can give insight into this problem, immediately:

I support John McCain for President of this country because I believe he will look to the heart of his hero Theodore Roosevelt in order to solve the problems in the country. He has the stomach and strength of the WESTERN soul behind him.

For years (since Reagan) I have been a Democrat. How naive of of me. Had I known that they have done nothing in places like inner city Chicago? Nothing?

The time to be reforming at present is on our own soil, right in the urban core. It is disgraceful to see this.

What might an urban renewal look like? Across all the blighted areas in the inner cities of our United States?

First, addressing the salvage of empty buildings that can be conserved and renovated as housing. Second, the planting of trees and gardens, as well as the installation of waterworks like fountains which will attract birds and beneficial insects, as well as bees and butterflies. We face colony collapse disorder with our bee population at present. It is imperative that we build an organic model. Projects like gardens give the soul beauty, and harmony as well as teaching a vocation. It is possible to create something out of this ruined blight, because the land is there already.

Second, introduce vocational training as well as the study of the Arts, Humanities, Literature and Music in the schools. How can one expect to have hope in the midst of blight on that level?

I will never support a Democrat such as the one shown in the videos above. His conduct is shameful and disgraceful to me. Hence I put my hope into John McCain and businesswoman Carly Fiorina to put her small business model to work here in our own country.

What’s that old expression? You can give a man a fish, or you can give him a fishing pole and teach him to fish, and then he’ll have fish for life?

This could be a part of a Conservation Corps, Teddy style!

You can give people trees, plants, seeds and flowers and teach them how to build raised beds so they can help produce food in these blighted places. Flowers are poetry. So are ripe tomatoes. Here is an article on raised bed gardening as practiced out West. It’s only a matter or transferring the style to climates in the East. Here is another view of that model, from the Los Angeles Times, this time a French potager style.

Here is a MODEL FOR THIS PLAN, from OPENLANDS.

Here is an article on fixing housing problems, URBAN BLIGHT and what a conservation corps might want to look into.

You can hire men to rewire and renovate old buildings, rather than tearing them down.

That is what the Progressive Green movement is about, for me. I think it fits with the New Republicans. I can’t see how any women wouldn’t be disgusted by the inner city imagery above. It is tragic. Tragic to the American soul and psyche.

For all of the millions in tax dollars paid into this country why does it look like the above in Chicago?

For all of the millions raised for this election by the Democratic Party how many packets of seeds, raised beds, trees, shrubs, cans of paint, and electrical wiring could have been bought? How many jobs might have been created to address this problem of deep infrastructural ROT? And deep SOUL sickness?

source ANNO DOMINI.

STRONG. IMPASSIONED. AMERICAN LEADERSHIP!

This is totally fantastic news to all of us on the Green Side of things!

John McCain realizes we have got to get our “power”" back into our own hands. He is like Teddy Roosevelt.

Here is the link into “The LEXINGTON PROJECT” where you can read about all the great ideas. Senator McCain has said he will leave any oil drilling to the individual states to decide. He will not be touching California’s protected coastline. McCain is asking for Americans to submit all their ideas to him, because he believes in us, and he believes that all of us can dream up our Green future together! Why am I going McCain? Strong, male, responsible LEADERSHIP that we so desperately need. It’s marvelous to see this kind of progressive reform, just the BEST! The jobs he creates will put America back to work and back on its feet again. Send HIM your GREEN IDEAS! HE WANTS TO KNOW BECAUSE HE LOVES THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!

The Sunflowers –image from “artquotes.net”

What does “green” look like?  It’s really basic.  It looks like America did in the 1950’s with the 70’s understanding of organics applied over the top, as well as the humanitarianism of JFK’s Peace Corps.  In other words, it’s a return to “simplicity” because of the bee problem and colony collapse we are facing as well as the climate change.

It’s an anti-corporate model that supports diversity.  My guess is that informed progressives in the blue states are already there, you know?  Yeah.  That’s why I wanted Hillary Clinton, because she was closest to this sort of plan.  It’s a great interview  below — I voted for Nader once because of his stance.  It’s just practical, and it’s also a humanitarian stance.  It’s not the “big-money” stance.

So, here is some thought from Nader in an interview with Amy Goodman off Democracy Now.

“…So, you can see in many ways that we favor workers, and we favor consumers, and we favor small taxpayers, we favor the environment to the expense of corporate power. I mean, the issue here is centralized corporate power. And that’s why day after day, whether through demonstrations in front of toady government agencies and trade associations in Washington to campaigning with people and their controversies for justice all over the country, we have made our website, votenader.org, a very vivid, vivacious website for people who want to volunteer, who want to get engaged, who want to contribute money to our campaign. We take no commercial money or PACs, so we rely on individuals…

So, to sum it up, really, our campaign is to subordinate corporate power to the sovereignty of the people. Why is that a radical notion? Doesn’t the Constitution start with “We the people”?

Number two, we’ve got to straighten out our food export situation. We import far too much food from China, which is contaminated. We’ve got to have much more food grown close to markets. For example, Massachusetts used to grow 80 percent of its tomatoes in 1948. Now, it imports 80 percent of its tomatoes from California, Mexico. There’s no reason for that. There’s plenty of land for vegetable growing, fruit growing near the metropolitan markets.

And above all, we’ve got to have a foreign policy that makes us into a humanitarian superpower, that is, more agricultural cooperatives overseas, showing with our technology, appropriate technology, how to greatly increase crops and preservation of crops. 30 percent of food grown in the third world is lost due to rodents, fungus and insects. And we have a lot of knowledge on how to store food and preserve it so it isn’t lost and so people don’t starve and children don’t have distended bellies because of gross undernourishment. It’s an absolute crime against humanity…

AMY GOODMAN: Ralph Nader, the issue of global warming?

RALPH NADER: Global warming, solar power. Solar power is the closest thing to a universal solvent that we have. Wind power, solar thermal, solar photovoltaic, passive solar architecture, other forms—biofuels that are not corn ethanol—that’s the way to go. We’ve got to have a national mission of converting our economy and be an example for the world in solar energy. It’s four billion years of supply, Amy. And it’s decentralized, it’s environmentally benign, it makes us energy independent, and it replaces the Exxon Mobil-Peabody Coal-uranium complex. That’s what we’ve got to go for economic, political, health and safety, environmental reasons…”

Katrina happened because of weather changes.  All this flooding in the Mid-West?  Same thing.  There will be more, so we have to work together to clean up the oceans, keep our food chain safe and just get back to basics around here.  Conspicuous consumption is not a model when the middle class no longer exists, is it?  Who is going to buy the stuff?  Hillary had ideas (green) that could put America back to work, building up all this green industry.

Victims of the disasters that hit climactically can learn much from the Amish and the Shakers in terms of their neighbors and friends doing “barn raisings.”

People can be housed by using an indigenous model based on what is available in the landscape to build with.  Call me old fashioned but let’s talk straw bale?  Okay?  That’s mondo-green.  And inexpensive.

Green is an American concept, and also a Nationalistic concept.  It’s also “grassroots.”  It’s very old fashioned.

I can’t stand to see people homeless in our country, or children in pain.  I also can’t stand to see the corporate greed right now.  I hate to tell you this but the whole thing will backfire anyway if nobody buys anything.  The point is, how do you begin to rebuild an ethics and ethos here?

Get rid of the greed, okay?  Just get rid of the greed.