11-07-2009, 09:42 AM
We need to re-defind pessimism and cynical these days...As an environmental scientist I deal all the time with the issue of overpopulation. At some point the human population increase must soon be halted and reversed, BUT [and a very BIG but!] it must be done by choice - not coersion; equally - not by class or ethnic predjudice; taking into account human ecological sustainability and 'footprint' - not some uberklass' idea of eugenics; and under the principles of the Declaration of Human Rights, not the Nazis Nuremburg declaration. If the rest of the Administration turns-up like this color me more than cynical and more than pessimistic!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass