In case you think 2008 will be better.....

[rascal]

...than 2007, think again.

Here's a link to the failures of 2007 that will not be addressed this year, by either party. You can bet the ranch: Here's a snipped (reprinted with permission).

2007 - Look Back in Anger ...Americans seem to be a people with a very short memory span and a very limited sense of outrage. I don’t know what it will take to shake them into any semblance of collective outrage or united action. I do know however, that I am angrier at the close of this year than at the end of any other year that has passed. As you might well imagine, I am furious with the usual suspects: the corporate thugs, the PNAC warmongers and the religious fanatics who have wreaked such irreparable havoc on us all. TVNL has raged against what they have done to destroy the lives of so many.. But this time around I am ever more unforgiving in my despair and pessimism because of what has NOT been done by those who could have and should have lived up to the promise of change . It was a year of stunning inaction, during which so much that might have been done, and that could have been done, was NOT done, 2007 was heralded as a year of hope and progress. It was not. At year’s end, the crimes of the Bush administration still were business as usual. At year’s end, every outrage against the nation and the world remained uninvestigated and unpunished. And by the year’s end, members of both parties had joined forces to do nothing at all that might lead to a Happy New Year for anyone.. Just think about it for a minute. Here are some of the issues that could have been dealt with in 2007 and are OFF THE TABLE for any legislative action as I write. Even if every one of them had failed to pass a divided Congress, in the very least, the facts finally would have been placed in the public arena. In the very least, they would not have been swept under the proverbial rug of our shamefully intimidated and cowardly elected legislators. As 2008 begins, here are SOME of the issues that have endangered our democracy and the lives of so many around the world. For all of 2007, there was no action, nor were there any plans to:...

Full article and a list of the issues:

http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=675

[Cephus]

Of course 2008 won't be any better, why would it? We still have an asshole in the White House, idiots in Congress and drooling morons for a population.

Why would we expect any more than we're had in the past with this combination?

[Jimmy the Pro]

Depends on what perspective you put this issue in.

AT CURRENT RATE will 2008 be better than 2007? Most likely not if inaction persists.

HOWEVER, if every American citizen takes at least one action to make a positive difference in the world, 2008 might just be the best damned year ever.

It all depends on whether or not each person reading this decides to take action. I strongly suggest to every one that we not put 2008 in the shitter just yet. Let's see what we can do with 12 months before we put them to waste.

Just my thought.