Authored by: Floyd on Wednesday, January 21 2009 @ 06:09 PM GMT+4

with Special Guest - environmentalist and author Bill McKibben

Authored by: SkiDoc on Wednesday, January 21 2009 @ 06:15 PM GMT+4

Oh, I can hardly wait - Bernie talking about the economy. A socialist guides us on the new O socialism. Would it go something like this: "Please work harder. People on welfare depend on you."

Authored by: SpudHill on Wednesday, January 21 2009 @ 08:08 PM GMT+4

Well
I'll take Bernie's Socialism and concern for others over Bush's "Let Them Eat Cake....no wait, make that Let ME Eat Cake...no wait, make that Let Me Eat Birthday Cake with John McCain While Everyone In New Orleans Drowns" approach.
To each their own I guess, sure hope you never need a hand or lift up

Authored by: SkiDoc on Thursday, January 22 2009 @ 12:28 AM GMT+4

Such a sad comment on the degree to which the Brattleboro Reformer lock-step response stands ready to any pro-conservative comment. Yes, I do hope I never need assisatnce: (1) because it would mark me as a failure and (2) because soon the givers will be outnumbered by the receivers. I hope that this response does not offend you, personally.

Authored by: SpudHill on Thursday, January 22 2009 @ 02:50 AM GMT+4

No offense taken just rest assured that the last big Depression was full of people who needed assistance not because they were failures but because there was no work for those that needed or wanted it.

Authored by: SJD on Thursday, January 22 2009 @ 01:50 AM GMT+4

Perhaps eating cake isn't all bad since we may shortly only have expensive mud left. After the major banks are nationalized and perhaps more, unionization of everything, and government run mandated health-care system, the government will be the largest employer and spender in the country and perhaps the largest thing ever, a monster that has to be fed. So after all the trillions of bailout money is exhausted and tax levels are politically pacified for while to avoid aggravating the depression, in time there will be "no choice" but to raise taxes by significant amounts, even if you really don't want to, by both parties. How high... as high if not higher then your socialists buddies across the big pond... Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden — all socialist democracies in which the government dominates the economy.

The best thing government could do is reduce in size and stay the heck out of the way and let this country go back to what it does best, creativity, adaptation, independent hard work, and ultimately be successful. Yea, that's just unfair cus some just don't have what it takes to make it in this big bad world of competition.. to bad. Perhaps that's what the seals think of the killer whales. We need heroes and ideals not mothers and grannies.

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"Government's view of the economy: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan

Authored by: annikee on Wednesday, January 21 2009 @ 06:40 PM GMT+4

Thanks, Paula- I'd already forgotten. Go prepared.

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We have overcome.

Authored by: cgrotke on Wednesday, January 21 2009 @ 07:49 PM GMT+4

"REVERSING GLOBAL WARMING
AS WE CREATE A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY

SPECIAL GUEST – ENVIRONMENTALIST AND AUTHOR BILL MCKIBBEN

Our nation and world face two major and linked crises. First, if we
don’t significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reverse global
warming, our entire planet will face severe and irreversible damage.
Second, the global economy is experiencing a massive increase in
unemployment and a lowering in the standard of living of tens of
millions of people.

Please join Senator Bernie Sanders and author Bill McKibben for a
discussion on how we can address both crises by developing economic
models that emphasize local and sustainable production."

Authored by: cgrotke on Friday, February 06 2009 @ 09:18 PM GMT+4

Full-length video now available in b'media of this event, courtesy of the
great folks at BCTV!


www.ibrattleboro.com/bmedia