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Why are we on the wrong track? There are so many reasons that it's hard to list them all.
1)We need universal healthcare instead of a for-profit system of "health insurance." The US's economy is going down the tubes, jobs are being eliminated at an ever-increasing rate. We cannot rely on a health care system that expects people to remain in the same job for their entire adult lives. They most assuredly won't. We need a system that will cover everybody all the time so that no American ever goes bankrupt because they became ill.
2)We need a sustainable system in which to live. Our current American lifestyle is based entirely on CHEAP OIL. Because of cheap oil, Americans could move from the cities and live a "suburban" life miles away from everything useful, driving their cars everywhere instead of walking or using public transportation. Cheap oil is OVER. We all need to figure out how to live without driving cars everywhere. People working at Wal-Mart and McDonalds are not going to be able to continue working when half of their paychecks are going to buy the gas to get them to work. I don't know why there isn't more of a discussion about this going on, service workers are either living off their credit cards in the hopes that gas will come down in price-it won't-or they are living with some wealthy relatives who are still employed in "real jobs."
3)"W" is a moron, spending billions of dollars on the war in Iraq when the economy here is imploding, our schools lack funding, the cost of higher education is exploding through the roof, and new college graduates can't find work, though they must now repay the huge student loan debt they accumulated.