For the record, I'm so damned tired of the negative. Same as it ever was.

[TreasonousBastard]

11. Meh-- it'll never change, but the good news is...

that a lot of attitudes are changing. Slowly, but they are changing.

I try to ignore the nonsense here about the planet blowing up because SS recipients will get a $10 increase instead of a $20 one. The argument should start about just what should retirement mean to a retiree who has worked all his or her life and how do we best get there.

Same with healthcare. Arguing over the best and worst plans makes no sense when we should be first talking about keeping Americans healthy and then how to get there.

I take those two big fights with a grain of salt-- no matter what gets decided today will be brought up again soon enough, with a whole new crop of people with different ideas.

Other things are looking up. We're starting to get tired of paying for enough firepower to blow up the next 20 countries to piss us off. We can accomplish most of what we want (which is a lot less than what we've been doing) for a lot less money and a lot less interference in the rest of the world.

And our attitudes toward the health of the planet are changing. Again too slowly, but most of us are actually waking up to the idea that it's not just global warming, but using the planet as an enormous trash can and mining its resources to oblivion just isn't working.

Yeah, it's three steps forward and two back, but that's pretty much the best we can do until we evolve a bit more. I just hope the planet lasts long enough until we do see that evolution.

BTW, we have a new Good News Group here in DU. Might be worth a look.