Posted by Snow in 
This will be known as the era when everyone had to have a house. The era when single people and single families indulged in entire standalone households whether their footprint merited it or not. While our healthcare bills grew, our health coverage shrank, and foreign economies leapt past us and our “freedom”.
And then, when nobody wanted to pay for them, they walked away, leaving spec cities and lumbrous testimonies to address lust and curb appeal greed.
Yes, people who can afford to take big tax losses and get big rebates (because they can afford a car that probably wouldn’t sell otherwise) have bought their new de-clunkered vehicle. maybe those clunkers had some value.
One thing Americans are good at doing is making something out nothing, being resourceful, and coming through when the chips are down. I call upon America and world citizens all to unite in ending the phenomenon of landfill waste and garbage dogpiling by employing any method they can to reduce overall material consumption and lead more sustainable lives.
Being eco-friendly is not what we were brought up to be. Disposable, consumable, rip-top, rip-stop, squashed aluminum cans and bumbered lumber thrown onto the city dump is the way we were raised. Garbage of the household variety simply disappeared. Those rumbling trucks just took it somewhere. You know. Elsewhere.
Well, today the elsewheres all over the world have been piling up for some time now. they have been filtering into rivers. They have been leaching into groundwater. They have been allowing complacent corporations to drip toxins into rivers under pledge of ignorance. How ignorant can a billion dollar corporation be? Not too dim to have the leading anti-pollution lawyers on their retainer standing by.
And what happens when our grounds and our water and our air and our sunshine gets contaminated by (now) centuries of pollution? We start getting sick. We start plugging into pharmaceutical companies right and left.
Hoping each million dollar grant for research and each endowment for cancer will solve all these mysterious illnesses which have cropped up after the aegis of technology and industry swooped down over this country and felled our national health year by year.
Sure, we could have cured cancer and a lot of other illnesses with the money spent the last few years on credit and home loands and Iraq that we’ll never see again.But would that have been more fun than a 16 inch set of rims in the driveway?
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