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>Commitments and Obligations  - James Howard Kunstler - 
So, according to Kunstler, the greater issue facing our civilization is "...suburban sprawl and everything it entails." Seriously????

That single comment illuminates Kunstler's authoritarian mindset: individuals ought not be allowed to make choices of where to live or what life enhancing machine made products to purchase. He objects to the ugliness of strip malls, the grocery store on the corner, automobiles on highways carrying, of all things, single occupants. Had he the power we wouldn't be allowed those choices. Better to live in the woods using leaves for toliet paper, and, even then, praying that neither Mother Nature nor Father Kunstler take offense.

Incidently "what everything it entails" is really freedom from government dictates.

Kunstler voted for Obama -- the most authoritarian President in our history -- and I hope he is enjoying the inaugural today.





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Beginning of the headline :Conservatives have a legitimate gripe about America's excessive "commitments and obligations" to "unfunded liabilities" but their focus on Medicare and social security misses the larger point: our disastrous commitment to the current national lifestyle, in particular suburban sprawl and everything it entails.     This point came across vividly in a video recently released by the usually level-headed David McAlvaney titled "The Fuse Is Lit Part 3 - an American Reckoning." In it, the smooth and ar... Read More
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