September 24, 2008 at 12:06 pm

Woohoo!

September 24, 2008 at 12:21 pm

So exciting to know the original goal was able to be doubled!

September 25, 2008 at 7:33 pm

A system that took the country to bankruptcy to finance a war that costs Americans $300 millions a day. The cost of just 1 month of war could even end World hunger or poverty. But nobody thinks about it when spending billions.

Recently Clinton family created a fundation to raise $20 millions to provide $10 kits (inspired in the mosquito nets campaing) for families with newborns. This kit would guide and help to provide basic care for the babies. In 2007, 9.2 millions of children died before their 5th birhtday, 90% died because of hunger, 10% for diseases and other causes related to poverty.

4.8 millions of those 9.2 were babies who died during their first 28 days of life, for easy to prevent and easy to avoid causes like not washing the hands before taking care of them or before atending birth and delivery. This $20 million raising campaing should be under emergency characteristics since it is absolutely necessary, however $20 millions is a really low number among politics. We all know the political fund raising campaings that take place even for this election, that happen to be one of the most absurd of history, where controversy plays a more important role than any government plan offered by any of the parties. We all know how Hillary put $5 millions to finance her own campaing just a few months before her retirement.

All I want for this country is a leader who would really do his job as he is supposed to, someone who wouldn’t be afraid of declaring war to hunger and poverty, and that those $20 millions become more like the figures politics collect to finance their own political campaings.

September 26, 2008 at 5:39 pm

Screw the other “poor countries” of the world; what about taking care of things here at home in America? How about getting Healthcare under control here first?… How about stemming poverty in the United States first?… Who’s going to come to the aid of America once our society “implodes”; which it’s on the very edge of ecomomically, politically, resource-wise, healthcare-wise, employment-wise, illegal-immigration/iinvasion-wise, militarily, and so on. Let’s get America in propper shape first before helping strangers of the world. C’mon.

September 26, 2008 at 5:56 pm

Thank God not everybody think like you do. America have had the potential to solve all those issues here at home but hasn’t done it because is not into their priorities nor any politician interests just because the current system works pretty good for some of them (for not saying most of them) But it’s not fair that people, children all around the World pay the price for leaders incompetence and greed. Unfortunately this country has became greedy too and that had put the economy in the place now it is, a few steps of a total collapse.
When America became more real, more with the feet on the ground and more caring, maybe things will change for all of us, here at home and abroad in all those countries and places far from us but where all of us come from. Don’t forget that America is a big nation because it was formed for people from so many countries, religions and cultures, that make all of us related to the issues and problems of the World. Let just ask our leaders to care and to do the jobs they were asked to do when we elect them. Remember, we have issues that are pretty small compared with what happens out there, where the real World take place.

September 27, 2008 at 12:42 am

I think the best thing our elections could use is real debates with our constitutional options. Nader and McKinney are both more committed to public good than Obama and McCain, and many have fought for them to be on the ballots as an option. They both get no debates.
Two of our six options, the ones that don’t argue about whether to send more troops to Afghanistan or Iraq for the moment. Both “options” in the debates have previously committed to increase the military size. I hope you guys give them at least attention to know what our options are.
Still I am glad you guys are doing something for the good of us.

September 27, 2008 at 12:50 am

Ralph Nader founded the Consumer Project on Technology http://www.cptech.org/ which is trying to help people too. Jamie Love really seems to be heading the fight in the papers right now though, based on the fact that many overpriced drugs were developed and tested using public tax dollars. They claim we deserve to consider our return on investment if we payed to develop them and can’t afford them.

October 22, 2009 at 12:50 pm

TEG, as a gearhead the electric trucks fascinate me. ,

October 23, 2009 at 9:51 am

But let us be clear: al-Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on that day. ,