Transitioning Tampa Bay area Into Sustainable Communities

You wrote:

"Now in 2009, with another 500,000 jobs gone, a few more trillion added onto our ever growing debt, a few more million homeless and hungry, a few more soldiers committing suicide in the military, I can’t help but think our society has gone insane. We have lost all the things that made us moral and strong. The American dream that our forefathers built up is turning into an American nightmare."

I think the 500,000 is low balling it. Isn't that the WEEKLY job loss figure? Or is it monthly?

Obama is the blame for a "few more trillion in debt" - take action and call your representatives at 202-224-3121 to stop the madness!

Tell the government to quit spending us into oblivion and taxing employers who in turn, have to lay off workers creating homelessness.

War is war...it is not pretty, yet it's been around forever and unfortunately, will be forever. There are those who want to be dictators stealing our God-given freedom and those are who we fight against. Some cannot handle it and thought they were joining the National Guard to never be deployed, but to reap the benefits - many found out differently. I know personally a gal who committed suicide among other reasons - but because she was to be deployed and never expected to do "active service".

I agree that the American dream has been stolen. The government is stealing it everyday in the name of socialism.

Do your homework. Go to the Communist Party USA website, please This explains the Change too many people voted for. Our leader is following the mantra to the tee. It's how he was trained and how he is governing. While you are reading up on who are President really is - and what the agenda is, google Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" and read that as well.

Then, gird up and FIGHT for the America you BELIEVE IN! It's NOT too late.

We can thank the internet, TV, the FCC, the government, special interests for our moral decline, but do not fear - there is a ground swell of people out here wanting their America back - less the capitalist Al Gores, Pelosi's, Kennedy's, Kerry's & Obama's of the world who preach and live very differently and we are fighting hard.

What you see is also called "progress". While looking over pretty meadows is preferable, people choose where they want to live and typically go to where there are jobs or nice retirement communities to reward themselves for a lifetime of savings and frugality.

Here in Illinois, we watched a sleepy little town, Plainfield, grow into a megalopolis so fast it was unreal. It's located in Will county and was thee, if not one of the fastest growing counties in the nation at the time. It's a boom and also indicative of a robust economy - although, I wonder what the foreclosure rate is now?

You are only 24 - I am glad you are learning the lessons of frugality, but for some, riding bikes rather than taking cars to work, in the rain, wind or snow is not always an option. Be mindful that people driving cars to work - cars they work hard for are not the enemy.

The enemies we deal with are the non-producers promoting propaganda like the "green movement" while secretly capitalizing on it and raping our environment with carbon offsets (to allow pollution), their gluttonous ways and multiple homes - aka, the US government.

They produce nothing, yet take everything.

Too bad we can't get the government to learn to be frugal with all their jet setters flying all over the world polluting the air with their dirty fossil fuels and using more electricity in one trip and in one house than an entire community does in a year.

Before you blast the "typical" American who HAS been gardening for a lifetime (myself included), been frugal, paying down their debt, yet enjoying the fruits of their labor - point your finger to those who preach to us one thing yet do the opposite.