by Susan Harris

Here they come with outstretched hands once again. The big three American automakers, General Motors, Ford Motors and Chrysler have no shame. They got a a ton of money a few weeks ago in a government sponsored bailout and now they want more. There's no disputing that these companies employ a few million workers and that they would be the ones who suffer from the companies' decline, but here's the problem with the bailout.

Let's go way back, for a moment, to the 1970s when America experienced the horror of the Middle East oil embargo. The ones who fared the best back then were owners of small cars. Neither the oil companies nor the automakers responded in any relevant way, not even when people traded in their gas guzzlers for the much smaller and fuel efficient cars manufactured by foreign companies. American automakers stood firm in their stupid decision to make big, big crappy cars and gas guzzling trucks. Then they complained that their sales were down.

by Susan Harris

Our self-proclaimed claim to fame as the most intelligent species on the planet doesn't hold an ounce of water. Almost every problem we face as a society can be traced to overpopulation yet it's the one subject we refuse to address. Why? Oh my goodness, we might insult someone. My response? Too fucking bad. The truth is the truth and if you can't handle it, go hide your head in the sand and wait till the nuke hits or the planet implodes.

In Los Angeles, all you have to do is take a look at any freeway and you'll understand the concept of overpopulation. Or, you can look toward the hills, or at least what used to be hills, before developers bulldozed the trees and shrubs and turned our environment into the ugly boxes they call houses. Why? "People have to live somewhere", the phrase goes. My response? Yeah, they can live in Mexico and other Latin American countries from which they came. Who says that the United States is obligated to support every other country's population? Other nations should contend with their own people and if the people don't like the government or situation they find themselves in, then they should work to better it where they are. And if they're too stupid to figure it out, then that's when the concept of "survival of the fittest" comes in to play.