Excess Consumerism & The Public Debt

Point 1) President Obama had the power to not sign off on renewing the Bush tax cuts last December. The buck is supposed to stop with the President and he actually had to twist the arm of Congress to pass the extension so he could sign it for the Republican's benefit.

Point 2) The economy of the U.S.A. isn't based on debt. The U.S. public debt is the result of tax cuts during a time of high military spending. To finance WWII F.D.R. raised the top tacket rate at 90%. Raising taxes and sutting spending and paying off the U.S. debt is the honest way to go.

Point 3) The political-economic concept of consuming as a thing in itself isn't necessary for a democracy. All human beings consume energy of course, yet the quality of life issues a rational democracy should use to have an intelligent design principle of a recovering ecosphere, full employment and strong individual liberty and civil rights differs from a Sodomite criterion of pure consumption for-itself with few individual rights and an existential interpretation of the idea of capitalism.

I have recently been reading a biography of Abraham and it has a philosophically interesting exposition of ancient Sodom's sociology with the principle of what I would consider to be fundamental sadism wherein the interiority of others is violated and the external things such as consumption are too highly regarded. A healthy society needs high values for the interior, spiritual life and self of individuals and not just the outer fashions and conformity of the day.

Americans could create a zillion jobs in a high quality, sustainable ecological economy with a stable population, and be an example for other nations to follow.