single payer health care | Plastic Farm Animals https://troutsfarm.com Where Reality Becomes Illusion Thu, 09 Jul 2020 21:19:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/troutsfarm.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/COWfavicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 single payer health care | Plastic Farm Animals https://troutsfarm.com 32 32 179454709 GREEN DREAMS https://troutsfarm.com/2007/12/31/green-dreams/ https://troutsfarm.com/2007/12/31/green-dreams/#respond Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:00:26 +0000 http://troutsfarm.com/?p=1034 In my dreams I wake up tomorrow, to find that three years have passed and the world is changing for the better. Halfway through their first term, the Nader/Kucinich administration has already seen many milestones, among them: All American troops have been withdrawn from Iraq The Defense Department has been replaced by a Department of […]

The post GREEN DREAMS first appeared on Plastic Farm Animals.]]> In my dreams I wake up tomorrow, to find that three years have passed and the world is changing for the better. Halfway through their first term, the Nader/Kucinich administration has already seen many milestones, among them:

All American troops have been withdrawn from Iraq
The Defense Department has been replaced by a Department of Peace
A single payer system provides everyone with health care
College education is free for every citizen
A minimum 40 mpg has been set for all new passenger cars
The passenger rail system is being rebuilt

Other signs of progress:
The human population is down to five billion and is steadily dropping
Only 5 million children (down from nearly 10 million in 2006) died last year from preventable causes, due to a steadily increasing adoption rate
Air travel has decreased by 30%
There is a huge resurgence in Victory Gardens or Community Gardens
The average food item travels only 800 miles, down from 1500
Worldwide meat production dropped another 5% last year
25% of all new homes have built in composting toilets, water catchments, grey water recycling, solar panels, passive solar and wind power
Traditional Main Street towns are making a come back
Big Box Stores are showing a 20% decline in sales
Farmers Markets are on the increase
Locally owned businesses are booming
And so on…

Ahhhhh – one can dream, can’t they?

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