On December 17th, MoveOn members began 2 days of voting to decide our top goals for 2009. Each member was able to vote for 3 goals. Here are the final results, with the percentage of members who included each goal in their top 3. The graph below shows how many votes each goal received, as a share of the total.

	Goal
1.	Universal health care	64.9%
2.	Economic recovery and job creation	62.1%
3.	Build a green economy, stop climate change	49.6%
4.	End the war in Iraq	48.3%
5.	Improve public schools	21.6%
6.	Restore civil liberties	16.8%
7.	Hold the Bush Administration accountable	15.2%
8.	Gay rights/LGBT equality	8.6%
9.	Increase access to higher education	7.6%
10.	Reform campaigns and elections	5.7%

These MoveOn.org members are more concerned with getting “free” healthcare, “free” jobs, and stopping something which no one knows is even a problem nor could actually be stopped… then having hundreds of thousands of fellow human beings murdered in their name. Doesn’t seem they are too concerned with fixing public schools or stopping the police state. Of course they generally want to just enhance the failed policies which lead to the problem in the first place so perhaps that’s good. We’ll all get increasingly worse heathcare but at least for the time being the kids won’t get much dumber.

I wouldn’t normally give this windbag the time of day, except he’s put together a great, dead-pan commentary on the economy.

Glad to see him applying his skills at something he’s actually good at.  His performaces during the Republican debates were a trainwreck.

http://wiredispatch.com/…

Zimbabwe’s central bank chief says ordinary Zimbabweans are to blame for the country’s crippling inflation.

Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono is quoted in The Sunday Mail, a state-owned newspaper, as saying inflation is due to what he calls a “collective failure as a nation” to produce enough, particularly food. He calls on Zimbabweans “to actively play a part in producing for the nation.”

Zimbabwe’s inflation rate is officially 231 million percent, the highest in the world.

Government orders to seize white-owned farms starting in 2000 disrupted the economy of what had been the region’s breadbasket. The farms were to have gone to poor blacks, but many went to ruling party loyalists. Agricultural production has plummeted. Today, Zimbabwe faces a hunger crisis.

He’s right in a way. If they were able to increase the amount of goods being chased by that money the ratio would stay approximately the same. However, a 231 million percent increase would be difficult I think.

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