to higher sea levels than to restructure the entire economy instead. People react emotionally to the idea of a "destroyed city" but it's not like New York harbor will rise by 10 feet overnight, either. Your head is actually the one inside of a posterior if you think that the hypothetical sudden overnight destruction of city is something that happens anywhere else but in the movies. Suggest you read the stories about climategate. The hoax, fraud, scam, of those involved are still coming out each week. Anyone seen those frozen wind mills in Minnesota, that was on the news yesterday. Oh, in you lifetime, your city is safe from the rising water. Count on it! Of course, you could have a hurricane, but that could happen anywhere. You can bitch all you want, but the damage done over the last eight years (combined with the damage done before) was never guaranteed to be remedied overnight. On top of all of the problems the country faces, it's practically ungovernable because of serious systemic flaws. And the president doesn't have the power to fix any of it on his own. The sick thing is so many of the problems were caused by the corporate control of this country that Matt is dutifully continuing to shill for in this column. It's so interesting how any big proposal that might damage the bottom line of any extant large industry is a bad idea to Mr. Welch and whose demise the prospect of which brings