exactly.......  a LOT can be done in simply 2 years.  myself and 2 friends kept trying to get an aquaduct solar system funded.  we met seriously key people in the state, but zero funding.  we were even willing to build unit #1 in a parking lot to show it's value and confirm it's output.  ~ and gain parking lot shade in...more

the 30's was a time slot when the country had a better vision of what the country could be or should be.    dubai is an example of a country today that was born from a vision of what it could be.  planning on a grand scale to accomplish something big.  even china today knowing it needs lots of power plants are bui...more

go visit valley forge.  growing upp there you see it a 100 times in various school field trips.  they had shelter.  yet they were bored and starting to fight among themselves waiting for their next orders.    sound familiar?    ROFL, they built the cabins to keep from freezing to death not to keep busy.

george washington had his troops during a cold winter in vallet forge building small cabins to basically keep them busy till the next battle.  it was certainly a make-work job but several cabins still stand today.  it's also an example of a "focused stimulus" program.  had we launched a focused stimulus program on a na...more

the dynamics of what's going on is bigger than just "oil".  it's the great sucking sound of usa jobs being lost in droves being replaced at best with casino jobs emptying baskets or making the beds.  we have no jobs policy.  no jobs plan.  no new serious industry or national project to work on that will both produce jo...more

what makes an equal percent fair?  if i make $90k a year, 20% is $18000 in tax.  a looser with no schooling and a low end job AND 6 KIDS might make $25000 and pay $5000 in taxes.    likewise someone making $300k would pay $60,000 in tax.    now who's getting the most of usa goods and services?  schools, hand ...more

wonderful!  isn't it grand that SO many in the government system get paid SO well for doin SO little and then in retirement get guaranteed returns!  and we wonder WHY we're in financial trouble?  now, WHO do you suppose in power even has the motivation to FIX this gravy train?

like the mortgage mess unwinding, a country falling apart is a small sample indicator of how far the rat hole might just go.  i think the checks and balances put in place after the 1929 crash have simply put today's troubles behind curtains.  it's not until the curtain gets pulled back - like greece - that we realize w...more

an old manufacturing phrase - "The devil is in the details".  i wonder when the devil will show his horns again?    They are really closely guarding the truth about the mortgage mess all we are seeing is a couple of wrappers coming undone. still many more left to peel off before we will finally see what it is that...more