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Originally Posted by souljour2000
Thankfully the boneheads of both parties tend to keep each other in check as the founding fathers envisioned...
The divide between rich and poor has grown as good jobs have gone to cheaper workers overseas while the captains of industry have sat on their fannies and rewarded conservative thinking like building ton's of SUV's while the world has changed dramatically. We can get alot of good jobs back if we invest heavily in alternative energy and re-building the countries roads and infrastructure but the incentives have to be from both the private and government sectors. We need some imagination, and bold thinking...there are more than a few good minds already at work on these problems but they need assisitance and not nay-sayers who are still stuck in the old thinking of the 1950's like Bush and Cheney.We have to re-invent this country instead of continuing to sit on the long dead laurels of the past 50 years which bloomed with the end of WWII and its massive re-tooling/spending programs and the back to work programs of the FDR years. They continued to bloom up until a few years ago as our economy was able to exploit the almost bronze-age cheap economies that inhabitated the rest of the world while ours evolved into a space age one.Those blooms are now dead and had been shriveling for awhile frankly..It's time to propagate a whole bunch of new and fresh root stock....why not new technology?...think alternative energy and efficient automobile and housing/commercial structure design...to hell with the oil dinosaurs and the small-minded, status quo plutocrats. Cant' they all go retire with their yachts and cheesy-named Italian restaurants in some fancy planned gated community in Nicaruagua where there's no income tax?
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"Imagination and bold thinking..." like bringing back those overseas jobs that they do cheaper. That's neither imaginative nor bold, it's idiotic and we tried it during the Great Depression. In fact, it's what made that depression the Great Depression.
You might consider that, in the future, there are going to be very few actual manufacturing jobs; machines are going to do that. The world is changing, you're calling for change, but the change you're calling for is of a "back to the future" variety. If those jobs were "good" jobs they wouldn't be overseas already.
Ah, technology is the answer! Why didn't I think of that? Hell, why didn't Bill Gates think of that? Damn! I cannot believe neither of us saw it-the answer right under our noses. How much do we need to invest to repeal the laws of physics. Let me know soon, this alternative universe is filling up fast and I want to get in before anyone realizes that it's just talk and not very effective as an energy source.
We need an award here for best political humour. I nominate the above post.