T. Boone Picken's Plan to create a wind-power generation corridor to provide power to our electrical grid and redistribute the natural gas the power companies currently use to power trucks should be implemented by President-elect, Barack Obama and incorporated into his national infrastructure plan.
Getting America off of its 70% dependence on foreign oil is the key to our future prosperity. Energy independence, infrastructure and the design and development of next generation transportation products could be impetus for creating the economic driver which will add to the prosperity of our nation and grow our economy well into the latter part of this century.
Adopt the Pickens Plan. Let's find a way to re-energize our independence and celebrate our freedom!
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama's Infrastructure Plan is Good for America
President-elect, Barack Obama's plan to rebuild America's infrastructure is the type of economic stimulus that America needs right now. Our country saw its greatest growth in the manufacturing of transportation products. The locomotive, the ocean liner, the jumbo jet and the automobile provided more good paying manufacturing jobs than any other segment of our society directly and indirectly.
As the computer age morphed into the information age American efficiency became the world standard accelerating the learning curve and reducing the number of workers required to run the old technology industries.
As I wrote in several previous pieces including 3 Pillars of Prosperity for America, it is time for a paradigm shift in our transportation products, transportation systems, and energy products. Building the 21st-Century transportation products, the infrastructure needed to support them, and alternative energy sources to become energy independent is the key to our future prosperity. Not only is it the right thing to do for our global environment it is the right thing to do for the American people as well.
If done right this program will ignite manufacturing, construction, telecommunication, green energy, and a host of related services especially in education and training.
Regardless of one's political affiliation it is time for all of us to get behind the incoming president and help him repair our battered economy and ensure a better America for our children.
As the computer age morphed into the information age American efficiency became the world standard accelerating the learning curve and reducing the number of workers required to run the old technology industries.
As I wrote in several previous pieces including 3 Pillars of Prosperity for America, it is time for a paradigm shift in our transportation products, transportation systems, and energy products. Building the 21st-Century transportation products, the infrastructure needed to support them, and alternative energy sources to become energy independent is the key to our future prosperity. Not only is it the right thing to do for our global environment it is the right thing to do for the American people as well.
If done right this program will ignite manufacturing, construction, telecommunication, green energy, and a host of related services especially in education and training.
Regardless of one's political affiliation it is time for all of us to get behind the incoming president and help him repair our battered economy and ensure a better America for our children.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Help Needed for the Big 3 Now!
Congress should be dragged in by their ears and locked into the room until they get this bridge loan approved!
It is unconscionable that a blank check was given to the financial institutions in a scheme devised by Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson. It received congressional approval only under duress as Wall Street held an economic gun to Washington's head as the stock market melted down in full color on the nightly news and red ink poured out of countless peoples' 3rd quarter 401k statements.
Sadly we have only begun to see the abuses of these funds as the first $700 billion was scooped up faster than cheap televisions at Walmart on Black Friday. AIG's CEO is a master of splitting words by agreeing not to use the funds for executive "bonuses" but finding no problem using them for executive "retention payments." $140 billion squandered with little oversight but no money to save up to 3 million jobs in the automotive industry, one of the biggest drivers of the last century? Where's the outrage?
I'm sickened by the thought that my tax money can be used to help an AIG executive buy an new yacht with their "retention payment" but it cannot be used to keep 3 million of my neighbors working. Does anyone honestly believe that eliminating a large number of jobs is going to bode well for the rest of the working people?
It is unconscionable that a blank check was given to the financial institutions in a scheme devised by Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson. It received congressional approval only under duress as Wall Street held an economic gun to Washington's head as the stock market melted down in full color on the nightly news and red ink poured out of countless peoples' 3rd quarter 401k statements.
Sadly we have only begun to see the abuses of these funds as the first $700 billion was scooped up faster than cheap televisions at Walmart on Black Friday. AIG's CEO is a master of splitting words by agreeing not to use the funds for executive "bonuses" but finding no problem using them for executive "retention payments." $140 billion squandered with little oversight but no money to save up to 3 million jobs in the automotive industry, one of the biggest drivers of the last century? Where's the outrage?
I'm sickened by the thought that my tax money can be used to help an AIG executive buy an new yacht with their "retention payment" but it cannot be used to keep 3 million of my neighbors working. Does anyone honestly believe that eliminating a large number of jobs is going to bode well for the rest of the working people?
Saturday, December 13, 2008
The Cannibalization of America
And the cannibalizing of America continues...
It is sadly ironic that people are actually promoting the idea of destroying the health and pension plans of the remaining private and public employers that offer them at the same time that many are screaming for national health insurance and fixing social security.
One of the CNBC anchors was ridiculing the UAW workers yesterday talking about their "free" health care saying they (the anchors) don't get any free health care. Really? Do they actually pay 100% of the cost of a non group health insurance plan for themselves and their families? I doubt it. They are either hypocrites or purposely ignorant in their statements. I'm sure the anchors $$$$salaries are really in-line with the Average Joe as well.
Another lie that has permeated the media and cyberspace is this notion that the average UAW worker makes $73 per hour. This figure is a shop wrap rate. This figure is akin to saying the average plumber charging $125 per hour is making $125 per hour him or herself. It simply is not true. When I worked in manufacturing over 15 years ago the Fortune 50 company I worked for had a wrap rate over $125 per hour. Competing companies in Poland (newly-freed at the time) were charging about $8to $10 an hour wrap rate. The companies paid their workers about $1.5 an hour and the workers manufactured parts on machines without safety equipment and etched and treated parts in acid tanks without any ventilators or appropriate safety equipment.
Is this the future we wish upon our citizen's to compete in a global environment? If so, 99% of us will see our salaries significantly reduced and our standard of living lowered.
It is sadly ironic that people are actually promoting the idea of destroying the health and pension plans of the remaining private and public employers that offer them at the same time that many are screaming for national health insurance and fixing social security.
One of the CNBC anchors was ridiculing the UAW workers yesterday talking about their "free" health care saying they (the anchors) don't get any free health care. Really? Do they actually pay 100% of the cost of a non group health insurance plan for themselves and their families? I doubt it. They are either hypocrites or purposely ignorant in their statements. I'm sure the anchors $$$$salaries are really in-line with the Average Joe as well.
Another lie that has permeated the media and cyberspace is this notion that the average UAW worker makes $73 per hour. This figure is a shop wrap rate. This figure is akin to saying the average plumber charging $125 per hour is making $125 per hour him or herself. It simply is not true. When I worked in manufacturing over 15 years ago the Fortune 50 company I worked for had a wrap rate over $125 per hour. Competing companies in Poland (newly-freed at the time) were charging about $8to $10 an hour wrap rate. The companies paid their workers about $1.5 an hour and the workers manufactured parts on machines without safety equipment and etched and treated parts in acid tanks without any ventilators or appropriate safety equipment.
Is this the future we wish upon our citizen's to compete in a global environment? If so, 99% of us will see our salaries significantly reduced and our standard of living lowered.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Make Your Choice and Be Optimistic
Whether John McCain or Barack Obama is elected president, we, as Americans, need to reignite our optimism and look to identify a national initiative to allow our country to continue as a world model for opportunity and prosperity.
I believe that our greatest opportunity lies in our biggest challenge, that is, becoming energy independent by finding an alternative to crude oil-based energy products. I have identified it as one of the 3 Pillars of Prosperity .
Whomever is elected president should seize this opportunity and use to develop policy and initiatives that move America to be the world leaders in this technology throughout the remainder of the 21st Century.
I believe that our greatest opportunity lies in our biggest challenge, that is, becoming energy independent by finding an alternative to crude oil-based energy products. I have identified it as one of the 3 Pillars of Prosperity .
Whomever is elected president should seize this opportunity and use to develop policy and initiatives that move America to be the world leaders in this technology throughout the remainder of the 21st Century.
Friday, October 10, 2008
3 Pillars of Prosperity for America
Our nation’s future prosperity is in jeopardy. The media is standing by commenting on America’s downfall like they are watching a boxing match with the reining champion being battered into oblivion. Many leading media personalities actually seem excited by the possibilities of mass bank failures, devastating job eliminations, and the loss of key industries such as our automotive industry.
We cannot let this happen. Our people must act to ensure that we provide abundant opportunities for our children and our people’s future. Unlike our great leaders of the past such as Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, and Kennedy, our current elected officials have not shown the leadership, charisma, and confidence expected of them in times of a national crisis such as the one we are facing now.
It’s time to take the government back from the special interests on the left and right and return the responsibility to the citizens that love this country for what it stands for, freedom and equal opportunity for all.
In our nation’s history in times of crisis old structures have been cast aside and new ones have emerged that moved our country firmly forward. The current structure made up of the Democratic and Republican Parties have long passed their prime and are mired in paralytic rhetoric. It’s time for a paradigm shift, a new structure, the Responsible Citizen’s Party.
The platform of the Responsible Citizen’s Party is simple, put the money in the pockets of the American People. This is accomplished by lowering taxes for low and middle-income Americans and providing tax credits for upper-income Americans and corporations who directly invest in our country’s future.
Sorry, no breaks for short sellers, US asset auctioneers, or derivative traders.
The success plan for America’s future begins with the 3 Pillars of Prosperity for America outlined below.
3 Pillars of Prosperity for America
· Make America energy independent by accelerating the development of alternative energy sources utilizing nuclear, solar, wind, geo-thermal, hydro, tidal, bio-fuels, natural gas, and fuel cell technologies. T. Boone Picken's Plan is the best, most comprehensive, plan currently developed. For details see http://push.pickensplan.com/
· Refocus our automotive and commercial vehicle industries to become world leaders in electric vehicle technologies, high mileage diesel, and natural gas.
· Bring our infrastructure up to the 21st-Century by rebuilding our crumbling bridges and highways, increasing the high speed rail footprint between major metropolitan areas as well as light rail within urban regions, and upgrading our electrical and communications grids to facilitate delivery of energy and information.
The 3 Pillars of Prosperity for America would be a national initiative providing low-interest loans, grants, and federal assistance to corporations, entrepreneurs, and organizations that make, build, develop, or buy products and services within the United States.
The job of building a prosperous America is everyone’s responsibility. It’s time for our nation’s corporations to rebuild the trust of the American people by demonstrating integrity, corporate responsibility and civic commitment. Tax credits could be issued to companies that demonstrate a tangible and measurable commitment to America by providing capital, labor, and resources to improve the communities in which they operate within the United States.
Put America to work and ensure a strong future for our nation’s children.
We cannot let this happen. Our people must act to ensure that we provide abundant opportunities for our children and our people’s future. Unlike our great leaders of the past such as Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, and Kennedy, our current elected officials have not shown the leadership, charisma, and confidence expected of them in times of a national crisis such as the one we are facing now.
It’s time to take the government back from the special interests on the left and right and return the responsibility to the citizens that love this country for what it stands for, freedom and equal opportunity for all.
In our nation’s history in times of crisis old structures have been cast aside and new ones have emerged that moved our country firmly forward. The current structure made up of the Democratic and Republican Parties have long passed their prime and are mired in paralytic rhetoric. It’s time for a paradigm shift, a new structure, the Responsible Citizen’s Party.
The platform of the Responsible Citizen’s Party is simple, put the money in the pockets of the American People. This is accomplished by lowering taxes for low and middle-income Americans and providing tax credits for upper-income Americans and corporations who directly invest in our country’s future.
Sorry, no breaks for short sellers, US asset auctioneers, or derivative traders.
The success plan for America’s future begins with the 3 Pillars of Prosperity for America outlined below.
3 Pillars of Prosperity for America
· Make America energy independent by accelerating the development of alternative energy sources utilizing nuclear, solar, wind, geo-thermal, hydro, tidal, bio-fuels, natural gas, and fuel cell technologies. T. Boone Picken's Plan is the best, most comprehensive, plan currently developed. For details see http://push.pickensplan.com/
· Refocus our automotive and commercial vehicle industries to become world leaders in electric vehicle technologies, high mileage diesel, and natural gas.
· Bring our infrastructure up to the 21st-Century by rebuilding our crumbling bridges and highways, increasing the high speed rail footprint between major metropolitan areas as well as light rail within urban regions, and upgrading our electrical and communications grids to facilitate delivery of energy and information.
The 3 Pillars of Prosperity for America would be a national initiative providing low-interest loans, grants, and federal assistance to corporations, entrepreneurs, and organizations that make, build, develop, or buy products and services within the United States.
The job of building a prosperous America is everyone’s responsibility. It’s time for our nation’s corporations to rebuild the trust of the American people by demonstrating integrity, corporate responsibility and civic commitment. Tax credits could be issued to companies that demonstrate a tangible and measurable commitment to America by providing capital, labor, and resources to improve the communities in which they operate within the United States.
Put America to work and ensure a strong future for our nation’s children.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
World-wide Crisis
World financial markets are in turmoil. Banks around the globe continue to experience massive selloffs of their stock. The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is down nearly 40% today as I write awaiting a decision on whether or not the UK is going to infuse some much needed capital into RBS's coffers to shore up its reserves. http://www.cnbc.com/id/27062806/for/cnbc/
Based on what is going on in Europe and Asia it looks like another yo-yo plunge for investors in the US. It is hard to believe that this meltdown and the fraudulent corporate criminals and their congressional/senatorial accomplices have not received the wrath of the American populace thus far.
It's time to demand those responsible for this mess being held accountable and sent to jail, have their assets seized, and develop a plan to recompensate those they stole from. That would be a start!
Based on what is going on in Europe and Asia it looks like another yo-yo plunge for investors in the US. It is hard to believe that this meltdown and the fraudulent corporate criminals and their congressional/senatorial accomplices have not received the wrath of the American populace thus far.
It's time to demand those responsible for this mess being held accountable and sent to jail, have their assets seized, and develop a plan to recompensate those they stole from. That would be a start!
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