It seems to me that this country’s ills are presented to the public as a large mess of insolvable problems caused by ill-defined, foggy events. In truth, I believe they are all caused by a few incredibly bad decisions made by a narrow group of people at the topic the interests of money — in other words, due to corruption. The problems:
• Wars overseas over oil and to make billions of dollars in the defense industries.
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• Las Vegas gambling, called speculation, in the stock markets using new technology called hedge funds to get around laws enacted during the Great Depression.
• Massive unfair trade to increase profits for multinational corporations via cheap labor, manipulated currency, state-supported industries, no environmental laws that work, no labor unions, etc.
• No real energy policy.
• Car and medical monopolies, both becoming non-functional.
The above are so interconnected that a few things would solve all of them.
• The price of a bailout of its car monopoly should be the production of a few small, cheap, lightweight electric cars that plug in at home and charges off the grid in the middle of the night when it is unused. A clean-coal act should be enacted at the same time.
• The banking and stock market meltdown should be ended with a forced re-negotiation of mortgages to reasonable interest and payments, with a rent option for those who cannot continue with their mortgage. Forget bailing out the same crooks who caused the problem. Fix “housing” and the car industry and do something about energy and the recession will end.
• The energy problem will be fixed with a switch to domestic services. If we don’t need Mideast oil, we won’t need to fight wars in and occupy the Mideast and our troops can then come home. In addition to the first point, clean energy and natural gas can gradually replace coal.
• Unfair trade should be ended with tariffs. The “free trade” like exposed for what it is, and the many monopolies here broken up, especially the medical one
This alone is not complicated, is definitely doable and would largely stop global warming, at least from this country.
It should all be pushed through Congress in the first 100 days, otherwise forget it. It won’t happen later. The “honeymoon” is always short.
Jerry F. Edwards
Whetstone
