Hello Bob,
On Mon 2012-Feb-27 09:06, BOB BREED (1:123/140) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:
RW> IMho it's a stupid thing to even campaign about, or discuss. It's
RW> economics. But, we stand there and beat our breast if
RW> we're a pol and say what we're gonna do to give us cheaper
RW> gas.
BB> It's a hot button thing right now, and of course anyone who promises
BB> a fix will catch the public eye. The fact that the 'fix' is beyond
BB> him is quickly gnored.
Beyond that there's the art of misdirection, every magic act since the
beginning of civilization uses it. Draw the eye
somewhere else. Shine the light where they see something
else and don't see the cables and harness attached to the
"flying girl." That's why they do it. They know that
economics are waht they are, and there's no politician can
fix such a thing, but they go on with all this pure bs
anyway.
RW> INstead imho we need to be talking about alternative energy, rebuilding
RW> the infrastructure and sustainable economy across the board. The rest
RW> of it is just bs. But, these folks
RW> don't have any plan of addressing those issues because the
RW> huge multinational corporations don't want them addressed.
BB> Alternate energy also has some costs. CA, being a sunny state, and
BB> San Diego being a sunny town you'd think we'd have a lot of solar
BB> panels - hell on every roof top if the green folks had their say -
BB> yet we don't. (However SD leads the state in solar rooftops on
BB> residences.)
BB> Why not more you ask? Haa, SDG&E has decided these folks aren't
BB> paying their share of maintaining the infrastructure needed to
BB> provide power at night. Simple answer, tack on a fee for those
BB> having solar panels - price right now isn't all that bad, about 25 a
BB> month if they get it passed, but that's just a start.
Just my point. It all has some costs associated with it.
I've been following off and on the arguments re your
passenger rail infrastructure out there and the various high speed rail
proposals. All this blather from both major
parties, and it's all just that. i'm becoming old and
grouchy, and coming to the point where I have no faith in
any of them to do anything which will help average American
folks.
I was thinking about this yesterday when I look at the town
where I grew up. A manufacturing and transportation hub in
the midwest. Railroad maintenance facilities and the
supporting jobs that went with them. At one time that place was the "TV
antenna capital of the world" with Winegard and
other rooftop antenna manufacturers. ONe company built
Radio Shack's offerings in that field.
Winegard went into dishes then as well, receive preamps, all sorts of stuff.
The railroad engine shops had their support industries, the
ordnance plant made the bombs and land mines for VN and way
back. Sylvania had a vacuum tube factory, there was a
resistor factory there. Champion made sparkplugs for your
car, all in that city.
Good jobs with benefits have been replaced by Walmart, a
casino, restaurants, no benefits, no longevity one can
depend on, little more than minimum wage. The feds built
'em a new bridge across the MIssissippi river a quarter of a century back or
so, for trucks that don't roll in adn out of Burlington near like they used to.
You can understand animals that eat their young, but this is a society which
has defecated all over its young. Just
beautiful!
BB> Now you hear the roars of the folks who tried to price out the cost
BB> of the system -- that fee wasn't part of the plan, in fact in many
BB> cases you just can't get the cost back now.
BB> And so it goes...
Yep, so we'll burn more gas and coal, and compete with
others that need the same gas and coal. Manufacturing is
too dirty, too dangerous, let's send it all to third world
countries where the people are desperate. YEp, just waht we need. Young
people without a viable sustainable future, but then with their perpetual adhd
and their ritalin addled
brains they won't know the difference anyway.
BB> I hear stories about how we really don't have to compete with that,
BB> having vast amounts of oil on our own land, but then why are we
BB> doing it?
RW> We don't anyway, better mass transit, alternative energy
RW> sources and the like. We're selling some of ours to europe
RW> and importing it from people who hate us. .
BB> Above my pay grade...
RW> YEah I know, but you'll get sold the same bs bill of good
RW> whether you vote for Obama or the other guy anyway. I found it amazing
RW> the sheeple bought in so readily the first time.
BB> Simple answer here, I just stopped listening to all of them. :)
BB> Yeah, I'm failing my civic duty because 'every vote counts." Haa,
BB> I say Haa! Man talk about a line of bs, put that one at the top!
YEah I know, and it just gets worse. I go pull mylever or
mark my ballot, and it gets tossed anyway if i didn't vote
for one of the majors. I'll occasionally get my choice as a senator or
congress critter, but the whole system has become morally and ethically
bankrupt. AS I said, a society that
is hellbent on defecating on its young. A whole generation
of "to hell with you i got mine." Great place my grandson
gets to live in. Yet we tell him his vote counts, he's
supposed to be a good little citizen adn do what he's told.
The trouble is, this baby boomer believed all the hype and
bought in. I figure at least I got lucky and was raised
during its glory days when, as the song says "the future's
so bright I gotta wear shades." That was before some greedy old rich men
decided they had theirs and the future didn't
matter. Bring back King Ronnie the first!!!
Regards,
Richard
... 10% of everything isn't crap, watch closely or you'll miss it!
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