"Zoo Animals?":
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The problem is bigger than any small or simple minded approach to it:
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The problem respects no color barrier:
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The problem respects no amount of education:
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The problem has not stolen the heart from everyone:
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We can tap dance around this issue and pretend as if it belongs to a certain "kind of American," but the fact of the matter is that our national infrastructure is severely damaged and it was damaged by people who are NOT suffering to anywhere near the same degree as those who sat under in braces.
They are not "animals." They are human beings doing what human beings do when they feel as though hope is failing them.
We can turn this around. My solution has been ignored by most for over five (5) years. The solution is to re-design the United States economic model to one based in New Energy Technologies. Notice, I did not say merely "Alternative" energy technologies - I said New.
An economy based on new energy technologies would lead to the biggest and most prolific positive economic explosion the world has ever known. It would vice grip all other existing industries on the planet and pull them up into the stratosphere of output. The United States of America would have a severe Jobs Surplus making H1B Visas as popular as driver licenses. As a nation we would run at 99.7% employment.
It is not the new energy technologies themselves that would produce all the new jobs. The vast majority of the new jobs would come from the new SME (Small to Medium Size Enterprise) infrastructure that would be necessary to support the new energy technology economy. Our manufacturing output would soar once again and the middle class would not only soar with it, but its collective income would rise to the highest levels ever seen in our nation's history. The "Poor Class" would evaporate and a new Lower Middle Class would take its place, consisting only of those who opted out of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) based economic foundations. Poverty would be eradicated in the United States once and for all.
There are all kinds of new energy technologies at various stages of R&D today, but the number of existing potential components to such an economy would be dwarfed by the number of technologies yet to be developed. We do not currently see rapid progress in such technologies because we have not yet committed ourselves to full investment into such technologies. When we do, we can expect to see dramatic increases in the concept to implementation and production timelines.
The carbon based fossil fuel supported economy is not the appropriate vision for the future. Its capacity to employ is extremely limited when compared to a new energy technology based model. That is because its capacity to spawn sub-industries in support of itself is extremely limited as compared to the new energy technology economic model.
New Energy Technology - not merely as a way so supplement the carbon based economy, but as the ultimate replacement for it.
