First a little music, thanks to Old Growth for playing our little venue and rocking the old school power trio,
old gorwth myspace here
On to business.
If ever we have a time for a new deal it's now, but how bout a really new deal?
Obama and the pundits are all calling for "shovel ready" highway projects to bolster our pocket books. Great, let's see how much of the money goes to the owners and shareholders of the huge construction firms that land that beefy contracts...
Here's a strategic plan:
Now how about Obama's science team hire some really innovative thinkers like the folks at Rocky Mountain Institute or Bucky Fullers legacy The Buckminster Fuller Institute
I feel like there is so much waste in our economy from how we transport goods to how we live in and build our homes that getting out from under this "recession" will take more than a few bandaids. Someone in charge needs to look at every sector of the economy, analyse it for savings to the economy as whole and start passing laws and starting programs that will favor efficiency and building the missing pieces to the puzzle.
Banking: good luck here, I don't really understand why we still have the Federal Reserve printing our money for us? do you?! This knot is tied tight and has been played by some of the smartest...
Here's something written about the history of central banking, usury, etc. If you prefer video
watch this click on the left one, addendum.
Transport:
This one is simple. Make a new system of buildings owned by the state, funded by the feds that are rail depots. Places that trains stop and drop freight, where local/regional private delivery systems take over. Think UPS, postal service, produce and food, tools, wal mart. What ever needs to move distances greater than 100 miles can go this route. Everything fits in a shipping container and gets dropped off.
Jobs for construction and jobs for warehouse logistics. State owned = state revenues.
Make the scheme affordable by taxing long haul trucks according to the damage they impose on the Interstate and intrastate highways. That's tax per mile = revenue and real value of highways' use reflected in cost of transport options. Trains will become the affordable option(they really are more efficient) and with new depot system in place before taxes take effect no big hit to the economy. More train employees, more regional drivers = less long haul trucks on highway = safer roads that last longer, much much longer. Better for national security as well. Now this is more applicable outside of NE corridor but even there it would have some play.
Resource extraction/resource use:
Complicated regulations and very cheap grazing/mining/logging leases need to go bye-bye. The cheap leases (and lack of paying for down stream/atmospheric storage of waste) deflate the value of industrial/commercial supply chain commodities and almost ensure inefficient use of them in all applications down the supply chain. If commodities are expensive because of real cost reflected in their price, than they are not as easily wasted. This reality would drive the price of some things up at the consumer level but it will level the playing field with alternatives to those commodities.
Example; in the suburban home construction sector, the price for lumber is far below what it is really worth because of federal losses in timber sales. This drives the overall value of trees down significanlty for every producer so it's a double wammy! If we had lumber cost what it's really worth than fiber composite boards (fiberboards for sale) would take over the lumber market, creating new manufacturing jobs, new agricultural jobs(the source of fiber) mitigating cost of large forest fires in poorly manged national forests, give us the go ahead to actually fix the forest ecosystem with small diameter thinning projects along population interfaces(more jobs). This would also help west coast salmon runs, (more jobs)increase the value of reclaimed(yet to be recycled) paper, and spur the implementation of new construction methods as well.
How bout we throw in a law that mandates use of 80-100% post consumer paper in all federal, state and county paper trails to the extent the supply chain can handle it. That will drive up the price of recycled paper, which has plummeted recently, and ensure that it all gets recycled again because suddenly it will be worth something.
I know i've been barking up this tree before and here it is again. Tax carbon emissions at stationary industrial source points. Most electricity waste and un-mitigated heat loss waste will be fixed internally by source polluters because carbon tax will make this waste unacceptable in bottom line. Electricity generated with coal/natural gas will cost more than other sources and shift market dynamics in favor of true renewables. Carbon trading schemes will just help bloat trading floors with more exotic paper to buy and sell. Carbon taxes could go right into federal programs that aid emerging technologies.Read this for more opinions and
how stuff works article
here for Wiki
I have much more to spout out but will save it for another time.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
F#*k the Bailout!
In case anyone isn't seeing this for what it is, take into consideration a few of the following points:
remember the S@L bailout years ago and how wrong it appeared in retrospect...
How about the fact that our economy was quite healthy after the depression/new deal and that the lean economic times helped bring people together...
If this is such a globally catastrophic melt down why is the US putting up all the money?
Why is the US going to bailout the wealthiest and most physically unproductive sector of our society, they produce no real value in the economy (aside from driving the prices up) and are clearly ineffective as investments banks if they bought the crappy securities to begin with. If i made a bunch of bad buys in the market would I be bailed out? NO!
They say the credit market drives our economy, but the last I looked a good job drives me around.
They say that this will help the housing market and get more developers working so builders can re-hire...and build more houses so we can do this whole thing over again?...sounds like an effective strategy.
They say without this the credit market will continue to flounder, but 700 billion is enough to do the following:
pay down credit debt for middle/lower class to create space in the credit market(700 billion would give 100 million people $6,000 each) and stimulate consumer economy, provided there are jobs for people to earn
which leads me to the next option in our solution
provide small business loans, at low interest rate, to companies that can provide work for new hires and R&D
Or
Put it into infrastructure like an updated power grid and new rail depots/lines to handle freight more efficiently than trucks and highways (that our taxes pay to fix at a huge loss considering the trucks do %80 of the damage if not more.)
So i say let the banks burn and use the money to stimulate a future for our world.
If you want to help than email your representatives here.
hope you write, it's easy just put your zip code in and write a note...
Who decided we suddenly have 700 billion to spend anyway??? Last I looked our republic is in debt to T-bill holders overseas and who ever owns the federal reserve bank. Who is that anyway?
remember the S@L bailout years ago and how wrong it appeared in retrospect...
How about the fact that our economy was quite healthy after the depression/new deal and that the lean economic times helped bring people together...
If this is such a globally catastrophic melt down why is the US putting up all the money?
Why is the US going to bailout the wealthiest and most physically unproductive sector of our society, they produce no real value in the economy (aside from driving the prices up) and are clearly ineffective as investments banks if they bought the crappy securities to begin with. If i made a bunch of bad buys in the market would I be bailed out? NO!
They say the credit market drives our economy, but the last I looked a good job drives me around.
They say that this will help the housing market and get more developers working so builders can re-hire...and build more houses so we can do this whole thing over again?...sounds like an effective strategy.
They say without this the credit market will continue to flounder, but 700 billion is enough to do the following:
pay down credit debt for middle/lower class to create space in the credit market(700 billion would give 100 million people $6,000 each) and stimulate consumer economy, provided there are jobs for people to earn
which leads me to the next option in our solution
provide small business loans, at low interest rate, to companies that can provide work for new hires and R&D
Or
Put it into infrastructure like an updated power grid and new rail depots/lines to handle freight more efficiently than trucks and highways (that our taxes pay to fix at a huge loss considering the trucks do %80 of the damage if not more.)
So i say let the banks burn and use the money to stimulate a future for our world.
If you want to help than email your representatives here.
hope you write, it's easy just put your zip code in and write a note...
Who decided we suddenly have 700 billion to spend anyway??? Last I looked our republic is in debt to T-bill holders overseas and who ever owns the federal reserve bank. Who is that anyway?
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
First off, check out Teenage Bottle ROcket for some good time pop punk to accompany your reading. Great Music Awaits Thanks to Can You See the Sunset from the Southside!
You want to see if you have enough wind to make a wind generator worth while? Look here! A world map of wind patterns and average speeds. Soon to have solar data too.
Ever heard the solar skeptics try to tell you that building a solar cell uses more power than it will generate? Well take armaments with this article that debunks the skeptics.
WSJ has a keen article here that proves what I always suspected, that daylight savings time uses more electricity than regular time. A study compared Indiana counties that didn't use the change until recently as a subject.
Read an article about the recently passed Fed. House bill that would repeal most of petroleum industrys'tax breaks.Read here
Contact your senator about the bill here to let them know you want to risk higher fuel prices and less domestic petroleum jobs and production for kick starting what's known in many investment circles as the new black, I don't mean crude, though my joke here is.
The stories are hard to believe. A Utah company want s to import nuclear waste from Italy, via Tennesee, then transport it to Utah. What?! Be sure to tell your federal officials to deny this request.Read the article here.
Contact a NRC representative here, you have till march 10th.
US consumption of auto fuel went down 1.1% last month from same same month last year. largest same month drop in 16 years. Pat yourself on the back. I know I've been buying less.
Read an article that explains how coal plants have just lost tax supported loan programs here.
Good news for everyone, a little late though for the Apalacian mountain towns ruined by mountain top removal practices. How is this crap legal?
Thanks again for caring enough to read and motivated enough to do anything other than throw your hands up and your towel in. We are the people we are waiting for, get busy while you still can...
You want to see if you have enough wind to make a wind generator worth while? Look here! A world map of wind patterns and average speeds. Soon to have solar data too.
Ever heard the solar skeptics try to tell you that building a solar cell uses more power than it will generate? Well take armaments with this article that debunks the skeptics.
WSJ has a keen article here that proves what I always suspected, that daylight savings time uses more electricity than regular time. A study compared Indiana counties that didn't use the change until recently as a subject.
Read an article about the recently passed Fed. House bill that would repeal most of petroleum industrys'tax breaks.Read here
Contact your senator about the bill here to let them know you want to risk higher fuel prices and less domestic petroleum jobs and production for kick starting what's known in many investment circles as the new black, I don't mean crude, though my joke here is.
The stories are hard to believe. A Utah company want s to import nuclear waste from Italy, via Tennesee, then transport it to Utah. What?! Be sure to tell your federal officials to deny this request.Read the article here.
Contact a NRC representative here, you have till march 10th.
US consumption of auto fuel went down 1.1% last month from same same month last year. largest same month drop in 16 years. Pat yourself on the back. I know I've been buying less.
Read an article that explains how coal plants have just lost tax supported loan programs here.
Good news for everyone, a little late though for the Apalacian mountain towns ruined by mountain top removal practices. How is this crap legal?
Thanks again for caring enough to read and motivated enough to do anything other than throw your hands up and your towel in. We are the people we are waiting for, get busy while you still can...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Time for the boots
A bit about the life cycle of a blog as it travels through web space Check it check it check it out.
follow theBible Map link and scroll down to see how many times different names are used in the bible. Random but interesting...
When do we here in North America get a car that runs on compressed air? Something tells me it's not happening soon.
How about our 30% tax credit for solar power installations and manufacturing? Call your federal congressional representatives here, and demand renewal of the solar tax credit. While you're at it tell them you want to see Industrial Hemp separated from the evil marijuana so states and farmers can begin securing a larger agricultural base for our industrial economy. We import most of our consumer goods, but food, building products, plastics, and paper are still manufactured domestically an hemp is a great source material for those things...
"Comparing industrial hemp to marijuana is like comparing a Saint Bernard to a Chihuahua" Andy Kerr, Treasurer of the North American Industrial Hemp Council
Here's a link to the above mentioned council , which is the best source of information about Hemp I have found yet.
So what have you found in surprise visits to yourself? Any little nuance of behavior can be adjusted once you see it and accept it. The carnival of love awaits, just bring your heart and be prepared for anything.
follow theBible Map link and scroll down to see how many times different names are used in the bible. Random but interesting...
When do we here in North America get a car that runs on compressed air? Something tells me it's not happening soon.
How about our 30% tax credit for solar power installations and manufacturing? Call your federal congressional representatives here, and demand renewal of the solar tax credit. While you're at it tell them you want to see Industrial Hemp separated from the evil marijuana so states and farmers can begin securing a larger agricultural base for our industrial economy. We import most of our consumer goods, but food, building products, plastics, and paper are still manufactured domestically an hemp is a great source material for those things...
"Comparing industrial hemp to marijuana is like comparing a Saint Bernard to a Chihuahua" Andy Kerr, Treasurer of the North American Industrial Hemp Council
Here's a link to the above mentioned council , which is the best source of information about Hemp I have found yet.
So what have you found in surprise visits to yourself? Any little nuance of behavior can be adjusted once you see it and accept it. The carnival of love awaits, just bring your heart and be prepared for anything.
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