The ECONOMY
The President contrary to what most people think can not control the economy all he can do is appoint good people that he believes can help formalate good economic plans. These plans can only be implemented with the advice and consent of congress.
What all this means is that the president and congress must come to a compromise on how best to help the economy, but when they cannot come to an agreement on how to best help the economy then the economy will go which ever way the speculaters send it and who are these sepeculators they are the people that buy stocks, commodities, real estate and ecetera. Then there are the people that control the money they have to believe in the presidents plan or congress's plan or the compromise plan or it will be hard for any plan to work. We should require that our leaders not just seek advice from economist that share thier own views but at least 100 of the top economist from around the whole country, when I say our leaders I mean both the President and all of our Congress.
When all these forces come together in the right way the economy will run like a well tuned engine in a car, but when they all disagree on what will work best then the economy will be in disarray and everyone will suffer.
There is another force at work on our economy but it is an outside force that is made up of all the players I have mentioned above but they work for their own countries economies.
What am I talking about well let us consider the oil situation that we are in now how did it happen? Well I am no expert but the following is what I have been watching over the last 50 years or so:
1. The middle east has been in turmoil since Israel was resurrected with very little effect on our oil supplies and prices until the 1970's.
2. The rise of the Communist Chinese's Economy since President Nixion normalized relations with them, and their exponetial increase in oil consumtion of oil especially over the last 15 years.
3. The decrease in oil production in the U. S. cause by two main factors.
A. The aging of the present oil fields in the United States.
B. Restrictions on oil exploration in alot of this countries offshore regions and on certain federally protected lands.
4. The President's and Congress's inability, both Democratic and Republican, to understand what the consequence's would be of their actions or inactions on the
future.
A. The U. S. Congress in the 1960's took and did away with the last of the governmental regulations on the oil companies in the United States.
B. The building of the Interstate Road System in this country.
C. The demand for oil in the U. S. had grown dramatically since the end of World War II.
D. The President's and Congress's inability to enact a comphensive energy program that would ensure that the U. S. would be energy independent.
So you see no matter what any one person may promise it take team work to get anything done and done wright. We must endavor though to look to the future and try to divine what our actions or inactions will cause, but always understanding that no one can actually predict the future just sumise what it may be and that no one person and no one plan is perfect.
Who then can make the greatest effect on our economy? Why there is only one and that is you. You must put 20% of your income in savings and spend the rest wisely and expect no one to bail you out of bad management because that will just put them in the same fix as you. Only you can help yourself, only you determine how well the economy is.
LET US DESIGN NEW ENERGY POLICIES TOGETHER
The only way that America is going to become energy self sufficient again is if we set about to have several different modes of energy so that at no time can any other country (country's) or company (companies) can tell us as Americans what to do by holding our source of energy hostage. The following is what I propose as a basis for a New Energy Policy for our country:
1) We change all of our transportation vehicles to hydrogen within ten years, like our neighbors to the north in British Columbia and the Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway Partnership (SHHP).
2) We invest in a magrail system between our major cities both intrastate and interstate, the technology has already been used in china and right here in the US on a model basis in Walt Disney's Epicot Center, I believe that it can also be adapted to carry cargo.
3) We invest in nuclear fission and more nuclear power plants.
4) We allow oil companies to drill offshore and in any known area that has oil with appropriate environmental safe guards.
To implement all of these proposals we need congress to write an appropriations for a ten year period in the amount of 300 billion dollars a year.
Our energy policy must be both comprehensive and immediate to really be effective and our politicians have to understand that all this bickering over whose fault our current crisis is and inaction on it is nothing but incompetence.