The sixth principle involves using our critics in a productive way. If someone who knows about space materials criticizes what we are doing with our booster rockets, bring that person into the space design effort. If someone says how we are producing cars in America won’t work and can show us why, enlist that man or woman in the effort to produce a better car. Our critics are our teachers.
If you ask me for my opinion on how to put America back to work, Mr. President-elect, this is it.
Take the billions currently being poured down the drain and design large-scale employment projects based on these six principles.
Or, if you don’t wish to go that path, use your “bully pulpit” to ask private industry to take on the challenge of these projects and invest seed-grant money in the resulting enterprises.
Forget about the way government has worked until now. Government has not worked up to now. More of the same will not work either. We have to get off this train headed for disaster and lay new track.
More ideas?
Let us have a car in mass production by this time next year (Nov. 28, 2009) that runs entirely on water. Two inventors have had working models running already. We need not be dependent on foreign oil at all. What are we waiting for?
More ideas? The technology already exists to turn a wide range of industrial and agricultural wastes into oil. “Anything into Oil” it is called. Fund it. Encourage it. Target for every city over 50,000 people having a plant that converts all their waste by November 2010. Maximize employment in spreading this technology around.
More? Aim to see that all municipal waste that can be recovered for reuse such as metals, paper, and wood will be recovered by Sept. 2009 by electrical, magnetic, or mechanical sorting processes.
Still more? Come down off the fence and embrace the excellent universal healthcare model that your neighbour Canada operates so successfully. It’s time to drop the “isms.” Universal healthcare is not socialism. It is compassion; it is smart; it is economical.
We need to wake up from the trauma of the McCarthy years and realize that there are various areas of the economy where state participation works and various areas where it does not. State participation in universal healthcare works in Canada; why can it not work here? Let’s have universal healthcare by November 28, 2009.
If you still want more ideas, ask every community to suggest to you what is unworkable and needs taking care of. Let locals be the experts.
Enlist our youth. Create brain trusts. Create a new Peace Corps, a Sufficiency Corps, a Literacy Corps, a Housing Corps. Put America back to work rebuilding America.
Invite enlightened sages to assist you, like Werner Erhard, Eckhart Tolle, and Adyashanti. Enlist the leaders of all religions.
In the process, make apologies to Muslims who were made the scapegoats for a 9/11 which was entirely an inside job and had nothing to do with them.
We have scapegoated Muslims, made them objects of suspicion, and robbed them of their self-esteem, courage, and peace of mind for seven years.
