McCain drives me Insane asked:
The 700 Billion, we are going to spend on Wall street gamblers, We could have invested in 350,000 wind turbines, More then enough to provide electricity for the whole country. Cheap, Clean, Safe American energy, and good jobs.
The 700 Billion, we are going to spend on Wall street gamblers, We could have invested in 350,000 wind turbines, More then enough to provide electricity for the whole country. Cheap, Clean, Safe American energy, and good jobs.
So what would do more to get the country going, A big public works project like that, or for Wall Streets Greed?
Tags: Electricity | Gamblers | Greed | Jobs
July 24th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
get the wind going..
July 25th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
How would you pay or employ the contractors if there are no banks, and your currency is worth nothing and inflated?
Thumbs down ain’t an answer.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:58 am
This country is f*cked.
July 29th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Yeah, but the environazis would be whining that a few birds died when said stupid bird flies into one of those blades
July 30th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Put them down-wind of DC and you would only need a 100,000 or so.
August 1st, 2008 at 10:33 am
You hit the Energy Independence nail right on the head! The money would be much better spent building nuclear power plants, wind farms, solar farms– and eliminating the 700 billion we send out of the country every year to buy oil………………. and of course DRILLING wherever the oil reserves are — on shore or off shore.
August 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 am
why don’t tax payers make these wall street clowns of $$$$ works it off on new ‘WIND FARMS”
August 5th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
I’m reminded of the Churchill quote, regarding the Pre World War 1, arms race between Great Brittan and Imperial Germany.
Churchill (then the Lord Admiral of the Navy), commented that in his arguments with the Exchequer of the British Treasury, that The Admiralty had argued that it was essential we have six Dreadnaughts (expensive battleships), The Exchequer of the Treasury argued that we could not afford more than four….We compromised on eight, and thus out-gunned the Germans by only one ship, and prevented a loss of our control at sea.
In the matter of our fiscal response to the melt-down. Here again, eventually, the United States will have true energy independence. But like our original colonial independence, there are forces arrayed against us.
1. Conservatism of thought – that sees oil and gas as both good and of benefit, but they fail to see that rapid adoption of new technologies and preferential treatment for “anything but oil/gas” is what is REALLY in the national interest. While it is most obviously the case that the Republicans are incapable of leading on the issue, it’s not unfair to say that oil companies have their ability to control Democratic politicians as well.
2. Powerful interests, both the Israeli Lobby and the Sheiks of the various Emirates comprise a strange pair of bedfellows. What would become of both of these parties, if the United States could basically just ignore whatever was happening 8000 miles away.
What if our interest in Palestinian and Israeli conflicts garnered as much support in Washington as the Timor/Indonesia, Burmese, Aceh/Indonesia, Eritrean/Ethiopian conflict, or the Kashmir/Jammu issue in India/Pakistan, at least as many – in fact many more people are threatened by each one of those situations but very few of our politicians could even name these conflicts – unprompted let alone spend hundreds of billions of dollars over the years in related “support initiatives”.
So there is a great reckoning in the real-estate related bogus credit-default-swap situation, but otherwise, it provides an object lesson that our current economic “free-market” is ill-suited to address matters, and that our nation is perilously financially strapped.
At the end of the day, we will have to pay for both – the bailout as well as the turbines.