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=======Rooftop Solar and Waste BioChar: Safer, Cheaper, faster, clean, safe and forever.
=======3 cent per KWH Rooftop PV Solar==========
=======Detailed discussion of solar costs============
=======Comparative costs of electricity:==========
=======Waste BioChar can supply all the worlds fuel needs:===========
=======Wind can help too!===================
=======There is no Battery Problem====================
=======Nuke power is Insane====================
=======Deregulation of Credit Default Swaps crashed out economy!
=======What is money?
=======Enlightenment cannot be achieved without Disillusionment.
=======Bribe free Democracy is the only protection from Plutocracy==========
=======Rooftop Solar and Waste BioChar: Safer, Cheaper, faster, clean, safe and forever.
Overall Energy plan:
+. Massive rooftop PV 3 cent solar installations, starting with larger commercial roofs, ala Nanosolar.
in the sunniest areas first, which will free up fuels now used for air conditioning peak load.
+ Waste BioChar into fuels for the rest of the energy and fuel requirements.
+ Phase out coal plants first: this alone stops global warming.
+ Phase out nukes. Nuclear power is insane.
+ backup the solar and wind with the same natural gas generators we used to use for air conditioning peak load. NG generators are the cheapest to install, and respond quickly to load changes.
+ outlaw Fracking!
+ burn up all the large deposits of natural gas to prevent another methane extinction,
+ phase out natural gas, replacing it with green BioChar Fuel .
+ use BioOil for aircraft fuels, phase into fisher tropes diesel.
+ make efficiency upgrades constantly.
+Install distributed BioChar co-generators for 95% efficiency Heat plus Electricity
I have used AVERAGE energy output, that takes into account solar and wind variability.
The USA is about 25% of the world energy, so the world could convert for about 4 Trillion.
Or we can keep Obsessing on the Last Drop of Oil:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
The USA has 21B barrels total oil reserves
....including about 5-10B Barrels in ANWR.
The USA uses 8B Barrels per year at a cost of 700B$
The USA has only 3 years of oil total.
The world oil reserves are about 1TBbarrels
The world uses 31 Billion Barrels per year.
That's 30 years to switch to solar and wind.
We can and should use up the large easy deposits of methane to prevent another Methane Extinction, look it up.
Plug in hybrids and long haul trucks can easily be converted to use biofuels.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2088.html
This is a Back of the envelope sanity check. That's it. Now you want to argue 5-20% that's irrelevant. Even +100% is impossible to predict on any venture over a 10 years span. Is it possible to convert to solar and wind in 10 years for 1T$, I think I show that. Is it likely to cost more? Maybe. But general price trends are towards lower prices.
=======3 cent per KWH Rooftop PV Solar==========
The Cheapest electricity you can buy!
And it replaces the MOST expensive electricity you can buy.
Solar Panls prices per peak watt have dropped from 8$ per Wp to less than 2$ per peak what.
1.88 /Wp 090929 (Changes all the time, was 1.55 per peak watt 090801)
http://www.atensolar.com/EPV.
http://www.ecobusinesslinks.com/solar_panels.htm
complete grid tie systems for 3.9$/peak watt
http://www.dmsolar.com/4000w-solar-gridtie-sy.html
Installed Systems:
2$ per peak watt is the going large commercial rooftop cost per watt.
6$ is the going rate for a grid connect installed system, 5$ for a kit.
http://sunelec.com/ 2.5$ per peak watt plus grid connect inverter and installation.
http://www.newenergychoices.org/uploads/FreeingTheGrid2008_report.pdf
30years*365days per year*24hourse per day*SunFactor 6/24 equivalent peak sunlight hours = 64 KWH per Peak Watt.
Nano solar at 2$ per installed Peak watt is just 3 cents per KWH. 2$/64KWH = 3.1 cents.
FREE! http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Urban-Eco-Electric-1016776.html
16K system should be enough for most homes to generates more power than they use. 1-2KW average.
1kg of CIGS, embedded in a solar cell, produces 5 times as much electricity as 1kg of enriched Uranium, embedded in a nuclear power plant."
http://www.nanosolar.com/company/blog
Rough calculations: 500GJ Joules of energy per kg produced by uranium.
NanoSolar 1-2um thick, density 5.43 gm/cc, =5.4 grams per meter. = 4 TJ per kg.
CIGS gm/meter = 230 Global = 100Gjoules per kg
ThinFilm 2$ per watt panels us about 1 kg per meter water in their construction, and nothing after that.
Read the full environmental cycle costs for solar:
http://www.nrel.gov/pv/thin_film/docs/20theuropvscbarcelona4cv114_raugei.pdf
============Detailed discussion of solar costs============
Rooftop pv solar and Waste BioChar can replace nearly all fossil fuels use for a trillion dollars in ten years. Less then 2 years worth US oil purchases. Less then subsides for oil alone.
Http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/03/price-of-oil-hidden-oil-s_n_110606.html
far less than the cost of wars for oil.
Any power system you install will have to pay for a loan. Right now, interest rates from the FED are near zero, now is the time and historical low at the retail level. My total house payment for a 200k loan, including taxes and fees, cost my about 1500per month, so proportionally I would expect a 16k loan and home value increase in taxes, etcc, will cost about 120 per month. Before any governmnet subsidy help or exemption of solar panels from property taxes, and there ARE lots of programs to help, some will completely cover the entire cost for a system. You need to research your local situation and shop around. But Even using this raw unsubsidized loan cost, you still get 172$ of electricity per month at at the national average of 12 cents per KWH. California has peak rates over 30 cents per KWH. Electricity rates are likely to go up.
Automatic cleaning systems are already 30 cents per peak watt. 2.3$ per peak watt raises the cost per KWH to 3.6 cents per KWH.
http://earth2tech.com/2008/11/03/are-dirty-solar-panels-a-big-problem/
Do you clean your roof? That's the normal required maintenance, you may have to replace you inverter after `10-15 years, by then inverters will be cheaper than stereos. You roof should last much longer too, since it will be shielded from most of the elements. A new roof cost at least 16k$.
"Please also remember that home solar panels reduce homeowners insurance so you can save on that too!"
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:dpwYfSheNGMJ:www.solarpanelsdot.com/+home+solar+pv+insurance&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Rooftop energy production REDUCES grid load because the energy is locally absorbed.
Solar: a single 2M$ manufacturing machine can produce 20GW of 1$ per average watts solar cells per year.
http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/
Rooftop Solar decreases grid load and peak electrical power generation needs because Air conditioning is peak load for electricity.
http://i-r-squared.blogspot.com/2007/07/solar-thought-experiment.html
100M houses.
26% of home roof good for solar.
60% of commercial usable for solar.
http://www.nirs.org/alternatives/sestudy4.pdf
(at least in AZ)
Estimated Average roof area 1000 square feet.
26,000 M sq ft available for solar. On houses, assume equivalent commercial roofing.
Cheapest NanoSolar cells efficiency: 14% now going to 20 then 45.
100watts optical per foot, 10 watts electrical, .25 duty sun per day, 2.5 watts average per ft 10% eff. About 2500 watts average per rooftop for 4000$ plus installation. Going to 1000$ soon. Integrate solar into all new roofs. http://www.windsun.com/Photovolaic_Systems/Solar_maps.htm
1$ per peak solar watt, 4$ per average Solar Watt, (hopefully going to 1$ per average watt)
cells on houses and commercial building:
10% generates 266 GW = all coal electricity = about 1 T$ at todays Nanosolar price.
20% generates 533 GW = all electricity
30% generates 799 GW = all electricity even with all electric vehicles.
40% generates 1066 GW = all energy, including natural gas.
http://www.azonano.com/news.asp?newsID=5867
31%
http://www.homebuildercanada.com/1904solar.htm
65%
http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2006/12/boeing_solar_ce.html
40%
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/07/ud-led-team-set.html
42%
US energy flow chart 2002
https://eed.llnl.gov/flow/02flow.php
12.5 ExaJoules per year total electricity delivered.
Equals Average of about 496 GW = (12.5*10^18)/(3600*24*365*10^9)
vehicles use 5.6 ExaJoules =about +177 GW
Electric charge and drive eff about 75%
http://www.electroauto.com/info/pollmyth.shtml
So +236 GW needed to replace IC vehicle with Electric
============Comparative costs of electricity:==========
Cost of electricity in the USA varies from 5 cents to 16.73 cents per KWH(80 cents peak) .
http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/brochure/electricity/electricity.html
http://www.think-energy.net/electricitycosts.htm
Electricity costs 80 cents per KWH!
Peak current CA utility electricity for peak summer hot days!
"Using the time-of-day meters, PG&E customers can track their energy use each day online and opt into the utility's critical peak pricing plan. Under this plan, customers pay $0.03 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) less for electricity used during noncritical hours between June 1 and September 30. During critical hours, usually on the hottest days of the year when PG&E faces the peak demand for electric power, participating residential customers will pay a $0.60 per kWh surcharge on top of their regular rates for energy used between 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Participating business customers pay a $0.75 per kWh surcharge."
The very time the solar power peaks!
And it's going to go up, whereas your solar will not.
http://proglighting.squarespace.com/journal/2008/8/28/expect-electric-rates-to-soar-in-2009.html
rural and offshore Wind and rooftop PV solar and Biogas are already cheaper than nukes, coal, gas, oil, Geothermal, hydroelectric, and concentrating solar thermal.
Here are the prices for the latest installed generation of power systems cents per KWH:
Coal Supercritical: 10.554
Coal Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC): 11.481
Coal IGCC with Carbon Capture & Storage (IGCC with CCS): 17.317
Alternatives:
Biogas: 8.552
Wind: 8.910
Gas Combined Cycle: 9.382
Geothermal: 10.182
Hydroelectric: 10.527
Concentrating solar thermal (CSP): 12.653
Nuclear: 15.316
Biomass: 16.485
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Comparative_electrical_generation_costs
Rooftop solar cuts out an entire layer of profit taking, making Rooftop solar the best first choice for green energy.
Extrapolating the past 30 years: fuel based electricity and power will at least double in price.
=============Waste BioChar can supply all the worlds fuel needs:===========
Nearly our entire organic waste stream can be bioChar'ed to produce energy, and fuels while enhancing soils, and capturing carbon.
Woods, paper, sewage, plastics, agriwaste, rending waste, Diseased trees plants and animals. All can be converted to energy fuel and charcoal. The only limit is the waste with high levels of heave metals, should burn the Charcoal, and recover or glassily the metals. Charcoal free of heavy metals enhances soil and sequesters carbon for 100 of years.
The total energy of the land can be reused all while reducing greenhouse gases.
We Use the Land for Food, Wood, grazing 100%.
THEN we BioChar the waste
This can provide all the fuels we will ever need.
In total, the upper limit of the bio-energy potential could be over 1000 EJ per year. This is considerably more than the current global energy use of 400 EJ.
http://www.uce-uu.nl/index.php?action=1&menuId=1&type=project&id=3&
(Use low estimates since using the WASTE)
http://terrapreta.bioenergylists.org/company list of BioChar companies.
http://www.agri-therm.com/solution.html portable bio fuel oil BioChar units.
http://www.advbiorefineryinc.ca/news/ meat rending waste BioChar.
http://terrapretapot.org/
Total aircraft fuel use is tiny compared to cars and trucks.
Liquid jet fuels can be synthesized from biogas and biofuels.
The oil companies already have most of the infrastructure to refine biofuels.
===========Wind can help too!===================
20GW or about 7 nuclear power plants worth of wind power production were installed WORLDWIDE in 2007, up 31% from the previous year. at that rate, in 3 years, over 45 Nuclear power plants worth of WIND energy will be installed. Faster then even ONE nuke could be approved, much less built. 1.4 USD per installed wind average watt produced. Just 2-4 years till payback. Cheaper then nukes or coal plants per KWH.
http://www.awea.org/faq/cost.html
2006: 10GW 2006 wind power 3B USD, 40 USD/MWH
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy07osti/41435.pdf
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200703/200703190005.html
Get your own!
http://www.google.com/products?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=hNL&q=wind+turbine&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title
================There is no Battery Problem====================
rooftop solar pv and waste biochar DO NOT NEED BATTERIES, they assume grid connected.
the A123 nanophosphate batteries and other latest generation lithium Ion batteries have virtually Perfect characteristics:
2000 Watts/lb about 3 HP per lb.
Typical Lithium ion high capacity, several times NiMH.
virtually no self discharge, 2 years to 10% charge.
10,000 cycles. 200k miles for an electric car.
Non-toxic and recyclable.
Free from thermal runaway problems of 1st gen LiION.
low cost.
In production for over a year and market proven in Dewalt power tools.
http://www.a123systems.com/#/home/phev
A123 has raised 250M$
http://www.a123systems.com/#/company/
The Big car companies are all committing to large purchases of these new generation batteries from various companies.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/print/5490
A123 5WH cells are just 10$ RETAIL.
assume 5$/5WH cell wholesale. A 30Mile per charge, 10KWH battery cost 5k$. lasts 10+ years life , 800HP peak. Weighs about 300lbs. Occupies about 2 cubic feet.
http://www.electroauto.com/info/cost.shtml
Fuel cells have only a 1000 hours lifetime and 100 start/stop cycles Lithium Batteries last far longer. The power per lb for fuel cells is about 25 watts per lb, versus 2000 watts for A123 batteries. Charge time is as little as 5 minutes also.
=============Nuke power is Insane====================
Nukes: We have 85 years of Uranium: that's because only 16% of the worlds electricity comes from nukes. If we increase that to 100% then we have only 13 years of the worlds energy, then Uranium wars begin. We already import most of our uranium.
http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/News/2006/uranium_resources.html
Meanwhile we get 1 million years of deadly intractable waste.
http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/2006/january/article1.html
"The EPA's proposed solution has been to retain the dose limit of 15 mrem/yr for the first 10,000 years and establish a new limit of 350 mrem/yr for the next 990,000 years."
Nukes are not "renewable." There are no Commercial Breeder reactors. Reprocessing technology is the gateway to nuke bombs, for instance India.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
reprocessing the fuel rods is not worth it. Ask the French.
http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/vol_9/9-2/charpin.html
reprocessing is NOT breeding new fuel, it is just getting the last 5%-25% energy out of the fuel, NOT 20 times more energy reprocessing creates over 100 times as much nuke waste.
MIT "Insurmountable Risks":
http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/14-2.pdf
For more arguments against nukes:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-kirsch/climate-bill-ignores-our_b_221796.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-kirsch/add-a-gigawatt-a-day-to-k_b_261728.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-kirsch/how-does-obama-expect-to_b_236588.html
--------- Deregulation of Credit Default Swaps crashed out economy!-----------------------------
Regulated Capitalism is the best system, ever created.
Unregulated capitalism is rumors becoming panics.
Outlaw ALL DRIEVATIVES!,
Force Investor backs to Main Street.
Please read up on the Great Depression with this time line:
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/connections_n2/great_depression.html
Deregulation and Low taxes CAUSED the bubbles then the crash.
We thrived with lot of regulations and a 74-92% top income tax rate from 1934 to 1962.
Government Public Works deficit spending is what ended the Depression.
Leveraged Shorts and Credit Default Swaps(Investment Insurance,) are causing this Crash.
Without leveraged swaps and shorting, this would have been just another recession.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/141796-bookstaber-derivatives-are-the-weapon-of-choice
NOT home loans.
http://www.portfolio.com/views/columns/wall-street/2008/10/15/Credit-Derivatives-Role-in-Crash
Bankster Gamblers leveraged shorting,
Then "Insured" those leveraged bets with leveraged leases from AIG that the TARP money is going to!
We are paying off the banksters gambling losses, even as they continue to gamble.
TARP money went to Shorting Ford and other companies, Using AIG, taxpayer backed, swap insurance.
Get it?
+ Liquidate AIG and other Swaps Insurance companies and the Rating companies that rated stuff AAA
to pay the Swaps that are due,
+ invalidate all current swaps.
+ Write off all remaining swaps debt.
+ Ban All derivatives and Hedge Funds, end leverage.
+separate investment banks and regulate regulate regulate.
+Get Banks helping Main Street again.
+Put the FED under control of the Treasury where the constitution says it goes.
+Invest in Americans with Massive rooftop solar, wind, green infrastructure, education and health insurance
+Bring 90% of our troops home from wars for energy. Close most bases.
That will eliminate most of the 600T$ Swap insurance debt, while barely touching the rest of the real economy.
600T$ in Swap debts, versus total world debt of 60T$ including all home loans and total world GDP of 50T$.
90% of the stock market is Swaps, not stock.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=abQzumpYDclw&refer=home
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=afJz1FLOy1nI&refer=home
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=az_18hVLmF4w&refer=australia
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHc37dvgJRn4&refer=home
Credit Default Swap investment insurance is leveraged 100:1 or worse.
Giving money to AIG, creates MORE debt. 100+ times more debt.
Credit Default Swaps are 10 times bigger than the rest of the market. 600T$+ vs 60T$ total world market.
http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=credit+default+swaps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Total_world_wealth_vs_total_world_derivatives_1998-2007.gif
Look how CDS have completely replaced investment with gambling:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aaCZXj5ScUlo&refer=home
Credit Default Swaps became exempt from regulation with the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, which was also responsible for the Enron loophole. U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX) introduced the Act on behalf of financial industry lobbyists.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1156600
Credit Default Swaps were invented in 1997 by a team working for JPMorgan Chase[7][8][9]. They were designed to shift the risk of default to a third-party, and were therefore less punitive in terms of regulatory capital.[10]
Credit Default Swaps insurance are the worst invention ever.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9307
Here's a bill to Ban Swaps:
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/01/support-bill-banning-credit-default.html
AIG has trillions of dollars of CDS debt that is triggered by more bad loans.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/164591
George Soros on AIG Swaps and shorting.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123785310594719693.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
This allowed AIG and others to insure risky investment, mostly Shorting, without the reserve to pay up.
http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/9190.html
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/all-your-downside-are-belong-to-us/
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/credit-protection-madness/
__________Outlaw Shorting:
is like the renter betting the landlord the price he can get for the apartment will be less next month. Then proceeding to tell everyone How awful the apartment is and trashing the place.
The Market Always does better without shorts. The Stock market actually help companies that keep some stock to sell. So the prices of the stock directly helps that company raise more money.
Shorts have a bad history:
"Short selling has been a target of ire since at least the eighteenth century when England banned it outright. It was perceived as a magnifying effect in the violent downturn in the Dutch tulip market in the seventeenth century. In another well-referenced example, George Soros became notorious for "breaking the Bank of England" on Black Wednesday of 1992, when he sold short more than $10 billion worth of pounds sterling.
Jacob Little was known as The Great Bear of Wall Street who began shorting stocks in the United States in 1822.
Short sellers were blamed for the Wall Street Crash of 1929.[3]
Regulations governing short selling were implemented in the United States in 1929 and in 1940. Political fallout from the 1929 crash led Congress to enact a law banning short sellers from selling shares during a downtick; this was known as the uptick rule, and was in effect until 2007. President Herbert Hoover condemned short sellers and even J. Edgar Hoover said he would investigate short sellers for their role in prolonging the Depression. Legislation introduced in 1940 banned mutual funds from short selling (this law was lifted in 1997). A few years later, in 1949, Alfred Winslow Jones founded a fund (that was unregulated) that bought stocks while selling other stocks short, hence hedging some of the market risk, and the hedge fund was born.[4]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_(finance)#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_selling#Criticism
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=ka6&q=shorts+banned&btnG=Search
If you think a stock is going to go down, Sell it.
=============Investing in Main Street rescues the economy, the citizens AND the banks.======
If we invest in America The world will recover.
FDR used public works spending to get us out of the depression.
Just 500B$ in today's dollars.
Lets spend the 5T$ we spent on WWII
on Public works: energy independence, infrastructure, health care and schools.
2 trillion in green energy replaces nukes, nukes coal and gasoline with solar wind and electric vehicles.
5 trillion dollars is what we spent on WWII
Raise the top income tax rate to 50% like Hoover and Nixon did.
FDR regulated the banks:
http://larouchepub.com/other/2007/3409fdr_banks_33.html
FDR called them Banksters.
It WORKED!
We need good strict rules. Sarbanes is fatally flawed since it uses the black shoals which the authors of, say doesn't work.
+++++++++++++++ What is money?+++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Treasury can issue it own "greenbacks" anytime it wants and completely bypass the private banks.
We could eliminate fractional reserve banking, and instead make sure the government creates the appropriate amount of money for the expansion of the real economy.
The real economy is jobs, works, making things and services, it's never been about the banks.
Put The FED under Treasury control: Control Money, Control The World.
FDR faced an even worse situation and he solved it, till the bankers took it apart again.
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2007/3414fdr_housing.html
Lincoln bypasses the FED:
http://jimbernard.org/gpage16.html
Kucinich has the correct, simple answer to the problems:
Put the Federal Reserve under the control of the Treasury.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR2EtMteHCg
http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=109525
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=9407
Don't you know the colonist were trying to free themselves of the British Plutocratic Bankers??
"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
"Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs."
"I hope we shall crush in its birth, the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which even now challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country!"
- Thomas Jefferson
( Attributed) 3rd president of US (1743- 1826)
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war." "
Abraham Lincoln - In a letter written to William Elkin
===== Enlightenment cannot be achieved without Disillusionment.
War is good for business.
War is the USA's largest business.
The USA spend more on war than the rest of the world combined.
The USA is War Inc.
Can you imagine what would happen if we stopped all our wars, and close most of our bases?
Massive unemployment and business bankruptcies
During this recession? You want that?
War is fear is easy to sell,
Stimulus for green energy that would make most of the war unnecessary, is harder to get citizens to support. And the War Profiteers have bought our government.
So stop your whining and join Blackwater, be a real American.
Or you could send the one FDR like politicians we have:
Kucinich.
http://kucinich.us/
Imagine if all the individuals contributors money that has gone to the other "more viable" politicians, suddenly altered its course to someone who actually cares about us, and has the plans to we want: Kucinich?
=========Bribe free Democracy is the only protection from Plutocracy==========
Outlaw ALL Contributions:
Small donations by large groups of people will influence the candidates.
public finance election,
NO contribution, so no road trips to snooze various groups and crowds, just stick to the issues. Groups the make the greatest number of donations get the most favors: Bribery.
if you allow ANY "contributions" you are on a slippery slope.
It becomes about the money.
Even the poor and homeless are citizens.
Conservatism was formed to stop the Enlightenment.
"Historians use the word "conservative" to describe governments and leaders from the earliest recorded times, but it was not until the Age of Enlightenment, and the reaction to events surrounding the French Revolution of 1789, that modern conservatism rose as a distinct political attitude or train of thought. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism
This is the endgame for plutocracy's final overthrow of the Enlightenment:
Bankrupt the Serfs, then stir them up to blame Democracy and liberals so they destroy the only folks that could help them.
Only fascism can make the world totally safe from terrorism, in which case, it's the same thing anyway.
The Nation that Tortures, Goes to war for profit and oil, and has plutocracy for sale to the highest bidder
Can only bring corruption misery and death.
Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others. :
"Social Democracy"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy
Capitalistic, market oriented, socially responsible, Social safety net, Democracy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-beinhart/time-for-tax-hikes_b_156423.html?show_comment_id=19557991#comment_19557991
The Conservatives GOP's core principles of Deregulation and privatization are causing this crash.
Plutocracy is .1% taking away the rights of the other 99.9 percent.
The "new Democrats" the DLC DINO's have taken over the democratic party.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Mary_Landrieu_Principles_+_Values.htm
Vote for the Kucinich "Progressive Caucus" in the primary.
http://www.pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2008-11-02-12-24-57-campaigns.php
http://selectsmart.com/president/Kucinich.html
Cap and trade is giving the banksters the power. This idea seemed good before the crash. The largest existing Cap and Trade market recently crashed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-kessler/carbon-offsets-are-a-croc_b_289045.html
Cap and trade is the largest new bankster derivatives markets ever created.
Ban ALL derivatives and force investment to main Street.
Put a 1$ per ton tax on pollution emissions including CO, Methane Mercury, and radiation.
KISS.
The "Reagan Revolution" of deregulation and bankrupting the government lead directly to our current Crash.
Reagan and the conservatives who proved that Conservatives think government is bad,
and prove it every time we are stupid enough to elect them.
It's the same failed Hoover policy
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=can_we_have_a_new_deal_without_the_new_dealers
Bush actively aggressively prevented any re regulation:
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/25-bushs-real-problem-with-eliot-spitzer/
Let conservatism and the GOP fade away.
It has always been the philosophy
for robber barons wanting to
lie us into being their peasants.
If the conservative GOP told the truth:
Hi, we GOP are the party of the rich and powerful.
The economy must be completely deregulated for it to work right.
To all you regular people:
Wouldn't you be happier with a corporatist nation?
Just follow orders and work hard and you won't have to worry about voting and other stupid democracy stuff.
We are the rich.
We must be smarter than you.
Elect us and we will destroy the socialist governmental the democrats are building,
leaving the corporations to run everything.
These GOP want corporatism.
Deregulation to take power away from the government.
Bankrupting the US government till you can drowned it a tub, will also do.
The PR campaign changes, but the agenda never does.
Trouble for the GOP:
Every time they get close to absolute corporate power,
it all blows up in their faces.
They seem surprised every time.
The parallels of tax cutting and deregulation to the great depression are no accident.
The conservative have never stopped undoing FDR's regulations and rules.
Unregulated Markets are wildly unstable, at least since the industrial revolution.
Perhaps it's mechanization's multiplier effect.
Unregulated markets are rumors becoming Panic.
The "invisible Hand" isn't there.
Just Chaos. Depression. World War.
Industrialization and capitalism have built in exponential imbalances that, without progressive, redistributive , taxes makes the rich richer and poor poorer, faster and faster. It happened before the Depression the same way. Taxes on top income got lowered to 25% in 1925 leading to market bubbles and crashes. think of it this way: 10 times the average income has WAY MORE THAN TEN TIMES THE POWER TO MAKE MORE MONEY.
Wars are other people's money but you conservative still want to save the F22
For it's beneficial effects on the economy.
The whole desert island things is a farce. You wouldn't last a day without the social services provided by the government you malign as socialist.
A little socialism is a good thing.
Do you realize that to the world, you gop conservatives are ok with spending on war but not people? All of it taken from us with taxes. I sure didn't want to pay for the Iraq War Crime.
No government is no answer, It's corporatism or anarchy.
You conservatives obviously don't understand government since you think it can't work, and prove it every time you get elected.
Disillusionment can be painful. Your whole philosophy is failed.
Going back to sweet lies will only work for a little while.
Why did we give 200B$ to the IMF, when they are the third largest holder of gold in the world?
http://www./wiki/International_Monetary_Fund
CDS fund dictatorships and leave the unwilling people in debt when the dictator is gone.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124078772568857401.html
