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10-28-2008 12:34 AM
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masbury says:
Pave the entire US interstate highway system with gold leaf, for instance
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10-28-2008 10:21 AM
tabsey
Retraining all those workers would cost nothing as improved production would repay many times over. No govt would ever make education a priority, so forget the teachers; there are enough cops to protect the rich, so forget that. Outcome - a giant slush fund to pay out the CEO's when the next crash happens.
11-2-2008 11:14 AM
citizenbfk
$3 Trillion dollars?

I'd go for building and research and development of alternative and renewable energy resouces.

Wars are most often fought for real resources, like land, gold, oil -- not just because you don't like the thinking or religion of people who live 12,000 miles away.

Every buck spent for energy independance and energy sources we don't have to fight over -- is money that not only gives us power but takes away one of the prime reasons for war.

Of course, it also seems we have to keep going with the oil until new ideas are real-world ready....and using coal better (we got a 100 year supply of coal, plus -- like England).

Maybe even too, start a nuclear plant or two. Oppositi...
11-9-2008 11:22 AM
Maxwell_Smart
How about promoting the Venus Project and rid the world of monetization and replace it with a resource based system. Utopian, I know, but I'm desperate. Anything, but all this evil and oppression. I don't like where we are headed and how fast we are headed there.

Gonna change my way of thinking,

Make myself a different set of rules.
Gonna change my way of thinking,
Make myself a different set of rules.
Gonna put my good foot forward,
And stop being influenced by fools.

So much oppression,
Can't keep track of it no more...
~ Bob Dylan

“That which we cannot imagine, we cannot achieve.”

The greatest deterrent to the recovery of our liberty is our inability to dream and the loss of imagi...
11-9-2008 4:45 PM
masbury
I think that's so true that it's even true negatively. Believe it was Howard Zinn or Kurt Vonnegut who said that war was a failure of the imagination - partly because we refused to imagine the suffering injected into people's lives by our nation's efforts.

It may be that the right is better at it, historically, than the left. The imagination of the Iraq war - and the war on terrorism generally - has been the seeded imagination of "what they're trying to do to us" - rather than the imagination of "what could we really do to heal this situation."
11-14-2008 3:12 PM
citizenbfk
The suffering injected into other peoples lives?

I think the final total was over 5 or 6 million Vietnamese, Cambodian and folks from Laos killing by the U.S. military.

And we have our 58,000 thousand names or on the Vietnam Memorial.

In Iraq? --It has to be hundreds of thousands. The U.S.A now has a kill-ration of 40 or 50 to one. That would be about 200,000 - and other sources, like info from morgues and a few internation studies where they asks families who are they missing, etc. -- would put it at least 200,000 Iraqi killed by the USA.

Heard that number before?

No..we get no info on that in mainstream media.

On the point of making imagination become reality...well a lot of us -- re...
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