700 Billion Here, 700 Billion There, Pretty Soon You're Talking Real Money
Senator Dirksen may never have uttered the remark famously attributed to him ("A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking real money") but he is reported to have developed such a fondness for the association that he never publicly denied it.
T Boone Pickens' testimony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building about energy alternatives before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in Washington, DC on July 22, 2008 honors the memory and fighting spirits of past Senate leaders such as Dirksen, Proxmire and Scoop Jackson.
The thrust of the Pickens Plan (Push.PickensPlan.com)is to use home-grown American sources of alternative energy to reduce the U.S. dependency on foreign oil which flows from the American economy to (often hostile) foreign producers at a rate of 700 Billion dollars per year, perhaps never to return, or even worse, to return in the form of weapons aimed literally at our Armed Forces and figuratively at the heart and soul of America. 700 Billion this year, 700 Billion next year, 700 Billion the year after that! It makes the one-shot Wall Street credit crunch financial fix/bailout/buy-in look like a relatively smaller problem.
Where is the Senate leadership on this issue in the Election Year of 2008? Keep your eye on the Gang of 20, keep your aspirations high, but prepare also for disappointment. These ten Democrats and ten Republicans have at least articulated a desire to lead on Alternate Energy policy. But money talks, talk is cheap and (s)he who laughs last laughs loudest. So, while the Good Old Boys and the Good Old Girls in the Millionaires Club know as the U.S. Senate congratulate themselves on having put out the fire burning on Wall Street, remember that it's T Boone Pickens who remains lashed to the mast of Alternative Energy Policy with his hand firmly on the tiller.
700 billion here. 700 billion there. Pretty soon, you're talking real money. The www.LibertyIsGreen.com Community wants to know if any Presidential Candidate is listening?
T Boone Pickens' testimony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building about energy alternatives before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in Washington, DC on July 22, 2008 honors the memory and fighting spirits of past Senate leaders such as Dirksen, Proxmire and Scoop Jackson.
The thrust of the Pickens Plan (Push.PickensPlan.com)is to use home-grown American sources of alternative energy to reduce the U.S. dependency on foreign oil which flows from the American economy to (often hostile) foreign producers at a rate of 700 Billion dollars per year, perhaps never to return, or even worse, to return in the form of weapons aimed literally at our Armed Forces and figuratively at the heart and soul of America. 700 Billion this year, 700 Billion next year, 700 Billion the year after that! It makes the one-shot Wall Street credit crunch financial fix/bailout/buy-in look like a relatively smaller problem.
Where is the Senate leadership on this issue in the Election Year of 2008? Keep your eye on the Gang of 20, keep your aspirations high, but prepare also for disappointment. These ten Democrats and ten Republicans have at least articulated a desire to lead on Alternate Energy policy. But money talks, talk is cheap and (s)he who laughs last laughs loudest. So, while the Good Old Boys and the Good Old Girls in the Millionaires Club know as the U.S. Senate congratulate themselves on having put out the fire burning on Wall Street, remember that it's T Boone Pickens who remains lashed to the mast of Alternative Energy Policy with his hand firmly on the tiller.
700 billion here. 700 billion there. Pretty soon, you're talking real money. The www.LibertyIsGreen.com Community wants to know if any Presidential Candidate is listening?
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Comment by David Starkey on September 29, 2008 at 9:42am - 700 billion for foreign oil, 256 billion trade deficit with China, 500 billion for Iraq, 50 billion in foreign aid, 700 billion for military spending, and 700 billion to bail out a bunch of thieves in three piece suits. It really does add up. Time for the tar and feathers.
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