Post Bailout Action

As I write this the it is inevitable that the financial bail out bill will soon be pass. The Senate has prettied up the thing and now it sits in the house. They will dump some more makeup on it and, though he will probably complain about the "Pork" contained to to pacify the masses, the President will sign it. Then you and I to the tune of hundreds of billions will be stuck with the bailout.

Sad thing is that for anyone one who in any way is a scholar of history knows that we have tried this before and it got us no where. In fact this appears to be a repeating cycle of greed and collapse. You can never rebuild a massive economic failure like this one by dumping cash into the the gaping, insatiable maws of the financial sector who's admitted only purpose is to maximize profits at all cost.

For these reasons, we need to redouble our efforts. We must push for the adoption of the Pickens Plan. After the economic dust settles, we have to really hammer our congress people to get on board. Right now is not the time, they are all wired on the adrenalin of real and perceived threats to the global economy. They are dealing with potential hazards to us, their careers and the flow of money into their campaign coffers. I am sorry, I know that there is a bit of cynicism in this, but It angers me when what the founding fathers intended as a deliberate process is forces into a reactionary stance. The only times for Congress to be reactionary is when we are directly attacked by a foreign power. Everything else should be deliberate. that is why the Legislative branch is divided like it is.

Now we in the Pickens Army know that we are under attack but through the subversion of cheap oil. Cheap energy, but this does not really constitute a attack. It is rather a quiet feeding of our basic needs. Economic growth and stability through cheap labor. Remember everyone, we have only the power of the sun each day, each year. This is all of the energy we can rely on. Using Oil and Coal cheat this fundamental fact of life. By using stored energy, millions of years of stored sunlight, we cheat the basic thermodynamic reality of living on a planet.

This is why Pickens is such a genius in his choice to tie the future to one of the naturally occurring energy sources. For the long term is exactly what we need. We need to tie our cart on to things that will run out but to the natural cycle of the earth and sun.

Looking to the manufacturing of new wind and solar generation is what we must push our representatives to do. Once this ill conceived bill passes and the checks start rolling out to buy up the bad debt that those geniuses in wall street and the mortgage houses have profited off of; once the flow of credit starts back up again, we must tell the Congress that we insist on green jobs. We must insist that they pass laws that encourage retooling our failing manufacturing base. Their are many factories out there that can be made to build our energy future.

So what can we do? Help find more members. If you are a networker, step up your efforts. Network and bring more to the table. If you are a nag, like me, nag. Call Congress. Insist they support bills like the New Apollo Energy Act. Tell them to start their own gang of 10, 20, 30, team up regionally to look at the resources they can bring to bear to address the local needs and the local resources for new jobs, new energy. Only through jobs are we really going to fix the economic problems and there is not a 1 fits all solution out there. We have to look at where we are and take advantage of it.

Mr. Pickens is from the wind capital of the world. Therefore it is natural for him to focus on wind as the resource for harvesting. It makes perfect sense. For the southwest, sun it the thing to harvest. Up here in the Northwest we can tap into hydro, geothermal and wave energy. Wave and wind in the Northeast. We have so many natural forms of energy and and just as many ways to exploit it. If we make our congress men and women listen to us we can push this as a big part of economic recovery.

Bailing out the top is not the solution. It is but a band aid, a temporary solution that will buy is 6 months or a year if we are lucky. That is all it has done in the past. The real solution exists with the lower and middle class. We are the engine that makes the economy grow, makes it humm. We must get the national and state legislation to help us. This will entail bringing business to bear to our future as well. We have others but the government must pave the way with incentives and legislation that will make this the best path for us to follow.

Take time, converse with your friends and your Pickens social network. Look at the region you are in and the natural resource that can be used to harvest energy from and think about how best to unite with others. Maybe the way we need to do this is just that, organize via the resource and push all of the people in power to create regional power districts. Maybe this is not the right way, I don't know. All I do know is we must force the issue. We must get a energy policy that keeps us moving in the direction of energy independence. Call your state and local reps tell them to get on board. Explain that this is a way to wash down the bitter pill they just swallowed. That addressing the man on the street, they can in our eyes redeem themselves for putting us so far into debt. For putting the children of today, and their children into debt.