All
governments do make work projects. In
ancient times, the use of surpluses created more population, which then must be
employed creating, building, inventing, philosophizing.... What are our current make work projects? I view a good make work project as one that
has a chance to create something new, like the USA government funded research
into computer technology after World War II, which with the help of world
scientists has developed into our electronic communications and data storage
and manipulation systems. Wow! What a return!
Our
government has built dams, bridges and highways, that benefitted agriculture
and the growth of cities, a real boon for people and was money well spent that
generated tax income and provided a living for people. This was money well spent in the past but
much of this infrastructure needs to be maintained, rather than expanded. We need new make work projects.
I see now
that money could be used for military purposes in outer space. We need a world militia out there, not a
continuation of the hassling on Earth.
Why can't the world's military organizations contribute manpower and money
to create an early warning system for asteroids and other dangers out
there? This early warning service cannot
be religiousized or politicized or controlled by any other desire excepting
that of to save the planet from another cataclysmic hit. WE NEED TO COOPERATE.
We need a
world militia in outer space. We need to
establish world military outposts in orbit around Earth and on the Moon and on
Mars. Perhaps sensors could be located
in orbit around Venus and in strategic places around the sun. We are more naive than Aztecs waving hi to
Cortez as he landed. We need to protect
ourselves.
Maybe a lack
of cooperation among groups will force a stronger economy to shoulder the
burden of creating an early warning system, but a lack of total world
cooperation will create problems for this project. Sectarianism could cause failure of an
important survival oriented initiative.
Can we quit fighting long enough to save our world?
To
counteract abuses of tax money spending, it is necessary to make sure that the
voters retain the right to OK any debt incurrence, which would outlaw
'certificates of participation' that are nothing less than debt. Gradually, the right of the voters to retain
control over government indebtedness has been leached away here in Arizona,
where debt remains supreme. I think more
debt has to meet some stringent criteria that would include solvency as number
one. Voting to 'raise the debt limit' on
a Federal level is disgusting and a violation of the constitution. The purpose of legislation is not to skip
ahead of the law in a quasi legal runup of debt. If the voter loses control of government
debt, tyranny follows.
Here in
Arizona we have gigantic storm drains in a tiny town that has rain maybe every
five years if at all. The government
sponsored union contract cost taxpayers $35 million on a dead end project that
is not functional and that generates no income, but did give union construction
jobs for a few months. We cannot afford
this kind of spending. Here in Tucson,
city politicians orchestrated the squandering of $230 million in tax money on
expensive trips, architectural plans that were never built, and extended site
preparation where nothing stands today.
This $230 million was supposed to fund projects that would attract
people to the old town area. Instead, a
few self appointed elites skimmed off the money and now are raising parking
rates downtown to raise more money.
This is
irresponsible government and certainly irresponsible capitalism, where the
government forces taxes from the citizens and then squanders the money instead
of returning it to the people in civic improvements. It doesn't amuse me that big shots took free
trips to Italy on taxpayer expense. Now
it's time to move on, they say. Just
forget we stole and got away with $230 million for them and their friends. This is irresponsible because it causes a
distrust of government and wastes precious resources.
To avoid
decadence, we must maintain the infrastructure.
Tearing out good infrastructure to put in new is a waste of resources
and that union tactic must be avoided. Something
that is hopelessly obsolete must be replaced. Building more roads is counterproductive when
you have enough. It's time for the USA
to recognize the limits to roadbuilding, as the Europeans have ages ago.
As a nation
and as a world we need to quit squandering our resources and focus on what is
important. On 31 May 2013 at 3pm where I
live, a massive asteroid with a moon orbiting it passed by the Earth about 15
million kilometers away. Today 1 June
2013 we are in the midst of a shockwave described on spaceweather.com
"A G2-class (Kp=6) geomagnetic
storm is in progress
following the arrival of an interplanetary shock wave on May 31st. The source
of the shock is not known; it might have been a minor CME that left the sun
without drawing attention to itself."
I've been
following this asteroid which was first described as much smaller and on 30 May
2013 it was discovered to be twice as large and also had a 600 meter moon
orbiting it. This tells me that our
detection systems are primitive and that research and development must be
deployed to improve our detection systems.
We NEED to set up a defense system to prevent something like that
asteroid from hitting the Earth again. I
think this asteroid set off that shock wave and the geomagnetic storm in
progress. It's obviously a traveling
magnet.
We know so little. We are like mice crossing the Interstate Highway and we don't even know how to watch for vehicles.
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