Development of natural resources is at a standstill and all the other industries have been out sourced so just where does everyone think economic growth is going to come from.
Sure we have a GDP of $13.7 billion but it will soon be known as the gross domestic service because we don’t make products anymore.
Americas strength lies in its natural and technical resources. The only way to overcome a global warming crisis or to increase our per capita income is with technological progress.
So unless you want to live in a tent; I say pump that oil and mine those minerals, produce that energy, farm that land, graze those cattle and ‘be of service’ from sea to shinning sea.
[Moderating] focusonz, I’m getting the sense you plan to fire off a whole bunch of these. This is a message board, not a blog. (Check the rules.) Please don’t clog up the first page of the Pit with a stream of one-off threads. Either post on one topic at a time, or combine your multitude of complaints into one thread. If you keep doing this I’ll either lock or combine them.
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What global warming crisis? If the trend continues, I’ll get the warm, snow-free winters I love and my home becomes beach-front property. It’s win-win!
We have squandered our savings in the dot com bubble, and went to sleep at the wheel concerning the terrorist threat, and the equity in our homes has now evaporated and we have millions of illegal immigrant freeloaders, and we have a $12 trillion national debt.
Where is the efficiency in that!
The only way back is the way we came, ruthless efficiency in developing our natural resources.
Jokes aside, I don’t see the connection between any of those things. The development of natural resources, which I’m all for, doesn’t have anything to do with the doc com bubble or the subprime/financial crunch, or with illegal immigrants. Could you connect the dots?
We have squandered our intellectual capital! We failed to watch Cop Rock when we had the chance, and our toy stores are full of Ouija boards and Leapfrog machines, and the lawn furniture in our back yards is made of Chinese plastic instead of good old American iron. I am vibrating with peanut allergies, and if you can’t sing karaoke, at least you can hit a golf ball with a frozen lunchmeat Jesus. Work smarter not harder! Dilute! Dilute! OK!