Organic My Ass

Remember those organic vegetables. Remember what goes up must come down. Unless it's grown in a greenhouse it will never be free of particles like the coal emissions coming from the smoke stack in the back. The smoke rising up in the back will make it's way to the vegetables in Michigan which will be sold in the street markets in Chicago. My point is that we need to look at the bigger picture and do what we can on micro level. We have the chance to develop the technologies that will shape the still young Century. The countries that develop the technologies that the rest of the world then adapts will be the ones that will shape and influence the coming century. That translates into your current standard of living which came about because America developed many of the technologies used around the world. Will it continue to lead going forward remains to be seen. If it does want to succeed it will not come from having all brawn and no brains. You need equal balances of both. The US will spend $515 billion dollars which does not include the war in Iraq or Afghanistan which will both become more expensive as the much of the equipment wears out earlier than anticipated due to the harsh climates. The military budget is the only one that always goes up no matter how much American lives are suffering at home. There's an old slogan "It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomb". We ask people who want to teach to get masters degrees and then say they will make half of what an MBA makes starting out. They may not create tangible products that show immediate returns instead what we get are the individuals develop the internet, computers, all that fancy technology the military loves just to mention a few. They're the technologies the rest of the world buys and the reason why everyone else invests in America buying stocks, bonds, treasury notes, real-estate and knowledge. Yes knowledge.

We are in a time when we need to look back in at ourselves to reinvent the future. It means investing in technologies that will help for lack of a better phrase cleanse our world and and that will develop the next generation that will be responsible for creating the new wealth that will sustain out social economic programs. It means investing in technologies to clean up that coal plant because there are are thousands of them in China and more coming online everyday. So there's money to be made and there's the benefit that your won't be eating it in your food nor contributing to global warming.