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In reply to the discussion: Sitting in a restaurant today I realized how much trouble we are in for [View all]The Wizard
(12,545 posts)we have to make things the market will buy. Solar panels, wind mills, any form of renewable energy and high speed rail might be a good start. Refined gasoline and war are currently our biggest exports.That will have to change.
Imagine traveling coast to coast by rail without having a government agent do a full body cavity search or getting finger printed or DNA checked just to use public transportation.
We could manufacture electric cars and have battery exchanges across the country. There are several ways to restore the middle class. Reducing the vast majority to low income labor isn't a good model for success.
We have to eliminate the next quarter bottom line profits as the primary business objective. We use to ridicule the communist bloc for having five and ten year plans. We now use the three month plan with no long range thought. And that is why we're failing.
The gap between the 1% and the rest of us is widening, creating a caste system that has always been an example of what we rejected in the past.