Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Time to Look at Depression History (Budget Cuts/Archie)

despite what Archie Bunker said, (Man, we need a man like Herbert Hoover Again...)


We need to AVOID what the Tea-Bagger's Party wants us to do RIGHT now, which is to CUT public works and cutting SPENDING.  That is what they did during Hoover's presidency.  And he screwed up the cleanup of the Stock Market crash, and really made things MUCH MUCH WORSE...

Actually Archie is (as was the comment in this clip, saying Ross Perot saying, "I TOLD YOU SO..(3X)" was right.  (the ENTIRE clip is SO amusing, but skip to 1min 47 seconds to see what I am talking about)...-(UPDATE 11-14-11)

But as Hurricane Irene this past weekend has showed us, WE NEED to fix the infrastructure in this country.\

And We need to EMPLOY As MANY people as we can for A LONG LONG TIME.

THUS, MY PLAN :

Update the transportation system created by President Dwight D. Eisenhower (the Eisenhower Highway system).

In one (VERY LONG?) paragraph:

Expand the existing Eisenhower Highway system by adding (a minimum) of 4 NEW rail tracks (2 for passenger, and two for freight, cars and trucks).  This expansion will be separate from the existing national rail network, and will be run by the state or local authority that runs the existing roads.  The long term goals of this expansion are:
  1. Allowing a tractor trailer or car (or any other vehicle) to get on the system on the East Coast and travel automatically to any point in the country.  
  2. Reducing energy consumption, gas consumption and imported energy. 
  3. A massive employment program that will work (as did the Eisenhower program) to employ workers for at least 20-30 years (long enough to have a Career, doing this). 
  4. Getting our country to be more productive, reduce costs of transportation  and to introduce a smart system to allow modern technology to supplement the 20th century version of "the car as the medium".  This particular goal will allow a driver-less method for increasing productivity (no 10 hr behind the wheel, because the train will do the work), as well as automatically planning your routing.







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