#20 — My solution would have been tax cuts and a reduction in all government spending. That would have restored confidence and stimulated the economy.
I’d have taken $500 billion and directed that the USA build 750-1000 GW worth of nuclear power plants — yesterday.
We have an energy problem. Energy = prosperity. Solve the energy problem and you solve most things.
You don’t get to prosperity merely by cutting taxes any more than you get there by taxing your way there. Investment also creates jobs, once that don’t export.
Once the plants are built and operating, THEN cut taxes and let it rip. Or rather than cut taxes, direct that energy is delivered pretty much at cost + maintenance. $50 for your electric bill vs $200 has the same effect as a tax cut.
I reckon that I’d also stop all subsidies to wind and solar power and use that to jolt NASA; they would be directed to solve how to get cheap access to space. Why? Solve that and you get spaceborne solar as energy supply. That’s a lot of jobs. Good paying US jobs. Not stuff that gets sent to Thailand.
I’d probably also invest another big chunk into DOE and direct them to build smaller reactor systems suitable for civilian shipping. We know how to do this. The Navy doesn’t seem to have problems. More jobs.
The great republican tradition is **not** reduced spending. Never has been. Everything from interstates to the computers you’re using to whine about government was SMART spending or even a bit of an increase.
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On the other hand, this is a conservative site, one that takes pride in specialising in “no”, promoting conspiracy theory sideshows, and fostering a “conservative” belief system that demands the aforementiond mythical small government abutted to a social agenda that would make Stalin blush. Apparently a great number of you seem to have a morbid fascination with whether or not gays marry or Mary Rottencrotch down the road has an abortion: the very fabric of life as we know it will certainly be torn asunder.
And… oh, never mind. (Hey… is that a pod by my bed? Yawn.)
[wakes up] I. Am. One. Of. You. Now.
Lower taxes! Smaller government! I have a funny name for Obama!
Lower taxes! Smaller government! I have a funny name for Obama!
Lower taxes! Smaller government! I have a funny name for Obama!
