State of the Union

Unless Google can hire 10 million people I'm not sure the unemployment number will ever fall below 9 percent. And rest assured that the unemployment number is not actually 9 when it says 9. It's more like 12 or 13 because the numbers don't reflect certain statistics involved.

I keep remembering the number 800,000. That's the amount of jobs that were lost in the financial sector during the meltdown of 2008. Just the Financial Sector.

At least most of those people probably have college educations so they might figure it out.

The worker bees that used to build cars, ships and furniture have a much deeper problem and unless the United States can figure out how to build new manufacturing facilities....that problem will only get worst.

The way I look at it.....Environmental or Green technology or EVIROTECH or GREENTECH might be the only way, but we seem to be letting China and Germany get the upper hand.

Why we are not building solid state lighting plants is beyond comprehension. We have accepted the reality that China will build our LEDs and that's that.....end of story.

Solar panel facilities should be popping up everywhere in the continental United States.

RENEWABLE ENERGY research could solve our problems but it would really have to be done with the cooperation of the oil companies and that's not going to happen.

What REALLY needs to happen is that Chevron and BP need to expand their business models.

AND THE UNITED STATES NEEDS TO STOP GIVING TAX BREAKS TO THOSE COMPANIES THAT CONTINUE TO EXPLORE FOR FOSSIL FUELS.

FUTURISTIC THINKING NEEDS TO BE APPLIED TO THE BUSINESS MODEL OF THE UNITED STATES.

THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE DETERMINE THE BUSINESS MODEL.

Can they look to the future before it's too late?

I have to believe its possible.

After all.....

this
is
America.

Michael Timothy McAlevey