Here is the next installment. Environment and climate change. The US EPA employs 14,000 people and has a budget of $8.5 Billion (about 0.2% of federal expenditures). State environmental agencies…
Herein are the next 3 parts of the continuing discussion. Economic inequities, poverty, and taxes. There are about 18 Million millionaires in the US and the top 1% of wealth-holders…
This post and the next few will deal with 10 of the most pressing issues facing our nation, one or a few at a time to make it more digestible.…
Simpler Tax, Balanced Budget. Can we fix our byzantine tax code and the national deficit? Many states already have balanced budget requirements, why can’t the Feds? Maybe debt is good…
As we all know, without water there is no life – on earth or beyond. Annual precipitation on the US averages 2 quadrillion gallons (30 inches/year) and we currently use…
It is said that the best government is a benevolent dictatorship. Maybe, for a while. The concept of democracy is superior but it sure has been abused, counterfeited, and wasted…
This topic was first visited in a February 15, 2019 blog. However, since the Democratic campaign has failed to offer any substance on it and given the Republicans’ stone silence,…
Go to your supermarket and read the back labels on the bottles in the cleaning product aisle. You will see a few percent of a tongue-twister word, which is the…
Two of our most important and vulnerable needs are educating our children and obtaining healing comfort when we are sick. Yet we pay our teachers and nurses a barely livable…
The Hoover Dam, completed c. 1935, a year ahead of schedule at a cost of $49 Million ($900 Million, today), along with President Eisenhower’s Interstate highway system, was American infrastructure…