Reality Check

Open pen, insert foot into mouth. In other words, what I wrote earlier about a Works Progress, fix the infrastructure using only US made products, US made tools, US made equipment, US made materials, and so on, won't work.

The reason?

Our economy has, as so many know, been outsourced to the point of making the word industry, as connected to the US, an oxymoron. Industriousness however still works in the "I want to work hard to earn money and make the place around me better--USA", still works, even if the workers here are not working.

I'm big enough to admit I was wrong.

Not completely wrong, but wrong I was.

So, let's revive the economy this way. Using as much of our native products as possible, let's fix that drainage system, those roads, the falling down bridges, the ready to fall down bridges, the schools, the parks, the harbors, the buildings, the whatever needs fixing. That means US made concrete, US workers, and to the extent possible, let's start rebuilding US industry. And roads.

Rather than just helping out the paper fortune makers, like the bankers, let's TARP the industry of the nation, using the industriousness of the nation, to make that which needs shoring up, repair, and so on, better.

Our roads were put in 50 years ago in the interstate system, and those roads need serious rebuilding. Dams are bursting, like in Iowa, and need repair. Of course the burst dam will need replacement. But did that bursting have to happen?

No, it certainly did not. That dam should have been repaired long ago. And if we can TARP the bankers, we can rebuild the assets of our infrastructure just as well, which would put thousands and thousands of people to work. Free the infrastructure from demolition due to ignoring the need for repair as we have done for decades, and fix it now.

Sure, plumbing for rainfall control is not as sexy as that new shopping center, but who wants to buy anything from a shopping center that has been flooded with raw sewage because the drainage system collapsed due to age and lack of repair?

Let's do it. Write your congressman/woman. Do it now. Insist on a plan to be implemented ASAP to prevent the neglect from getting worse. Let's prevent damage due to small rainfalls collecting and overwhelming a dam that should never have collapsed. Our hearts are with you Iowans, but we also need you all to stand with our campaign to put America back to work repairing that which cannot be outsourced, which is our infrastructure.

America the beautiful will be more secure for it. Secure from flood and resulting disaster. Let's do it now. Tomorrow will be too late for some, as the collapsed dam in Iowa shows, as the falling I35 bridge showed a few years ago. Now. Put Americans first. And let's repair the foundations so that America can rebuild it's economy, its industry, its cities and rural areas. Where there has been neglect, let's put America to work.

It could just be the asset protection that will grow assets further and faster than any bank bailout ever could. It will also help relieve those frightening unemployment numbers with a solid return on investment.