by the glowing carp » Mon Aug 22, 2011 2:56 am
That is the $64 trillion question, there is no one sweeping solution to this issue.
The Teapublican solution is to make wages as low as China, the Democrat's solution is to pretend it doesn't exist.
My solution:
-Education with aims to enhance what Western culture has always been good at, creative and scientific development.
-Solar power takes away a large cost of living, allowing for low transport costs and household energy costs and it stops the outward flow of oil money. The demise of the Industrial base opens the way for Solar by lowering demand for power.
-An end to the mantra of consumerism, consumerism made America great, now it is destroying America.
-An end to the mantra of growth, an unsustainable concept that inevitably leads to collapse and feeds consumerism, feeding the trade imbalance.
better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven