Contribution:

So, the politicians are asking for more money to be elected, well, we are broke; the nation is in shambles, you politicians are not governing. That means that millions of our citizens are broke just like the country is as well. Glorious, (or rather not so glorious) politicians have squandered our national money and the countries asset for self-glorification. The rulers of our land have forgotten that we have a country too to take care off. But, no they are dancing in faraway places, showing off; indulge in fancy food and drink. They are burning our citizen’s money and telling others how to manage their domestic affair even as our own country is falling apart. Such must not be reflecting “we the people” nor does such deserve the tile “USA” anymore.

Taxes collected from the factory floor worker to the ones flying the airplanes are abused to bring glory to the secret glory seeker. However, such must be used for the people from whom it was collected firstly, also not for glory seekers but for needed infrastructure in our country and thus for our people. To pay taxes is OK as long as such is used to further the wellbeing of the nation in none destructive forms with the mind off the Marshall thinking. The Roman Empire collapsed after they went in to ever increasing adventurism and so did Russia by invading foreign nations, namely Afghanistan. The warning to America is; let’s not follow such self-destruct patterns, be alert you people and protect our nation by hopefully voting for the right leadership.

I cannot go over to my neighbor’s house with a glowing frying pan and expect that they will now follow my teaching. First I must have my own house in order and then I may go to him and sow the example. But we don’t have our own house in order anymore, because we sowed weeds.

We still need to hear the candidates to propose the real solution to our domestic economy and treasury management, the ultimate energy solution and what we need to do to achieve the national security. The 4^th July declaration of independence in 1776 was declared for a reason, so why should we now again be enslaved to outside plucking? Foreign agents are now in high places advising us what we should do, so - sell our country to the tycoons over there -. Our own people are held in the dark by secrecy and dished out, also just the opposite of “we the people”.  Wrongly promoted policies by the “power drunk” politicians do not contribute to the wellbeing of our people but actually enslave the general public and diminish such from, should be co-sharing of earnings. (To find a better battery is only a tiny proportion of the answer). To find solutions needs the inclusion of all the people of the land or country to achieve the collective results – “we the people” and not the oligarch or the imperialist approach.

We are supposed to be the United States of America, but we are now torn by miss leading the country by shoddy, infiltrated governance. Therefore the title “change” is actually incomplete. A large block of the public does not have any definite idea as of what sort this change will do or look like. Example, I cannot give someone a million dollars to build me a house and expect that I will get one; I must have and see the plan, otherwise I may end up with a mere shack for the million dollars. Without the plan I cannot follow the progress and I or our countries people might just again be taken to the cleaners.

A government from “we the people” must have the expert plan, must know of what sort that is. We must openly and honestly present this general plan to the fullest extent to the public of our nation for the vote as far as man is capable. If a people vote, (say), to live with broken water mains; then, well, then that is what we need to live with. Contrary, if we decide to have sound water mains then we will build such. Yes that means work, come on folks, and make the right decision. Let’s go for this and come home, open the domestic produced spigot and there is the clean water> the diverse national infrastructure must now be addressed. We have arrived at the time where we can no longer be the international police with such huge price tags, nor be slaves again to the imperial colonialists who rule the people with pounce.

Now, for too long we have followed the doctrine of postindustrial, the so called service economy. This economic policy does not create wealth for the nation nor its people. Selling computers or selling advice for money management, although needed is an example. Their income is only an end product earning but not the needed core production income generation as we as a Nation now need again. Yes, the time is ripe for the mega change in and for our country. The owing of so much money to the outsiders of our country is self-destruct for our people in our, well – so called USA. Proper financial balancing is essential for a healthy and just managed economy! So, please USA revisit the July 4^th
Declaration of independence as a brought gift given and handed over to us by the framers of the foundation. That declaration was meant to set us free from the oligarchy, therefore “we the people”…

We need a candidate which will usher in the return to the “made in USA” production economy to allow people to earn the satisfactory wage. We, here in America need to convert the raw materials in to the finished products again. Where are our domestic high quality steelmaking productions or our national manufacturing of excellent equipment and products of diverse equipment and, where is our sorely needed alternative domestic energy production. Where are the “Civ’s” the Army Core of Engineers? Sitting in the office, “wiggling thumbs”, does not build any reservoirs, levies and other needed civil work. Answer; put our tax money where it will create physical rewards and not ash. And where is our nation, our land and our people, did this got sold for profit taking for the few? Selling our country to the oligarch, the “pre the July 4^th declaration”, to foreigners for the sake of more profits for the few is a crime. This is equal to treason toward our nation and the domestic “desire to be production” workers, those lessening the happiness for our people and destroying the land and its wellbeing there off. 

Trade must also be addressed; we must regard international trade as fair trade which delivers consideration of all of us and not as free trade which has the power of exploitation. Celebrating the 4^th has no more valid meaning if we are selling the country and it appears such is taking place. Don't call this freedom to the world while we are being enslaved here at home.

We must return to the constitutional root, “we the people” and run the country the same way as a good managed and principled family will do. Also watch out for one and one other and support which are calmly. Men are free to choose as of what king they may want to serve or be with. That is a king like “Hitler”, attacking his other people unprovoked and the other countries for sake of covet, or the king of peace with the honorable set of guidelines. The freedom granted to men should make us to choose the right king, it is up to you!

Building gas-hog vehicles is harsh on the energy sector; this petroleum energy must be used in a wiser form then - the as in the current used format. Therefore we must also re-examine our total transportation policy in the format with the “long-range” future in mind. Also think of domestic energy production, proper energy allocation and energy type. We need to electrify our country far more than we have done up to now.

We must overhaul the overall railroad sector in the national planed category of transportation to conserve overall energy consumption and protect our nation from foreign manipulations. The safety of our own country is to be regarded, that means the energy independency for our land and our people. Also upgrade our main rail corridors by straightening the lines with new tunnels, bridges and the build over or underpasses at street crossing so as not impeding train speed. Reducing train speed for the sake of street crossings can therefore no longer be tolerated since the re-acceleration will consume enormous amounts of expensive fuel, we simply can no longer afford such wasteful operations. Often such work will also reduce elevation climbs, therefore reducing energy consumption twice. The first is lesser mileage to travel and the second is to reduce the tonnage lift over given mountain passes, all this requires energy. Such new route lines will also drastically allow increases of speed and therefore reducing transit time. This will produce a gigantic petroleum saving and an economic accomplishment. The new rail lines will actually have lower mountain pass elevations than the interstate highway have.

Please note; we do have a US transport crisis at hand. Our country has not addressed the long-term fuel efficient transport program for our nation, so, now we got stuck with the sudden dilemma on how we now fix such. Can I tell you; we, our country need a domestic Manhattan project in order to fix this problem also like the Marshall planning was. We did it when we built the transcontinental railroads, then again when we built the interstate highways, and so, we can do it now again. We, as the great USA can do this rather speedily if we decide to do so, also do as recommended in HART-BEAT.    

Energy allocations must be directed toward the favorable lower energy consuming rail transport, both for national freight and passenger applications. We also must electrify our domestic rail lines and this especially so in the mountainous territories of our country. The long tunnels proposed in the new high-speed rail corridors demand the electrification because of tunnel ventilation problems. Oxygen consuming diesel locomotives cannot be used since the combustion engine will starve and die.

We must open a total new educational process for our youth so as they can then handle the upcoming proposed transit and infrastructure operation in our country. We must educate the general public for the needed change in the transit realm. Think of the combustion engine as a massive fire all over the land, please note: every fired up engine is consuming oxygen and exhausting bad gases and micro particle dust. By looking ahead with the “long-range mind” we can then achieve such progress and award the benefit to all of our nation, the environment and its people, national security included.

The cost to do such a massive national Manhattan transport infrastructure overhaul will be huge. The time requirement will be 10 to 20 years to complete this set up transportation-transit plan. The result will be that at such time, we, the USA will then be ready for the ever decreasing and the ever more expensive petroleum base stock for transport. Also run more on domestic produced multisource electricity! Petroleum will still be needed, but that is for other applications.

So let us be America with vision and a plan again as, “we the people”, were we again can build for the nation as we did when we built the transcontinental railroads, and later the interstate highways as an example. We put our domestic people to work in the foundries, in the mines, on the farms, in the distribution and transport and so on. We produced and created wealth across the national’s people at those days, and we were independent. This means the current spending of our earned money outside our own country to the extent as we do now is not comforting. The wealth creation is running in reverse and can no longer be tolerated by our US citizenry.

Sensible, sober minded governance must unselfishly elect about where the national treasure must be invested – (not wasted) -. Such is not for “glory me”, but for the wellbeing of our nation, the public and our land in which we live in. The question is, is it for bombs and unneeded foreign nation destruction, “all by it called nation building” or is it for our national infrastructure construction!

So, please present our country with a candidate who can promote master planning and be therefore a leader for our nation. Implant awareness in our people where we can feel to be Americans again and build the vision, it’s ok to go to work for such an endeavor. After all it was the production work which created true wealth and not the worthless fiat money as the speculation does, thus driving up inflation.

A presidency screaming; the economy, the economy, - but the question is – what economy! A presidency encouraging the public to buy consumer goods by means of the credit card to jumpstart the economy is equal to robbing the people. Our money is being sent overseas and we receive junk for that.

The utterance should have been; we, the country, will borrow money for the energy efficient 21^st century infrastructure construction! Also – new, energy efficient rail-transportation lines, - waterworks like reservoirs, canals or ductwork for cross continental freshwater transit and new levees in diverse places.

“Dwellers off earlier times in the Americas did build waterways and canals for irrigation of the dry land. They understood the need for such work, they had leadership, they knew from where they came from and they had the sense of community”! The speculators however have lost such knowledge; the only thing left is - the Me.

The new levees must be built and set back; that is the levees are up to one mile or more inland from the river channel depending on the natural gradient off the area. This set back will allow floodwater to flow and spread in a broader area and therefore reduce the rise of the overall flood stage. Although the final runoff time for the floodwater will be prolonged, but this extra time will also restock many groundwater aquifers, since the water has time to penetrate the soil. Sediments in the water during such a flood will settle out and produce humus rich topsoil’s in those regions rather than flow downstream and be wasted. Many nutrients from upland are then recovered and therefore lesser pollute the Gulf of Mexico’s water. Conservation of topsoil is a must; every ft³ off topsoil saved is the money’s worth. This, now only agricultural land “between levee and river channel” can however still be used for agriculture during normal times, but no more for any sort of residential or commercial construction. We cannot afford to rebuild floodwater damaged homes and the like over and again in the same old floodplain place.

The result, such money will then create good paying jobs and produce a valuable product; that is modern, effective infrastructure. W-We had the production economy when we elected to build the transcontinental railroad and then again when we built the interstate highway. The US population must hear a functioning visionary proposal to revert the national thinking toward prosperity for everyone again.

Otherwise, should the country decide to go total “private”; then we don’t even need a government any more, the foreign oligarchs will dictate. This will then reflect a henhouse with a fox around, and well-fed, grinning foxes in the den we surely got as of now; forgot about the eggs, the bridge, the…! The foundation of the nation will go kaput; the other side will win…!

Perhaps we may find national unification again, where we do what is good. Live and carry out our lives in a disciplined manner accordingly to the given domination for men, meaning to be considerate of the laws of the creator. Consider our fellow citizen and the land, not for the sake off, what can I get out of it, but what can I contribute for the better of all. Change the attitude to; lets nothing be wasted is a must for our arrived time. After all it is our country, our land which needs the contribution. 

Presidential leadership:

In the seventies oil crisis; nothing happened, no planning for the future was tried.

Elected president Regan said; good morning America, what did that morning bring for our land? The beginning of sending home the production worker people started, including air controllers!

Elected president Bush announced; put more air in the tires, as if our people are idiots and run on flats. This reflects helplessness on behave of the, supposed to be, leader; however help may be available among the public if an ear will be provided.

Elected president Clinton achieved a treasury surplus; that money was not used to start national infrastructure construction and put people to work.

Appointed by court president Bush promoted to build more SUV’s which are now ready for the trash heap because of fuel costs. But there is still no infrastructure upgrade in the planning. He says; that is too expensive, but to become slaves to the oilers is not. It is time that we go back to listening to the root proclamation of the creator, then to the people of the land and next choose the best plan, also not the Me. 

Fuel Consumption Mode

Consider the number comparison of the Modal Freight Transport.

See the sample of the benefit between, Barge, Train and Truck.

Barges can move a ton of cargo 576 miles with a single gallon of fuel, while trains get 413 and trucks 155 "ton-miles per gallon."

Or fuel need per Gross Tone Miles (GTM) – (varies because of terrain and weather) – shown are upper limits!

Barge = 1.9 gallon per 1000 GTM.

Train  = 2.5 gallon per 1000 GTM.

Truck  = 7.1 gallon per 1000 GTM.

Rudy    www.lightrail-hartbeat.com 

See: pptx for the, as of now proposed high-speed rail lines

06/25/2008