Jobs, Not Loans James Bauhaus 2010

Have you ever thought that your govt is out of ideas? They keep telling us that they get paid more than any other politicians on Earth because they are the "Best and Brightest!", yet their only solution to the latest world-wide financial robberies to print more money and give it to the same crooks who perpetrated these crimes. Worse, the politicians seem to be unable to grasp the fact that people need paychecks before we can buy any more of the overpriced products that the merchants wish so desperately to sell us. Mere loans do not increase demand; jobs do. Hungry people buy food, not cable TV, and then they look for a coat and a place out of the rain.

We've been hungry, cold and wet for over a year now, and our govt employees and our public servants have still done nothing more substantive than give themselves raises and step up attacks on other countries. It is far past time for citizens to promote our own ideas as solutions. Since the simple, obvious solution is to put ourselves to work, I suggest that we apply ourselves to the many planetary emergencies that our overpopulation has caused. The easiest way to get some of the govt's newly-printed money into the most deserving buyers' hands the fastest is to hire thousands of people to clean out the flammable underbrush from our remaining forests. Every year we watch thousands of hectares go up in smoke and pay millions of dollars to a few people who try to save the buildings in populated areas. We even pay for "controlled burns" instead of combing out this valuable resource and using it for compost, fuel or fertilizer as we should. This cuts pollution, slows the arrival of global furnace, provides a healthier forest and better habitat, and it reduces future conflagrations. It saves property and lives. It puts our bloated labor force to work at preventing emergencies. As it is now, we pay "first responders" to lie around and wait for emergencies to occur. The more logical plan is to set them to work at prevention.

Another planetary emergency that needs to be addressed is our wholesale killing off of our Natural Heritage. Since mankind took over the Earth, millions of valuable species have vanished forever in the worst mass extinction in 65 million years. This disappearance of genetic diversity and wealth continues today, but now we have a cure. Every species of plant, animal and microbe that remains needs its genome sequenced and recorded for future use. Mother Nature spent billions of years perfecting the best possible chemistry for solving the problem of staying alive. We save our genetic goldmine by training thousands of laboratory technicians and building hundreds of sequencing labs. While the political gasbags prate on about their various dreams of "Manhattan Projects" for "Green Revolutions", this even greater emergency goes hungry and forgotten. Green revolutions only feed more people and cause worse overpopulation. Saving our genetic endowment will help keep our entire species from going extinct. This would also provide a sorely needed science background in citizens who may thus be stimulated to perform greater works in the future. As for the cost of the education required to operate gene sequencing processes, it is hardly more complex than learning construction or other trades.