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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (24659)	11/23/2009 6:04:12 PM
From: The Ox	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71475

you can't cut emissions when your plan is to double the economy in just over 20 years. Not true. What needs to happen, over time, is for money to be employed in new areas, instead of where we are spending it today. Simply for discussion, we need to take 1/3 of our current spending on things like traditional energy usage, defense spending, drug use (after the fact), etc... and use it toward new areas of need. One of many areas to be tackled would be prevention of future health care problems. We could create an enormous amount of jobs which would not require increased energy use. The amount of supervision, education and refocusing of efforts would be a massive undertaking. A perfect example is that the traditional grade school has one 'nurse', who's responsibility covers hundreds of children. Maybe the school has a dietician but probably not. With obesity and type II diabetes issues soaring within our society, why not do more at an early age? This is only one long term issue that can be dealt with given the proper desire. There are plenty of other areas of 'the economy' which need attention that are simply not getting it. All too often, we tackle problems in the USA backwards. Wait for the problems to surface (often after festering for years or decades) only then do we try to deal with them. Some of these changes will not happen easily in the sound bite only, attention deficit, instant gratification society of today. However, the sooner we recognize these areas, the better off everyone will be in the long run! jmo TO