OooohKay, people posting advertisements aside, I think it is a great idea for may different reasons. It will help promote science deveopment again, build the necessary pool of experienced scientists and engineers as well as probably solving some of our energy crisis. I just have a hard time thinking it will happen.
The reason why I don't think it will happen is simple. The biggest problem we have in Washington today is special interests and lobbyists who will fight it every step of the way. They are a problem not faced at any other time in our history and are a major impediment to any progress we may attempt. It's not in their best special interests to let us do so. Since they are the ones paying our polititions for their campaigns we end up in the same old situation of saying one thing to us to get elected and then doing something else to appease the people investing in their campaigns, people who expect a return for their investment.
Until we make very sure our govenrment is working for us, the people, instead of corporations it will be very difficult if not impossible to make anything happen. You can legalize corruption all you want, it's still corruption. These lobbyists and special interests are at the root of almost all our gridlock and partisonship and need to be thrown out of Washington, possible with the Clean Elections system. Otherwise, all the best ideas in the world will go nowhere.









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