Clinton, Obama and McCain: We need a NEW New Deal.

My interest in politics goes back to a time when I thought that the president had to be named FDR and the pope Pius---this election harkens back to the seismic shift in politics that gave the nation the New Deal.

There are obviously things that are different now from back then.  Notable to me is that none of the candidates have proposed making the changes that circumstance now require---the system is broken and needs to be fixed and tinkering with interest rates and tax rebates does not address the underlying problem.

This nation has abandoned its manufacturing capacity and participatory buying our way out of the problem is not going to be possible.  This is not a problem but rather an opportunity to move beyond the cancerous economic system that fakes progress in terms of using up resources, polluting the environment and hauling what is left off to the landfill.  We are not gong to be able to go to Wal-Mart to buy our solution.  We need to rely on American ingenuity and rebuild our decaying infrastructure and construct a new one that supports an improved way of life---dingdong, free-market economics is dead. 

This great nation of ours needs to match FDR’s WPA, PWA, and CCC with the building of a national energy grid and generating capacity that outdoes TVA of the New Deal.  This nation needs to go totally electric with an advanced energy grid and dispersed electrical generating system that delivers free electrical power to all Americans.

This can be achieved by the dispersed production of electricity from wind, geothermal wells, solar cell and thermal turbines, surf and hundreds of other ways not yet even dreamed of.  Such a system can be backed up by on-line fuel cells and turbines that run off of electrolytic generated hydrogen that is produced from a peak-demand-plus system.   There needs to be no concern about efficiency---daily more energy bounces around us than can only be fractionally captured.

Like the dramatic developments of World War II, we need to make this happen within a period of 4 years.  As a great people, these can be the most exciting times of our lives.  This will allow us to free ourselves from hostile international entanglements.  Go electric, totally electric.