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"The one thing we fail to talk about is those costs that you don't see on the bottom line. That is, coal makes us sick, oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world. We've got to stop using fossil fuel. We have for generations taken carbon out of the earth and put it in the atmosphere, and it's making us all sick. It's changing our world."

Harry Reid, the real-estate wiz.... print it and tape it to your sun visor.

One important factoid;
The Federal Bureau of Investigation under J E Hoover took real pride in one thing among many - the return of investment made in the bureau by the American people. In the 1950’s, they returned every dollar given to them plus 5 cents. In 1961, they returned every dollar plus 25 cents. When Hoover died, the return was every dollar plus 30 cents but when Mark Felt (that great American traitor) took over and then Patrick Gray, the congress made some changes as part of their suggestions to the bureau and there was less of a control over finances as Hoover had by the directors so it no longer return anything but ran a deficit of 30% by ’75 and by the mid 80’s ran 50% in the red.

The point is that government can do something about all these problems but someone in government has to go beyond the political worries and just do the right thing. Obama wants to tax us more to make up for the short falls in these systems and much like SS, some claim that it is this or that and they need more money but outside of the concept itself, the mechanisms to keep things going are not there and never been there and the program has to be dealt with in such a drastic manner to move forward that no one wants to even consider bringing up the subject. Many of the programs like AMTRAK are failing where at one time, there were no subsidies to mass transit, because it was privately run and they made money at it. Why is it that people are now riding AMTRAK in record numbers but they are posting record losses?