Volume III, Issue II
We Can Make Our Own Energy and Future
It is a well known fact that Steve Jobs started Apple Computer building personal computers in his garage. We live in a country that produced Edison, Morse, the Wright Brothers and many more great innovators. Lately we've seen government get in the way of that.
Virginia was ready to create scores of jobs exploring for offshore oil when the President closed down the industry by executive order. China is drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, we're not. Virginia's offshore resources are off limits [for now]. That must change. We do nothing to save the environment by stepping out of the game. Other players with fewer scruples will fill the gap.
Our corporate tax rate is too high. If we bring it in line with the lower rates of other countries we can make a lot of our own goods again. If we lift the drilling ban we can push ahead to energy independence. It should be both an economic and national security priority. By crippling industry with regulation and taxation while borrowing huge sums to sustain our system, we are the equivilent of someone who voluntarily cuts back on their hours at work while maxing out their credit card -- it is an unsustainable and dangerous way to live.
It is time to unleash the engine of American ingenuity once more. Is it unrealistic to dream that one day Waynesboro's great factories would hum with life again? I can drive by the old Virginia Metalcrafters building and imagine people in there building the things we need. I do not think I am alone in seeing this. Our Governor speaks with a similar sense of vision. I've worked on some product illustrations lately for people with vision. It is exciting. I see potential. I see government standing in the way.
Unleash our ability to produce and the innovators will not be far behind. The technologies we will use in the 21st Century will develop and be refined by a new generation of genius!
The 'other' Weekly News Magazine [click to read] is also asking where the jobs are.
Little Known Career in the Spotlight
Lincoln Center Plaza.
If your child shows promise in the arts, you might want to forget the violin lessons. Have them practice moving the furniture about and opening and closing the drapes. The Washington Examiner [click to read] tells us that stagehands at Lincoln Center receive a salary and benefits package worth $290,000 a year! Top violinists in the city only make a third of that. ht/Rush Limbaugh
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