I'm not perfect.

[Old and In the Way]

But I beleve we should stop investing in ME technology thar makes us energu dependent on SA?
Lets use our defense budget to invest in technologies that we can become energy indepent on the ME.....and put Americams to work selling solar and renewable energy tions. Stop the madness!

[Warpy]

1. Well, we also need to figure out how to restart strategic industries

It should scare the hell out of everybody that we don't make our own cloth, shoes, car parts, electronics, or life saving medications.

A war doesn't have to be a shooting war to bring this country to its knees. It only has to be a trade war with an effective embargo.

Morons in Congress who sat on their hands while the capitalists abandoned this country in favor of low wage countries just never get it, that these are all strategic industries and there is no way for this country to survive any sort of national trade disruption without them.

[Old and In the Way]

2. We are exquitely fucked....

If we don't figure this out. I know how to ,anufacture.

[lovemydog]

3. What's ME and what's SA?

Once I know I will almost certainly agree with you, because I most definitely agree we should put Americans to work selling solar & renewable energy.

[Old and In the Way]

4. ME= Mideast. SA = Saudi Arabia

How much do US TAXPAYERS spend getting Bi gOil's product to market? LET THEM PAY THE BILL FOR THE US Armed Forces required to get their product to market. Then take that money and invest in renewable energy here.