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Octafish

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8. When President Obama campaigned in 2008, he talked of an Apollo Program for energy...
Mon Jan 27, 2014, 02:44 PM
Jan 2014

...once in office, he fell back for the same-old, same-old from the good people in the fossil fuels and nuclear fission industries. While incredibly profitable for Wall Street, these place the biggest burdens on the People, the nation and the planet.

People understand the problems involved are major. Only by thinking big and doing big things will we solve them. Only the federal government has the power and wherewithal to meet them. And if we take the Democratic and democratic perspectives, we can make the nation and world better places, giving everyone who needs one a good job doing meaningful work in the process.

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