The winds of change are blowing

As I sit here today, the winds are howling fiercely, blowing a cold front into our area after we experienced a few days in the mid-60s. Obviously this is a little warm for mid-November, but the winds are bringing normality in form of possible snow showers and high temperatures around forty degrees. These changing winds reminds me of what I truly could be, and in my opinion should be happening here in the United States, and throughout the world, change. Both political candidates promised this, and we, the constituents, supported it because change is what we wanted. With most economies in the world dropping into what some are saying could be our worst recession ever, what sort of change do we need? Is it time to make small subtle changes that may get us through the a few years, or is truly time to reinvest in our economy, our country and our future? I would propose that we desperately need the later for the following reasons. First our economy is increasing becoming dependent on foreign investment so much so that it is truly a wonder how much of this country is owned by those who live here. Second, a larger percentage of jobs here in the United States fall into the service sector which works only as long as the members of your society are able to afford the services these jobs employ. Third, the majority of our society and economy exists supported almost solely by the benefits of petroleum-based products, most of which has to be bought or traded for outside our borders.

How do we go about introducing such change that would solve these things? I would propose the same sweeping change that pulled us slowly out of the last depression; a reinvestment in American infrastructure. All sectors of the American infrastructure are in desperate need of redesign and rebuilding including but not limited to transportation, water/sewer, and our electrical grid. By making wholesale changes in this infrastructure, we would be investing in ourselves, providing jobs for millions of American workers and modernizing our county’s core systems which will end up saving us money in lost efficiency and repairs. By upgrading these core systems we will also have an opportunity to make these systems energy efficient and self-sustaining for the next generation. Take our electrical grid for instance. By upgrading it, we could transform it to be an electrical superhighway transporting electricity produced by the wind, solar, tides and modernized clean burning bio-fuels where ever it is needed, from wherever it is produced.

Wholesale change is very scary, but it is not only what we asked for, it is what we need to stay a viable nation in the world economy. America was a shining beacon of change, leading the world into the industrial age, but it now time for us to get up and lead the world into a modern age of self-sustaining growth based not on foreign technology and foreign energy, but on technology and energy designed and built by our own legion of workers. We did it once coming out of the Great Depression, and we can do it again. Then again, this is just Life According to Troy.