Boondoggles to the rescue!

[The2ndWheel]

http://www.energybulletin.net/node/47831

Economic collapse has a way of turning economic negatives into positives. It is not necessary for the United States to embrace the tenets of command economy and central planning to match the Soviet lackluster performance in this area. We have our own methods that are working almost as well. I call them “boondoggles.” They are solutions to problems that result in more severe problems than those they attempt to solve.

Just look around and you will see boondoggles sprouting up everywhere, in every field of endeavor: we have military boondoggles like Iraq, financial boondoggles like the doomed retirement system, medical boondoggles like private health insurance and legal boondoggles like the intellectual property system. At some point, creating another boondoggle becomes the preferred course of action: since the outcome can be predicted with complete accuracy, there is little risk. Proposing a solution that might work runs the risk of it not working.

So why not, as a matter of policy, only propose solutions that are guaranteed to simply create more problems, for which further solutions can then be proposed? At some point, a boondoggle event horizon is reached, like the light event horizon that exists at the surface of a black hole. Beyond that horizon, the only possible course of action is to create more boondoggles.

[jpak]

1. I'd like to see 3000 MW of photovoltaic boondoggles deployed in Maine by 2012

:evilgrin:

[tom_paine]

2. Don't forget the biofuels boondoggle. That's a big, profitable one!

Plus, as an added bonus to our Bushie-Global Aristocrats, the biofuels boondoggle has the added advantage of making food more expensive for the Thrid World, and the Bushie-Global Aristocrats have likely targeted that population for "extermination with plausible deniability", smarter and savvier than anything Hitler ever cooked up.

Of course, Hitler didn't have to contend with what Caeser or Cheney had to, which was a nation who's central myth was freedom and that it's people shall never be enslaved.

Which means that, in order to have enslaved us so successfully, the Bushies had to make sure we fools still believed we were free.

Anyway, the Biofuels Boondoggle is an Evil Emperor Two-Fer. Not jst a boondoggle but impacts populations the Bushies have targeted for "kinder and gentler extermination".