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.... callchet .... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 11:20 PM
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Got to rethink the problem. We can't compete.
USA needs a vocation. I'm leaning toward new energy. Windmills and solar cells aren't it. Too complicated and too sensitive to weather and environmental conditions. Solar cells especially pose a threat due to rain water runoff. Will need large retention ponds. Land underneath will have aquifer effected. Just don't like the look of windmills. Don't worry, I will find an alternative for both of them.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 11:22 PM
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1. Ugh. Enough with your "Game over man!" threads.
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.... callchet .... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 11:27 PM
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2. Sorry, but just have been realizing what a tough spot the USA is in.
USA needs help. We will never be able to compete with Chinese labor costs.
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 11:35 PM
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3. If we are going to wait for you to find them it's time to worry.
Edited on Tue Feb-10-09 11:42 PM by The_Casual_Observer
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.... callchet .... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 11:40 PM
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4. Nobody else is volunteering !
I used to think that we could do something by watching our labor costs, but there is no way to get down to 25 cents an hour. In order to generate a living as a country, there is going to have to be something really innovative.
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 11:46 PM
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5. The last time there was a serious recession 92-93 I racked
my brain in front of my dos computer with 1200 baud modem trying to figure out what the next big thing would be & couldn't come up with anything.

I'm having the same sort of problem now. Things never change.
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Idealism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 12:09 AM
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6. And that is why you are still on this message board
instead of selling your soul for a 3.5 million house in the hamptons
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razors edge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 12:15 AM
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7. Make Haliburton do community service.
Force them to compartmentalize and mass produce Geothermal Electric plants that are mobile and reusable.

We could pay them, but we already did.
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-09 12:27 AM
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8. oh...I like the way you think
where do I sign? ;)
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