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Part 1:
Would you vote for a President or Congress Critter that had a platform based on making it to where the US was totally indepent of ANY nation? Meaning that all of our essential materials being mined or made in the US.
I'm sure that many will say "hell no!" to that because then it would use up OUR resources and in the end make us even more beholden to other nations. But I would expect that to take a long time as the US is not resource poor by any stretch of the imagination. Especially if we work it right.
For example:
Institute an agency that is like NASA in that it is about research. Only this agency would focus on more terrestrial concerns. Such as renewable energy or just plain better ways of securing energy period, so that we are not beholden to countries with oil (even though we have tons ourselves we still seem to want to use others). Technology that would benefit mankind such as prosthetics for those with missing limbs or machines that make surgery safer and easier. For example some companies are trying to make it to where 3D printing technology can make organs that are transplantable into humans. Wouldn't it be much easier just to make a heart than be on a waiting list? Other things that they could work on is more fuel efficent vehicles, more efficient batteries etc etc.
Once something is "discovered" it can be patented and placed in the name of a citizen that is chosen at random. That citizen can then decide to sell it to a company or decide to try and manufacture it. If they decide to manufacture it the government would give them enough capitol to last 1 year with a company employing 50 people (anything beyond that 50 must be paid by that citizen and anything below that 50 the citizen must pay back to the government). If that citizen fails then the patent will revert back to the government and then a major corporation may BID on it. If the citizen succeeds that citizen must also agree to let the government buy that product for its own use AT COST and the rest of the country to buy that product at a max of 10-20 percent (open to other suggestions in place of this number) mark up for 15 years.
Would you vote for a President or Congress Critter that had a platform based on making it to where the US was totally indepent of ANY nation? Meaning that all of our essential materials being mined or made in the US.
I'm sure that many will say "hell no!" to that because then it would use up OUR resources and in the end make us even more beholden to other nations. But I would expect that to take a long time as the US is not resource poor by any stretch of the imagination. Especially if we work it right.
For example:
Institute an agency that is like NASA in that it is about research. Only this agency would focus on more terrestrial concerns. Such as renewable energy or just plain better ways of securing energy period, so that we are not beholden to countries with oil (even though we have tons ourselves we still seem to want to use others). Technology that would benefit mankind such as prosthetics for those with missing limbs or machines that make surgery safer and easier. For example some companies are trying to make it to where 3D printing technology can make organs that are transplantable into humans. Wouldn't it be much easier just to make a heart than be on a waiting list? Other things that they could work on is more fuel efficent vehicles, more efficient batteries etc etc.
Once something is "discovered" it can be patented and placed in the name of a citizen that is chosen at random. That citizen can then decide to sell it to a company or decide to try and manufacture it. If they decide to manufacture it the government would give them enough capitol to last 1 year with a company employing 50 people (anything beyond that 50 must be paid by that citizen and anything below that 50 the citizen must pay back to the government). If that citizen fails then the patent will revert back to the government and then a major corporation may BID on it. If the citizen succeeds that citizen must also agree to let the government buy that product for its own use AT COST and the rest of the country to buy that product at a max of 10-20 percent (open to other suggestions in place of this number) mark up for 15 years.