Ready for Takeoff

I've long considered blogging but always felt that I had nothing to say. The more I though about it the more I concluded that my original premise was wrong. Lately, I've been trying to get my bearings straight after having jobs that kept me on the road 80-100% of the time. Now that my world is beginning to make more sense I see that the world around me doesn't. Things that worked are falling apart mostly out of reaction rather than out of intent. The result is a set of unintended consequences that have impacted us all. For example, since the early '70's this country had talked about an energy policy and nothing was done - ever! Jimmy Carter created a bureaucracy called the Energy Department and what do we have to show for it? We have no more supply of energy than if it didn't exist. We have no energy alternatives because the department had no political capital to spend in order to get us alternatives. So we're back in the '70's with better clothes and music but no energy policy. Democrats and Republicans have both failed as have all of the institutions that were supposed to fix problems.

This is only one example of things that frustrate me. The answer is not another conservative or liberal blog it's one that cuts through the nonsense attempts to understand the problem and come up with true solutions. Not some middle-way that appeases both sides but one that solves the problem. And there was a time when people in Washington put the good of the country before their 'Team' but no longer. Problems are not going to get fixed they're going to get politicized. So to make me feel a whole lot better I'm going to blog about it and hope that some folks agree. Maybe more will come of it than that but for now it's just my words and ideas. Hopefully, my world will continue to allow me to do this somewhat frequently.


Best Regards,

J