The national debt is the biggest of all our problems. Watch IOUSA when it comes out to get a good explanation of the problem. I've explained it way too many times to want to do it again now and have most people ignore it.
The energy problem at least has the potential to be solved. We can go nuclear to satisfy our standing energy needs, and we can make electric cars so that we don't have to rely on fossil fuels for our cars and can use whatever kind of energy we want, fossil, renewable, or nuclear.
But that second hurdle is going to be a lot harder to jump unless Congress passes some strict legislation or goes out of its way to support non-gasoline based cars.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
