Disaster Economics in Congress

Senate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) may have lost some women’s votes for Hillary Clinton when she acceded to Republican demands to toss out unemployment benefits and food stamps to those most in need.

Women, we’re told, are naturally inclined to help those most vulnerable in society. While grandmother Pelosi told reporters that while she is not totally pleased with the $150 Billion Economic Stimulus Bill, she “knows” that it will help stimulate the economy … “And if it does not,” she added, “then there will be more to come.”

What Pelosi could have done is suggested that the now $150 billion tax cut … ($5 billion was probably added from the now defunct rail project from Washington DC to Dulles Airport) … should fund a Civillian Conservation Corps similar to the CCC of the 1930s. Green collar workers could be hired across the U.S. to weatherize homes and trade out old, inefficient furnaces.

Someone, in Congress, should have seen this meltdown coming a long time ago, and set up a blueprint for rapid mobilization for energy security through a 21st Century CCC.