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Originally Posted by Ohio
Study the Clinton presidency.
He came on board and let Hillary push her socialist programs, which caused tremendous backlash.
Then Bill moved to the center, enacted welfare reform, left the country alone while he played with the interns, and somehow the country prospered, and even balanced the budget. By his 2nd term, Clinton had become a good negotiator.
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Yes, Bill Clinton and the balanced budget was the momentary bright spot before we began our trillion dollar wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If we had spent a trillion dollars on solar power instead we would be far less dependent on foreign oil, there would be far less terrorism directed our way, and we would be leading the world in this new technology, not the Chinese.
(Just to put that into perspective we get less than 1% of our energy from solar and the total installed based of solar would cost us about $10 billion today. $1 trillion would increase this to 100%. However, it would not be practical to get 100% of our power from solar, so you might want to mix that with wind, but the cost is comparable. However, we have existing hydro and nuclear that you would not want to eliminate. So suffice it to say that $1 trillion spent on solar and wind could easily have turned us into the cleanest and most advanced nation with regards to energy generation. In addition, spending $10 billion on solar has caused a 10 fold drop in the price, which has now made it economic for many people. Spending another $10 billion will probably drop the cost another 25%, making it economic for virtually everyone. Instead of $1 trillion they only needed to spend $10 billion followed by tax incentives for individuals to buy and install it. Priming the well has cost 1% of what they spent on this latest war.)