Bring back jobs and the high value of the dollar
To the editor:
Today, our overarching national life’s problem to solve is not the need for an all-consuming overhaul of our fractured health care system, or the misguided and lopsided concern about cap-and-trade carbon emissions, global warming, or even an immigration bill, but rather, it is economic. It is the lack of the will of President Obama, and Congress to enact urgent energy legislation for a massive drilling project for oil, and clean gas and coal in and around the U.S.A. If President Obama wants to gain some respect from the thinking American people in this country and help him to earn the possibility for a chance at a second term as president he must show leadership and take advantage of the present sick condition of the American dollar situation in the U.S.A. and around the world, by announcing our immediate need and determination to drill, and drill, and drill again for oil and clean gas and coal now, a la a “Manhattan Project” and then use the oil, and sell the oil to increase the flow of money into our national treasury which will help to eliminate the national debt, finance the wars to conclusion; and at the same time, help to fund all the promising new innovative and complimentary energy sources until they are ready to replace our use of costly imported oil. This broad announcement by President Obama about our determination to drill for oil, and clean gas and coal, alone, would quickly be heard and known around the world and would immediately start the increase in the value of the American dollar in the international marketplace and here at home, and by extension, help to rejuvenate our manufacturing base, get those factories and steel mills going, build those needed refineries, create all kinds of jobs in America, and finally get our dynamic economy back on track and humming again. Then, and only then, with the backing of the American public, will the Congress be able to take action to mend those fractured parts of our health care system. In addition, and as part of our coordinated energy program, coal, gas, and turbine energy sources would be used for fixed station power plants, and oil and diesel would be used for land, sea, and air vehicular transportation. Nuclear power should be used when and where applicable and feasible. Further, legislation should be passed to establish and put into law and practice a business policy which would require all American companies that do business overseas must keep at least 50 percent (whatever the optimum percentage should be) of all their total assets, operating in the U.S.A.
Al Ursitti
Cape Coral