Donald Trump's War (Saturbray)

Thank you for this big fat dose of reality Bray.

I am praying. So many of us are.

May God help us save our beloved country.

“Gas prices are at a many months low...”

Not to mention the yugest oil and gas discovery ever in West TX confirmed by USGS in recent weeks.... ...Trump now opening up Obama-protected land for resource development... OPEC continuing to weaken... and even the minions of Paris seeming to violently reject their namesake accord.

Seems hard to believe the stock market dip is due to energy fears. The markets have plenty else to worry about. Fear of Nancy generally, to be sure, and a mid-term future rife with investigations of investigations. The bond inversion. Already slowing employment. UnReal estate finding reality. A well-deserved beating for tyrannical tech companies. Actions of the fed Trump warned about. Etc.

As much as I love bray and the good folks pulled down to this location by his spiritual gravity, I’m not really a fan of making capitalism, specifically, into our false god.

Though it becomes seemingly harder to tell lately, this site and America were both founded on the same root value as Christianity: FREEDOM!

NOT on any specific economic model. Yes, I know, capitalism is great and is basically economic freedom as compared to other models. And, of course, the face of the incoming Congressional lot, from the economy’s perspective, is that of Cortez the Killer.

But why should we concentrate on defending the word ‘capitalism’? The same goes for ‘democracy’. Both are tools and concepts generally helpful to a free society. However, neither are any good and are in fact harmful without a foundation in freedom, which the wise Founders defined as being a very, very limited central authority.

For crying out loud, the Constitution was written to protect states and individuals FROM a centralized democracy. Not the other way round.

The above distinctions and teaching thereof are what is missing in the rhetoric of most of even our best politicians - definitely including Trump.

Republicans of all stripes are to blame for us not making progress back toward Freedom in recent years. For God’s sake, the party owned most of the governor mansions, most of the state houses, the US House and Senate, the presidency, increasingly more of the bench. Yet a three-toed sloth could count, on one hand, the number of Republicans pursuing a return to Freedom as a central goal - and still have one finger left for signaling while driving.

Original style federalism is the answer. NOT a centralized emphasis on good business and tax policy. During the time we controlled both the levels and branches of gov’t we should have concentrated on leveraging a once-in-a-century opportunity to devolve power. It’s the most correct and most moral avenue to achieve a return to what works.

And by works I mean that the absolute best way for the most people to be the most satisfied with their governments is to have the highest number of individual-affecting policies decided at the lowest level possible. There is a lot of talk about draining swamps and such. It’s not possible, they refill. It’s their nature. Just get the levers of power out of the dang swamp and distributed closer to people’s homes. That is our original design - an upside down power structure.

Consider how hard it is for you to get an appointment with your US Senator - it’s not going to happen. Then consider that in many cases your local state house rep will probably come to YOUR home and wash your car for a chance to get your vote. THAT’s the guy/gal, if anybody, who should be making individual-affecting policy.

Federalism is the best way to empower individuals. It’s the best way for some people to choose to live under socialistic rules (state level or lower) while others can choose freer ways. And the best way to prevent the central level tyranny that each party complains about today when the other is in power.

Freedom and empowerment are things everybody wants. This should not be hard to sell. And we currently have a great salesman at the top of our party. He just is NOT selling the correct product right now.

Though I love the hats, the rallies and the way it bugs liberals - Making America ‘Great’ again is an entirely a subjective notion. Why does nobody seem to want to make America Free Again. It’s a much more objective and universally desired notion.

I realize federalism could not happen overnight. But the party did not even try to start momentum in that direction. Without this effort, the very best we can expect to achieve with the very best leader we’ve had in some time is to make America temporarily what our side considers great - for a while.

On the moral front, Christianity is the federalism of faith. Once Christ rent the veil, we no longer needed creeds, blood-based debt-paying nor highly centralized hierarchies - just to attain freedom from Death. Today, we, as individuals, are totally free to fail and free to be saved - WITHOUT the dang religion feds involved.

That individual freedom aspect is what made us a Christianity-analogous nation. Not any simple count of heads and denominations.

Here’s the funny thing about energy
Clearly it’s all about photovoltaics
There’s no arguing the fact that yes Virginia there Is Santa Claus!
The sun !
It and water are the only essentials of life
Oh and carbon of course.
Hydrogen is clearly the preferred carrier. And batteries and very mature
Your house uses 1000 kWh. 720 hrs per month so 1.3 kw avg
One solar panel. Which costs about 150$ currently 300wdc. Maybe 400 kWh a year. Min 200 in far north summer. Winter bets are off
A house. To have no net electric cost. Needs 8-25 panels
8 panels = 1200$. Your bill is likely 50-200$ per mo or 600$-2500$ \ y
YOU do the payback analysis Ok ? Let me know what you come up with

This is where the crazy liberals are right The rub is. MAKING MONEY. GUARANTEED MONEY 💰. ON SOLAR

I think you are way low on your solar costs. You do not include batteries and converters which for an avg home is around $30K which never does cover the costs in savings.

I have analysed the different costs which solar and wind are around 40 cents a kilowatt while coal is around 4 cents. That doesn’t include the costs to clean and fix solar from hail and wind damage.

If you have other cost analysis please show them.

PFL

You mean like the Solyndra boondoggle. The so called smart energy.