Our Largest Untapped Resource - The minds of Free PeopleA word to our Elected and Corporate LeadersWe are in the mist of the election season, trying to choose who we will have as our next leader.Some points to ponder -Has any candidate or want to be, asked you for your opinion as to how we should solve the many issues that face this nation.Have you ever thought about how we got to where we are and who advised the current leaders.It certainly was not I, and I have a good idea that it was not anyone that you or I know personally.This causes me to wonder, if they are getting advice from the same people that they always turn to for advice then we will probably have the same result no matter who we choose.With all of the technology that is available it would certainly be nice if we could have a government for the people and by the people.It is my contention that the would-be-leaders would be better served by enlisting the ideas of common people using the best available technology.Using the power of the internet to solicit ideas, using the power of the search engines to catalog and search through them.We have no policy for rebuilding the infrastructure of this nation i.e. bridges roads electrical grid, air traffic control, we have no real energy policy, we have a significant technical brain drain that will effect all facets of industry in this country over the next ten years.I have yet to hear any of the would be presidents asking for anything other than money when money is not the the problem, the allocation of the money is. Where will the jobs of tomorrow come from, how will we fill the engineering and technology positions, when will we embark on a real energy policy without all of the special interest earmarks. The third world countries will have a hydrogen economy before we in the US will. China, India, Brazil, and Mexico all have natural gas infrastructure for automobiles now, which is the first step toward hydrogen powered vehicles. We the people hold the key to solving the problems of this country, we should not look to would be leaders for the answers. We should insist that the leaders use the largest resource that this country has. The minds of a free people.Innovation is not the result of large corporations, innovation usually comes for the minds of regular people and then large corporations fund and market the ideas.Government should work the same way, constantly getting new ideas from their largest asset, the people, the people that put them in office.
