Invest In America Part II

    Yesterday I asked a series of questions about what you have spent your money on and then I asked you to, think about if we should invest in America. My point was simple. Every day we invest (spend) on numerous items and there are reasons we do what we do.      When we change the oil in our cars or do any other maintenance on vehicles, we are investing in that item. We know by maintaining our cars it will perform at its optimum and for a longer period of time. The infrastructure in America is just like our cars. We must maintain them and they will perform for a longer time. In the case of our highways and bridges, we have looked to save money and we have failed to do the necessary maintenance to keep them strong. We need to reverse this trend and work on highways and bridges.
     Do any of you remember the home phone from the sixties? It was attached to the wall with a short cord. When we talked on the phone we had to sit right beside it. When we called someone we had a rotary dial and when the phone rang we did not know who it was until we picked it up. Not like today, when we can screen our calls and decide if we want to talk to the person at the other end. When we watched TV the only remote was my Mother or Father saying, " John get up and change the channel." It wasn't too bad because there was only a dozen or so channels to surf. Only took a minute. My point is do we like this new technology, that we have today? Do we want to go back to the sixties and use the limited devices we had then?  Likewise why do we balk at investing in technology, such as electrical grids, green technology, new water and sewer lines, new and better wired schools and space exploration. These again are the things we need to modernize in order to make our lives better, simpler and save money.
     When you put all of these things together, it is very clear that we do not invest in America and The American people. We are trying to keep the costs low and reduce taxes, but at the same time we are mortgaging our futures and the future of all that follow us. We have to built newer and better systems around the country. We have to take advantage of new technology to upgrade everything around us. Our schools are falling down physically and educationally. We are trying to pinch pennies and in the long run it will cost us more.                                                                                                                                       The people that say we have to cut our budget has it wrong. We have to do BIG things. We have to make this country great and a leader in everything we do. The time to accept defeat is past. The time to accept victory is now. We have to use Federal, State, Local and Private money to get us moving forward. If we invest in ourselves, more jobs will be created, which will increase revenue, which will increase jobs and then the ball keeps rolling. We have to start with the initial investment and then let the market take it from there. This is how the economy will grow once again. It is very simple. We invest in America and then we can grow, save money and become the greatest nation on earth, again.