I want a Healthcare bill that takes effect now not a few years from now. We need polls asking people what they want more the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or Healthcare.
Forget oil and national security at 230 mpg the Volt takes care of that.
Just how does the Volt take care of Healthcare and National Security you ask?

Well we can get the money for healthcare by ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan granted if we need more cash we can and should tax the rich. Blub says there is $100 billion dollars of military R&D that can be cut too.
But ending the wars means less of a tax on the rich than we otherwise would need which should save us some fights getting this passed.

Next National Security if the GOP screams Ossama we point out that Bush gave up the hunt for Ossama to invade Iraq and then let him live. Heck he gave the country protecting Ossama billions, Pakistani intelligence got Ossama connected to the Taliban and using those connections Ossama formed al Quieda .

We know that Ossama gets his cash from oil rich Arab states.
So we make the oil rich Arab states not so rich.
And that is where the Volt comes in at 230 mpg the average American car gets 22.4 mpg.


According to the Department of Transportation, the average miles per gallon for passenger cars is 22.4 mpg

http://www.project.org/info.php?recordID=384

22.4 goes into 230, 10 times that means that for every Volt on the road we have taken 10 cars off the road decreasing our oil demand. and pollution by a factor of 10
over time. Lets say you spend $50 a month right now on gas and get the 22.4 average mpg.
But next year you get a Volt and in ten months you would have spent on gas and created polluted equal to what you spent on gas and polluted in just this month.

But but the Volt is rumored to cost $40,000 so what? Cash for Clunkers gave $4,500 max to people and the most fuel efficient car right now is probably the Toyota Prius at 51 mpg.
If Cash for Clunkers gave $4,500 for a clunker and the Prius gets 51 mpg gallon well 51 goes into 230, 4 times
It stands to follow logically then that next years Cash for Clunkers program should give hmm? $4,500 * 4 = $18,000 to people for buying a Volt.

Volts will run I think for $40,000 but if you subtract $18,000 you get $22,000 which makes the Volt very affordable at that price. I’m guessing GM could sell a million a year.

Do you see the Synergy the Domino effect of solving one key problem and like dominos many other problems also get solved too:)
To pay for Healthcare we end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and fund Cash for Clunkers next year.
As I said putting a million Volts on the road next year getting 230 mpg will be the equivalent of taking 10 million cars off the road in 10 months aside from the reduction in pollution and lower health care claims from pollution. We also create a demand driven drop in the price of oil.
Thus we defund Ossama and lets see Iran develop Nuclear weapons with oil prices dropping.
Just how much would oil prices drop if we take the equivalent of ten million cars off the road? I don’t know but if 10 million is not enough to drop oil prices then we can always sell more cars the year after that!
Yes Economic warfare fight Smart not Hard when you can.
Can anybody get the Dems to steal this idea please:)

Please Steal Blubs idea too! $100 billion a year in weapons research could help provide plenty of cash for healthcare and Cash for Clunkers.
Russia is an oil producer take high oil prices away and Russia won’t be able to afford new weapons that leaves China as our main problem and their military tech is how far behind our own? I think we can afford a few years of no military funding for R&D.


Blub August 17th, 2009 at 11:03 am
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In response to ThingsComeUndone @ 35 (show text)
there is something to be said about defunding the Pentagon’s new weapons systems budgets for a period of time in order to address domestic issues like healthcare and deficit reduction. The Pentagon’s capital procurement and R&D budgets total about $210 billion a year, of which major new boon-doggle weapon system programs larger than $500 million per program account for about half. Imagine what we could do with $100 billion a year from racapturing part of this discretionary spending, for, say, 5 years? I’m not talking about cutting military salaries or operations by a dime – just new weapon systems for a short period of time. It’s not like any of our enemies will notice that we aren’t spending the $12 billion per year committed to new strategic missile defense initiatives or the $4 billion per year allocated to the Future Combat System. Its not even clear what remaining enemies these systems are supposed to be designed to fight.

OK, this would increase unemployment among weapons manufacturers, but I’m sure we can reintegrate these people more productively into the economy somewhere else.

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