Wake Up America!

I just read an article in the NY Times about the impending energy crisis and need for greater R&D in alternative energy technologies. According to the article, federally funded research for alterniative energy has declined to $3 billion, down from $7.7 billion in 1979. Why in the hell are we going backward? To put our nation's priorities in perspective, spending on military research is now $75 billion and total defense spending in 2006 reached $439 billion. So, instead of exporting solar panels or windmills, we export guns. I guess the proverb about feeding a man once or teaching a man to fish so he can feed himself left out an option: have others do it and kill them with a U.S.-made submachine gun if they refuse. How can we expect to improve our world if we are still playing the same old game? Time to wake up, America. We need to build railroads, solar panels, ethanol stills, and windmills, not bombs!