A BIG IDEA
By John Hightower

What if the White House and Congress were to do something sensible,
positive, visionary, and good for everyone, instead of ... well, you
know, the opposite of all of the above, as they've been doing?

Here's one big idea that would definitely be a plus for our people and
for future generations: Launch a 10-year, $300 billion, crash program to
provide energy independence for America. This would be a nationwide
effort involving millions of us grassroots people to develop, build, and
run a high-speed rail network, a distribution system for
hydrogen-powered cars, energy-efficient buildings and appliances, solar-
and wind-power systems, and other means to kick our nation's costly oil
addiction.

It's called the Apollo Project, and it's a proposal that has been put
together by 10 unions, including steelworkers, auto workers, mine
workers, service employees, machinists, and electrical workers unions.
Among other good results, their bold plan can restore America's
manufacturing jobs, link blue-collar America with the environmental
movement, eliminate the need for more oil wars, build a sound energy
infrastructure for the future, spur a national construction boom,
stimulate the economy from the ground up, excite and unite workaday
Americans in a shared mission, and provide a positive model for the rest
of the world.

Now that's sensible, positive, visionary, and good for everyone!

Froodle-doodle, cry the naysayers in the White House, Congress, and oil
corporations -- where are you going to get $300 billion to finance this?
I say we should get it from where it went. Washington just doled out
$350 billion from our public treasury to enrich elites who were already
super-rich. Let's put $300 billion of that back in the treasury to
finance this Apollo program for the good of all, instead of watching the
privileged stick it in foreign bank accounts or buy more mansions in France.

To see the Apollo proposal for yourself, check out

www.apolloalliance.org.

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