Tuesday, May 1, 2012

I want industrial dirt, Harlem dudes

I want some industrial dirt back, Harlem dudes. No wonder we can't get a bleepin' job. I want some industry now. That is why we need the Glass-Steagall end to speculation, and the national credit bank to invest in the North American Water and Power alliance, harlem dudes. We can make it again in Harlem, in New York City, NY. Here are some examples of whatis going on.

* INDUSTRIAL GOODS—The same process has resulted in the U.S. now completely dependent on imports, from nails, to electricity transformers, to lathes and machine tools.
* FOOD. Food imports are huge in all categories, except bulk wheat, corn, soy, pork, beef and poultry. From 15 to 20 percent of U.S. food is now imported (USDA, Economic Research Service). For example, 85 percent of U.S. seafood consumption is imported (from tilapia in China, to shrimp from Peru and Thailand). Dairy products are increasingly re-constituted from imported casein and other milk constituents. As of 2010, the import share of U.S. consumption of fruits and nuts was nearly 45 percent; vegetables, 16 percent; beverages over 40 percent.
* WATER. Water shortages are now acute for residential, commercial and what remains of industrial usage, in many regions, due to the decades of non-development of expanded sources. This is occurring despite that fact that water usage overall in the U.S. has declined in absolute volume, as of 1980. It went from 482 million acre-feet that year, down to 459 mafy in 2005. (The Obama Administration announced that it has delayed the issuance of an estimate for 2010 water usage, until an unspecified future date).
Use of water for irrigation in the U.S. has been in decline for several years. The U.S. is importing vast quantities of "virtual water" in the form of food, and merchandise.
* POWER. De-powering is underway of the national electricity system, resulting from not going-nuclear, and having no redundancy. Electricity generation and transmission capacity are not even adequate to the reduced, present-day low usage, given the shutdown of industry, but even so, trade-offs and outages are the order of the day.

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