Forum Post: An actual and workable plan for the 99%

Two crises that can be readily remedied are addressed in these proposals.  The first addresses a feasible and far-reaching solution primarily to the unemployment crisis with ancillary solutions to the economic crisis, protecting the environment, and relieving our nation of dependence on foreign oil.  The second is a sensible and expeditious solution to the mortgage and foreclosure crisis.  Together, these solutions, when proposed and implemented by the President, will enrich this nation.

By implementing the first proposal, it will be possible to repair the economy of the United States, to employ hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens, to take a significant leap towards saving and improving the nation’s environment and the world’s ecosystems, to bring production back to the United States, to substantially improve our internal national security by alleviating our dependence on foreign oil, and to open the door to the creations of new and better technologies. What I propose may not be entirely new, but its time has finally come, and the proposed restrictions are essential to success.

What is unique about this proposal is a contractual agreement that every last part of the project be designed, engineered, manufactured, and constructed in the United States, entirely by American citizens. I propose a privately funded, yet government supported, passenger train system that goes to every city in the United States. Imagine the numbers of jobs that can be created at all levels of education from engineering to manufacture to labor.

By the use of the newest technologies, we can create a train system that can effortlessly shift from ground-laid tracks to a monorail-type track, depending on the needs, aesthetics, and desires of each particular geographical area.

The comfort of passengers in the new train lines will be so far superior to the coach seating on the airlines, that the demand for passage on the trains will be overwhelming. The passenger train accommodations will have seats that permit every passenger to have luxury seating space, together with electrical outlets. Passengers will have the freedom to use electrical devices and to get up and walk around the entire train at any time, with access to food and drink in multiple dining cars. The number of train cars can increase or decrease, depending on the particular runs and needs of the customers.

In today’s United States, the only available passenger train access shares a track across the country with the freight trains. In this system, the freight trains always have priority access over the passenger trains. As a result, it is either difficult at best for the passenger trains to meet their schedules, or the schedules are designed around anticipated delays due to the congestion of the freight traffic. On the new passenger trains, the tracks will serve only passenger trains, which will permit the trains not only to serve your customers without the delays, but also to utilize current and improved technologies to increase the efficiency and speeds of the trains sufficiently to challenge and even surpass the timing of current day air travel.

The United States will be able to independently meet any oil and gas needs on its own; although, we will have the option of utilizing foreign oil still, but then at our leave and on our terms. Not only will such efforts improve exponentially our national security, but the substantial benefits to our planet’s ecosystems are obvious.

By moving forward in the construction of the new passenger lines, which run independently of any freight and on the newest technology of track constructions, hundreds of thousands of jobs will be created in every state of these United States, spanning every facet of construction, operation, maintenance, management, promotion, and more. The creation of jobs in food service, train personnel, and maintenance and construction will carry over into the distant future and make the New Deal look like a high school internship. This plan will pump back into the hands of the masses actual cash in place of credit, and resurgence of cash in our economy will in turn strengthen the value of the United States currency beyond anything it has enjoyed to date.

Even with the enormity of what is here laid out as possible in this proposal, this is but a brief outline of what can be accomplished and does not pretend to address the particulars of what will go into this project. I must emphasize again that the difference between this proposal and most others is the unique contract mandating that everything connected with this series of projects must be implemented domestically.