Is it wrong to write Ass Spelunker on a family friendly site?

Sorry about the shirt. I'm looking at it right now hanging in the closet. It'll go out Monday ok?

My comeback is this: If you are so against the government middleman in this instance, as in leasing equipment or flat out buying the stuff and installing it for middle class homeowners, even looking at all the benefits to 1) John Q. Public and Sally Average Homeowner in terms of money saved on energy bills each and every month till the sun burns out and 2) National Security and 3) the economy in just about every sector, then why oh why do you advocate government middleman status for big business and power company conglomerates? Why do the Feds need to spend this much money ($25 billion a year for the two term length of the next President) just to get 40 nuclear plants on line? Why does John Q Taxpayer and Sally Ass Spelunked Middle Class have to foot the bill for this? Private sector is private sector. Let PG&E, all the Southern Power companies, all the Edison power companies, name your power company, let them build the plants on their own. Is that what you advocate?

My next question then is, why haven't they done this already?

Before you scream at your computer, I see and understand complex licencing and EPA red tape. Streamline that and see how much this gets done with a benevolent group of socially conscious power companies.

Even without the sarcasm, we all know how much would happen without incentives, without breaks, or without flat out government funding.

So if the Feds are going to throw money at big business, why the hell NOT do the same for John and Sally? THIS is what I meant by money being spent anyway. THIS is what I meant by a direct benefit to the economy, as in three days after these kits are installed. And the economic B12 shot keeps growing because, doing the math and looking at the numbers, the five billion I'm talking about each year in added discretionary income INCREASES by 5 billion as the next set of homes gets done the following year. 2010 has one million homes done. 2011 has ANOTHER million, for a total of 10 billion pumped into the economy. Same with 2012 and so on. Do nuclear powers plants, each by their very nature taking 7-10 years to complete, have that kind of an immediate impact?

Drilling, new plants, yes, all this needs to be done. But poo-pooing the federal government directly assisting homeowners in the way I've mapped out makes no sense since they're going to do it for big business.