Add Platform Issue #25: Creating New Jobs and Clean Air, Transforming the Economy with Renewable Energy

A Platform Position Paper
by Arthur Flowers Independent Candidate for President



For those readers who have lost their lifelong jobs and whose prospects for a new job look non-existent (e.g: in Michigan, South Carolina, Mississippi, etc.), and for those of you who see themselves in the same predicament in the not-so-distant future, don't read this plan at your own peril. Just continue to sit on your complaining dead asses till November. Then vote for Hillary, Obama or McCain, none of whom have the haziest idea of how to revive the economy and create new jobs.

Platform Issue #25, Section A:


February 2, 2008...the business section of the morning paper screams the headline: "U.S. Economy: January Job Cuts Raise Concerns. The labor department reported job losses at 17,000." This is the worst national job loss since 2003. George Bush and the Republican-Democrat presidential candidates are concerned, but what are they doing about it? They propose the usual stimulus-package suspects!



President Bush and the two-party presidential candidates have issued their Economic Stimulus Manifesto. If President Ronald Reagan were alive today, he would be saying: Well, there they go again, meaning: the same old stuff: tax rebates (welfare), extension of job benefits (no new jobs) and the ubiquitous, nauseating tax-credits ploy. Is that all there is? Is this tired, old, worn-out offering going to create new jobs...make our air cleaner? In a few weeks after this law is passed, we'll be back to step one. And then the President and the candidates with their pricey economic advisers will do it all over again. As one journalist so aptly put it...take two tax rebates and call me in the morning.



So, as an Independent Write-In Candidate for President, I am turning to my campaign advisory staff of two, to develop our own common-sense plan to turn our economy around, create new jobs, and cleanse our air. Since we eschew political contributions (bribes), we cannot afford multi-million dollar economic advisers and PR people, so we will rely on what we call our creative intelligence (some call it common-sense). We are not lawyers nor economists, just a couple of plain old Americans completely ignored by the MSM (main stream media).



In our plan, you spend the taxpayers money in a way that doesn't flush it down the toilet in one fell swoop, but instead, the money goes into programs that develop new technologically and environmentally sound jobs continuously over long periods of time, while simultaneously purifying our air via a Renewable Energy Economy (RenewE), which will begin paying off immediately. We shall begin with the star of our Alternative Energy case...sugar-based Ethanol. Have you ever heard politicians talk about sugar-based Ethanol? In Brazil it has been scientifically demonstrated that sugar-based Ethanol produces significantly less polluting emissions and much more power in each gallon of Ethanol, than any other gasoline additive including corn-based Ethanol. Furthermore, sugar-based Ethanol results in significantly better mileage than corn, soy and others.



Equally important is the fact that Ethanol yields per acre for Brazilian sugar-cane and French beet-sugar are roughly double those of American corn, experts say. What's extraordinary about sugar-cane and sugar-beets as an energy source is that it's so incredibly efficient. Many Ethanol feed-stocks, such as corn, wheat, soy, etc. require as much energy to grow and refine as they actually produce in energy. But sugar production actually results in a huge net positive energy gain...about 8:1 energy output to energy input.



(To be continued in next blog)