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Time to Think Big Again / C’mon USA

America’s Airlines

It has been reported, to survive, America’s major Airlines will need to merge sometime within the next 12 months. Currently standing at five, the number of large carriers is expected to be down to three by the end of the current financial year 2008/9.

Major USA Airline	2nd Quarter 2008 Profit	2nd Quarter 2008 Loss
Southwest Airlines	$321 million	N/A
United Airlines	N/A	$2.73 billion
American Airlines	N/A	$1.45 billion
Delta Airlines	N/A	$1.04 billion
US Airways	N/A	$567 million
Northwest Airlines	N/A	$377 million

Carbon emissions from jet aircraft is another problem further adding to the industry’s woes together with the current hight cost of oil. The total carbon footprint of jet aircraft traffic is still under assessment as various forms of emission trading schemes are being considered.

Future Energy Supply

The United States, ignoring the best scientific advice in the world, failed to take the political lead in the global warming debate under the Bush Administration.  While Al Gore did an outstanding job in communicating his message “An Inconvenient Truth”, the Bush led naysayers simply sat on their hands and acted as environmental skeptics and climate change denyers.

The Australian Government, led by the Prime Minister John Howard, until his government’s loss of office in November 2007, followed the Bush mantra like a pack of adoring schoolboys with regard to climate change. The new Labor government under Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is not of this ilk. He and his Party recognise the seriousness of global warming, and accepts that the way we do things will have to change. The sooner the better.

Fortunately the energy debate is now well and truly on. States like California, Nevada, Texas and Florida, aren’t waiting. The first geo thermal manafacturing plant in America is now producing major orders in Nevada and base load power is achievable. Florida is now involved and Wind farms are being constructed as we speak. Much more needs to be done. The challenge for the next US President is to lead the way to energy independence for the US at the earliest possible date.  The planet needs to breathe, and so do all of it’s creatures, great and small.

New Leadership

America is crying out for change. People are demanding new leadership and a new way of doing things by solving problems through more negotiation and better communication,  without resorting to confrontation. Many believe the country needs to believe in itself again. To achieve that lofty ideal, America needs a leader who truly believes in the people and who can inspire them to believe and  achieve once again. 

The simple but powerful message ”You can do it – yes you can” will not come or be credible from a John McCain. In the real sense, he has never been a leader. McCain is a self admitted maverick, a one man  band.  His ambitions (which he has admitted publicly, he has been prepared to lie for) are again all about him and his wants - not others.  A natural leader is precisely the opposite, in every way.

John McCain is a warmonger and a destroyer, not a builder nor a diplomat, and America doesn’t need to  be involved in more wars or military confrontations. To get the home fires burning again the United States government needs to focus on domestic issues and start being accountable to the American people again. To be a government of the people, for the people as required by the Constitution.

It is time for change.

As President, Barack Obama can be the agent for that change. ” Yes he can”.

A change that will enable America to pick itself up, dust itself off and fire on all cylinders again.

 

 

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