American "Enterprise Zones!" How could we do it? To be Self Sustaining?

[KoKo]

Could we do it? Could we figure we will have years of Repug Domination even if we can get a few Dems in...that the Repugs have Legions of their Army of Armageddonists waiting in the wings. And, they are clever and Rove will be followed with more Rove Clones...on and on and on ...for the rest of our fragile lifetimes.

BUT...how could we throw off the yolk of PARTY DOMINATION/IDEOLOGY/THEOLOGICAL DOMINATION and get BACK TO WHAT AMERICA WAS (supposedly founded on)...you know the drill..."Religious Freedom, Economic Freedom and the right to pursue some sense of "happiness" (which I think Jefferson really meant to say: "Fulfillment and Satisfaction of being an Earth Dweller) but it got garbled somehow into "happiness" which is an odd phrase meaning different things to different folks.

So...back to "ENTERPRISE ZONES." Zones that could trade with other Americans what our ZONE can supply in TRADE for what we CANNOT...so that other American TRADE ZONES can TRADE WITHIN the ZONES for SUPPLY and DEMAND and all HUMMING AND WORKING IN BALANCE?

COULD WE DO THIS? Could we RAMP UP our decrepit abandoned factories and make them Enviro Friendly but sucessful? Could we grow what we can in our geographical climates given the enviro limits of the coming Global Warming but STILL MANAGE to find ways to MAKE AND TRADE?

To "Use Up, Make Do or Wear Out?

Would it be worth it...or is it a fantasy? :shrug:

[paul_fromatlanta]

1. Oddly enough jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan had a similar idea

Oddly enough Jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan had a similar idea in 1982 - The Enterprise Zone Tax Act (H.R. 6009, S.2298)

And you know what killed it? Because it was proposed by a Republican they couldn't get Democratic co-sponsors.

If the Dems had proposed it the Republicans probably would have shot it down... we were very polarized in 1982, much like today.

[paul_fromatlanta]

2. But I should have mentioned I think its a great idea.

[KoKo]

3. I find these days that trying to MOVE FORWARD without Party Stuff gives

me hope for CHANGE. That if we take the "Bull by the Horns" and make the CHANGE "ourselves" maybe we can be agents rather than supplicants waiting for this Miracle of 2004 to come when the DEMS ride in on White Horses and Vanquish the Foe.

After waiting for the "White Horses and White Knights" since "Selection 2000" and seeing how compliant so many Americans are...and working on the ground politically....I've gotta tell you...I and some others need to move past the Partisan Politics and look to save our Souls and Butts here.

We need to pick up our skirts and pant legs and work beyond the Parties...(wade through the Big Muddy Filthy Swamp and look for a Promised land of our OWN MAKING!) We need to have a VISION of what COULD BE..and not WHAT IS...or WILL BE...according to "Others." :shrug:

I need POSITIVE ENERGY...So many others of us do, also. We need to put our shoulder to the wheel and make it happen for us. And, we could do it...if we could get together...in our disillusionment but agreement to "BYPASS."