Comments on: Washington state budget: It’s gonna get worse before it gets worse http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2009/11/19/washington-state-budget-its-gonna-get-worse-before-it-gets-worse/ Talking WA politics. Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:15:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: randydutton http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2009/11/19/washington-state-budget-its-gonna-get-worse-before-it-gets-worse/#comment-1695 randydutton Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:15:19 +0000 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/?p=1633#comment-1695 The budget crisis will get MUCH worse, and here's but one reason. We will lose jobs to China that require rare earth metals that America no longer produces. China has the monopoly, and annually is cutting raw material exports until 2012 when it won't export any. Here is a NYT article I suggest you read. nytimes.com/2009/09/01/business/global/01minerals.html?_r=1 It illustrates the fallacy of government creating thousands of green energy jobs, without a commensurate willingness to produce the raw materials necessary to make the devices. America lost its resource production capacity when environmentalism forced out that type mining. Without these 17 rare earth metals, there is little we can do to create US jobs making the devices. Further, our aerospace and defense industries, advanced electronics, lasers, data storage, and advanced batteries are all held hostage to a growing crisis. Having government spending our money to push us into increasing consumption of decreasing raw materials is suicidal. Please remember this as the debate rages about how Washington State spends taxpayer money. 2010 - VOTE to put common sense into government. The budget crisis will get MUCH worse, and here’s but one reason. We will lose jobs to China that require rare earth metals that America no longer produces. China has the monopoly, and annually is cutting raw material exports until 2012 when it won’t export any.

Here is a NYT article I suggest you read. nytimes.com/2009/09/01/business/global/01minerals.html?_r=1 It illustrates the fallacy of government creating thousands of green energy jobs, without a commensurate willingness to produce the raw materials necessary to make the devices. America lost its resource production capacity when environmentalism forced out that type mining. Without these 17 rare earth metals, there is little we can do to create US jobs making the devices. Further, our aerospace and defense industries, advanced electronics, lasers, data storage, and advanced batteries are all held hostage to a growing crisis.

Having government spending our money to push us into increasing consumption of decreasing raw materials is suicidal. Please remember this as the debate rages about how Washington State spends taxpayer money.

2010 – VOTE to put common sense into government.

]]> By: Exidor http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2009/11/19/washington-state-budget-its-gonna-get-worse-before-it-gets-worse/#comment-1659 Exidor Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:37:25 +0000 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/?p=1633#comment-1659 So accepting fed money as a bandaid to the real problem has restricted us from correcting the real problem? Of course the pet projects and special groups wont be touched. The cuts will get sent directly to core services of GOV to scare everyone into a tax, that by the way will never go down or go away once its in place. Makes you wonder why the real budget issues were not addressed last session, knowing they could not be touched now. Non of this can be a suprise to residents of WA or to the Legislature or OFM. If it is then we have much bigger problems than just the budget. So accepting fed money as a bandaid to the real problem has restricted us from correcting the real problem? Of course the pet projects and special groups wont be touched. The cuts will get sent directly to core services of GOV to scare everyone into a tax, that by the way will never go down or go away once its in place. Makes you wonder why the real budget issues were not addressed last session, knowing they could not be touched now. Non of this can be a suprise to residents of WA or to the Legislature or OFM. If it is then we have much bigger problems than just the budget.

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