My Opinions as a Professional Engineer

Observations after spending many hours, as an Professional Engineer, looking into the political world and comparing it to my engineering world.  As an engineer, we have always looked at the world as a problem solving environment, and so do politicians but that is where the similarity ends.

Engineers seek a feasible, workable solution, put it in action, and make it work.  The solution must be feasible and workable or your actions themselves eliminate you from the field of engineering, just as it should.  Engineering is governed by the basic laws of nature which do not change and which are known by everyone.  Any engineer (or anyone in any technical field)  must base their work on what we all know to be true or we are going to fail and be eliminated from our field of work, just as we should be.

However, the political world is entirely different.  In the political world, you can advocate, preach, follow, or demand anything you wish, be it good, bad, right, wrong, possible or impossible.  You just have to put it in the "proper context" and offer it in a "charismatic" manner.  Your are not faced with the "laws of nature" that force you to move in the right direction or it will throw you out of the system.  The political world is wide open to anyone and anything, be it good, bad, right, or wrong.  You just pick up and advocate whatever subject will gather a crowd and bring you some political donations.   After getting elected, you do what-ever you want to do, with no concern for what you have promised.  When the next election cycle turns up you do the same thing; promise what-ever will get you re-elected and then screw the public again.  We, the public, have a very short memory.  It is your charisma  and our two-party system that forces us to vote for the lesser of two evils and keeps us electing and re-electing you again and again.  So what "we, the people" get is a terrible government, but, it is what we deserve.  Our politicians spend a lifetime in public office tearing down our nation, while we lemmings just keep electing them back to office again and again.  It is we, you and me, who are the "idiots" not the politicians we keep electing to public office; they are highly intelligent, but manipulative and dishonest in most every aspect of their life.  (Not all, but the majority falls into this category.)

In the world of Engineering (and all other technical fields), we are not seeking to "control the masses" we are seeking to "develop" what is advantageous and technical feasible for our environment, our family, our community, and our nation.  From a technical sense, there is a true right and wrong and everyone knows what it is.  For example, water flows down hill, gravity brings objects together, clean air and water is needed for our survival, and the sun brings us daylight.  If you advocate anything different from this, everyone knows you are an idiot and you are thrown out of your field of work.

But in the political arena, a charismatic speaker can tell us that water flows uphill and a large percentage of us will believe him.  There is no automatic, built in system, that throws you out if you are not honest and correct in what you say, such as the one we have in the technical field.  In the political field the people can even embrace you and give you lots of money for saying it.  If those of us in the technical fields accept money based on telling a lie, we could go to jail.   Big, big difference.  I will never join the political field in their way of doing business, but I do understand that I must tolerate them and treat them with respect, even though they might not have earned it.

Let me throw some "real world realities" into the political world.  The facts are that, in the Political Arena, (just as in the technical arena) there are also fixed and unchangeable laws of survival associated with items such as our economy, our environment, our borders, our culture, the proper guidelines for our military, and for our survival as a free nation -- we only need to vote into office the politicians who will abide by them rather than voting for the snake oil salesmen.

If we can just look away from the "charisma" and toward "doing what is right for our country" we can change everything.  This is something we must do in order to maintain our freedom and security, but how many people can I convince of this simple "fact of life?"  I know I am not alone in this, about 40% of you agree with me.

I am not saying that all politicians fit into this bad guy classification, about 40% of them are fighting for good and responsible government just like the rest of us, but they are not going to get there while fighting the 60% bad guys.  What  we need to do is to remove at least half of the bad guys and replace them with some more "good guys."  If we will just follow the above guidelines, it is easy to identify the good guys.  Unfortunately none of them are running for President this year, at least not within the two party system, as, has been the case, for the past 20 years.

We need more Ronald Regan's and Ike Eisenhower's.   I certainly don't consider myself in their class, but the field of available qualified people has dropped so low, that I do seriously consider myself as the best there is running this year.

We are in the process of putting together some good guys to work with us and if we are successful, we can work as a team and turn around our nation and our future. Look around your neighborhood and help us sign up some more of the good guys who are willing to run for congress and work with us.  Find some intelligent people who have never run for public office; show them this web site and talk them into running for office.  There are millions of you out there who are fully qualified, so step forward and get politically active.  And we must also do it now, the next election cycle will be too late.

For more than 20 years I have been fighting a battle to get our country to build coal gasification plants so we can become energy independent.  A very few politicians have agreed with me, but has anyone done anything?  No!  We are still in the minority, but the higher the price or gas goes, the more our numbers grow.

Unfortunately, we are running out of time, if we let the "bad guys" run the show for another 4 years it will be too late to recover.  If you understand what I am saying, you have got to do something, get active, do anything, but don't put the  same old "bad guys" back into office or we will "self destruct."