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This month’s theme is alternative energy. My resume’ documents
twelve years spent working in the nuclear industry; however, I won’t
be extolling the virtues of pressurized water reactors. (Unless the
editors grant me an additional 2000 words in a future issue.) For
the moment, I will limit my comments to what the Constitution
conspicuously doesn’t say about alternative energy.

We pay lip service to ideas like “free market economy” and
“level playing field,” yet it is apparent to a growing percentage of
the population that those concepts are nothing more than mere
slogans. America (and the world) is watching in shock and awe as
our politicians pretend to justify last year’s trillion dollar bailout, this
year’s double-trillion dollar stimulus package, and next year’s tripletrillion
dollar budget, as if anything with twelve zeros to the left of the
decimal point can be called a budget.