Don't forget the huge unproductive brain-drain from Uncle Sam's Military-Industrial-Political Complex. Ike is rolling in his grave. Uncle Sugar is absolutely desperate to hire more Federal Civil Servants (Formerly known as General Schedule, or 'GS' employees, now NSPS {Nt'l Security Personnel System)...Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Savanna River, Hanaford, Pacific National Labs, and on and on. And then there are the contractors...lions and tigers and bear oh my! The vast majorities of these scientists and engineers need to be US citizens, and they are working on better ways to kill folks instead of better ways to conserve energy and provide more environmentally friendly energy and so forth. If that isn't bad enough, I authenticate that the 'managers' in this gigantic unproductive enterprise make far more than most of the PhD scientists and engineers...for making and presenting Power Point slides and such.

I don't want to hear the foderol that there aren't enough scientists and engineers to work in solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear energy, efficiency technologies, and power transmission...if we were to pull the throttle back 25% on our atrocious 'National (in)Security' budgets, we could do all that and more! Of course, Uncle Sam, and his 'Don't tax me one nickel (unless it is for 'National Defense' then we will give you everything you want and ignore you losing track of $2T over 15 years) taxpayers would have to re-allocate this level of effort to these energy and other sustainability technologies.

We spend more on 'National Defense' than the rest of the world combined, and have for some time now, with no letup in sight. Obama and his coterie of Democrats will not have the _alls to reduce the 'Defense' budget by even 10%...they know that the right-wing attack dog machine would pounce and the scared grandmas and soccer moms with the faded 'support our troops' magnets and stickers would run for safe have under the Republican's 'Big Daddy' 'Defense' umbrella, and all would be well again in Military-Industrial-Political Complex-Land. If the people needed extra convincing, then another 'attack' would magically happen.

Talk about cognitive dissonance...I dearly would love to work in the sustainable energy industries...where are they? They are but a mote of dust next to the M-I-P Complex job base. M-I-P Complex jobs pay a lot more and unfortunately will be around forever (or until our society collapses).