Thanks for the response, Jeffs!!
Wow, where do I start?
Currently, more buildings are destroyed yearly in various disasters, nationwide, than are being permitted for construction, a loss in all levels of Capital. Gotta improve the building frames of houses and small commercial buildings, or entire Construction Industry will file for bankruptcy. Same goes for personal-use cars and trucks. This is no-growth economics, and Capital is flowing in a downward eddy.
Currently, "Green Buildings" only consist of electrical appliances, plumbing fixtures, and electronics end-products inside of the buildings, and just the windows are energy efficient along the exteriors of the buildings, with a few types of insulated doors. That means that about 15%-20% of the entire building is end-product Green Technology/LEEDS certifiable. The current Green Products in buildings do nothing to improve the safety or structural performances of the buildings in hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, floods, earthquakes, etc. When the building is destroyed, the Green products are destroyed right along with the building, adding more high-dollar Capital property loss. Gotta improve the building frames of houses and small commercial buildings, or entire Green Technology and Climate Change Movements will fail.
Before hurricane Katrina, all of the Credit, Mortgage, Foreclosure, problems existed as volumous as after hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina alerted the Construction Industry, Property Development Investors and Financiers, Banks, Governments, and especially Consumers, that ALL small sized buildings are vulnerable to hurricanes, tornados, etc; not just certain types and certain wall frames. This realization of vulnerability sent shockwaves of uncertainty through all these industries and Consumer bases, which led to the loss of confidences in Land Property Development nationwide, and the dominoes started falling faster than Capital could keep up with. Gotta improve the building frames of houses and small commercial buildings, or the Great Depression will look like a cakewalk.
The amount of Capital saved per building frame structural improvement, spread accross the nation, equals about 5-times the amount of the current 800 billion dollar Government Rescue/Bailout happening currently. The Capital is located in hurricane-proof buildings, not hurricane prone buildings. A building totalled in a hurricane costs the insurer the total price of the building, plus the total price of the replavement building, plus a percentage of the building Owner's personal property lost in the destroyed building. That is a lot of Capital to waste, a lot of hassles for the building Owner to be burdened with, just to appease the Insurance Company- and Government-Paid Responders, Charities, and Rebuilders!! This leads to Deficit Spending, Credit Crisis', Mortgage Meltdowns, Foreclosures, and especially Devaluation of Real Estate Property and Capital!! Make the same building hurricane, tornados, fire, flood, etc; proof, and you save
between 60%-95% of the assessed Capital losses of the destroyed and replaced building!! THAT'S alot of CAPITAL!!
A new continuous structure frame reinforcing technology has been developed that fits into building, automobile, airplane, etc; body frames that goes a long way in wind, seismic, and collision-impact proofing these Capital-based end-products, called Continuous Connector-Reinforcing Engineered Systems. With these systems in building frames, better flood, thermal, and fire proofing can be added to the exteriors that turns the entire buildings, structures, etc; Green Technology/LEEDS Certifiable!!
"Go-Green, with Hurricane-Proof Building Frames!!" Slogan of Tor-Eggs-Tor Design Solutions Product Development Company.
From: JeffS (via Nabble) <[hidden email]>
To: Randy Lee Dube <[hidden email]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:24:19 PM
Subject: Re: Should we reduce labor or materials??
Bluntly, to the question about improving the economic situation, my answer is to state; none of the above. The answer to the current economic situation is to lower capital gains. That's it. The more capital in the market, the greater job growth and/or improvement. Lower taxes across the board would be good too but I would settle for a reduction if capital gains.
If you track the last 40 years of capital gains percentage and the employment number the following year, you'll note the corollary in these two metrics.
Growth does not occur without capital, R&D does not happen without capital, retooling facilities does not happen without capital.
To pin improvement on tertiary items and even things that are not materially important to what is the impetus of growth I don't know that it makes for a functional resolution. While consumption is important to ecoomic recovery, it does not exist if the paychecks are being written and thus the need for more capital in the system.
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." Inscription on John Wayne's Headstone
