A Presidency to Nowhere: "High-Speed Rail and Solar Shingles Are Not the Answer"

"High-speed rail and solar shingles? If that's the president's idea of meeting our Sputnik moment, then Houston, we have a problem."

Really? Why is that a problem? Also, there was more to the speech than these two items.

The author of the article seems pretty confused. He wants to see vision in the President's policies. And yet he dismisses 'green jobs' as ' that's an industry off in the future. ' and demands a solution for a 'here-and-now economy.'

Perhaps the author has a point to make, but I can't see it.

The whole premise of the article is flawed. Middle-class folks want jobs that can't easily be outsourced so they can build careers and lives from it.

Not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur, and selling more SUVs and mining more coal isn't going to be enough for the 21st century.

I don't want a green energy solution that requires lots and lots of new high-paying jobs. Why not? Think about where the money will come from to pay for them. Money that will not be going into productive industry.