{"id":2257,"date":"2011-03-29T11:48:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T15:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/greening-of-america-james-r-wright.html"},"modified":"2011-03-29T11:48:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T15:48:19","slug":"greening-of-america-james-r-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/greening-of-america-james-r-wright.html","title":{"rendered":"Greening Of America –James R. Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"In a long-running email discussion that started with a post\nby Valdosta City Council member James R. Wright about switchgrass\nfor biomass, Councilmember Wright wrote two messages on Saturday,\n26 March 2011, each asking questions of Dr. Michael Noll.\nThe first one contained this paragraph:\n
\n\n<\/a>\nEconomic development is a high priority on the mind of many people. If\nyou read the local paper you will see page after page of foreclosures,\nfailing businesses, and unemployment at a all time high. Please explain\nto me how we can address these problems through energy needs?\n<\/blockquote>\nCouncilmember Wright elaborated later that same day:\n\n\n
\nWho will retrofit the building you mention? Who will improve the\ninfrastructure and provide public transit? I doubt very seriously that\nit will be the people who I am referring to.\n

\nMy point being it is easy to tell a person they don’t need work when you\nhave work and can provide for your family. It is nearly impossible for\npeople unemployed living in poverty everyday to understand the concept\nthat they don’t need a job when their family is being put out on the\nstreets.\n

\nAs a representative I feel my highest priority is providing\nopportunities for men and women to take care of themselves and their\nfamilies. It is obvious that some do not feel that way. They have\nforgotten what it is like to be poor or never was. I feel that economic\ndevelopment is a top priority for many, and I would wager that all open\nminded people and all who do not have jobs and cannot provide for their\nfamilies feel the same. I suggest that those who feel different, quit\nyour job, become unemployed and come live in the areas where this is the\nnorm and I promise you that their views will soon change. I humbly\nsubmit to you that our priorities or out of order. For the one thing\nworse than the things we are discussing, are those things that allow\nthem to exist.\n

\nI doubt that this e-mail will change your view, as mine have not\nchanged. As such, I will allow you the last response. I appreciate the\nopportunity to discuss our differences in a civil manner.\n<\/blockquote>\nI will probably post more of this discussion later.\n

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