Here’s AdPopulum.net regular contributor, Ted Auch, exercising his patriotism and voicing his grievances with Burlington, Vermont’s proposed partnership with Lockheed Martin.
“You have people all around this town who want to do this work for far less money with far more efficiency. But you’re giving the money to Lockheed Martin. Shame on you people, shame on you. You have scientists who want to work in this town and you’re giving it to them,” said Ted Auch who studies ecosystem carbon fluxes.”
For readers in the Burlington, VT, area: please join us at the Sustainability Academy for a screening of The Story of Stuff.
Co-sponsored by CSWD, the film screening will be followed by a brief discussion of municipal waste handling. This is a great opportunity to learn more about your community, and some of the critically important issues facing modern societies.
If you have specific questions for CSWD that you’d like addressed, please submit below via Comments, and we’ll forward to the appropriate parties.
Thanks! and hope to see you there!
There has been much consternation and job related discussion within the F-35 debate in Vermont and more specifically Chittenden County. There are those on the left (of which I am one!) and the right that voice their concern(s) with a great degree of passion and genuine interest, but this discussion strikes me as one that avoids the most important point about the F-35 and the Military Industrial Consortium constructing and marketing it (primarily Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney, General Electric, and Rolls-Royce). The debate is primarily an example of wealth and “security” asymmetry, which is another way of saying this plane and its R & D costs are a zero-sum game for a variety of constituents. Read the rest of this entry »
This post refers to the article, A Popular Principal, Wounded by Government’s Good Intentions, recently published in the New York Times. I’m linking to this article not only for its mention of Burlington, Vermont, and for its focus on a local school attended by many friends’ children, but also because it helps introduce to AdPopulum.net the essential subject of education reform in America. Sending citizens forward in thought and wisdom is one of the most important and necessary investments any healthy nation must make. Read the rest of this entry »
