Please send me your e-mail address,and your office address so that I can send you some of my thoughts on how to rebuild a great state.

Also, I want to send you a copy of my book
"New Ideas for the Twenty First Century" by James Raintree (my pen name). This book was written to re-build a great nation. (And is in itself a think-tank generator, as it invites and encourages every person who reads the book to improve on the new ideas presented, or to come up with better ideas. We need all the good ideas we can get, to bring peace and prosperity to every American, and to each of our neighbors here and throughout the world.

It's possible, and probable, that it is easier to rebuild a great nation, than to rebuild a great state. Why? Because none of our states has a money machine (the right to print money). Only the U.S. Treasury has the right to print money. However, it's time has come, when a state needs money to help re-build its economy and provide jobs for its people, that the U.S. Treasury provide the funds needed to pay for the government work projects provided for full employment, until full employment can be provided by the private sector.

In 1933, President FDR, in his first 100 days in office, went off the Gold Standard, printed billions of dollars to fund the 1,410,000 work projects that his team of brainstorms came up with, to put millions of Americans to work, that led the way to our recovery from the great depression, and the re-building of our great nation. We are still off the Gold Standard, thank god and FDR, who gave us and the world the blueprint for recovery. We need to brainstorm and come up with the necessary work projects, and then send the bill for the work projects to the U. S. Treasury and demand that they pay that bill. It is the federal government that permitted our jobs to be shipped to China, Indea, Mexico, etc.

Now, for the future, and to eliminate the need for government work projects, except on a limited bais as a safe harbor, we need to eliminate recessions forever on this planet, as outlined on pages 10 thru 18 of Chapter One of my book. It's called "Economic Modeling," and it's user friendly. It's the first major change in the history of economics, except for the “exchange facilitator” we call "money."

Please let me hear from you. My e-mail address is provided above my comment.

Dick Trent

Valerie Eaglin

Your memories, as you described them, became palatable to me--someone who grew up in a slightly different climate---and I enjoyed them immensely. Thanks for the journey.

Carolyn