I once worked as a technician at a national science laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. A fellow technician, one whose ethnic background had been more influential in procuring his employment than was his technical background, asked me a question regarding energy sources. “Why is it that no one has thought to put small windmills on automobiles so that they will generate extra electricity as the car moves?” I couldn’t help a sideways smirk as I answered, “That would increase the car’s wind resistance and weight while losing energy to the wind generator’s inherit inefficiency.” My perplexed co-worker replied, “So what?” I had to let my composure slip a bit while answering, “You’d just end up using more gasoline to run a heavier, less aerodynamic automobile at lower speeds, resulting in a huge energy waste.”

Now before you get all bothered and call me a racist, I must explain what this has to do with Obama’s economic “incentives”.

Obama or the government uses as “fuel” taxpayer generated funds. The business owner or worker expends work in generating the “fuel” and filing a tax return which is then processed by a government agency again “fueled” by taxes. Our highly paid, highly inefficient congress and government bureaucracy then decide where the “fuel” is to be spent or “burned”. The money then goes through one of many historically corrupt, taxpayer “fueled” agencies which then gives it to some relative, friend or crony. This guy, while perhaps “burning” some “fuel” on actual business generating activities, “burns” much of the “fuel” by contributing it in the form of campaign funds to the politician who came up with the “brilliant” bulleted “incentive” items.

What has happened to the U.S. economy is that the stupid “windmill” placed by the government on the hood of every American business’ “automobile” has gotten so big that it has ground all forward motion to a halt.

And now you say you want more “windmills”?

Give me a break!