Fast for the Future - F3 - Jan 14 - Jan 28, 2008*
Preamble to the Fast
The U.S. government has many times over proven that it is willing to commit hundreds of billions of dollars to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan which have no practical strategic benefit to the nation's future other than to sustain the status quo. The massive cost of these wars, estimated by the Congressional Budget Office to be $1.6 trillion through 2017, is what economists call an "externality" which is not priced into the cost of oil and gasoline. This externality makes a mockery of free market arguments for our persistence in foreign energy dependence.
Together with these commitments of national treasure, the U.S. government persists committing and risking the lives of hundreds of thousands of young American volunteers towards the same specious ends.
By this fast, let us begin to demand that similar resources be committed to waging strategic war peacefully, using the resources of all Americas, military and civilian alike, to break our collective dependence on foreign energy. For far less than the cost of these wars we can break our foreign energy dependence.
The Fast for the Future is to support the concept of the Energy Independence Act of 2008. This act will commit sums similar to just one Iraq war defense "supplemental" appropriation to use for the conversion of the US infrastructure to a non-import energy economy, ideally using renewable, limitless energy resources from wind and solar.
Both Democrats and Republicans alike appear willing to spend as much as $1.6 trillion for the next ten years send our nation's children to stabilize foreign energy resources. Today's babes playing in the park already have their futures appointed for them: fight in the Middle East in 2017 to stabilize the price of petroleum, today. This is an unacceptable state of affairs, particularly when every resource is available to break this dependence. We should not make our children into sacrifices to the dragon of oil dependence. We must preserve the American soul, stand up and fight down the dragon, together.
Shot Across the Bow
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Terms of the Fast - Dates and Projects
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F3x2
| F3 ends
midnight starting January 28 but the fight goes on. Please
continue writing letters to elected officials, sign the petition and
stay in touch with usafuture.org. To raise the stakes beginning midnight starting July 15, 2008 the F3x2 will commence. This will be a longer, 28 day fast to support passage of the EIA. If you have an interest in join us for the next fast please contact us here. Thank you for your support! |