User:CoNuCCBD

A little about me to understand my perspective.

Co - I am a political conservative. I believe that the blessings of liberty and the civil society are best secured and protected through a federal republic. I believe that the individual is the sovereign as proclaimed in the 9th amendment and the preamble to the Constitution of the United States. I believe that government, while necessary, must be executed at the lowest level possible and only when authorized through limited and enumerated powers as required and consented by the individual, or through a free association of like-minded individuals. I believe that each individual has the right to believe what he chooses, so long as these beliefs are tolerant of other beliefs and do not infringe on the God given rights of other citizens within the civil society of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence. I believe that each individual has the right to protect his property and his rights from threat or usurpation.

CC - I believe that decentralized cryptocurrency is the ideal method of transacting value. I believe that centralized government controlled fiat systems have failed time and time again, and provide another opportunity for tyranny to oppress the people. The Federal Reserve, hyper-inflation, and the Great depression are all examples where governments have used bad monetary policy respectfully to: 1) protect entrenched interests at the expense of the sovereign individual, 2) subsidize poor fiscal policy by devaluing the individual's property without their consent, and 3) incompetence in maintaining sufficient liquidity for the market to properly operate. A decentralized cryptocurrency is ideal to avoid all of these negative outcomes, places the power in the hands of the individual, and removes the entrenched interests from taking advantage of the individual without their consent.  Moreover, cryptocurrency requires no infrastructure, and is ideal for transacting value in locations with limited government service and infrastructure.  Furthermore, crytpocurrency can instantly transact value around the globe, independent of the fiat currencies in use, exchange rates, and associated taxes, fees, and delays that traditionally come with these systems.

Nu - I believe that nuclear technology, in particular 4th generation nuclear power plant technology, is the key to solving the worlds energy, water, and food needs. I believe that abundant, inexpensive, and clean energy is the engine of economic growth. Water shortages around a world covered in water can only be explained from a lack of energy to clean, sterilize, and transport the water from the oceans, lakes, and rivers of the world to where it is needed. A lack of food can only be explained from a lack of water and energy to cultivate the abundant fertile land around the globe. Solving the energy problem can solve all of these issues. All energy sources have cost. Coal, Gas, and Oil are limited in quantity and ever increasingly difficult to retrieve from the ground. Wind turbines and photovoltaic panels must be produced by industry, and have service and maintenance cost that are currently cost ineffective in the marketplace and are the least dense forms of energy, requiring enormous amounts of land to provide enough power for society. Hydroelectric power requires enormous infrastructure investment, floods usable land, and is subject to risks from silting, natural disasters, and engineering challenges. Only Nuclear technology has the energy density, long term availability, and low-cost that will be the energy of the future until other sources of energy such as nuclear fusion, can be developed. There is sufficient Uranium, through natural deposits and also through conversion of Thorium to U-233 via breeding, to supply the energy of the world for centuries, if not millenia, to come.

BD - I am a business developer. I believe that capitalism, a system where all parties involved in a transaction feel that they have benefited, is the ideal free market system that will promote innovation, and inexpensively deliver goods and services to market. I believe that the collective self-interest of millions of businesses and billions of individuals will determine solutions that will match or beat any centralized government bureaucracy ever conceived.