in 1990 i worked at a place for 4 months where there was a lot of pressure on the workers.Larry T., one of my co-workers was laid off. he had a wife and kids.
after 3 months he came back in with a gun and some dynamite. he killed the VP of manufacturing, for whom there was very little sympathy.
i knew Larry as the nice & helpful guy who helped me set up for an EMI test. i started out as a mechanical engineer so i was always winging it when i did electronics testing. it was techs. like Larry T. that helped me do my job.
after he was laid off, his anxiety built to an unbearable level, and the logical thing to do was grab a gun and some dynamite.
the economy in the US is in bad shape for the workers.
i'd say the US government is anticipating a massive increase in the number of Larry T's.
it's related to the effect of Energy Transition on the economy.
also, because there is so little slack in the energy production and delivery system, one person with a gun can hugely impact the situation by taking 500K barrels per day off line. (the system is, almost by design, much more vulnerable to what the US government calls terrorism).
the situation is such that the US government can say, "it's those damn terrorists", and be partially accurate.
if the majority of Americans used firewood and walked to work, the loss of oil flow would be less impactful.
what the US government has done is embark on a "might makes right, we make the rules" foreign policy.
the sooner the rest of the world catches on, the better.
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posted 04 November 2006 11:46 AM
