Why is it that America is always last to have new technologies ? When I was in the military, people that served over seas always brought home electronic stuff that was years ahead of stuff sold here. Today we have some of the best technologies here, but yet most of it is sent over seas. I’m talking about solar power. Why is our country so slow to pick on ideas that help so many ? I guess the main reason is that it competes with a monopoly, your local electric company. Everyone has high speed trains but the U.S.. I thought we were the richest nation in the world ? What the hell is going on here ? Our government is fricking the hell out of us, pure on simple. Thats what is happening here. Some of their ideas are O.K., if president Obama wants to rally the poor people, collect their money, and start a health insurance plan for them, that is good. It gets an industrial nation covered, again we are the last to do it. But this solar idea really needs to fly. Why ? Because it is smart, and the best panels for homes are made right here in the USA, in Michigan, (Energy Conversion Devices),and we can get a ton of people working now, good paying jobs, and made in the USA. If we wait, we are giving Chinese solar the chance to get here, and we as Americans can not afford to do this. Come on America, lets go.