Melançon Enterprises • a multidivision multinational since 1980

K: India is operating off of the microfinance

Grandpa: I believe in […] the radical

principle in Egypt is you have to have some sort of

"gives them the work ethic"

What alternative?

I blame the government, what industry do we have?

K: (will have to ask her to repeat her awesome monologue)

Grandpa:
I am very much involved - for 25 years i was involved in educational system
said we don't need schools, we need teachers and equipment

20% of our kids are not able to follow a normal school system, are not able to follow the intellectual development, because they are not mentally able to do this, but very much suited to do manual jobs, but these things do not exist

but if you ask a kid to exercise

K:

These kids are failing in every test because they don't see the point.

People go to trade schools, they have the incentive, they are not able to do carpentry because they cannot adapt to measuring

K: What age?

Fred: 12-16

K: You shape a child's mind from 3 to 6, and anything after that you are playing catch-up

Fred:
Kids in the second grade and cannot keep up
special instruction and everything, and they still cannot do anything

K:
A lot of those kids, it's the fault of the education system. A lot of what we do with remediation is a field that teachers can go into. It doesn't help, it doesn't help at all.

Resources to do montasori

Fred:
have one on one instruction and one on two instruction

K: send my program in

Every kid has

Fred:
I employed 1,000 people

and they did some of the most fantastic jobs
these jobs were eliminated by the government

and i claim you have a certain percentage of the population

but the industries are no more

we don't have shoe, textile, steel, half our car, most of our airplane, much of our computer technology

K:
There's a split here-- there's the industries we've outsourced, and then there's the industries still here that we've consolidated.

Agriculture number one: employing three guys, who aren't making good money

Fred:
What do we do?

K:
It's a fad to eat local
Taking something and making it popular
In Richmond alone, there's a huge number of people supporting themselves through organic gardening - only because it is a fad right now

Even where not a fad or cool, we need to start thinking in local units.

Fred:
Go to Wal-Mart, K-Mart, take forever to find anything marked made in the US. All the jobs suitable for quite a lot of people, no more existing.

Car mechanics, 90% no more able to do this because electronics took over

The fishing industry is dying because of overfishing with one ship which used to take 20.

All these people who used to be in the fishing industry, now no more.

Plus many people employed in jobs not suited for them.

K:
Our government's answer is war.

Fred:
I have a solution. A self-sustaining society.

Enough is enough.

K:

Look around any room. Do you know how it works, could you fix it if it breaks?

What you are saying, i am preaching

there is not one thing i didn't build myself in the house

did all

I know what can be done and what cannot be done.

Even my electricians had limited knowledge. When it came to more complicated circuits, they could only do a three-way switch, not a four-way switch. Even plumbers could not figure out heating surface for more than a normal height room. And these are licensed.

You get your [cubic] area, and divide by BTUs.

And he says how do i do this.

You have to take the limitations of people.

Electricians. You are either a high-voltage specialist who has no idea how to wire a house, or you are a normal electrician who has no idea about high voltage.

I respect every single one of them who was a tradesman, because he does a good job for what he is qualified.

K:
I believe our educational system is massively creating people who are only good at one thing

We were a hotbed of innovation for the 150 years before we started public education.

It was a characteristic of the nation to put things together in new and novel ways. There's something about our system that kills the urge to connect things in new ways.

I've been in the room with teachers who say- cells are tiny. And the kid will say, what about an egg? Which is a single cell, but a very large one.

Fred:
I had quite a few teachers

Outlook of the E?H? er theory
how much interlacing can you have without failure

They just were not able to absorb the tridimensional thing you must have to have in your mind

weave, diameter, interlacing

How many people in your courses could absorb trigonometry?

That applies to every industry [something that cannot be grasped]

We have to be self-sufficient.

We are losing our whole chemical industry, going overseas. Our drug manufacturing is going overseas.

I come back to my old theory, the nation is better off with a

right now the quota for imports from foreign countries is practically non-existent.

Ending NAFTA

Fruit of the Loom is violating quotas

Same thing happens with our other partner

Mexico one of the worst offenders, no improvement in wages there

Ending NAFTA #1.

Agreement with China has to have the same restrictions on both sides. Same thing with Japan.

#3. With government help and financing, bring basic industries back to the United States.

#4. Government contracts only by U.S. companies.

None of that would start a trade war.

I can list ten things.

Everyday occurrence