... or at least that's what it sounds like when I hear some campaign speeches. Senator Barack Obama said in Sarasota FL yesterday : We will reopen old factories, old plants, to build solar panels and wind turbines. Coyote Blog responds thus: LOL. Barrack is going to open some of those old GM plants in Flint, Michigan and build solar panels. Seriously, is this a rhetorical flourish or does he really believe that factories are generic production facilities that can make anything...? While insightful, I think this rejoinder misses the point. More and more the rhetoric of the Democratic campaign seems to be coming directly out of Upton Sinclair's 1934 run for the governorship of California on his EPIC platform (End Poverty in California Now), in which he promised more spending [even if the money had to be printed without anything behind it], and a massive new State bureaucracy that would take over supervision of industry, agriculture, and trade-- including the reopening of idle...