And you can't start in the capitols. There has to be a force to sustain it outside of government, or it just gets swept away like so much flotsam. The state legislatures pass several thousand bills a year that are unusable for this reason. In order to get this Green Century theme passed in California when I was Secretary of Resources, I put together an unstoppable public force. The banks care a great deal about water, for example, because they make loans to the farmers and to the industry that lays pipe, so the bank lobbyist supports water development.
Agriculture is surrounded by universities and engineering societies, and so on.
They're guarding the Treasury because they know that if others get at it, the money will come out of their hides. They're fighting each other needlessly, and often not managing very well. So I proposed that we form a new nucleus, a new center, and that we call it the Investment Fund. It would guarantee more support for individual programs, but it would require their linking up together. They needed to form a new, larger cell.