Company Private Family held company in New York
History 16 years of continuous, commercial operations in Israel
Industry Commercial Organic Greenhouse Food Production
Market 2,800 facilities in 44 states
Jobs 518,000 (185 per greenhouse)
Pay $34,434/avg ($11 to $50 per hour)

Brief With 16 years of success in a hot and dry desert, and 6 years of success in the cold and dark North Sea region (Netherlands), we know our greenhouse model will deliver predictable harvests in sold and dark Northern U.S. states and hot and dry Southern U.S. states.

Solving Systemic Economic and Environmental. Problems

Food Safety - While the Food Safety Bill was passed, the fiscal conflict on Capitol Hill did not get it funded. Thus we continue to import fresh food from under regulated countries. Growing our own food in highly efficient, organic (Kosher!) greenhouses, ends this Food Safety concern.

Food Security - Scientist believed by 2020, that Chinese demand for food and water would begin to crowd out supplies from their neighbors. With prioritized growing operations in Russia, Malaysia, Australia, Africa, South America..even the U.S. (China owns 50 square miles south of Boise), this Chinese food issue is already effecting the world's markets. Tens of thousands of acres in Argentina and Brazil that once grew our food, is now growing soy beans for container shipment back to Chinese pigs and chickens. Again, growing our own food eliminates any food security issues we currently have.

Food Nutrition - For 60 years, food marketers have been breeding food to be the right size, shape and color. Thus, the nutritional value of our produce has been "dumbed down." This startling fact is revealed in an obscure report that few politicians want anyone to know. But I have it and I'm happy to share it with all in the White House who are focused on nutrition and crowding out fatty foods for our increasingly obese population (both adults and kids).

Greenhouse Gas Sequestration- Each 30 acre greenhouse complex is a natural GHG sink...where our fruits and vegetables undergo a robust photo synthesis process...daily. By rotating out old plants and replacing them with new plants every 13 weeks, we will sequester 30,000 tons of CO2 per year. Linde Gas, the same company that collects CO2 from the Shell Oil Refinery in Pernis and distributes this CO2 to 400 commercial Dutch greenhouses, is our partner here in North America. They have a CO2 collector model that can be sold to any standard oil refinery for $1.2 M. With such a CO2 collector in place the combined refinery and greenhouse will create carbon credits worth $210K per year. Even in a voluntary carbon market, that is enough to finance the CO2 collector (PV = $1.2M, N= 30 yers, i = 5%, PMT/yr = $42,635)

Green Fuel Production - To satisfy the clean air act, the EPA is looking for refiners to produce and or blend 6.6 million gallons of cellulosic bio fuels. The American Petroleum Institute says these fuels are not available nor is there a market for them. Since our greenhouse waste most resembles common "Peat", gasifying this uniform, predictable supply of biosolids will produce 650,760 gallons of "green diesel" per year. This Fisher Tropsch Diesel is already markeed in Europe. To satisfy the EPA "green fuel" requirement, we need to build just 11 NPPI greenhouses and gasify the waste. The full mature market potential for this fuel is 1.8 billion gallons...to be blended with home heating fuel as well as over the road transportation fuels.

Water Pollution - Despite 20 years of direct and focused conservation efforts by U.S. farmers, the quality of U.S. ground water continues to decline. There are two reasons for this:
1. fuel crops - since corn and soy destined for a bio fuels plant are not to be consumed by animals or people, many more chemicals are used to raise these crops. These chemicals wash into the acquifer during any rainfall.
2. bio solids - large concentrated animal operations routinely dispose of their animal wastes by "spraying fields" with the biosolids. Thus, all of the antibiotics, growth hormones, etc.. consumed by the animals, ends up in our ground water.
The report I will reference in our White House meeting is from the US Geological Survey. It took 12 years to collect this data and another 4 years to report on the data. With no good news to report, this data received very little attention from media outlets. Recently ground water supply and contaminiation issues became news with the Keystone Pipeline project built in a well defined and important aquifer in the Mid west.

Debt and Deficit - Since we borrow 42% of the federal budget, and we lend $5.2 Billion to foreign growers, thus when we consume imported produce we
Contribute to the Federal budget deficit
Contribute to the International Trade deficit
Contribute to the Federal debt
Create jobs over seas...when we need to create jobs here.

If the USDA lent $5.2 Billion to NPPI...instead of to foreign growers:

Greenhouses - 231 Thirty Acre Complexes
Job Creation - 42,375
Pay rolls - $1.47 Billion
CO2 sequestered - 6.93 Million tons per year
Food Production - 1.7 Million tons (9% of current imports)

And since each single greenhouse complex supports the construction of two more 30 acre complexes, if we had such a year one investment as $5.2 Billion, at t he end of five years, we will have
built all 2,800 greenhouses in 44 states, employ 518,000, growing
all the food we currently import.

I am on Capitol Hill frequently briefing members of Congres from significant Dairy Districts. Let me know when I can come to the White House and brief:
President Obama Permanent Swing state job creation
VP Biden Permanent Green Jobs
Michelle Obama Nutritious fresh food to crowd out fatty foods
Jill Biden Middle Class jobs for returning vets.

Let me know what the next steps are.

Robert McManus
National Produce Production Inc
5 Barley Cone Lane
Rosemont, PA 19010
mcmanusrjh@aol.com
610-525-3479

Startups and small businesses create the lion's share of new jobs, in every part of the country and in every industry. The President is taking action to ensure that America continues to be the best place in the world to turn an idea into a business. Tell us -- how will these actions affect your business?

First, the White House Startup America Initiative is a government-wide effort to expand access to capital, cut red tape, and accelerate innovation through executive action:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/startupamerica

Second, the President has unveiled a Startup America Legislative Agenda, urging Congress to expand tax relief and unlock capital for startups and small businesses:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/startup_america_legislative_agenda.pdf

The Startup America Partnership is an alliance of entrepreneurs, major corporations, and service providers created in response to the President's call to action to accelerate startup success across the country. In just one year, the Partnership has mobilized over $1 billion in business resources to serve as many as 100,000 startups over the next three years.

As a nonprofit that is independent of the federal government, the Startup America Partnership targets these resources to young companies that want to grow rapidly. It's free to register and get access to these resources, from software to legal filings to marketing services.

http://www.startupamericapartnership.org/get-registered

How is the Startup America Partnership making a difference for your business?

Over the past three years a great deal of funding has gone to help train individuals to start small businesses. We need to help the small businesses who are stuck in the middle and have been ignored. I own a 22 year old business. We are tapped out on our line of credit, have a high commercial mortgage payment on an office that is mostly empty, have given up my salary to keep employees, and loaned the business money to make staff payroll and pay bills. I know dozens of owners in the same position. We can't refinance or get more line of credit because we aren't making money right now. We have used our kids college money and our retirement to stay afloat. We are against the wall. We don't get unemployment. We can't finance our way out. We are lost in between. All we really want is work.
Help us we rebuild our businesses. Give us a tax refund on the money we lend our businesses. Find other ways to help us!

I have an idea for creating jobs overnight. If the Federal Government required that all departments were required to use a USA made apparel option before using an oversea product, not just cut and sew but knitting and spinning as well, we could see a huge impact in new/old jobs. This means that people would be coming off unemployment tomorrow. The Branches of The Military currently have this stipulation in place (the only reason we have large scale apparel manufacturing in our country still) but we could spread it into other departments. Where Federal Money is being spent, from Higher Education to National Parks, we could put this as a requirement.

I am speaking about clothing because that is what I make but it is not mutually exclusive to this product. I think other business owners that manufacture goods in American would agree, the extra push for our goods at the Federal Level would create over one-hundred thousand jobs in one day.

I think many of us have heard about the dilemma of the USPS. I have an idea about how to modify (and ultimately let the USPS keep running) their organization. Instead of the USPS operating under its current organizational structure, why not modify the USPS to making it a cooperative: an organization where the U.S. citizenry and the U.S. government can be "members" of the USPS, and ultimately guide its operations by the use of voting. For those reading my post and to those who are wanting to know what is a cooperative, let me briefly explain: according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cooperative), a cooperative is an "organization (or enterprise) owned by or operated for the benefit of those using its services." Let me know if its a good idea? And constructive arguments are welcomed as well, as I may include more details following some responses.

You can create jobs by streamlining the GSA Schedule application and award process. I am a small business owner. 80% of all jobs are created by small businesses. I make and sell high quality tripods for the US military and law enforcement here in the USA. It is difficult for US small business entities (SBE) to get on the GSA Schedule. With respect to the GSA, I suggest reducing or dispensing with the 10% price break and the $25k average 3-year annual sales requirements for US SBE with 10 or less employees. If I receive a GSA Schedule Award, I can and will create more jobs.