Excellent idea, Mr. Speaker
This is perfect.....
First, the backstory......Divine Intervention/Government Incompetence
My darling daughter lives in Salisbury, NC, along with the off-line "brains" of United Smiths of America. On my return journey via Amtrak, I was a southbound passenger on the following train derailment, I have the stub in Google Picasa, tell me how to make it my "avatar".......
http://archive.salisburypost.com/ar...e=allwords&archive_pubname=Salisbury+Post
And after the 10 hours episode (thank god we were'nt on the 10th floor of a bombed building, or a rooftop in NewOrleans), me and five strangers discussed the derailment in the barcar, plus I showed them 5 planks the United Smiths of America came up with.
This was the THIRD pre-Katrina episode I witnessed, telling me, "we are screwed", the first in 1978 when we broke into the nuclear fallout shelter underneath the Abbey Church in St. Bernard Alabama, found tins of moldy 1960's crackers as the "food" in case of emergency.
So, this is a great place to discuss common sense government, the United Smith's of America.
Plank 1-Revoke every pension/insurance perk for "elective/elected" officials, the dole is over for millionaires who got us here in the first place.
Plank 2-Bring back "exile" to quickly deal with dictators involved with crimes against humanity. My Sisters in Benedictines for Peace assure me that St. Helena Island (Napolean) or Antarctic moonlike pods appear feasible and justified.
Plank 3-Mint a one dollar and 5 dollar coin.
Plank 4-Education-uniforms work/year round calender works/segregation of sexes benefits both groups. Just do it.
Plank 5-TrueMajority.com describes it best. 10,000 nuclear warheads is a tad uberboard in the US arsenal. Tractors/waterpumps replace arming the rest of the world. Our helicoptors are threatened with clones of the same missles we gave the Afgans in the 1980's.
This is serious, folks, looking for ideas the 80% of citizens can agree on.
Estate tax? Environment? Hubble versus "return to the moon"? "Corporate welfare (agri. bill favoring Con-Agra/ADM versus small farmers")
These are the "dead horses in Main Street", dealt with promptly. 80% of us can agree on "spammers", probably legislate something to deal with it in less than a week.
Anyway, love to hear from other citizens.
United "my name ain't Smith" of America.
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it still is a foolish thing" Anatole France