You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™
The state of affairs in this country.
Inflation. The shrinking dollar. The housing crisis. Entitlements. Welfare. Unemployment. Foreclosures. Republicans. Democrats. Tea Partiers. Partisan politics. filibusters. government waste. health care costs. taxation. The I.R.S. Debt limits. Cost over runs. Banking Scum Bags.
EN O U G H * A L L * R E A D Y
If America was a computer, you’d turn it off, walk away, get a cup of coffee and power the nation back on.
The computer would hopefully churn to life with a fresh page and a happy little blinking cursor.
Unfortunately the country doesn’t work this way.
It doesn’t reboot and magically connect to an internet ripe with Asian porn and you tube videos of dancing cats.
But what if it did? What if we could unplug America and restart it, with a blank page and fresh start?
I say we get out the Constitution and lay it on the war table and plan our attack from scratch.
I am all for the vision laid out by the founding fathers, but their plan didn’t envision a populous of 300-million people? Somewhere along the 250 year trek to greatness, we blew a tire and got side tracked.
BY the people FOR the People is still a laudable goal, but there are so many more people to be BY and FOR.
Imagine if we could be George Washington standing on a hill surveying the possibilities of the greatest country on Earth. How would we proceed? How would we attack?
If I’m laying out the terms of engagement for a country in the incubation chamber, I’m starting with Life. Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness.
Those are my my first Constitutional amendments. If we live by these pillars, how can we go wrong?
LIFE: We guarantee everyone the right to life and everything that enhances that life.
LIBERTY: That’s freedom. That’s choice. That’s what every human since the beginning of time has wanted.
HAPPINESS: It’s what makes living and being free worth living and being free.
If I’m the new George Washington, I’ve Got to put this in the war plan for the future, right?
And since I’m re-writing the national agenda, how about my 2nd amendment:
If you can’t love the one you want, love the one you’re with?
That’s not a bad amendment. It ensures love and tranquility. It promotes togetherness and fellowship. It ensures peace and fairness.
If you can’t love the one you want, then love the one you’re with is an amendment that has a great back beat you can dance to.
Amendment 3:
Do Unto Others as You Would Have them do unto you.
It’s biblical but if you break it down, it means be as good an American as you can be. It’s a damn good bible verse and I say it belongs on my new American Constitution.
While we are rebooting America, I say we get rid of the party system and just let Americans vote for their leaders with no strings attached. No pork, no partisan politics, no back room deals.
Nobody is classified as a Democrat or a Republican.
Forever gone are the R’s and the D’s before a candidate’s name. You can shove them back in the alphabet where they belong.
In my re-booted America, your position is your platform. If I like what you stand for – you get my vote. If you don’t represent my views – then I vote for the other guy.
How about rich versus poor? That’s a tough one? The world has always had “haves” and “have nots.”
Financial independence is certainly apart of the rebooted American spirit.
Poor. Middle Class. Rich.
My America realizes there will always be a class system.
A re-booted America will prompt the poor to help themselves with programs and jobs that allow them to get on the ladder of the American Dream.
This re-booted America will minimize the burden on the rich to help the poor. There is no mandatory rule to help, to donate, to lift a finger, but if those more fortunate choose to help those less fortunate, the do gooders will realize substantial benefits under my
1st Amendment of LIFE. LIBERTY and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS doctrine.
A brand new car! as Bob Barker would say.
No, our new America will not be like a game show, but it will be something that entices everyone with more to do something for those with less.
In this start up America – nobody is left behind because a nation that leaves its citizens behind can’t race ahead to the finish line where it can flourish.
Instead of taxing the rich, we will reward the rich with incentives to grow their product, to promote jobs for the poor for the middle class to make this country stronger than it has ever been.
What do you give Bill Gates for building a dog park in Springfield, Missouri?
Well maybe my America gives him first drilling rights on the moon?
Imagine a America where the homeless build their own homes, and get paid to build those homes. Imagine an America where the uninsured get insured and they pay for that reasonably priced medical care to doctors who don’t have to worry about being sued. Imagine a America where teachers and cops and firemen get paid a handsome salary because what they do is probably more important than anything you do.
This new America is a blue print for eradicating slovenly gridlock. It’s a chance to jump start a crumbling economy. It’s a formula to pull away from the spiral that is slowly swirling around a hair filled drain.
We need to turn off this tired America and restart it. The greatest empires in history from Egypt, to Rome have all perished over time.
History is going to repeat itself with this old America.
Let’s figure out where the Power Button is for the greatest nation on Earth and reboot before it’s too late, before we get a virus and we throw our nation onto the scrap heap of what was and might have been.
Remember Amendment 4:
Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.
And that is crazy.™