Reply #76: Thank you, I tried rather hard not to come across with anything more than

[Selteri]

The truth. It's so much easier to remember the truth than have to sort lies after all.

One thing we should all remember - Progress is not pain free, it hurts to learn a lesson sometimes and we live in a dynamic world. Regression and Stasis are temporary conditions that are part of growth though they never gain much past learning a hard lessons the second or more times around. As we continue to progress toward the future we must remain vigilant from both the potential dangers from our progress as well as to remember to look behind us occasionally so that those things that endanger us from our past do not attack us unaware. Prohibition, Like George Bush, are examples of why we not only must learn from the present, but must look to the many examples of the past to say that we cannot allow these mistakes to continue to be repeated in a loud voice of unison.

We must learn to use these steps together so that we not allow this lesson be repeated for our children and their children.
1 - Learn to recognize the signs and take back the vital rights of a healthy Democracy with Liberty and EQUAL Justice for all! We all benefit by learning this skill that is best known as critical thinking, put bluntly, everyone needs to learn to question authority. With today's internet there is no excuse for not being able to say, "I've looked at it from at least two sides for the story and after a personal judgment I think the truth is closer to..." It's a simple statement that simply says that if you really care enough to have an option about the story that you bothered to research it a little rather than let some person tell you what you should know.

2 - Remembering the value of the worker in America by increasing the minimum wage to a full living wage, ensuring health care for all citizens willing to contribute to society by paying their taxes and other contributions that all citizens make to the community. Passing laws that make this country one where it is a right to hire rather than a right to work attitude in how the laws are passed. When the lowest of us are living on wages that are insufficient to live on then none of us are safe.

3 - Immigration Reform shouldn't just be a by-word, it's solutions are amazingly simple yet at the same time an incredibly complex one. To truly reform immigration we must pass first laws that state that the illegal immigrants will be shipped back while their employers will be shipped off to serve some time in a proper way in reflection to how much they did. I mean, a woman hiring an illegal immigrant nanny shouldn't get more than a slap on the wrist in comparison to a company hiring 5000 illegals to work on factory lines after closing up in a city where they displaced 7000 skilled workers rather than retooling and retraining their old workforce would be deserving a bit of hard time in club fed. The next step would be a simple one that would look very much like a line in an old cartoon, after the citizens who are willing to work and not disabled, retired, in training or in any other way looking for an honest income has filled the jobs then that number would become open to a legal immigrant who's skills are able to fill the open set. While this may sound to be an incredibly complicated system it would be worse as bribery would have to be watched for very carefully. To implement a system like this would require that businesses would be willing to register who is working for them on a simple registry and if they are looking for openings that have not been filled and then to somehow find out from the citizens if they might actually be looking for a job. I understand there is no way that could ever happen in a modern society, but I'm sure we can learn how to do this to create a dynamic and growing society that can truly let people in at a rate that could actually both accommodate it's growth and any growing needs as they come without hurting citizens or immigrants.

4 - Educate our children to be competitive, not put them through factory schools so we can turn out good workers. Education has not really changed that much past becoming more designed to try to handle bulk rather that to create Adults. The parents are almost just as much to blame as the schools though, there must be some discipline on the adult level too, they are children, they don't understand and reasoning only works when they are acting reasonably. At School the children need to have a healthy school environment with a class that is small enough for them to get the attention that they need with teachers that can work with them in a way that makes them want to continue to be involved with learning. At home the children must have a home that is stable with some security. If you're going to have the little urchin, you have to take the good and the bad. It isn't easy, but if it was easy, it wouldn't be worth doing it.

5 - Keep the Corporations Down! I'm not talking anti-corporate actions where ford becomes a 30 man show or anything insane like that, I'm stating that we can't have one company that serves 95% of the people because there is no competition because all the competition gets crushed. The country needs to remember that corporations can grow large, but that when a worker makes in one year what a CEO makes before lunch then there is a serious problem happening that needs to be addressed. It doesn't matter how intelligent and good a CEO is, there is no reason they should ever be paid any such absurd amount of money to where the average worker will never see that in their lifetime who works for them. I have no issue if a CEO should make income from the stocks of their company to some tremendous level because they make their business a huge success with their workers. The workers are equally important though as they are what the business has built itself upon just as much. After all, the brain cannot live if the blood does not bring it Oxygen, does it?

6 - Comprehensive environmental reform - No more whining about the answering being 20 years away, we all need to start working with what we have now. It's not very hard, you simply assess, collect and assemble so that you are using the resources that you already have the best you can. THe answer is closer than most people think.

7 - Real legal reform - REturning the laws to Bengt equitable. Our country has created a punishment class with il legalization of drugs. Right now a pedophile will be back out on the streets before someone who was caught with an ounce of marijuana in some States and on the Federal level. In other places we still have laws where people can be arrested for things as far across the field as cross dressing to wearing a shirt that is considered to have a political buyers inside of the state of the Union.

8 - Real political reform - In a real Democracy, the Government is afraid of the PEOPLE - No more need be said.

Of course, this list can continue to go on, thee are always new and more problems, but some of these are surprisingly simple things and others are so drastically needed that we must begin to act and build them in spite of our present government of the corrupt, for the power and liberty and Justice to a select few.