Reply #18: I have no idea what can be done in 100 days

[kenny blankenship]

1) Stop the economy from going over the cliff--further over the cliff I mean. Do not forget to hold the jillionaire scam artists who caused this catastrophe accountable. As far as legally possible prosecute them, and hopefully a little bit more than legally possible. Shame them, jail them, set a lasting example. Restore accounting & regulatory oversight and put the fear of God into the moneygrubbers. No Club Fed for the guilty- send them to Federal#meintheass prison. Protect American jobs. Discourage the offshoring of labor and capital flight of all kinds. Nothing will accelerate the economic crisis than a vicious spiral of job loss and payroll cutting.

2) Set in motion the plan to thoroughly restructure - not twiddle or tinker with - the way healthcare is delivered in this country. We cannot afford the wasteful system of private insurance any longer. We ARE virtually in the situation other countries faced after WWII. They had to start over from rubble and were compelled to make sweeping, economical, logical changes. Even before the financial crisis hit it was clear US healthcare was a smoking dysfunctional wreck and a drain on our economy. Further inaction is intolerable.

3) Get us the fuck out of wars we had no business starting and cannot win. I have said since soon after they began that we could not afford them, and I am frankly amazed at how widespread this view has now become. People are sick of it and they understand how terribly it is costing us. It won't undo the damage we've suffered economically and it wasn't the full cause of the meltdown, but throwing good money after bad in the global war on Islam is completely indefensible.

4) Commit this country to the staged -but complete- replacement of petroleum as the basis of our transportation fuels within a 30 year timeframe. This would take the form of mandates to the auto industry (foreign and domestic) and the energy industry and it would also necessitate regulations on real estate development handed down big-government style to states and municipalities. It would require massive government directed research to develop clean fuel and engine technologies. The majority of androgenic greenhouse gas emissions comes from our stupid cars. Coincidentally our car industry can't stand on its own two feet, and won't even survive without Big Government welfare assistance, so don't anybody try to tell me that this would be an unconscionable interference with the sacred workings of capitalism. I'm all done listening to shit like that.

Which brings me to a general principle that I think somehow encapsulates and summarizes the four previous points: stop kissing Ronald Reagan's dead putrefied asshole! EVERYTHING THE REAGAN REVOLUTION BROUGHT TO THIS COUNTRY HAS BEEN SHIT AND STANDS REVEALED NOW AS A FRAUD. I do hope my President Elect grasps how all these dire crises that the country faces fit together and spring originally from the fetid slews of Reaganite Republican ideology. He may, but watching him surround himself with status quo retreads and pledges to fight on, fight on, fight on in foreign lands, it kinda seems like maybe he doesn't.

And oh yeah, Barry is going to have to do quite a lot on the gay rights front to convince me I'm not seeing things in this Rick Warren bullshit. He's going to have to make all my queer dreams come true if he -or the Dem Party- wants to see any more of my queer money or get my vote again.