How to fix our country

The President has a jobs plan. Oops, had a jobs plan. The Republicans have a jobs plan. They want the country to hire 10 more GOP senators and as many other elective officers as possible. But this is kind of silly, isn’t it? When you listen to the Republican candidates for President it’s inherently comic. Besides, if they aren’t already corrupt they will still have to deal with Lord Acton. You know, the guy who said “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
The bankers say that the Occupy Wall Street “mob” is naïve. They should be grateful it isn’t being led by Robin Hood or Leon Trotsky or they would know what a mob can really achieve, and it wouldn’t be pretty. Epic and heroic, and very messy.
I have an idea that is better than politics and the shallow negations that plague us today. You’re not going to get any wisdom from bloated buffoons like Rush Limbaugh and Lou Dobbs. You need a real thinker like Fran Leibowitz who says, rightly, “Democracy needs things from its citizens so stand up and do your job”. What we need now is some civilizing energy from the populace. I have identified three areas where you can change your thoughts and you’ll change your world.
No. 1 Guns. They have killed more Americans than King George’s Redcoats did in two
wars. My home state Nevada has more registered guns on a per capita basis than anywhere. We also have 26 gun deaths per 100,000 which makes this one of the most violent places on Earth. Don’t buy a gun unless you’re shooting birds and squirrels. Let the police keep the peace and don’t try to get even with your ex-wife by killing eight people in a hair salon.
No.2 Drugs. This is the way to kill yourself today. I mean you start with yourself then kill your family and anyone else standing in the way of your addiction. Don’t be stupid. Don’t do drugs. Don’t enrich Mexican Drug Lords.
No. 3 Divorce. Men want a husband and women want a wife but the general population still has to go with the opposite sex. I’ve been married for over 54 years but this is what happiness is all about and I have two wonderful children that benefited. A single parent just doesn’t cut it when raising a family, even if you’re a Siamese twin.
Shakespeare wrote, “The fault, Dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves”. The great psychologist William James said, “Man alone is the architect of his destiny”. And, as the great American philosopher Georges Santayana said, “You must change your evil ways”. Or maybe that was Carlos Santana. Wisdom walks in many doors