Historic Government Shutdowns

Two shut downs later, and you know what has changed?

Our credit worthiness is declining in the eyes of investors and our purchasing power has taken a small hit.

You know what hasn't changed?

DACA has not, and cannot pass this year. It just doesn't have the votes.

This is also the second time this has ever happened under a trifecta, the first time was last month. The truth is, United Russia can't govern.

It is time for a change in strategy. We need to Get Out the Vote, Degerrymander our country, and get great candidates running for office up and down the ballot.

 You know the last time that happened? It was 2006 and 2008, which made very real changes in the health care for disabled people around the country and our health care inflation is down significantly from where it was a decade ago despite continuous attacks from Putin over the past year. It also restored the most important rules from the New Deal giving our financial system our stability.

Let's do what works.

Let's take back our government.

Why we need to crack down on the drug trade

We need to crack down on the drug trade in our schools. They ruin thousands of people's lives year after year and makes it so that we lose valuable workers of our economy. It wastes America's money year after year and sends money to drug dealers so they can send more drugs up here. This hurts us deeply and it is becoming obvious something has to be done. I think that prohibition on the less dangerous drugs should be revoked. This is why:

1. Prohibition made illegal consumption of alcohol skyrocket and we spent millions trying to stop it. Consumption didn't stop.
2. Smoking. We have smoking legal if you are over 21 and you can only do it in certain places. If smoking were illegal than a lot more people would smoke because there would be no regulation and it would add to the cartel's profits. By making it illegal it makes it so teenagers have a harder time getting it. If it was illegal, that would not be true.
3. If we allow authorized sellers to sell the drugs and taxed them the taxes could go immediately to rehab. People would be paying for their rehabilitation when they use it which would benefit all Americans. They are taking the drugs anyways, so if they were made legal and regulated consumption will drop. It will lose popularity with people who use them to be bad, and our prisons would have fewer people. That will benefit everybody. The drug cartels will lose power and the violence in Mexico will subside saving millions of lives.
1. Proof: Canada has legalized marijuana and other less harmful drugs bringing the illegal drug trade there down. Unfortunately, they don't have enough people to make a big enough dent on the world market. We do and we must.

The drug I would look at deregulating is

• Cannabis, which is useful in medicine.

Another thing, besides that the way we need to do it is by fighting the use in high schools, because that is probably their biggest market. That could save thousands of lives and keep billions from the cartels. That needs to be regulated to save lives.

How to balance the Federal Budget in 4 easy steps.

No long introduction because none is needed. Everyone knows the situation.

Step 1 (in progress): The budget of every department in the government is published on a single website. Check. www.usaspending.gov has it all. But the second part is that you need to be able to go down the department's budget line by line on the internet. A link to website is at the top of every government webpage. This is the first step to cut wasteful spending. President Obama presented this.

Step 2 (close, but not good enough): Every law is easily read and is at the top of every government website where people would see it. This is at thomas.loc.gov.

Step 3 (not even close): Every bill focuses on a single change or program, like in the New Deal. They are posted on Thomas as soon as they are proposed. They must be precise and to the point, and use normal English.

Step 4 (just a thought, risky though): There is a government news-feed on a website that only tells of all the bills, resolutions, and amendments, money spent, and every other government action on an easy-to use feed.. It runs in parallel to private corporations to give the information out in a concise non-confusing way so people can understand. It would allow people to see what every department is doing in chronological order which will make it harder to be corrupt in government and seek out corruption. You could turn a department on and off to see each department's budget. There would be an option to see what your Senator/Representative is supporting. The only argument against this I can see is government-controlled media. But this will be alongside the commercial press giving everyone one site that has everything relating to the government.

Step 5 (sadly not on the horizon): The people of America believe in how Democracy works (which has been proved for thousands of years, Greece) and they use their power to be one big check and balance to the politicans on Capital Hill. We listen to multiple sources, use tools like Google News to get 5 sources per day at a minimum, and are not pessimistic about the government, because that is what I believe to be selling Capital Hill to the corrupt, which is somwhere between an unpatriotic attitude and Treason. Our country cannot survive without people participating.