If I Were the King of the Forest...

When I'm King, I'll make some changes.

Here's how I would do it:

Congress will only be able to pass one item at a time. There will be no unrelated attachments to any bill. In other words, "pork" is disallowed.

I would propose a constitutional amendment reducing Congressional salaries to the average income of a family of four within the state/territory/district that they respectively represent.
(see post titled "One Simple Solution", my very first post on this blog)

I would hire economists (is that a word?) to fix the budget.

We would do whatever it took to get those british sailors and marines back.

We would concentrate our military in Iraq on oil field security, and gas would be about $1.20 a gallon, because we would own it all.

Anyway, you get the picture.

Now, enough fantasy. Here is what we can do:

We really can get Congress to repeal NAFTA. We just need to get organized and raise hell.

We really can get the border secured. We just need to get organized and raise hell.

We really can get rid of crooked politicians. All we have to do is vote them out consistently. Eventually they would take the hint. If we got organized and raised hell they would get the message quicker.

Are you catching the recurring theme here?

Honest, hard working men and women in this country need to unite. If you don't think that we can make a difference, then they have us where they want us.

Look at America's Gay population. They got organized, I mean really organized in the late Seventies. They got a lobby together, they started pulling strings and greasing palms, and now they have a powerful voice in this country. Only 7% of the population claims to be gay.

All they did was get organized and raise hell.