If you go to http://change.gov/page/s/yourvision , you can tell the new administration what your vision of America should be. I thought, hey, what the hell:
I want a country where community service is rewarded and encouraged. I want a country where people are eager to help each other. I want a country where a civil union provides full legal benefits to ALL, and marriage is what churches do. I want a country that invests in its own infrastructure, with an eye toward making it better, not just repairing bridges weeks before they would collapse.
But mostly, I want flying cars.
Skennedy FTW!
I vote for you!
hey, neat.
At a similar time I wrote in with a bunch of different ideas, one of which was that the donation of blood, sweat, and time to the community should be rewarded with tax incentives, rather like the donation of money. I pointed out that I think the valuing of monetary donations and not service seems like a holdover from the days of valuing the wage earner and not the homemaker, giving credit to the backers of the project and not the people who actually go out there and make things happen.