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ELECT ME…PLEASE
Can a poor man ever be elected president in this country? I mean, if there was a potential candidate that was head and shoulders above the others aspiring for the office, would he have a chance. (my Mom, once told me I would)
I just read an article the other day that pointed out that the presidential hopefuls have already spent over $800 million, and the front runners will most likely spend over $500 million each, before they are done. (and that doesn’t even include the cost of re-doing the Florida and Michigan elections)
Maybe it’s just because I’m just a poor Italian boy, but that sounds like a whole lot of money, and it represents only the race for president. If you add In the cost of funding the election process for senators, congress people, governors, state and local officials and dog catchers…the cost exceeds the gross national product of several small countries.
With the entire U.S. population at 303,824,646 &1/2, (my niece is pregnant) that amounts to a healthy contribution by every man, women, and child in the U.S.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for the election process. (and Wolf Blitzer, certainly needs the work) Anyway you cut it, the way we have devised to determine who sits in positions of power, is head and shoulders better than how most countries handle it..(I can’t tell you how much a coup or a revolution costs). I’m just saying, maybe we could look into a few ways to do it a little cheaper and perhaps not drag it out for months and years at a time. (maybe we could use all those hundreds of millions to feed and educate some of the electorate, so that some poor kid could grow up to be president one day) So, I took the initiative, and I had a couple of friends over for some beers, and we came up with a few ideas: using the A.I.L. method of reasoning… (or Alcohol Induced Logic)
Ok, here we go:
1> Both parties nominate a candidate and we make them spend a long weekend at camp David together,(separate rooms of course) after which, they decide who is the top banana for the first two years, and then it’s the other guys turn.
2> The M/W/F..method..that’s right….Monday, Wensday, Friday…..its kind of like being king for a day. And the guy with the worst popularity rating has to work weekends. Every third Friday…we let Dennis Kucinich sit in the Big chair for the day…(hey..it’s as close as he’ll ever get to it)
3> We set up 1 chair in the middle of the Oval office, and play “Hail to the Chief” ….when the music stops, the guy in the chair is the POTUS(president of the United States)
4> MMA method ( That’s Mixed martial arts)…you set up this caged ring, and let the two guys (or girls) go at it (mano e mano)…It’s my two men walk in..One man walks out theory….My money is on Hillary for this one… ( we could pay down the national debt, just on the revenue from the Ticketmaster sales)
5> Last but not least….we settle the whole thing on a two hour special of “The Celebrity Apprentice Show”….at the end of the night, the Donald, tells the looser…”Your Fired”. I’m not sure how constitutionally correct that would be, but I guarantee great ratings
Ok, so maybe you don’t like my alternative election rules…(even though I would save the country hundreds of millions) but stayed tuned, because at next week’s beer actuated “Think-Tank”..me and the boys will be pondering and solving other worldly issues such as the whole NAFDA controversy, and Bud..or Bud Lite..
Until latter
P.I.B. (for president)
Can a poor man ever be elected president in this country? I mean, if there was a potential candidate that was head and shoulders above the others aspiring for the office, would he have a chance. (my Mom, once told me I would)
I just read an article the other day that pointed out that the presidential hopefuls have already spent over $800 million, and the front runners will most likely spend over $500 million each, before they are done. (and that doesn’t even include the cost of re-doing the Florida and Michigan elections)
Maybe it’s just because I’m just a poor Italian boy, but that sounds like a whole lot of money, and it represents only the race for president. If you add In the cost of funding the election process for senators, congress people, governors, state and local officials and dog catchers…the cost exceeds the gross national product of several small countries.
With the entire U.S. population at 303,824,646 &1/2, (my niece is pregnant) that amounts to a healthy contribution by every man, women, and child in the U.S.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for the election process. (and Wolf Blitzer, certainly needs the work) Anyway you cut it, the way we have devised to determine who sits in positions of power, is head and shoulders better than how most countries handle it..(I can’t tell you how much a coup or a revolution costs). I’m just saying, maybe we could look into a few ways to do it a little cheaper and perhaps not drag it out for months and years at a time. (maybe we could use all those hundreds of millions to feed and educate some of the electorate, so that some poor kid could grow up to be president one day) So, I took the initiative, and I had a couple of friends over for some beers, and we came up with a few ideas: using the A.I.L. method of reasoning… (or Alcohol Induced Logic)
Ok, here we go:
1> Both parties nominate a candidate and we make them spend a long weekend at camp David together,(separate rooms of course) after which, they decide who is the top banana for the first two years, and then it’s the other guys turn.
2> The M/W/F..method..that’s right….Monday, Wensday, Friday…..its kind of like being king for a day. And the guy with the worst popularity rating has to work weekends. Every third Friday…we let Dennis Kucinich sit in the Big chair for the day…(hey..it’s as close as he’ll ever get to it)
3> We set up 1 chair in the middle of the Oval office, and play “Hail to the Chief” ….when the music stops, the guy in the chair is the POTUS(president of the United States)
4> MMA method ( That’s Mixed martial arts)…you set up this caged ring, and let the two guys (or girls) go at it (mano e mano)…It’s my two men walk in..One man walks out theory….My money is on Hillary for this one… ( we could pay down the national debt, just on the revenue from the Ticketmaster sales)
5> Last but not least….we settle the whole thing on a two hour special of “The Celebrity Apprentice Show”….at the end of the night, the Donald, tells the looser…”Your Fired”. I’m not sure how constitutionally correct that would be, but I guarantee great ratings
Ok, so maybe you don’t like my alternative election rules…(even though I would save the country hundreds of millions) but stayed tuned, because at next week’s beer actuated “Think-Tank”..me and the boys will be pondering and solving other worldly issues such as the whole NAFDA controversy, and Bud..or Bud Lite..
Until latter
P.I.B. (for president)
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