You're the employer of the government: be a better boss

May I have some coffee and the morning memos, thank you

It's not like you drive to Sacramento or Washington DC in the morning, prepped for a fight against, greed, overconsumption, pollution, and anything that stands in our way from providing education and compassionate health services for all.

What a wonder of a country we could be if we hired (voted in) the intelligent and fair employees into a system that rewards success and spends less time trying to make sure they spend the whole years allotted monies so that it will cost more next year.

Currently the government cannot save money and is spending it frivolously on amateurish and ignorant plans to run a failing government.

If the government fails it falls to the people.

Don't like that, then start thinking, reading and researching.

If you plan on having tea parties all around the country please take a history class so that you may have a perspective on why these sorts of protests took place.

I will be taking the time to show people not only how to protest, but how to get results. Of course, much to the dismay of political California, I will be demonstrating these gems for the politicians myself.

In other countries violence has supplanted the marching, sit in's, and civil war is the result.

We don't need another civil war and we don't need a war in the middle east either. Had that situation been handled years before by leaders who were not able to look to the future and forecast cloudy, misunderstood skies.

The history of American and European infestation into the Persian lands taking place in the last century with an assassination of a former Shah of Iran. He had to go because we needed to fuel up to get to Africa via Iran and Iraq. The next leader we put in power. You'll remember a religious leader showed up and was greeted with much enthusiasm, as they believed in religion over politics.

Funny, we have instituted a similar policy, just not the same religion, but religion has entered politics and war, if George W. was answering truly when he said the US was on a "crusade."

Let's take this opportunity with poverty and lack of opportunity, an antiquated educational system, right here in this country to focus on what is happening here.

I find it ironic that we are supposedly imposing an American Democracy on a nation where people still move a few goats around in the sandy areas of the vast deserts in the middle east.

When a country forgets it's educational system, it's doomed...eventually. How far can you fall behind before it's obvious in every way, especially the way the country is being run.

Now to my point, you are the boss of this government yet it is all about complaining.

When you have tired of yelling into the wind, start making phone calls, take your power as a voter, taxpayer, worker, drone, queen, and begin to lobby for you, your family, your community and your state.

Become a lobbyist by finding your representatives and sending them your ideas, the ideas of your group, and give them a direction their constituents want to go.

If you vote some in and do not tell them why you did, you may not get what you want.

It's another election year, and it's time to understand who you are in the scheme of America. Welcome to your job too...

Being the boss of a nation at war, broken financially, educationally falling behind the rest of the world, it's time to step up.

Violence is quite unnecessary unless you have a violent and entrenched government which is only representing certain, most likely, greedy interests.

There's no reason this whole world couldn't be well fed and aware of it's responsibility for keeping this planet alive and continuing to create. With China reconsidering it's one baby per family policy, you can expect a population explosion. The smog in China makes a huge impact on the environment, who is worried, raise your hand? It's not going to get better.

Geography as well as cultural respect, is something necessary in the big world we live in today. But keep your eyes on the prize here at home.

Our goals:
Breaking up the concentrations of power

Create a true list of what corporations actually own, and see what sort of measures we can take to save small business from being swallowed up.

The regulators in the bogus bail outs, did not even know how to find the accounting tricks and define them for the government officials so they could act and the American people could be kept informed. Keep your watchdogs trained or reap only confusion and animosity amongst the poor and the rich.

Find a simple way to supply healthcare without having to fill "every one's" pockets. It's not that hard and there are many ideas to support a low cost assistance plan, creating a larger insurance pool, allowing prices to drop. We don't think of the state of Oklahoma as being in the lead in much, except some football, but they have created an insurance pool so small businesses can provide health insurance.

Not a difficult thing to do. And it doesn't have to be done on the federal end only.

Growing food and food consumption. Stop the packaging nonsense. Stop shipping products across the nation when it can be distributed locally. Make it financially feasible to do so. Keep it local, really.

The food is making people fat and there are industries preying upon their insecurities and their health problems. If these corporations were not keeping out other food from the national grocery chains people would have choices. And tax incentives for growing our own foods, and growing for others, and spreading that knowledge.

Cigarettes, killing only, but created a huge market of drugs, patches, gums, and are multi billion dollar companies. Wouldn't it be terrible to find out if the tobacco industry created the remedy to the product they sell? If we ever get a grant to do a research project where we trace the evoluation of big business, actually bonded together in a convenant of greed, we could find out. A lot of work, but I would be willing to pitch in.

Alcohol and alcholism. I've seen many pictures on the news of the horrendous car crashes caused by people drunk out of their minds. Ethanol may be good for gasoline, but it's a very heavy street drug, accessible and powerful. It has no medical value, but it is a part of most every culture. We cannot write more laws, but we can minimize the accessibility and create more remedies to treat the alcoholics.

Birth control and abortion. If we had a society not threatened by sex and sexuality, we could be more open with our children about how to avoid pregnancy, STD's, years of staying in the closet fearing be rejected because of sexual preference (See Senator Roy Ashburn, his life could have been one of being himself, but he chose to hide and was openly homophobic. That's a sad story to end a career on. Not a good example of strength of character.), and the obvious that women are not the only ones who have birth control created for them.

Where's the male birth control, where they can have "control" of their own bodies? And why are there not a fair number of women running this country? Women should be the stronger voice. Black women showed themselves to be some of the strongest and most resilient people on earth. Raising children by yourself is not a sin, a crime, but a call to the community for help.

Yes, it's true, it does take a village to raise a child. And the villagers need to walk the example, show the courage to step up when things are wrong. No child needs to be beaten, berated, sexually used. But they do need encouragement, love, time and communication. And when they are accepted for who they are they become a force in society

Marijuana, could be used for clothes, paper, medicine, and an industry. But there would be corporations losing money so corporations are not lobbying for this or it would have happened by now. The individuals who have been healed by this herb, and the constitution written on Hemp paper, and the fabrics made from the fibers, and it's cheap.

We spend money policing it and jailing some who use it. What is that costing us? But then there are only a few lobbyists out there. NORML was one of the first to take the government to task on the issue, and they have made progress.

Then we need to shut down our war machine. Share the responsibility of "policing" the world with the "world."

As an evolved society we need to take care and utilize our seniors who have both experience and knowledge which is being overlooked. Caring for our elders should be a respectable occupation, not a cheap operation where nurses and caretakers receive little compensation for the compassionate work.

Taking care of those with Alzheimer's and other crippling diseases is difficult at best, so we should not start shooting the full of chemical restraints and find a way to pay a good respectable wage to those who are caring for the people who may have raised you, been your friend, your husband or wife.

And those who have suffered a disability must have the opportunity to serve the community, work for a decent wage, get help to get back into society not be pushed out, and to create a disability program which exemplifies those ideals. Anyone at anytime can have an accident, disease, some malady that changes their whole life. This has to be addressed in a progressive, compassionate and intelligent way. Just because someone is damaged, doesn't mean they are just no good anymore. You'd be surprised, they might just be better.

Each state decides what they want to do with drug addicts who are harming themselves. I really don't care if people want to hurt themselves by becoming addicts, but there would be a solid rule: if you want to be a junkie have fun, but you can never have children or care for anyone else's children. Real simple.

And finally, education is the most important thing we can do to induce continued progress on the part of the US in the world. We still have many natural resources, but the biggest resource is the people who can do many things given the right opportunities. Let's teach everyone to find their passion, their work, their labor of love, and then give them the tools to actually use what the Lord gave us.

But even there we must realize there are many cultures and differences, people are different, have different talents, so education is going to need a makeover so it understands we all learn differently, but we all learn.

Yeah, it's sad, but not hopeless. You're the boss is this how you want your country to run?

Ken Mettler on Harvey Milk: Republican forerunner in 32nd Assembly district

"That Ken Mettler is on the phone again, Senator Ashburn, what do you want me to tell him?"

"Got Milk?"



It's the political season and it's time to put on our raincoats as we will be showered with parfum and cake for the coming months...well except for certain candidates who play a different sort of game: they are naughty.

Pictured here is Ken Mettler, the bad boy of this year's Kern County election.

Once a Kern Valley High School District board member who gave the public a good schooling on not to talk when he's giving a class on who is in charge, is not my kind of candidate.

Types like Mettler are elected only because of name recognition, not because they are endowed with wisdom and experience which will help them "serve" the public, but because the press can't get enough of them.

From the time he came out swinging at a private citizen after a meeting, to the article in the Bakersfield Californian today, which explains that Mr. Mettler, (whose hubris may make you think he's running for Governor and not just a local assembly seat) used funds from the Kern County Republican coffer to actually trace the heckler from the meeting, along with other somewhat scandalous operations.

Considering Ashburn just...

After a local Senator, Roy Ashburn, turned his station from country western to show tunes recently, it's odd that Mettler would come out so defensively about having a "Harvey Milk" day.

If it weren't for a recent movie, not many people would know who Harvey Milk was, and why some people want to celebrate his life.

Milk was shot and killed by someone who didn't agree with his politics but most especially that he was openly gay way before openly gay became a very rich demographic.

Ashburn spent years bashing gay agendas and then took that next leap from homophobia to "I'm too gay for my shirt."

With Mettler acting awfully homophobic and his politics or personal problems are sliding off the right wing, I'm afraid he may end up a candidate or even a winner in this assembly race.

Yes, Kern County is conservative, but it's not a haven for extremists, I think anyway. Or could I be wrong?

Republicans are not necessarily against abortion and they are not necessarily a member of a Christian church.

They are also just people who prefer a little less government and more or less continued privatization of the economic market.

However, when the press eats at the dish of an extremist just because that is all he has got to go with, they are helping to elect him.

Where's Jean Fuller? Does she have to chase someone out of a meeting and key their car to get a good story in the paper?

Would Fuller be more interesting if she recently checked out of the Betty ford Clinic?

Could we blame the press for these perverse curiosities? ABSOLUTELY!

Recently the media has become defensive and weepy, "the President doesn't want to talk to us" "we're victims" "we don't write fluff."

Oh yes they do. The media controls the elections right up to polling before everyone has voted. That is ridiculous.

If a television station or newspaper hasn't learned that you can elect idiots because they are "news worthy" (yeah, it's called news of the weird), then they don't know how "most" people vote.

Sarah Palin even has a chance...I say fire the media and the current politicians and let's start over.

And regarding Mettler, let's not talk about him anymore, let's get down to the real business of what we are going to do to set the course for success here in California.

He's not interested in what I have to say or people attending public meetings, so I say, there must be nothing to say about him.

Who is worthy of your vote?

I've listened to a few people this year who are running for one office or another. I found one candidate interesting, but only in a funny way. He wants to fix the government by doing something about the problem with gerrymandering.

Yes, there are districts which are drawn in a prejudice manner, to serve one party or the other, or to preserve power over an area, and it makes no sense in the real world, but that is how it has been done.

We could straighten out the problem rather quickly with a map, marker and calculator, but that would be too easy.

One candidate has an interesting solution to this problem: Split the state in half.

Okay. Now wouldn't that be gerrymandering too?

And this is why, we need to research before we vote...Stay with me, and we will find some good people to vote for in this election.

If you're 18 and over it's time to take responsibility for the people who work for you: Elections 2010.