THE ZEPHYR/IOCTOBER-NOVEMBER IF YOU WERE PREZ 2008 impeachment proceedings commenced. No so, in Amerika. Some of the highlights of my platform: 1. Elections are completely publicly funded, with rational limits to be established. 2. In exchange for their wildly lucrative broadcasting rights, public broadcasters are required to provide a set amount of free air-time, equally distributed among all candidates. continued 3. No limit on the number of candidates or parties. ed to win. Incentive America If I were. elected president, Take Iraq (please). (b) prevent a Saddam, | sic Health Credit.” This would involve height, weight, stamina measurements, | no smoking and a few other things. Get in and stay in the optimum configuration for your gender and age, pass the test twice a year, submit the form, get cash. ; : There would be a “healthy diet” checklist that would be documented at participating markets. Submit the annual form pertaining to the foods you consume, meet the standards, get cash. There would be a home energy credit, a vehicle use (or non-use) credit, an educational improvement credit, and several others. Since most of these records are already captured anyway, it would not be a stretch to share them (electric bills, report cards, etc.) and get cash. The program would also extend to volunteer hours. In this case, you don’t get cash for the hours you serve. Instead, you get to designate the charity of your choice and the charity gets the cash. I call the program — ““Incentive America.”” You might also call it — ““Awareness Through Cash.” . In a capitalistic society where we currently squander billions on poor choices like smoking, alcohol abuse, obesity, ignorance, intolerance, toxic class warfare, energy waste- fulness on an unimaginable scale and a myriad of other issues, like war as a first option —I would put the buck to work to get folks motivated to do the right thing. Why not? We already lay out trillions to do the wrong things. So, it would work. I know. I have been doing it with my kids for 20 years and people are always commenting, “what great kids you have.”” Cash talks, baby. BS walks. STEVE RUSSELL...MOAB, UTAH First, read the “Culture of Make Believe” by Derrick Jensen and see if it warps every assumption you have of the world and the place of the world’s only “ Super-Power” in it. . world where every boy (and now even evety girl and colored person!) can legitimately dream of growing up to be President. The only qualification, and I do mean only qualification, is that you have the enough corporate, military-industrial and transnational connections to raise $250,000,000 or so to run a decent campaign. Anyone can do it! Repeat after me: Bush-Clinton, Bush-Clinton, Bush-Clinton...ad nauseum Our electoral process is pathetic and declining. Our grand “two-party” system is plutocracy enshrined. What we need is a wide-open, multi-party system. It’s tough for any single party to accomplish anything in that kind of system. Deals have to be brokered, concessions made, the interests of non-elites considered. In a real representative democracy, coalitions could have been formed to oust regime, no-confidence Meet me ai McStiff's..... EDDIE ACSTIFF'S A Restaurant &/ Microbrewery oe Main in the McStiffs Plaza 259,.BEER www.edadiemcstiffs.com fixing this sorry mess and restoring some semblance of a real American Dream, whatever that may be. Ask a Native American. The only way to get real representative government is to elect real people. art goodtimes...norwood, colorado what i'd do if i were elected prez the first things id do would be to make Barrack Obama Secretary of State and Hilary Clinton Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (or whatever they're calling these days), Ralph Nader head of the EPA, and create a new Department of Peace with Dennis Kucinich as Secretary (and move the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense and all covert operations under that new aegis). i would end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan immediately through diplomacy and international treaty actions. i would close Guantanamo Bay and return it to the Cubans in exchange for a treaty of mutual cooperation. i would initiate criminal charges against the previous administraiton. of George W. Bush and most of his cabinet members. i‘d begin closing as the many as strategically possible of the 700+ military bases the U.S. maintains around the world. i would sign an international non-proliferation treaty for nuclear weapons with a timetable for the destruction of worldwise arsenals. i would redirect vast amounts of money currently being spent on the military to reinvigorating our national economy -- repairing failing infrastructure, doing brownfield res- toration, and stimulating a new green economy of self-sufficiency in the areas of energy, agriculture, etc. i would reinvest in our public lands and try to develop land banks for agriculture, energy and forest production, while stimulating recreation and species protection and forest health restoration. : i would push for the adoption of a freedom agenda, where folks were free to do whatever they chose so long as it did not hurt, impact, or unfairly handicap anyone élse in society -- that would apply to social issues like marriage, childbirth and the ingestion of plant allies. I would work internationally to create a new League of Nations built on democratic principles of one nation, one vote, and majority rule, as well as international principles of peace, justice and human rights. i’d push to add a green border to the old red, white and blue. id push to adopt the equal rights amendment and the seventh generation amendment to our constitution. and finally, on a personal note, i’d allow the rainbow gatherings to occur on public lands without a permit and law enforcement would not be allowed to carry weapons inside the encampment. votes demanded, Moab's Oldest Legal Brewery! Does anyone really believe it was an effort to: (a) find WMD’s; al-Qaida alliance; or, last proffered and least of all (c) to spread democracy? Iraq was solely to ensure our gluttonous future supply of oil while, at the same time, fattening the already over-stuffed pockets of the corporate and military-industrial interests who run our current criminal regime. (Have you noticed the current mass exodus of rats from the sinking Bush ship? Look for transitions to book deals, lobbying, and high positions in the corporations that have benefited most from Bush criminal enterprises. How about a $350,000 ironing board sold to Berzerkistan as a Waterboard? Stranger and sadder things have happened in our name.) Meaningful election and campaign finance reform would have prevented the mess we are handing off to future generations. The least we can do for the poor bastards is fix the system now, and pave the way for real people — actual representatives — to have a shot at transportation, water, Second, kill all the politicians. (a “play” on Shakespeare) Throughout my campaign, first and foremost, I would pledge a total commitment to campaign finance reform. Amerika — the only Country in the - the Bush 50.1% of the popular vote need- (Coalitions have to be built. Small parties gain real The only way politics in America can advance is to get the $$$ out of it. Currently, for all our soaring rhetoric, the dreams, aspirations and lives of the “American People” amount only to so much dog-do to be scraped off the soles of Italian leather tasseled loafers before doing the bidding of our corporate and big-money masters. I would create a program whereby every man, woman and child in the United States would receive cash-redeemable credits for a variety of positive documented life | choices and practices they could pursue. For example, there would be the “Ba- Short of that, run-offs. power.) JOHN HARRINGTON...SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH We offer cee ne Si earOi KEN ENGLISH...GUNNISON, UTAH If I were president: #1 There would be no celebration or cost for the inauguration. #2 I would stop all foreign aid to all countries except Israel and Mexico. ee sae | CAN'T TELL IF OL’ JOHN IS HAVING ANOTHER MELTDOWN... OR JUST GETTING READY TO BOOGIE WITH HIS HOTTIE VP I!