• Victims of spam need:
  • Government-funded lawyers to draft and file lawsuits for $1000 per spam (for victims who are residents of states that have such laws: California and Washington), with the proceeds split half-and-half between award for victim and reimbursement for government agency, and to represent such victims of spam in court to bring lawsuits to fruition.
  • Similar services for any spam-victim who uses a mail service provider in any of those same states, such as Yahoo of Sunnyvale, Google of Mountain View, and MicroSoft-HotMail of Redmond.
  • Government-funded detectives to track down the identity (legal name and legal service address) of each spammer, so that the above lawsuits are even possible.
  • Alternately, services for filing harassment-based cease-and-desist orders on, and vigorously prosecuting all violations of such orders, on behalf of any other victims of spam not covered by those state-based right-of-private-suit laws.
• Low-income residents need free or low-cost legal services to pursue such matters as custody of children when the lawyers appointed by the court don't really act in the interest of victims of abuse by misguided and over-eager social workers of Child Protective Services.
• Unemployed people, regardless of whether they have housing or are homeless, need a new InterNet-based Works Progress Administration, similar to what George MacGovern proposed in 1972 as upgraded by me during recent years:
  • 2003.May.02 (principle of trickle-up, explanation of my proposal, response to GWBush's speech in Santa Clara earlier that day; Opinion that GWBush doesn't deserve to be impeached. That was of course before the Patriot Act. Now G.W.Bush does deserve impeachment, perhaps after we first recall the half of Congress which voted for the Patriot Act. Impeach Cheney too!!)
  • 2004.Sep.05 (incidental mention in context of other discussion)
  • 2005.Jul.08 (for combatting terrorism by providing a reasonable alternative)
  • 2007.Jun.25 (succinct argument for alternative to terrorism)
• Much of the human race needs limitation of greenhouse gasses and other factors that enhance global warming, and a program of moving facilities out of low-lying areas and/or re-building incrementally on top with more built-up foundations to lift facilties above water, and a space-based solar-energy system to replace the current dependence on oil and upcoming dependence on coal and nuclear fission, and a grand scale building of nuclear fission power plants on a scale comparable to France, encased in bomb-proof bunkers to protect from attack by terrorists, until the space-based replacement can be put into place.
• The whole ecosystem on Earth, including the whole human race, needs protection from an asteroid that may strike the Earth in about thirty years, as well as millions of other asteroids that may strike the Earth at other times we can't even predict yet. It will take time, perhaps ten or twenty years, to build this sytem and we need to start now if we hope to be ready when suddenly we discover an asteroid that will strike Earth in only two more years.
• We need a general space-based infrastructure, including mining and processing and launching Lunar regolith and polar hydrogen-containing-stuff (first we need to survey that hydrogen to confirm its existence and form and distribution), which will be useful for space-based solar power and asteroid protection, as well as G.W.Bush's p.c. vision of human flight to Mars.
• We have too many urgent problems to leave it in the hands of just one person. Our country needs both President and Vice President to be working for the benefit of our country and the whole human species and all the biosphere, instead of only the President. Look at the present disaster for example, where G.W. Bush is mentally challenged, while his vice president Cheney is morally challenged, to say it mildly. Also, an unfortunate death of the President (by medical ailment, or terrorist attack, or plane crash, or anything, you can't absolutely protect the President, although you should do your best to try) would demolish all good we are doing if the Vice President who becomes President isn't on our side too. Accordingly I hope each of the two candidates will offer the vice presidency to the other if nominated, and accept such nomination of the other wins.

 
 
 
 
 
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