If you haven’t written your ideas for change in government on Change.gov yet, it’s time to get on the ball. Jello Biafra (formerly of the Dead Kennedys) beat you to the punch. Using nearly half to two-thirds of the government’s server space to spout off on the kind of change aging-punks-turned-spoken-wordsmith need, Biafra laid out what President-Elect Obama should do in his term as a President. I have a life, so I did not read it all, but here are a few highlights, most of which I agree…
- Employ the assistance of willing Muslim volunteer nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Yemen and Morocco) to police Iraq instead of our own troops.
- Abolish torture in the intelligence community.
- Undo any of the Bush administration’s signing statements tacked onto bills he signed in order to restore the rule of law.
- Stamp out election fraud.
- Limit political campaigns to between 30 and 60 days. Apparently some country to the north already does this.
- End the war on drugs.
- Economic stimulus to the people who need it, not corporations.
- Give the auto industry a bailout when they produce greener cars.
- More trains.
- It goes on from here…
If you haven’t written your letter to Mr. Obama, you may want to get on it. Biafra has beat us to many of the best points.