Shut down the military? Go for it!
The government has just shut down? What a wonderful opportunity to re-set, to start again.
Shut down the military? Save six trillion dollars in just a few years, balance the budget immediately, get weaponized tanks out of our cities and stop killing people abroad? Go for it. Absolutely.
Shut down the nuclear killing fields? No more deformed babies born in
Kosovo and Iraq and Libya and Gaza and Afghanistan? No more possible
Chernobyls and Fukashimas here in America? No more deadly stockpiles of
nuclear waste being generated daily that will last long after the human
race is toast? I'm so there.
Shut down the CIA? We'd have world peace within the year! No more
rendition and torture camps, no more destabilization of countries with
oil? I want that. Badly.
Shut down the NSA? No more spying on our phones and computers? George
Orwell would heave a sigh of relief from his grave -- and I certainly
would too.
Shut down all those perqs to RepubliDem Congressmen? Why not. They have never earned their keep anyway.
Shut down all those subsidies to agribusiness, Monsanto, the Koch
brothers' lumber empire, etc.? Bring back the small farmer and the
Lorax? Just imagine that. Wonderful.
Shut down the subsidies to Big Pharma? So we could once again afford to buy our medicine without going to Canada? I'm certainly willing to give that a try.
Shut down Homeland Security? Stop wasting money checking our junk and
irradiating us at airports and making us paranoid and spending our money
to run a police state? Whoopie!
Shut down the FBI and all those other agencies that didn't protect JFK
and aren't protecting you and me but rather the corporate mega-state?
And spend all their time putting citizen-protestors in jail for years
and pursuing whistle-blowers but let Wall Street mega-criminals go? I
have no problem with that.
Shut down MediCare? Just try it. You'll have an army of irate old
folks in wheelchairs and walkers descending on Washington with canes in
our hands and blood in our eye!
Shut down Social Security? That we earned over time with our bare
hands? Do you really want hundreds of thousands of truly-pissed-off
senior citizens morphing into full-rebellion mode? The Greatest
Generation brought down the Third Reich. And it can bring down the
Fourth Reich too.
Just as soon as we find our false teeth.
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Advertizements for myself: In these hard times of brutal (and illegal) corporatist ball-busting socialism-for-the-rich-only, I am doing whatever I can to make a spare dollar. Here are some of my current alternate-economy schemes that never seem to work -- but I keep hoping!
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If anyone ever wants to hire me on as a travel writer (or war correspondent), "Have laptop, will travel!"
******
Need someone to help you throw out stuff? I'm really good at deciding what needs to be thrown out (starting with all those corporate-owned bums in Washington!)
****
Need an actor to play an older woman in your movie? Then I'm your man! I can portray all kinds of older women -- from judges, business execs and other insane zombies to bag ladies, cancer patients, kindly grandmothers and dying patients in rest homes. I've played them all. So send me a script and let's do this. Hollywood, here we come! Here's my reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C91uEYjLUXA
****
Are you a plaintiffs' attorney who is tired of writing those pesky personal injury settlement briefs all the time? No problem! I can write them for you. Years of experience. And pay me only if you win the case.
****
I recently got my Notary Public commission!
Need a Notary Public? Have seal, will travel. E-mail me at jpstillwater@yahoo.com and I'll stamp your document, make it official and only charge $10. Of course if you live outside of Berkeley, I may have to charge travel expenses -- but am well worth it!
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I also wrote a book about going on Hajj (also included as a chapter in "Bring Your Own Flak Jacket," but this book is cheaper -- but it's worth buying them both!) My book on the Hajj is so outstanding that I bet even Christian fundamentalists will love it! Please buy it here: http://www.amazon.com/Mecca-Hajj-Lessons-Islamic-School/dp/0978615700/ref=cm_rdp_product
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