In response to Baldor's (Shopman's) question - "what do you choose?"... I had a very long response.

http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/Martys%20Blog/CpVv#comment-gGB34M

I choose peace. I choose basic rights for everyone, thereby providing relief to the most people in the most comforting fashion possible. It is not the candidate who campaigns that is the solution to these problems, it is our demand that these solutions become part of our national fabric (*smile* - our security blanket, if you will).

I choose to ask every candidate to take a stand for basic rights. I choose to ask for something easy, to start. I asked my county candidates for commissioner to start at the grassroots, by rearranging property taxes in such a way that 600 square feet of every residence is exempted from tax. A home is a basic right.

I choose to ask state candidates for legislature to take a step toward basic communication. A landline to every residence is a basic right. It will save so much effort on the part of society to reach those who need to be reached. It will open up the job market to those who need jobs.

I choose to ask my state legislators to consider out of the box solutions for social issues. There are too many left out. Quit wasting time and money turning people away from help. Let people opt out of help instead of begging for it! Let people get help and they won't have to worry someone is going to lock them up and throw away the key!

If we have basic rights, we don't have to worry about Social Security... We are socially secure.

If we have basic health care, we don't have to worry about Medicare/Medicaid... we have national health care.

If we have basic transportation and basic communication, we don't have to worry about joblessness due to inability to get to work in a timely fashion or timely calls.

Our social fabric will be so much stronger.

All our people, democrat and republican, independent and otherwise, want relief.

Our politicians don't know how to focus on relief. Our democrats want to legislate programs to provide relief, and then hand money to people to wade through the programs and push paper until some relief is achieved. Our republicans want to take money that is ineffectively spent and determine that those who know how to spend money will spend it most effectively.

Tell your legislator to quit fooling around.

Make the rule simple.

"Everyone is entitled."

Go to the grocery store. Buy food. Put a care package on every doorstep.

Go to the utility. Buy a certain amount of windpower. Distribute it to every home.

Go to the phone company. Install and pay for landline incoming calls and local outgoing calls.

Go to the community. Pay for a transportation system. Make sure it does the job.

Go to the health care providers. Pay for health care.

The money is there. It's why we pay taxes.

How we pay taxes needs to change to reflect a paradigm shift.

I'm ready to change.