Why are you so *angry*, Manny?

[Jackpine Radical]

133. Well, for starters, let's put people to work building that green infrastructure.

That is, let's put them to work for about 24 hours a week apiece and pay a living wage of $30/hour. We can do that if we just level the payouts a little.

Then we need to find reasonable ways to make drastic reductions in our birthrate. I think the world has a realistic carrying capacity of 1 to 2 billion people.

Nationalize anything that's "too big to fail" or inherently monopolistic: Banks, energy companies, health care etc.

Re-institute communities in which people know and care for their neighbors.

Rebuild our educational system and provide free education for everyone with the talent and interest, preschool through PhDs, MDs, etc.

Totally restructure our childrearing and childcare system, beginning with primary prevention, including intervening in abusive home environments, rebuilding school environments to meet the actual emotional, mental & physical needs of kids, thereby reclassifying things like "ADHD" as just part of the normal range of human ways of being, and generally making sure kids get what they need to be come fully functional humans.

Totally reform the criminal justice system, with a heavy emphasis on therapy and recidivism reduction. There is no need to incarcerate any but those who remain dangerous to others.

I have a few other ideas as well, but the modest measures I cite above should help to get us on the right path.