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NEWS FLASH:The 16 Year Plan. I posted a fictitious news article:
WorldDailyNetReport: By Dee-Marie Urban 01.13.08, 9:45 AM ET --- In an unprecedented move, Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama have announced an end to their independent campaigns. Instead they have announced that they will join forces to present a ticket based on long term planning for the future of America. The plan dubbed "America Reborn" will see Senator Clinton and Senator Obama alternate as Lead Project America Mentor, serving as President for four years and then standing for Vice President for the next four.
"This for the first time since FDR will place one team of Project Managers guiding the country with a view to long term goals and true security for every American. No longer will US Policy be short term "watch the Quarterly Reports" in Nature. We want to address the real security issues, assuring every American has access to Health Care, freedom from poverty, safety in their old age and a hope for the future."
Senator Clinton will serve the first term as President and has agreed to stand as Vice-President during the 2012 election, Clinton to stand as President in the 2016 election and Obama to stand for President during the final Quadrannual election.
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When read in connection with the thread title, "NEWS FLASH:The 16 Year Plan.", I had hoped folk would realize that the subject was long term versus short term planning.
In the US, national planning has increasingly become very short term in nature. The emphasis seems to be on getting results within the term of the elected official voting on the project as opposed to long term planning for the future of the US and all of our citizens. We are faced with a VISION that is two year, four year or at most six year downstream. Finding support for things that may not show results until 25 or 50 years in the future is increasingly difficult.
The question is, how can we as a Nation work to change the model from a short term Quarterly Reposts based on to a long term future one?
How can we change the emphasis on security from Terrorism to the welfare of individual citizens?
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
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Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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