Forum Post: Running List of Ideas to Promote the General Welfare

Here, I would like to initiate a running list of ideas that might promote the general welfare of all. When I speak of ideas, I am referring more to creativity than the same old platitudinous thinking so common among us. For example, to substitute Ron Lawl for Obama or Rick Perry for Newt Gingrich are not creative ideas; no, they are the same old tripe implementations of an exhausted mind.

As you ponder your ideas do not be apprehensive about criticism. Remember, even the experts make foolish statements; to wit:

From the book Experts Speak

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." --President of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet. (Hewlett-Packard executive, responding to Apple Computer founders Steve Jobs' and Steve Wozniak's attempts to interest the company in the "personal computer" they had designed, 1976. )

640K [memory] ought to be enough for anybody. Attributed to Bill Gates, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, 1981

We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet. (Hewlett-Packard executive, responding to Apple Computer founders Steve Jobs' and Steve Wozniak's attempts to interest the company in the "personal computer" they had designed, 1976. )

640K [memory] ought to be enough for anybody. Attributed to Bill Gates, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, 1981 [I have 12 meg on my machine now.]

You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck. -- Jim Denny, Manager of "Grand Ole Opry", to Elvis Presley, 1954

Gentlemen, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over. (It was just getting started.) -- Herbert Hoover, June 1930

Include only the general mention of your idea here, then link to a specific discussion in your own post when you have time to expand on it.

Lastly, small people and their exhausted minds will attack ideas because they are a perceived threat to their beloved status quo, which usually means homo barely erectus. So, get them in digital form and let's make the world a better place. I will initiate the process:

1. Plural executive in the executive branch.

2. Direct online democracy.

3. National online employment agency of the people, by the people, for the people

4. OWS Inc., a holding company for ownership in the basic needs industries. As an owner, OWS reps would serve on the boards of these industries.

5. National online educational of the people, by the people, for the people. All disciplines served. The envy of the world. No entry limitations.

6. A website that displays in table form the non-classified contracts of the federal government.

7. A website funded by the federal government permitting the public to voice complaints, present ideas, etc.

8. Switch the roles of the GAO auditors and the outside independent auditors. GAO would audit corporate America and the outside CPA's would audit the government. I'll explain the why's of this in my detail.

9. Whistle-blowing site.

10. Encourage employers with tax breaks, if necessary, to hire office-at-home people. Office-at-home employees could compete better since they have less expenses. They could increase their competitive edge if they are willing to convert to nocturnal. For example, let's say if an employer needed a project completed over night, they could call upon this nocturnal base.

11. A website monitoring lobbyists, manned by the people.

12. Petition the federal government to hire independent contractors (the unemployed, the underemployed) to read and abridge books for digital form so they can be available freely for the public. (I've been doing this for years on my own.)

13. Encourage the retrenching/retiring baby boomers to give back with worthwhile online courses for the young (actually anyone).

14. Online news service for the people and by the people. Talk about an unemployment fixer. A rep in every county, for example. Funding from ads, contributions, etc.

15. National online employment agency by the people and for the people.

16. Zendog did not like my criticism of the Post Office because he viewed its demise as an effort of to privatize mail. OK, fine. What precludes OWS from implementing its own ePost Office, run by the people, for the people? Expensive? You bet but capitalization did not stop Fred Smith's Fedex. Money does not stop progress but the lack of good ideas does. You submit a good idea to investors and they will support it. And oh what a job creator !

You're up now. Go for it.