If I were a Presidential Candidate

Let's say I was running for President and I was actually interested in being 'worthy' of voting for. (Important point) Instead of just having the money to annoy the general populice with unending nonsense TV commercials about what I would do if you gave me all the money in the national treasury. Which is what we are listening to now instead I would start acting Presidential now.

I would go to the website The Benefactor Project.com and employ the open source aspect of the project.

I would start being audacious now, not someday. I would ask for all the houses this particular State is going to demolish, then I would announce that I will be creating jobs and giving away free houses at every whistlestop I'll be making on the way to the White House.

Then I would contact every person running for public office in that state that belongs to my party. Have those people standing beside me at the podium. Point to them and tell the crowd. If you want a job and a free house please stop by Mr. or Ms. So and So office and get your name on the list and register to vote. ( Note to Candidates, Who do you think these people are going to vote for?)

Talking points note: Environment, reduction in tax burden, jobs creation, cap and trade, hope, green, help for Veterans, the number of small businesses created by the financially secure beneficiaries of this effort, help for heads of homeless households, not outsourceable, reduce crime by offering opportunties to ex offenders and underprivilaged inner city young men or women, stabilization of houseing market, increase in equity savings acounts, reduction of national debt. etc. etc. etc.

I wonder how many on the staffs of the two presidential candidates can create thousands of jobs overnight?

On a humorous side, it would be funny to see the Candidates get asked about this proposal and see how they squirm and avoid actually doing something worthwhile. Oh well, you folks don't really believe these guys have any intention of keeping campaign promises or helping us or care about us do you? Making you think they are doing their job without doing anything is their job.

and that is the "America" con job.








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Are philanthropists stupid?

There is a new trend in philanthropy that baffles me. Why do philanthropic efforts always design themselves to NOT curing the problem and insist the effort cost so much to NOT carry the mission out?

Which leads me to this question. Is Bill Gates, Oprah, Google and others like them really really stupid people and organizations? Why isn't there a simple question asked when on the subject on where a person puts there money? That question is,

Will this money cure the problem or simply sustain it?

I challenge anyone to find one example where philanthropic money cured the problem it was supposed to. Or aren't they designed to cure the problem? You are not curing the problem of a starving child anywhere on the planet by feeding it.

Google now has "new" idea they are self aggrandizing and trotting out and that is they want to make a profit off of poor people or they won't help you. In the old days that was called, greed or business as usual, What the fuck is that?

Two people I would like to point out as doing the right thing for the right reasons at the right price to "cure" a problem are,

Ron Hunter, a college basketball coach in Indianapolis, went barefoot during a game on Thursday night to raise awareness for needy children in Africa. The move inspired donations of 110,000 pairs of shoes for a charitable organization.
and
Playpumps.org

I put a challenge out there for all so called philanthropists.

Put up two million dollars, all accounting has to be in public view, you use one anyway you want and I'll use one to run The Benefactor Project and give you the million back and let's see who cures the most poverty stricken people in America.

Tom Canavan
The Benefactor Project