Common Sense

Here's a video, one of several this fellow makes, under the name of "Tom Paine", writer of the revolutionary papers titled Common Sense. I have to say I agree with a good deal of what he has to say, but some of those ideas simple don't make "common sense".

Direct election of the president would reduce the campaign to the Bos-Wash corridor, Miami, and L.A.. The rest of the country wouldn't count.

2 years of mandatory government service? We all saw how well conscripted armies did in the Viet-Nam war, with the unwilling providing about as much hindrance as help, and I get visions of Acorn being elevated to the status of Quasi-government agency for purposes of doing your service.
"Get out there and get every single voter in that graveyard onto a registration slip, and you're done until the elections come up."



And don't mail your congress people a bag of tea. Brew the tea and drink it yourself. Mail them the tab off the string, otherwise the DHS will be analyzing the bag for chemical warfare agents, and you'll be in jail for terrorism. While you're at it, write down some of your complaints about their voting record, behavior, spending habits, what-have-you, and drop the list in with the tea tab. You're dealing with fairly feeble minds here, and you need to get them specifically focused.

Good luck.