First, I ask that you bear in mind I am 30 years young, & not a member of Congress . . . but I have some insight into our national situation, having read, listened, & thought on our national situation a decent share.

Second, I wanted to say I have improved on this, partially by taking into consideration what some geniuses in politics have said.

Bearing all that in mind, if I were in congress, this is the preliminary path (or “roadmap”) I would consider following, with all necessary & good legislative ‘waypoints’ being done in-between.

Congressional Rule Reform:

Fix congressional rules to prevent excess power by the minority.

This is systemic – & systemic means fix now.

Republicans learned this with the recent Democratic filibuster of the anti-abortion provision Republicans fought for.

Campaign Finance Reform:

In my view, freedom should be sweeping but freedom of speech is not freedom of spending — speaking is specifically an exchange for informational purposes whereas spending is specifically an exchange for goods &/or services.

We must distinguish speech & money.

This is a medium-term systemic problem we must fix shortly that is creating financial collapses & other problems associated with a literal oligarchy – this where the founding fathers intended & we present, living today still want a constitutional democratic republic, forbearing gradual progression to a genuinely, in-foresight, better system.

After these congressional legislation systemic-problems, we must at some point address this:

Economic Security Reform:

We de-regulated, I am told, & crashed the economy, millions losing jobs and/or homes. Re-regulation & further regulation – which you like regulation if you like your house to not fall on your head – thanks to building code standards – & your food to not degenerate you but improve your nutrition – thanks to food standards – & your car to not cause an accident with the 7 members of your family in the car –

therefore financial standards & other standards – “regulations” – are the most basic of idea in government: law to stem the tide of grievous death, injury, & the like.

Campaign Finance Reform especially should help us achieve economic protections for consumers —

if only Dodd-Frank could have a full set of teeth.

(I am open to any good ideas about securing our economy – including protections against micro-trading-caused crashes, & any other economic bubbles.)

After these systemic Rule & Campaign Finance fixes, & the Economic/Financial Security fixes, I then, with a more fully functioning legislative system & security of economy, next in legislative priority I with my understanding of things would turn to the next thing:

Climate Change: a mismanagement problem threatening our planet very much; one which we should practice the Father of Medicine’s – Hippocrates’ – advice &, in the case of planetary “disease”, First, Do No Harm – do not solve our so-called “safe”-chemicals-caused problem with more “safe” chemicals; & instead, like the best doctors, we should turn to removing the thorn of the cause, & cease wasteful contributions to climate change.

I would then too focus on this:

Income Inequality: which, from the point of view of growth of our civilization, is simply inefficient: the lion’s share of the population eats cheaply – so they eat poorly; the lion’s share use cheaper tools, giving a worse result & a worse, more-frustrating experience. Every good & service we pay toward has a level of quality, & when the lion’s share of the population consumes lower quality everything all the time, our civilization is cast astray. & That is not acceptable. Do we want 95% to have low quality necessities? No. Greed is a sin. Share The Wealth.

Thanks; Joe Valentyn.

a poem i just wrote, have a looksee:

the heart,
waterfalls in our blue lagoon
really hitting a stride –
i love you to the moon

& back

i’m ecstatic that
you love me
too

makes me think back,

to how in my slush puppy days
deadly hot girls asked for an orgy with me,
& when i was of age, it was the season opener of jailbait,
we smoked opium & cannabis, in the back of our hippie buses, too

wearing fake vampire fangs
girlfriends with cartoony imaginations
fooling around all day & all night in her room

playing just to play

might as well’ve had bunnyrabbit ears,
& a little puffy cottontail — oo

then in the days i laughed at businessmen,
it was flip flops,
across the u.s. southwest
Greyhounds,
& soundtracks,
holing up in
rabbitholes

yeah #philosophy was a stronghold
for the too cool for school

then subplots branched,
& bled, & hatched
the stork of Life
delivered me the romance,
that i
always dreamed of

yes as i’m riding a street cruiser
into my middle life

i’m happy to say i got my dream wife

some may think otherwise
but i know it’s all about happily marrying
the same person
living in a always honeymoon

blue lagoon waterfalls, are all i want to see now
i love you to the moon & back,
i captured my queen

& the lovebirds sing:

we live
in permanent
ecstasy
{backup singers: tell the truth! me: i do!}

we write
letters,
like teenage girls
write in their diary

– there’s the american
flag,
& a cross hanging in her cleavage . . . . .

talking sticks,
& presses of blueprints
strategy board soapboxing

& the quick & the dead –
crying from happiness
life’s easter eggs
& another umpteen zillion,
sublime groves,
& primes to rock & roll,
i got your message,
i’d die to play house with you

[ssba_hide]

the first birdchirp of the year has cracked
blooming in a week are thee lilacs —
everything Earthly in Spring is beginning anew

& so you again too (whyyyy)
well since it’s better to live than it is to die
thus then therefore it’s better to thrive than merely survive

so as thee poets become babbling brooks,
& the sprouts are shooting up from their roots
let me tell you, the birds & the bees are currently getting struck by Eros Cupid

yes, now, the squirrels frolick in their pairs,
lovebirds singing everywhere
lovebirds singing everywhere,
that precious song
that is Love
is in the air

so as you scrub your spring cleanin’
you have a reason to be beaming
mr right is right here or if he’s elsewhere, he has a clue

Some things bear repeating.

I wanted to add this time sharing this, that altho this is a brief list of words, each of these words are like a class unto themselves – a class you will probably learn & grow in the rest of your Life.

Thank You,
Joe

Thank you so much for the popular reception — I am astonished & infinitely & eternally grateful to all of yous.

Thank you again – Joe

After those threats to the quantity & quality of your Life, how about something else that affects how good your life is, besides in some part how long you live.

You can prossibly guess [sic] what I’m talking about: Money.

I independently stumbled on the phrase “equal pay for equal work” about 10 years ago, only to find it was already coined, back in about 1948. In public fora some would ask why I wanted us to intervene on women being paid less –

What people call the gender pay gap –

“They’re weaker,” someone would say – I would say what about a male typist & a female typist; if there were no discernible difference in the speed or result of their work, one produced a typed sheet in 9 minutes compared to the other producing the same typed sheet in 9 minutes – why were we paying them different? That’s equal work – why not equal pay?

“They work less days a year, taking care of kids.” Shouldn’t we pay people to make & raise people, especially at one of their most vulnerable stages of Life — not the opposite – discourage & punish them for creating & raising our most valuable asset: people?

This went on & on, & it seemed clear women need equal pay for equal work, stereotypes be damned.

But the thing is, as I’ve talked about in this site previously, equal pay is only part of economic security. equal pay without a job to keep is poverty – we need a strong economy so there’s plenty of work – & moola – to go around.

& What about income inequality – the fact that CEO’s & people like them took 89/90ths of the fruits of everybody’s labor since 1979, I figured – taking 89/90ths of the wealth generated by everyone working?

The rest of us had 1/90th to fight over, & more accurately, to suffer with. That’s money to raise a family. to get a safe car. to get a respectable home. Spread the word about income inequality . . . it is a very serious problem.

A 4th issue is economic security in the larger sense: the protection from crashes in the economy. As best I can tell, de-regulation & lack of regulation in financial markets has led to our last crash – millions of people lost their jobs & homes as a result of that.

That’s not financial security. Your home is where you live most everyday. Your job too is essential . . . We can’t let financial finaglers’ greed shyst millions out of these basic needs, & then bail them out. That isn’t how it’s going to be. Nah unh.

. . . So, equal pay for equal work . . . job availability . . . a fair share of the income . . . & protection from things like unfair mortgages, costing you your home or job, are some things I think of when I think of a better Life for women, after recognizing the actual threats to your Life that are overwhelmingly Health-related – (not military or other violence. (The one other case that ranks somewhat high is car accidents.))

What do you think of?
♡ J.V.

I do not admire the happening of the co-occurrence of my women’s statement  & the gov “No More” campaign, of which mine was drafted on my website a month or two earlier. I had written of my life’s dream that women would rise & rule for the next millennium – moving from toil to communication —

What came out to me as a high school like campaign against a much villainous, something i have long despised, but not nearly whole proposal of the government’s tending of women’s needs in the next duration, did not do justice to the original vision I was pregnant with myself. I repeat my respect for the tragic suffering of the vicious bravado of deflowering in that way – but I say loudly women’s needs extend far beyond sexual well-being.

Is that right or is that right?

1. Life — Health security threats are the number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, then 7, 8, 9 AND 10 threats to a woman’s life – statistically – they are the real concerns in a time of capitalism’s excesses leading to some corruption of health care & the average person affording health care. (the #6 threat to your life is unintentional injuries, like car accidents & falls.)

How often were you taught to have traditionally fermented foods – as a pregnant woman, moreover – in these times, despite preventing allergies & boosting the immune system, a very very important part of health?

— Corporate health – the biggest key to education & treatment of the threats that are realest to your Life – has very simply lost its way.

(After health threats, that next threat, car accidents, is something we must work on all aspects of – from drowsy driving, to drunk driving, to safer cars, to better designed roads — I even at this moment favor researching & doing experimental roll-outs of automated driving, to correct this threat to both our lives.)

You also hear the 81% male government — of course I am one of these lowly creatures — talk and act endlessly on behalf of “national security” – military preponderance, they mean – they make a constant reference to the much bolstered “threats” we face. (to be fair, you could argue this is because we have “secured the homeland” so well . . . but.)

After the large majority of threats to your Life – Health threats – only then does war show up – at #74 in the list of threats to your life.

Is it any surprise men are overly occupied by power grabs, prioritizing it to the point we spend 20 times as much on military as medical research & development, despite health threats being, by my count, 67 of the top 78 threats to women’s & also men’s lives?

I have more fight in me for women’s needs, but at this time I will provide it in pieces, so we can process this information thoroughly.

Thank you —
Joe Valentyn

[update:] p.s. Some final thoughts: Women are 51% of the world, a larger majority than any ethnic group by quite a bit. It’s time to meet their needs first.

There is a follow-up to this article: Re Women’s Actual Needs: Economic Security, As Well