Great ideals built a once great nation that has gone astray. Equality, freedom and justice. All may seem to be corrupted by a fundamental darkness within. I know that there is too a purity within, it is reflected in our wisdom and compassion. I struggle to maintain hope that we, the people, will win back the ideals this great nation was built on.

The long dark night of pointing to evil outside ourselves must end if we are to see the dawn of wisdom and compassion emerge with hope for the people.

I. We have massive expenditures for military weapons which can easily lead us into a path of death and destruction. At the same time we have little resources expended for life saving and enhancing expenditures. The mass of our funding has to be restructured toward a quality of life for the people.

A. We have to establish affordable health care.

B. Public health includes the environment and science that is for supporting the quality of life.

II. We have a system that curries favor to industries weather or not they are good for the people. A government for the people must uphold that quality of life and be able to regulate industries that compromise it. Money can not lead our government. What is good for the people is not determined by those industries that have been allowed to profit at the expense of life and it’s quality.

A. Farm subsidies should be based on the basic needs of food that the people need. We don’t need to take food from mouths to be put in fuel.

B. The people need clean air, water and soil, this can not be compromised for industries profit line.

C. It is not governments job to protect industries profits, government must uphold the health, welfare, rights and freedoms of it’s citizens first and foremost.

III. The strict separation of church and state has been so blurred that it has actually created problems and greatly defiled the ideals that made this nation great. All government institutions have to respect a strict separation of church and state. Everything from military, to marriage, including science and education has been corrupted because of fundamentalist extremist religious injection.

A. The military has to stop using religion.

B. Faith based initiatives are a clear departure from the strict separation of church and state and should not be allowed to continue to corrupt this fundamental ideal for a great nation. Within this funding, religion is supported by government, allowed to discriminate, judge and dominate over basic freedoms.

1. Public education can not be fixed by voucher programs that allow more blurring of the line of a strict separation of church and state.

C. It is in no way the governments job to determine who can or can not marry. If our tax system is tied to marriage, it has to accept all equally or none at all.

D. Throughout history religion has rejected scientific discovery which does not support it’s theocracy. We have a common bond as humans and this is the only concern our government has to support. Wisdom is found within science and humanity can be a moral compass for that science without religious theory suppressing certain aspects. Science, used wisely can save lives.

1. Stem cell research harms no one and can advance the quality of life.

2. Cloning needs common sense analysis and strict guidelines based on the input from all of it’s resultant implications.

3. The missions for space exploration have to have clear benefit for the people. When we abandon the sick and mentally challenged and support massive funds for a space station, how do the people benefit?Those massive funds combined with the militaries initiatives have lead us to be the only nation that refused to collaborate with other nations for space to not be used for weapons. The one avenue that should be funded for the people, a mission for reducing the risk of comet collisions, was abandoned.

4. At the same time, the monitoring of environmental occurrences was distorted by the same administrative influence that shut the door to renewable energy in it’s energy policy and had the audacity to tell the people that conservation was not a viable alternative.

Great ideals are worth restoring.