A simple proposal

For years, I have been taught to think for myself, criticize the government that we the people elect; to follow the suggestions of greats such as Alexander Hamilton or Thomas Paine.

And yet as I grow older, it seems that thinking for myself has gotten me nowhere. Sure I have formed opinions and deeper view of our society, but has this achieved anything?

There is still an overabundant amount of poverty in our country, an un-payable debt to an ever-growing budget, and the land we founded hundreds of years ago isn't getting any bigger while the population isn't getting any smaller.

These problems are so large that many, if not all, lack the will to recognize them. Politicians propose bills that are shrouded in lobby-influenced restrictions, statements are retracted because of their overzealous idealism and past lives are hid in fear of future campaign runs.

How can we, as a nation, get back to the glory days this nation once waded in? Is there something that can be done?

Yes, in fact, there is. While merely a college student and a ridiculously opinionated "pot-smoking hippie," I have - if you'll tolerate my words - a simple proposal for both our government and society on how to clean the slate, so to speak.

Let's kill off the lowest third of our country's economic population. Now wait, don't stop reading yet. It is clear that the poor people of this country are slowing American progress.

We've got our boys over there in the Middle East, fighting for freedom, and these people are invading civil-service buildings, begging for welfare, wasting the taxpayer's money so that they can sit on a couch all day and do nothing. By eliminating this waste, the taxes paid by the richer tier will be more greatly realized and much more will get done.

Without the lowest tier, we could scrap welfare and spend the necessary money on weapons for the War in Iraq. We could give back to the upper tier - those who have sacrificed so much of their six-figure salaries to aid these leeches who use their birthplace and skewed family values as an excuse for their poverty.

Land once used to shelter the homeless and provide state funded housing for single mothers can be used instead for commercial enterprises, increasing business and boosting the fading value of a dollar.

A bonus of this process would be for the education system. It is clear that most failing public education takes place in these poverty-stricken hellholes. By cleaning house, public education as a whole would improve, while each school would have more money to improve individual conditions.

No more poor people means more imperialistic opportunities. Invading Iran would be less of a problem with no more poor people. However, the obvious criticism is that with no poor people, who will voluntarily join the military?

Luckily, most of the poverty-stricken leeches are liberal democrats, those opposing the war and fighting against the expansion of freedom. By ridding the nation of them, necessary war bills would be passed after the remaining citizens - the majority now conservative - forcing their politicians in office to change their views or lose their seat. As mentioned earlier, this kind of political ultimatum always falls back to reelection.

More would be willing to approve of a draft, and as we all know, a war with a draft can turn the country around economically, as it did during World War II. And for all those who are still liberal, their minority effect will force many of them to jump onto the bandwagon, a process we can speed up through the media.

And while all of these reasons seem valid, the initial problem of how we will actually take care said problem is still up in the air. One idea involves some rough estimation, but one cannot think of a quicker, more efficient way of solving the problem. Nearly all major metropolises harbor an abundance of poverty. By cleaning up these urban areas via contained nuclear missiles and heavy helicopter gunfire, most of the targets will be poor while some will most certainly have money.

While the loss of our fellow countrymen will be hard to swallow, the ends will most certainly justify the means.

There is no denying the logical consideration behind this suggestion. How else can we compete with these Middle-Eastern monsters while terrorism slowly takes over the planet?