My changes

With a trillion dollars on the line to help the economy and improve Americans’ lives, here are a few of my counter suggestions.

1. Cancel the public education system and remit to taxpayers $10,000 per household to choose a private school system. Each year ‘kids’ could be moved around by parents if learning was not a priority at a specific school, unless parents choose athletics over academics. Then so be it.
2. Offer a billion dollar prize for a high mileage vehicle consumers admire and crave. Who cares about emissions or size? Appearance and fuel savings must be the driving features.
3. More energy - electrical that is- can be found by building nuclear plants across the country. Forget about environmentalists and government regulations, go for 50 of them in 10 years. Then the ‘grid lock’ we often face today as power failures could be freed up for alternative uses.
4. Create a spray can of DDT and distribute it to every person threatened by the nasty mosquito responsible for millions of malaria deaths each year. If possible, mask the odor with a pleasant perfume, but do not lesson the efficacy of the insecticide.

5. Create and facilitate (tell the dictators they have no choice but to cooperate) de-salination plants to provide fresh water to the needy. One of the top two causes of mortality, lack of fresh water ( following lack of food) must be addressed. Water, water is everywhere, but many have not sufficient drops to drink.

6. Now to the food problem. Bioengineering should be turned loose to the biologists, chemists and agronomists. Rock concerts could be venues for food distribution. My word! Hunger should not be in any song lyrics of the 21st century.

7. Lastly, I want satellite reception like my urban friends. Since country bumpkins are deprived of choices in viewing entertainment, why can’t another dish be put into space to provide us access to our own special place in the sky?

Cato the orator knew about the "vast fund of stupidity" in human nature. The in-coming liberal administration aptly demonstrates this fact. Government is not the short-term solution to problems. Big brother just replays long-term, the mistakes of the past.