HERE ARE MY IDEAS FOR SAVING THIS COUNTRY 1. pay teachers more. a lot more. competitive with doctors. if teachers make more, it'll create competition for the jobs. that means only the best teachers will become teachers. we'll also have happier teachers. happier teachers will be happy to inspire young minds. we need smarter people in this country. 2. give EVERYONE free health care. i don't know why this is such a difficult concept to grasp. heathy people work harder and more often. if i was an employer, i'd want my employees to be in tip-top shape so they can make me more money. 3. stop allowing the outsourcing of american jobs. president bush stated after 9/11 that we all were going to have to make sacrifices. my best example is america online. AMERICA online. why is AMERICA online sending it's jobs to india & pakistan? don't you think that a company with "america" in its name do SOMETHING for this country??? it makes me freakin sick, and there are dozens, if not hundreds of other american organizations doing the same. how about mr. ceo and coo and cfo take a reasonable pay cut so that they could do something REAL for their country. 4. invest wholeheartedly in alternative energy sources. this entire world is in drastic need of the next industrial revolution, and this is it. i'm tired of oil. and we need to get off it FASTER THAN "as soon as possible." we have wind, geothermic, nuclear, and of course, solar, which is truly the only renewable resource. hello! we have the technology to harness the sun's energy, we need to invest in the advancement of that technology. every single structure in america should have it's roof covered in solar panels. there's a wonderful side effect to this point as well...we'll get out of all of those middle eastern countries that we pretend to like. then the freaks in those countries won't hate us so much and want to kill us. we're not going to kill them all, the only way for the war on terror to end is for them to not hate us anymore. if we don't need their oil, we won't be there anymore (except for some military bases, etc spread throughout the area, but i think that isn't our greatest worry). honestly i don't give two sh*ts who gets these things done, but the fact is that they need to be done. this country has to be repaired from within, and we need to finally step into the 21st century and revolutionize everything. i'm ryan jorgensen, and i hope to have your vote on november 2nd. ;D