PIF I have noticed your posts for quite a while now. I think you could come up with some ideas. But I get it... you are a bitter old guy who blames the government for various hardships that you have faced. You even blame President Reagan personally for the loss of your high paying tuna boat skippering job. You know more about the ins and outs of that than other people here. But I can assure you that there are others participating in this forum who have lost a lot more than you because of irrational government actions.
Sometimes it doesn't take a whole lot to help change the course of history. You are a person with an extremely interesting background and volumes of knowledge which could be of great help to the new administration. This actually is one of the locations that some of those responsible for advising President Trump peruse more than occasionally. I would personally be very grateful if you would try to use some of your past history combined with your creativity to try and come up with some good suggestions for our new president. I believe that you have more of an opportunity to make a difference than you realize.
Thanks but no thanks. Not a bitter old guy. Just the facts.
Reagan did deliberately screw the entire US tuna industry, me along with it, as a sop the the envirowackos, as well as the West Coast drag fleet, the East Coast lobster, and cod fishermen. As for what I lost due to government actions - the previous is just the tip o’ the berg.
When some one with no About page asks me to do something, I am a bit suspicious of the motives, no matter how flattering the comments to me personally may be. And why I should give a rip about your gratitude?
Someone who claims to know that DJT Admin people check here for advice is asking a lot of suspended disbelief on my part. Someone anonymous who follows my posts for “quite a while now” wants me to suddenly step up to industrial strength advice to the US President and his team, is quite too much, way over the top.’
So: No. Hell No.
But I’ll give you a freebee anyway, which no one will agree with, like, or really take the time to understand. All the axes will be on the grindstones being sharpened to a razor edge.
Want to jump start the economy in a really big way - not the lame stuff bantered about in the news? Want to make US educational system the best in the world, bar none? Want to make America really great, in a way that history will record as one of the greatest achievements ever? Want to put Hope back into the human condition? Want the nation to have a Goal? Want the political party you support to actually stand for something so big that the others will just shrivel?
Not a national program, but a National Goal:
Go back to space, manned space. Not just to some asteroid, Mars, or the moon - for no purpose other than we can. Think big. Think: Stars. Go to the stars. Start now. The tech and engineering exist to overcome all the problems and have for 50 years, just lacking the political will.
Every thing in the educational system, in the economy would have to shift into high gear, and then into overdrive just to begin the process.
My free 2Cents and, unless someone contacts me outside this forum, is all your going to get.