Friday, April 27, 2007

money better spent

The following is a form letter that I would like to see be used someday by a would-be political candidate. They can check which ever box they like. I don't think that hopes for such a letter are realistic, but it's a nice hope.

Dear Contributor,
I realize that it must seem like I've taken your money under false pretences, but rather than spend the tens of millions that I've raised on advertising, lobbying and otherwise running for office, I've decided to drop out of the race and indstead use the money to:

[] plant a million trees.
[] found a library/ museum/ school/ zoo/ performing arts center/large public park.
[] create a large planned community for low income individuals and families.
[] create an endowment for the arts and sciences that gives out over a million dollars a year from the interest and never runs out of money.
[] turn a section of northern/ equitorial rainforest into a wildlife preserve.
[] buy solar pannels/ wind turbines to power 5 thousand homes.
[] actually fund the social programs that I said I'd fund if I took office.
[] give out over a billion condoms to people around the world.
[] give out (favorite virus here) vaccines in developing nations.
[] build a new prison.
[] Grant the wishes of nearly a million terminally ill children over the next several years.
[] nearly double alternative energy research spending for a year.
[] create an endowment that supports law enforcement.
[] give one million people food for a week that wouldn't have otherwise gotten it.
[] actually save an endangered species.
[] have another self enriched food created like vitamin A rice.
[] have garbage removed from close to a thousand miles of coast line.

Thank you for helping me acheive this powerful act of good for the world.
Sincerely,
A former candidate for office

1 comment:

Prehistoric Insanity said...

It's when you say things like this that you can tell you took Palaeo and not Poli-Sci LOL

Politicans aren't morally guided or affected creatures like humans...

We still aren't sure what they are in the political science world. We're waiting for a good specimen much like the conodonts got to explain what they are :P