Changes we really need

President Barack Obama campaigned on a slogan, "Change We Need". The only change we will get is new managers of a government that is too big and too powerful.

I have a list of changes we really need to get back to individual liberty and responsibility.

1. We should privatize all government land and ocean mineral rights. Each park, forest, road, and ocean mineral and fishing rights should be transferred to a private for profit corporation that is owned equally, 100 shares each, by every person that has been a US citizen for 25 years. Profits from these corporations will go toward retirement for citizens when they turn a certain age. The same should be done for the Air Traffic Control System. Each citizen should own shares in the ATC system and receives fees for the use of the airspace. The Federal Communications Commission that parcels out broadcasting rights over the airways should be a private corporation owned by each citizen equally and receiving profits from the use of those airways.

2. Too many federal court decisions are made by a simple majority. To eliminate these close decisions there should be a constitutional amendment that would allow the US Senate, by a two thirds vote, 66%, to override any federal court decision.

3. Any person who accepts a welfare check, government grant, government contract check, government subsidy, or any employee who works for an organization that does, shall not be allowed to make campaign contributions to any candidate.

4. All public housing will be deeded, under a new Homestead Act, to the occupant who has lived in the house or apartment for at least three years.

5. Progressive tax rates punish individual effort. Any person who works two jobs to make more money shall have their tax rates reduced, not increased.

6. Every 25 years people should be allowed to vote on the ratification of the constitution. No one living today has had the right to vote on the constitution they were accidental born under.

7. Members of the House of Representatives shall be chosen from their districts the same way jurors are chosen.

Charles Tolleson