Rightfully yours

[I actually sent this to the White House]

Dear Mr. President,

In your administration, you have tried positioning yourself as the pragmatic adult in a capital filled with squabbling children. You have tried taking the high road.

If you don’t mind, I will offer you my opinion: That approach has not and will no longer work.

You are fighting street gangs, who will knife you in the back at every opportunity. To lead the cause against the street gangs, you need to become a street fighter, down and dirty, with one exception that separates you from them. You do not knife in the back.

This is not a fight among adults. These are mob bosses trying to seize power for their own good. Your message to the people whether you speak it or not; Will you let them?

The people will cheer a matador, a single hero against the raging power of Congressional “bull.”

Stay on your bus. Take a whistle stop train trip like Truman. Make your bus / train / plane the American White house in the field with the people. Yet you are ready at a moment’s notice to return to Washington when needed.

Keep working in your shirtsleeves. People like a face that they can recall who is a worker like them. Your struggle is bigger, but the same — they struggle against big business for jobs, you struggle against Congress for their jobs.

Capitalize on the comment “There are some in Congress right now who would rather see their opponents lose than see America win,” as you said in Holland, Mich. Superimpose the image of political opponents defeated with America defeated — emphasize that’s what the GOP wants, a defeated America. And please don’t be shy. We need Thor to lead us.

Push the adoption of the infrastructure bank, have the voters force Congress to create it and create jobs. It is another example of Congress keeping control by holding the candy. Be simple — votes against the infrastructure bank are votes against American workers.

Focus on defeating every one of the freshmen Reps, who blindly follow their alleged mandate, without regard to the nation’s welfare. They have betrayed their trust. They were not elected to destroy the nation and they must be removed before they do that.

You will never reconcile the GOP to work with you.

They want you out because they fear you, and I don’t think you fully see it yet. Don’t be so nice.

Adopt some of the same values and programs as the GOP. Take their thunder by offering the same goals and removing clear choice. Identify fiscal cuts yourself and publicize them. Show how your cuts will hurt less than singling out the elderly and sick for program cuts.

The GOP is focused on eliminating the elderly. The elderly and those approaching retirement tend to have longer memories and place high value on promises kept as well as those broken.

The GOP knows that this is the first year baby boomers will retire, and there are 73 million of them counting on Social Security, Medicare and pensions and the Republicans are afraid.

Show the GOP as the villains they are, with their own interests first and only, stopping the large scale programs that would spur economic growth, unashamedly against labor in favor of the rich. Remember, dictatorships only survive as long as they can keep the workers and populace down.

Trickle down economics has never worked, and it never will as long as businesses and people practice greed — me first, you maybe never.

Sharpen your tone. We are counting on you.

My personal idea to help employment:

Tie unemployment benefits to a job intern program. Encourage businesses needing help of any kind to accept interns who will work and learn on the job. Pay and health care benefits will come from unemployment funding.

Participating businesses can have tax breaks for interns learning a skill (not just sweeping floors). Technical school education with government funding will be offered to promising interns as they learn a trade on the job.

Businesses will hire trained workers they know as needed with job performances they have witnessed.

Thank you for your time.