Saturday, December 6, 2008

Which "economic baddie" do you prefer? Vote now!

Here's an idea: A list of options will be given to community leaders, cities, states and other organizations, and each must select which economic baddie, or NIMBY type project, they prefer. Areas with these unwanted projects are excluded from the initial list until everyone has an equal share. Each will be forced to decide how they wish to take responsibility for our great economy in reward for all the great things we have. Here are some of the options to choose from:
  • prison
  • nuclear power plant
  • low-income housing
  • homeless transitional center
  • nuclear waste site

Each of these will have to be weighted - some are more applicable for a state, while others for a neighborhood or small community. If this is a true democracy (which it isn't) then we should have the right to choose if we have the right to deny. Or better yet, we should appreciate the right to choose how we wish to take responsibility for all the things we benefit from. Because people never want to take responsibility, it would have to be forced. If everyone must choose something, it may make it easier to justify since no one will be treated unfairly. 

Which would you choose?

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