Hey Bush read this

I am sitting here today giving things some thought. In case you were wondering I'm not a fan of a lot of the things that have transpired during the Bush Administration. Tom DeLay is a moral liability for those who claim to be with the "moral majority". In a diabolical twist of opportunity meeting a chance of redemption, why don't DeLay and Bush team up and create a bipartisan "Summit of the Americas".

What is the Summit of the Americas going to be you ask? Well I'm still working out the details a bit, but taking a page from the recent Pakistan - India accord about softening the borders of Kashmir. Completely out of the blue sky, nuclear rivals India and Pakistan just developed an "irreversible peace process." Monday they agreed to open up the militarized frontier dividing Kashmir. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf visited New Delhi, India to finalize the exchange. President Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said they were working toward a compromise in Kashmir to boost trade, travel and cooperation across the frontier.

In case you haven't been scoring this disagreement at home, India and Pakistan have been in a nuclear proliferation war for border supremacy to get the upper hand in negotiations for Kashmir for the last 10 years. The US even tried to fan the flames recently by selling Pakistan a bunch of F-16's, while allowing India to purchase a better set of planes from the litany of technology the US is willing to sell. The coup-de-gras of this landmark meeting between India and Pakistan was a cricket match between them. Pakistan won on Sunday.

Think about this, let's put Tom DeLay and his family's fundraising skills with corporate clients to use, and have the same litany of companies that donated money to Bush's Inauguration this year give some tax deductible greenbacks to this cause. The panderers who lined up for the Bush's Inauguration might be the only ones who could see the benefit of product placement before the world's most affluent decision makers. The donations could also underwrite part of the cost for researching these vital issues in a bipartisan way.

Since neither Condoleeza Rice, nor the UN Ambassador to be John Bolton have an iota of diplomatic skill, let's use the backdrop of the amazing beauty of all that is the United States of America. Bush could invite all of the world leaders of the G7 meetings, all the nations that hold the paper on our massive debt, OPEC and the member states we are on speaking terms with, and representatives from the world's poorest nations as well.

The people at the Summit of the Americas can look forward to a more relaxed Bush, and the refreshing attitude of Americans along the tour. We could promote all of the beautiful things that makes America an original. The summit will also be a recertification of the true American spirit that helped during WWI, and WWII. That attitude of helping hands uniting minds with optimism is the most valuable export the US has.

The country can be split into four regions and put to a vote all US citizens and visitors to come up with the most iconic America we all agree on. The 14 day summit will feature two days in each area with a baseball game at every stop, and a couple of travel days to see the places in between. The summit will also be the showcase of the US diplomacy and innovation. The summit will also address some of the most important issues that the world faces. World Debt, World Hunger, World Health, World Energy Comsumption, and World Air Pollution.

Our congress and president will have to spearhead commissions to research all of these issues. As it stands now, the rest of the world is concerned with the value of the debt it has financed on behalf of the US. The US economy is staving off inflation, but hasn't outpaced inflation in growth for wage earners in a few years. The congress and president will also have to address the laws made to protect wealth, and profitability of corporations, and personal bankruptcies because they come with the costs of lack of a clear overtime provision, predatory lending, lack of a future for the true middle class, and poverty and lifelong indebtedness for the other 99% of its people. Without people the rich and corporations have nothing.

All things considered we have to realize a true balanced budget. Instead of spending an reported $300-$350 billion US on the war on terror, and moving toward $1 Trillion in budget defecits in the last 3 years. Our economy will have to convince those that we owe the bond yields to that investing in America is good for everyone involved. The safest way to do so would be a balanced budget with investments in improving US infrastructure, or the world through a reasonable debt forgiveness plan for poor countries, and aid to other countries so the overall percentage of giving totals the recommendation of .7% of our annual GDP.

Here are the real numbers according to www.dw-world.de

"Meanwhile the IMF and World Bank appealed to industrialized countries to uphold their pledge of spending 0.7 percent of their Gross Domestic Product to support developing countries, particularly those in sub-Saharan Africa. Agreed to in 1969 during a UN conference, only a handful of countries have met the target, including Norway and Sweden.

The United States, one of the world's strongest economies, currently spends less than 0.2 percent of its GDP on development aid. France put 0.4 percent of its GDP towards aid programs in Africa, and in Germany, the goal is to reach 0.33 percent by 2006.

On the issue of Iraq, the support for debt relief was even less resounding. Whereas the US has lobbied for forgiving 90 percent of the Arab nation's $120 billion (€97 billion) in foreign debt, other nations are more critical. Germany and France reject such a high percentage, saying 50 percent is more appropriate. Citing its extensive oil reserves, France has argued that Iraq should not be treated any better than considerably poorer nations.

On Friday, members of the G7 had concluded their meeting with the goal of agreeing to the framework for a debt reduction plan for Iraq by the end of the year."

The prosperity of a few at the cost of the futures majority is not a fair system for those without access to wealth to thrive. People are the lifeblood of our economy, and continuing to punish them at tax time stifles growth, and the opportunity to ever become self sustaining as a group of individual people. Flat taxes, repealing estate taxes, repealing of the dividend tax, and attempts to repeal the capital gains tax all benefit those who are affluent. Italy's government tried to pass similar legislation and were scuttled by a countrywide union strike. Until we solve those financial inequities inside our borders we as a people will never see the benefit of wiping out world hunger, disease, AIDS, or easing of the punishing debt of third world countries.

We have to see the benefits of having more opportunities for more people and sharing our wealth with other members of our immediate world, long before we will ever want to aid those half a world away. Debt, Health, and Hunger always walk hand in hand. Where there is one of those issues exists, all of those issues exist. The bipartisan group have a lot to figure out just to get that initiative moving.

The spiraling costs of energy have crushed out economy's actual rebound. We are at all time highs for gasoline. If OPEC and the rest of the world during this summit cannot reach an accord to improve on the Kyoto accord for air pollution, find more renewable energy resources, the world will be in peril. The US needs to get it's automotive manufacturers to produce more fuel efficient vehicles including more hybrid vehicles. The costs of fuel are in every area of our society.

The costs are figured into travel, groceries, consumer items, and almost everything else that gets transported from one place to another in the entire world. Bush and the bipartisan committee need to address our approach to renewable energies. The US is currently consuming 2% more energy than it can produce. That margin can be made up through a plan to find other renewable energy sources that don't violate the Kyoto accord for greenhouse gas emissions.

The most vital issues that we face as a world, World Debt, World Hunger, World Health, World Energy Comsumption, and World Air Pollution are all issues the US needs to be the leader on solving, if we don't than the solution will come at a great expense to the average American more than ever before. The world expects the US to lead, when we don't the rest of the world wonders if it can be done. Maybe we can't solve them all, but if Bush, DeLay and a bipartisan commission can see eye to eye on solving these issues then Bush can actually have a positive light in the legacy he is so concerned with. The backdrop of the recent success of the Washington D.C. sports scene could serve a similar purpose as the cricket match between India and Pakistan. An opportunity to get the world together to discuss major issues in an informal light in order to facilitate sweeping change for everyone's benefit.