Ameri-CAN or Ameri-CAN'T

by Jeffrey Jones

Over the past fifty years America has undergone significant socioeconomic changes leading to many ofttimes hilarious paradoxes. This book examines some of those governmental incongruencies along with setting forth several genuine proposals, some slightly radical (others slightly ridiculous), for remedying what ails the Land of the Free. These woe-relieving notions are founded on common sense with an eye on the teachings from our ancestors--also commonly referred to (however affectionately) as old coots. This book examines how we got to where we are and recommends steps we might take to get where we need be in the future. Innovations like a new tax code, a national lottery, G-cars, universal healthcare, and new political parties are all presented with a sense of fairness and a sense of humor in an effort to coax, cajole, or coerce the populace toward building/demanding a government with a real purpose, other than finding new and diverse ways to make its taxpaying citizenry uneasy, if not hostile. American or American't is a timely, thought-provoking review of our history and policies,and, in places, laugh out loud funny, It calls you to take issue with what you read here and encourages you to ask not what your government is going to do to you (why bother? they're not going to tell you) but consider what you are going to do to them--the NSA already knows what you are going to do to them,

126 pages, Paperback

First published April 7, 2014