Letter to legislature 3

Some suggestions I hope you will find interesting and strongly consider:

1. We need to grow industrial hemp; everyone knows it's superior to cotton, the oil is quite useful. Let's also use hemp for biofuels and additionally help stop global warming. It has so many uses. Hemp can also be used as an excellent source of food. It's an inexpensive, easy to grow crop. Stand up to the cotton, oil and prison guard lobby groups. Why is it the rest of the world seems to understand this?

2. Let's establish an official fund for EMT's; it will get more attention for donations that way. This money can be applied to families of those killed on duty or for EMTs in need of medical help or counseling. The police departments and fire departments already have a fund for this.

3. If it's not already a requirement, let's require a minimum of 30 hours of high school students to volunteer in some capacity to help the homeless whether it be in shelters, food programs or helping to get grants as a requirement for graduation. Love, skills and awareness toward rebuilding our future will be side benefits. Consider also www.nationalhomeless.org and www.hud.gov.

4. Again, we need to develop worker projects for restoration of infrastructure, and to just put people back to work. Do we really have to wait for the cost of oil (for freighters and shipping, etc.) to get so high that it finally becomes profitable to restore industry back on our soil? Let's act sooner than later. Let's continue developing programs for teaching people on how to get grants for aiding students, non profits, schools, libraries, etc. Let's make such training more widely available.

5. No more incandescent bulbs. Let's phase them out of the market. Let's make compact fluorescent bulbs a requirement as soon as possible. Where possible, let's make full spectrum lighting a requirement for long fluorescent tube lighting needs. Full spectrum lighting is far healthier for workers and for patients in hospitals.

6. Let's ban unnecessary plastic where possible. For example, plastic lids for to go disposeable coffee cups (which are also unnecessary). In other words, maybe bring your own mugs and tumblers. Minimize unnecessary use of plastic bags. Plastic is not very economical to recycle either. We have continent/s of plastic pollution floating in our oceans...

7. As a new right of passage, let's require students to plant at least one tree before being allowed to graduate. Maybe require some time in organic gardening/ developing p patches--learning about natural growth of food and in a sense reconnecting with the soil. As industry continues to "massacre" rainforests, forests of any kind, we can do our part to continue beautifying and restoring oxygen to our futures.

Thank you for listening,

Aaron Crosetto

Letter to Legislature 2 Thanksgiving 2009

I have some important suggestions to consider:

1. Please increase funding to the FBI to go after Citigroup, Citibank, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Chase, JP Morgan Stanley, etc. for mis-use of money and sub prime loans (which are still going on...). Barney Frank has really dropped the ball. Please help out Paul Volcker et al. in trying to correctly and hopefully honestly rebuild our economy and stop the abuses of tax payer dollars. Let's get these tax dollars recovered.

2. We need to get out of Afghanistan and Iraq and start applying this tax payer money toward our debts and reinvesting in our infrastructure and helping to create jobs/green jobs for rebuilding the middle class (our beloved tax base). Do we really need to be fighting over this oil pipeline? And other oil sources in these regions. Let's stop unnecessary defense contracts; wasteful spending of tax dollars for unnecessary business/military contracts at once. Let's not allow defense contractors to overcharge the government (ie., the tax payer) Let's put an end to the Halliburton mentality, etc. Let's sincerely heed Eisenhauer's warning of the military industrial complex...

3. Since America is based so heavily on the highway, let's put tax payer dollars and proper incentives for "our" companies for building excellent competitive electric cars--competitive with China and Japan. Let's stop producing substandard vehicles.

4. How can we get our GLOBAL "American" companies to start getting concerned about American workers again? Let's rebuild our infrastructure! This is a primary concern of mine. We need worker project programs again.

5. Repeal NAFTA absolutely!! No more excuses and ignoring this issue. Our government almost did it, what happened?? The pollution and destruction of individuals, communities, cities and abuses in factories as a result are criminal.

Thank you very much for listening,

Aaron Crosetto

A Letter to legislature 1 11-24-09

Some issues and possible ideas for solutions I wish to discuss are:

1. With gas prices set at $4 a gallon, we could take out percentages of it for national healthcare single payer system, help rebuild the infrastructure, promote green jobs and help get Americans working again (if America takes the reigns on pushing Green energy I believe the rest of the world will follow more quickly!)

2. Legalize marijuana and tax it at a high level to restore our tax coffers. All states, not just California, should get in on this one.

3. Make banks and government transparent. This is mandatory now that our government has cuddled up to Wall Street and employed them in the Administrative cabinet (ex financiers as well); require them to pay back what they owe at a fair interest rate. We are currently back in a seriously dangerous/economic bubble that will burst again, perhaps with far worse consequences.

4. Put money into mental health advocacy (our society is very ignorant about many issues related to this and its IMPORTANCE); re-start citizen oversight committees that have real power to do something, a program with teeth; rebuild free legal services for the poor because as it stands those with the money and the power can abuse their power and do so; get a "No Bullying in the Workplace" bill passed with teeth.

5. Retrain police units to understand PTSD and other causes of crime that can be prevented through proper counseling and understanding--maybe with some understanding of how Japanese Kobans operate and how they work with communities (I understand that in Japan that their society is more homogeneous than our's); many people are in prison today because of PTSD how it is still fairly misunderstood (one does not have to be a combat veteran). Education, counseling and understanding is the key. Down the road I believe it will be as big a program as AA and Al-Anon.

6. Beef up our police forces because of the growing problem with cartels and organized crime gaining power inside American borders. It's a serious issue now that will only get worse in the future.

Thank you for listening,

Aaron Crosetto

A TESSERACT'S WINGS

Freedom built out of long riverbends
A hypercube bursting out of being
Embracing charcoal reflections
Burned from red blue impressions
From a childhood of feeling
Adulthood mindful heart childlike reeling
...an assembly of mysterious yellow rejections
Built from faulty traditions...beheading rotten
statues of a times without honor

Canceling credit for my charred remains
Smashing crystal balls into feathered headbands
Rowing a rocket into a random and senseless universe,
God doesn't make the world this way--
We do. Can we all have spent time as whores
in weird and golden lives?
Did we look into microscopes of our old photographs
of star dust after their anticlimactic reports?
Finding a muse with prismatic sight
Perceiving time in loving dimensions;
Don't let her get further away,
My sweet I'll be there in 5...

...blinded, trodden on and bleeding
stigmata to stamp a dreamer to death
unless he becomes a butterfly quickly
without rest,
There is only danger in false reflections,
Pools goverened by Pilate's secret police~~
Pretending without listening--always their cruelest punchline...
Defying lethargic laws of entropy,
Jumping off a cliff to save our lives;
Societie's velvet fool with a most benevolent smile
Garnering hopeful release

"A man who can't be bribed, can't be trusted"

Ghouls creep in and out of Mammon's towers,
Where gargoyles pick through lesser daemon's bones,
The jester placates while assistants cower,
wondering whom will succeed the bloody throne.
Divided the subjects stand and so shall they fall,
While alliances shift like sand in the wind,
Masks turn to see who is not amongst them...
Are we hiding in plain sight so other's will know;
"What you reap so shall you sew."
Crooked fingers always pointing toward the hardest toiling amongst 'em~~
A trapdoor littered with bones below.

Magi listening for Mammon's flow,
Leaping to other banks when embankments seem more sure,
Who we think are friends, maybe never were.
Those who moil for truths inside them,
Hold the aces close to their chest,
Ready to sacrifice themselves before the altar--
Veracity called the hero's quest.
The fate that awaits them maybe cold...
Lies will fly from every wyrm,
But only with a heart of gold, will they ask for nothing (in return)...
You can try to put them in a trick bag
But they will turn it back on those who lied.
A spine of steel whittled and time tested,
Lo, a man who can't be bribed, is the only man who can be trusted.
That is how true friendship is discerned.
Service is our greatest honor,
Covering each other's backs throughout the term.

June 2008

"A man who can't be bribed,

ANOTHER INTERREGNUM

Corruption:
subprime loans, OIL, anything
at any cost~~ethics are laughed
back to the 60s
Financial powers
dictated the business model
corporate, police, government bodies
down to the streets...
A Post Traumatic world we live in?
underground growing
A new business model coming
Since America became for sale
perhaps especially since Reagan.
Praying to HOPE
does not change the world.
Terror at our heels
who do we turn to now?
Who can we trust?
No one. We've been undone
and there may be no way back
home.
In 12 years, how do we survive
the upcoming depression?
Who will be the dominant currency?
Will they build enough prisons
to house us?
Truth, justice and the American way
died as we lost our way between
cups of coffee and reality shows and
forgot our Forefather's warnings~~

Are there hairs standing up on the back
of your neck?