My "Wish List" for the United States this Holiday Season and New Year

My own personal "Wish List" for American society this Holiday Season and New Year includes the following:

---Development of a comprehensive nationwide network of high-speed, comfortable, and very safe passenger train service throughout the entire United States.

--Establishment of a historic bi-national agreement between the United States and Canada under which first-rate Canadian consultants with expertise on hydroelectric power development would be asked by the U.S. Government to help American society by December 31, 2011, achieve a 20 percent increase in the amount of hydroelectric power being harnessed in the United States.

---Establishment of a truly comprehensive nationwide recycling program in which all residents of the United States and all employers in the United States diligently participate on a year-round basis.

---Full nationwide conversion to the metric system by all of American society as of December 31, 2011, at the very latest.

---Approval by the U.S. Congress of a series of clearly-delineated bipartisan societal goals for our entire nation, including the official goal of a 20 percent reduction in the illicit-drug-addiction rate throughout the entire United States by December 31, 2011.

---Establishment of a 24-hour-a-day, year-round, toll-free "1-800-NO-MAFIA" nationwide phone number that any resident of the United States, and any resident of Puerto Rico, for that matter, can call at any time to report tentative evidence of suspected organized crime of any type anywhere in the United States or in any of the U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico and Guam.

---Development of a well-conceptualized pederasty-prevention program or anti-pederasty program throughout the entire United States that by December 31, 2011, reduces by at least 20 percent the total number of pederastic sex crimes victimizing under-age youths that reportedly occur anywhere in this country.

---The signing of a pledge by many thousands of clergymen throughout the United States that they hereby each agree to completely and permanently abstain from any and all consumption of drinking alcohol or marijuana or any other illicit drug, with December 31, 2011, being the cited deadline for each of those clergymen to achieve that cited honorable goal in his own life. That historic pledge would be invaluable in nationwide efforts at achieving a significant reduction in the incidence of pederastic sex crimes throughout the entire United States. The historic pledge would also help to reduce the incidence of spouse abuse by clergymen.

---Approval of a new federal law giving all owners and managers of all new or planned apartment complexes in the U.S. for which construction is completed anytime after January 10, 2011, the legal option of themselves requiring that any and all tenants living at that particular apartment complex must completely abstain from any consumption of any tobacco product or of any drinking alcohol anywhere and everywhere at that apartment complex. Violation of that requirement would be an automatic basis for a landlord asking a tenant at an apartment complex of that type to move out of his unit.

---Approval of a new federal law prohibiting any professional football player or collegiate varsity football player in any football game anywhere in the United States from ever at any time bumping his head helmet against the head helmet of another player during a football game. The intent of this new federal law would be to significantly reduce the number of injuries to the brains and heads of football players. This law might be informally described as the "Football Anti-Concussion Act."