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Date:         Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:21:00 CST
From:         Ghost of Abbie <AHOFFMAN@UMKCVAX1.BITNET>
Subject:      The DuncanN/HoffmaN 14 Point Program (will adapt on the basis of
              input!)

Fie upon whoever might say that DuncaN/HoffmaN are only a one-issue
campaign! I have not conferred with my fellow candidate yet, but I
think it's fair to assume we agree on these issues.

1) Everybody ought to be able to have a job, work a 28 hour week,
have some bennies, and a say-so about what it is they do on they
job.

2) Shoes, a place to live, and being able to see a doctor ought to
be reachable.

3) THe IRS needs to be abolished. The whole tax thing needs
redoing, preferably by a four-to-six plan national referendum
preceded by a few months of national discussion.

4) Help anyone go to school or learn to read by whatever means!

5) Make day care a legislated part of the work process so that more
can work, or sub-contract at a fair scale work people can do at
home (thereby helping to restore family values by having home so
integral to one's external life).

6) Mandate "mental health days" as part of a work bennies package,
equalling the number of days of vacation, and increase the size of
vacation to 20 working days a year.

7) Work towards reducing the role of the car and plane, and rebuild
the nation's train system, with three east-west bullet trains, and
five north-south, thereby saving fuel, creating jobs, creating a
workable, viable, to-the-door transport system.

8) Get a personal computer/answering machine/phone in every
household, or as many as would like have same, in a decade.

9) Institute the V. M. Smith limitation-of-office idea proposed in
1991, 24 and out, no campaign funds when you go!

10) Help those Russians every way possible. Valentine, who I
propose as the senior advisor on the CIS in the DuncaN/HoffmaN
term, suggests total co-option - thereby creating the second
largest market place, a great place to vacation, and a great place
to go make a lot of money with Russian help and sharing.

11) Create a Department of Fun, or Merriment, with just the Humor
Laureate of the Year out there lightening the more deadly moments.

12) Drop all the weapons systems that cost over $20 billion, create
the mobile international strike force concept, with folks trained
to different types of problems. Declare everyone a non-enemy unless
they do something from the first day of our term onward.

13) Cut ALL foreign aid to everybody! Trade out aid - manganese for
dollars, oil for diamonds, whatever - but no money giveaways.

14) Develop a way to get the 65+ crowd to have "a second life" if
they want it - an opportunity to do what they always wanted to do,
but had to ... (fill in the blank).

Those are the 14 Points this ticket could run on with pride, I do
believe - lets get away from this shoes, ilk, name-calling and
Stimely (as all the Stimely veterans express puzzlement that
whomever would wish to bring Jay's evil twin back!) garbage, and
debate issues of substance. We too propose a Czar, that of Fun. The
other two won't be nearly so, and I say this as a lover of history.
So, ignore all this rah-rah crap from all these other tickets, and
get on the track of some forward looking people (since when has
been being a ghost been an impedimeent to high office in this
country? I bet Bill Miller wishes somebody was running HIM this
year!) We have ideas, we're looking towards our future, vote for
DuncaN/HoffmaN!

Optional) Give Pigasus Pig's great-great grandson a job as a pork
inspector! He needs a job!  Ab.
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