Political Restaurants - which to pick?

On Political street there are two large restaurants,s; The Republicano & Demo's.

Demo's:

As we walk in they ask us for our payslips, weird. We get seated and the waiter brings us menus but the prices for the items are not the same?? Each meny has our individual salary printed on top saying that all prices are based upon each patrons salary. I make $120K a year and my friend makes $60K. I order a steak for $50.00 and my friend orders the same steak but his is only $25.00 - what's up with that? All the waiters have union buttons on and 3 of them are on strike. The restaurant is pretty laid back and people are dressed leisurely. After getting the bill we leave a tip each of 20% of the bill and the waiter explains that they all pool their tips and divide it out equally to all the employees, even those that are not working or on strike so everybody is "equal".
The place was full of charm and we spotted quite a number of famous people. The Maitre D was extremely charismatic and well spoken, we really liked the guy. We asked him what would happen if the restaurant had a profit and decided to share this with the employees and he said that they would distribute most of the profit to the ones that were not working and those who slacked off and had a lower pay. We thought this was odd but he explained that the ones that worked really hard already made good money so why should they share any of the profits?

The Republicano:

Funny, but they have the same procedure when it comes to asking for payslips and then giving us customized priced menus. I still don't understand why I should pay more for having gone to college, worked hard and climbed upwards in my company. This restaurant is a little different, easy to tell from the emblem at the door which pictures two guns laying in a cross on top of a Bible. People seem to be a little more conservatively dressed as are the surroundings and many are wearing gun belts, some even have semi-automatics. Just about everybody has a Bible with them. We ask the waiter how the tips work and he says they all keep their individual tips and people who are not working does not get any portion of it. Then we asked what would happen if there was any profit-sharing and the Maitre D, an older gentleman that looked x-Navy, said that they would distribute it evenly amongst all employees based upon their contributions. This meant that whoever had contributed the most would get a higher percentage of the profits. This kinda made sense to us; the more you put in the more you get back.

Conclusion:

None of the Restaurants really appealed to all our desires. My friend liked the concept of getting a larger percentage of the profits even though he had contributed a lot less but I didn't think that was fair. My friend also liked that his food was cheaper than mine even though it was the same food; I sure didn't think that made any sense - next will be that I pay more for everything I buy since I have more money, not very motivational.
I didn't like the guns and bibles - I think that's something that can stay at home and not be flaunted.

I really have no clue which Restaurant to go to next, maybe I should start my own where everybody pays the same for the same goods, where hard work is rewarded, where everyone would be welcome, where talking among different tables are encouraged and where guns and bibles are forbidden? Sure sounds like an uphill battle as I all my attorney friends on the Hill will see this as too simple a concept - what will the poeple that normally handle all the paperwork of the other systems do now?

Vote?

This is not easy, what's a voter to do?

Can't really trust any politician.

My dilemma:

I think taxes are unconstitutional, "the land of the free" should not have taxes at all and not be in the very top of tax rates worldwide. Get rid of the word "tax" and rather have a "fee" on consumption - the more you buy the more you put into the common pot to help with infrastructure etc.

Lobbying is legal corruption, don't like it. Pay people on the hill more so they're not tempted

I don't need a semi-automatic weapon

Women should decide the abortion issue to a large extent

Less government and more private enterprise BUT if the private business fails let it fail

If an individual succeeds in building a business and make good money, let him/her keep it

Any tax-breaks should be dished out proportionally based on taxes paid, i.e. someone who pays more taxes will get more back - only seems fair. Case-in-point: If I go to dinner with someone with more money than me we still split the tab - we consumed the same amount so that's only fair.

Drill for oil off shore - look to Norway as an example of a very clean country with off shore drilling. Build nuclear power plants and explore any other alternative energy source that makes fiscal sense.

The North Pole is not melting and humans have minuscule effect on the climate - when did Hollywood become our leading scientists?

Separate religion and politics/state - the alternative is war it seems.

Stop pissing off the rest of the world - we owe them more money than you can imagine.

Keep your enemies close, talk to them to find out what they're all about.

Who to vote for? Really no clue - Obama's got charisma and can move the masses like Kennedy did but I don't like taxes and more government. McCain's a war hero but do we need a warrior? Palin does not come across as ready to lead this very large and diverse nation.

I have no clue...........maybe Ron Paul is closest to my thinking...where's Ross?

The single largest internet advertising venue is unused

Amazingly enough the single largest internet advertising venue is not being utilized! We have adverting on websites and we have email newsletters BUT the most obvious, and I would argue the most effective, venue is not being used: The regular external emails sent from both office and personal email accounts.
Think about it:

There's currently close to 1 billion corporate email accounts in the world and at least as many (if not more) individual email accounts. An April, 2008 USA Today article cites ComScore Media Metrix figures for February, 2008:

Microsoft webmail properties: 256.2 million users
Yahoo: 254.6 million users
Google: 91.6 million users
AOL webmail properties: 48.9 million users

Google has an average of 4 million unique hits per day BUT compared to the number of emails sent it pales (and we all know what Google is worth and why: advertising). IDC predicts that nearly 100 billion emails, over 40 billion of which will be spam messages, will be sent daily worldwide in 2008. This means that over 60 billion email messages are NOT spam and emails between people that know each other.

Google: 4 million hits per day (unique)
email: about 164 million sent every day (SPAM NOT included), even if 75% would be internal emails it would leave 40 million emails daily or 10 times the unique visitors to Google.

Who would advertise in these emails?

Office email: this one is obvious, the Companies/Institutions would advertise for their own business, why not as the employees are sending these emails anyway. The recipients probably knows the sender but that does NOT mean they are aware of everything the sender's employer has to offer. In addition one would make everyone help the sales efforts since they send emails, talk about doubling your sales staff many times over.

Individual email: Just as obvious as these emails could be used to push out 3rd party advertising. Microsoft and Yahoo combined represent over 500 million email accounts, imagine what that could be worth in advertising revenue. Of course motivation is needed for acceptance of the users and that motivation could be as simple as revenue sharing. One could also offer the users to WRAP these emails with their own images with links to various places on the web (facebook, linkedin, eBay come to mind) so the email really become personalized.

One company makes all this possible: WrapMail

WrapMail offers this for both Business at $5 per user per month and for individuals for free. Businesses obviously send from their existing domain email address while individuals get a free email account @wrapmail.com.

The cool thing is that in neither case need anything be installed on anyone's desktop or cell phone.

WrapMail's Business Solution even has full reporting on when recipients click on the wrap and specifically what they clicked on (also available instantly via email or sms).

WrapMail also includes a tool; WrapMaker, where users can make unlimited wraps using their own images and links and for Businesses they include a rule set so wraps can vary based on several factors such as time, rotation, sender etc.

Websites are obvious today, wraps will be come obvious in the very near future. Why not, you're sending the email anyway.