katearhar wrote: 
Ha! Welcome to the Monkeyhouse!

Parenting classes would be a good idea. I know some people that weren't all that happy with their adoptive parents, so handing kids over to strangers like that might not work out too good.

 HazzeSwede wrote: 
Me, I'd totally miss IKEA.  Got a real nice, cheap metal stool there to put the computer on. I love to go there and look at the names they dream up for their wares: Fnort, Blit, Dweeb, Graunch,  Fwip, etc. 

A couple more IKEA stores would improve America a little.

So.  This topics asks for thoughtful suggestions.  At the risk of offending all of the new cool peeps I'm meeting here, you may as well get a glimpse into the real me... I've thought about this an awful lot over the years and hopefully I can express it in a way that won't get me skewered.....

I think you should be required, if under 21, to get a license to raise a child.  Anyone under 18 will be denied and the baby will be placed for adoption with a married / committed couple.  Anyone 18-21 must either be married or be able to show that they have a support system. 

I know, I know.  I'm insane.  But as an adopted person I thank god almost every day that my birth mother has the good sense and unselfishness needed to give me a better life. I firmly believe that the breakdown of the family is the cause of so much of our problems and maybe if we could get 15 years of children actually being raised by families and not by other kids that some problems would fix themselves.

*** by FAMILY I don't actually mean blood relatives, I mean FRAMILY (FRiends plus faMILY) - people who support you emotionally and physically and even financially if needed.

,,,,,,this IS a hard one,,,no can not think of a thing,USA is the best,,oh wait,got one !
            Cast off some Swedes ! 

 hobiejoe wrote: 
I hate it when people stereotype vomit. 

 BillJ wrote: 
No more pie for you, Kommandant!

 Manbird wrote: 
 
  Diced carrot and tomato skins for freedom?

 cookinlover wrote: 
The only time I have real cream is when its whipped and on top of pumpkin pie. Consuming real cream everyday can't be a good thing.

 phineas wrote: 
We just need to retch across the isles and unify each other as one or we'll never make it! 

 BillnDollarBaby wrote: 
Pass a real law requiring everyone to drink coffee the way it is supposed to be enjoyed: straight up.
 

DON'T YOU PEOPLE EVER LISTEN TO ME?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!??!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!??!?!&

 Manbird wrote: 
Oh, sure...edit your post so suddenly it's all patriotic to be throwing up. "If you're not throwing up with us, you're throwing up on us!" Damn you and your rallying cry.

 cookinlover wrote: 
Hear!  Hear!

 phineas wrote: 
I've suspected you were a communist for a long time. This confirms it.

 maryte wrote: 
Sorry, kid. It's for the greater good.

If you're vomiting and you have to scream, at least cover your face with a napkin or a paper sack or something because nobody wants to hear you all day. It's these small things that makes us a mighty power force to be reckoned with, collectively, and improved which is my suggestion for this, our greatest nation on earth even though times may be hard these days. 

 cookinlover wrote: 
Pass a real law requiring everyone to drink coffee the way it is supposed to be enjoyed: straight up.

 phineas wrote: 
Drive up to Canada and egg Phin's house.... we'd all feel a lot better about ourselves.

Pass a law requiring everyone to use REAL cream in the coffee.

 phineas wrote: 

But he's my dad... 

 hobiejoe wrote: 

Compared to the way other empires have gone, on balance y'all did fine. And are doing fine.