More Fantasy Cabinet Picks - to add to those I made in the last entry.........
Secretary of Agriculture: Michael Pollan
author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma"; he would end the farm bill subsidies that has the Agribusiness growing corn to go into everything from poptarts to doorstops. Pollan would find ways to revitalize and bring back the family farmers to provide food for the folks nearby.
Backup pick for Secretary of Agriculture: Frances Moore Lappe,
author of "Diet for a Small Planet" and "Democracy's Edge"; Director of "Food First" and "Center for Living Democracy." She knows how to "spread the wealth" worldwide while engaging our highest citizen-selves.
One last backup for Secretary of Agriculture: Wendell Berry. We need a poet in the cabinet and why not this eloquent, champion of rural America, poet-farmer.
Secretary of Commerce: Van Jones, the founding president of Green For All and author of "Green Collar Economy." This amazing orator from Yale, would catalyze a win-win formula for renewable energies, energy conservation, and jobs for the urban poor. He recognizes the overwhelming urgency of global warming and the parallel urgency to create jobs and equity for the health of our cities and the evolution of our country.
Press Secretary: Bill Moyers, hands down - the greatest journalist of our time and one who will always put integrity above spin.
Secretaries of Music: We need a duo for this new Ambassadorial type of Cabinet position. Carlos Santana and Michael Franti.
Carlos is the guitarist who could make even a tyrant weep and bring comfort and joy to every corner of the globe, and Michael, the courageous visionary whose lyrics can get us all moving in one dance across every conceivable border.
Secretary of Education: Jonathan Kozol, author of "Savage Inequalities." No more rich districts and poor districts as a fact of life. All children deserve an equal investment of education resources.
Still puzzling over Secretary of Transportation as well as Health and Human Services.
Would love some suggestions......
Can we all agree to deep six the Secretary of Homeland Security post?
Fun to read your posts. How are you? And happy belated b-day. Gavriel, Walter and I went to the Inauguration, an experience I must write about. By the way, I'm a huge fan of Michael Pollan (my home answering machine currently has one of his books as my recommended reading), Michael, Frances Moore Lappe and Jonathan Kozol were all authors of mine and all terrific folks.
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