Sometimes I come up with ideas that kind of surprise me. I wonder why in the world no one has ever thought of them before.

For example, back in the late 70’s I had the idea of having a camera or two at rock concerts and projecting the images onto a big screen for the folks in the nosebleed section. A few years later bands started doing that (of course I can’t prove that I had the idea first, but still).

Anyway, nowadays our government is throwing good money after bad by “bailing” out companies that are in bad shape because of incompetent management the economy. That’s going to add to the already massive federal debt.

I have a solution to get rid of this debt that’s so simple it astounds me. During his presidential campaign, Barrack Obama’s supporters were duped into giving gave him almost three quarters of a billion dollars. That’s $750,000,000.

So it seems to me that he’s great at raising money. He should put that talent to work towards helping these bailouts and the federal debt. Imagine another one of those 30 minute infomercials where he implores folks to help out the government. I’ll bet if he did one of those a month for the first year he’s in office, he could raise at least a hundred million or so, if not more. Actually, it might even be more, since those pesky campaign contribution laws won’t be in effect (not that it limited him anyway; I’m sure there are surprised folks just now getting credit card statements telling them how much they gave to Obama).

How about it, Mr. Nearly President Elect? If you implore your marks supporters to donate to the government, you could get us out of this financial mess in no time.