Statehood? The country would be better served if the Corporation of DC would do a succession.
By all appearance, it has declared war on the 50 states, I propose that DC be dissolved completely and that federal government be conducted in a different state capital on a rotational basis, like the Olympics. That, along with a one term limit, and making lobbying a capital offense, might put the country back on a sound basis. On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Everyone should move into the same time zone - the Washington, D.C. metro > area This not only obviates the need to bicker about time zones but also > broadens our tax base while providing a broad constituency to grant D.C. > Statehood. > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > With perpetual DST, there would be a lot of children walking to school > and > > waiting for the bus in the dark, especially on the western edges of time > > zones. Frankly (unlike 1940) most jobs do not depend on daylight and > > office buildings are artificially lit regardless of outside light (so > > energy use is not a factor). For the most part, work that really > requires > > daylight (e.g. farming, construction, etc.) is scheduled around the sun > and > > weather anyway. I've seen a factual analysis but I suspect very little > is > > really effected by the DST time change except more daylight after work > and > > the thrash of the biannual change. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Don via Mercedes > > > Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 3:22 PM > > > DST is not the problem, the problem is changing the clocks twice a > year. > > > DST is great, since we would never get all the businesses and > government > > > offices to work 7-4 instead of 8-5. Getting home earlier to have > another > > hour > > > before dark is great. Emotionally it's harder to get to work at 7 than > > 8, even if > > > the "real" time is the same. > > > The spring change that results in getting less sleep and having to > > adjust our > > > internal clocks is the problem. > > > The solution is to set DST as standard time across the whole country > > forever - > > > NO changing the clocks at all. Set it and leave it. One adjustment > once, > > never > > > again, more sunlight after work, all is well. > > > Grants problem is bucking the rest of the country - you always suffer > > that way, > > > whether you're right or not. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
