Unlike a marriage [which is exempt from this topical blog entry], representative government is often, and has been all too often, big on promises for Americans and short on delivering them in the way the lip service has scripted them. A spouse does what a government cannot and visa- versa. But, how can we in the United States, achieve everything we dream and hope for, while waged wars all over the globe degrade our wealth? Once the dream is owned entirely by any government, the population owns the nightmare. That’s not the plunder we agreed to. So how can we preserve our treasures? How can we leave others to peace? How can we prevent millions from scattering out of fear that they’re going to be bombed? Let’s begin with answers to those questions.