"Tell me, how many scientists and researchers do we have researching weapons? No wait, I'll just Google it. Give me a sec. Uhhhh, how much money does the Government have from taxes per year? Tell me per month as well."

Answer 1: ??? Canny find

Answer 2: Roughly 3 trillion.

Answer 3: 300 billion?

"Why are you unsure of the last part?" Joseph asked.

"Google didn't give me a straight answer." Lawson replied.

They had a long stare down that lasted 3 seconds.]

"Okay, okay, anyways." Joseph's hands went gesturing all around in the air, "How much do we as a Government spend on military funding?"

Google said Trump increased it to near 640 billion.

"So here's what we'll do." Joseph went over to an unblemished part of the whiteboard and started writing. "First, we take all the money that we're spending on funding military research on new weapons, and throw that into Healthcare. How much money does a person need to survive in the US for a year?

Lawson shrugged. "Probably 80k."

Joseph groaned. "That's more than I expected. I was thinking that we take the money that we are funding new weapon research, take out 80k times a million, there can't be more than 1 million scientists researching new weapons, right? and then we throw all that is left over from the 800 million and the money from the new research, we throw all that into Healthcare."

Lawson shriveled his expression like he was turning into a raisin. "Okay..."

"Then we make a deal with Britain to get more money. We help with their Brexit and they give us money. We throw that money into Healthcare."

"Okay..."

"Then we ask if the people around here are okay with me docking probably 1 quarts of their pay and throw that into Healthcare as well."

"I don't think that's possible. They all want money."

"Why not? I'll make a rousing speech about Change and Bad Times make Good Men and exploit their Sins."

"The people come here to Congress because of the pay, and usually not because-"

"Change! The times a-changing. More and more people are becoming intrested in politics to save the world. Elections have been done, new blood has been taken in, and this new blood will be intrested in actually doing something! Just like me!"

"Okay, before we get into how idealistic that thinking is... What do you mean, 'exploit their Sins?'"

Joseph shrugged. "It's not really a science. You don't appeal to people by telling them that its the good thing to do. That's shit."

"But-"

"Hear me out. You need a balance between telling them the good thing to do and appealing to their fetishes. Their Sins. Pride. Envy. Sloth. If you do this you'll go down in history. If you do this you'll be able to get more power than that dude you hate. If you do this it'll be more convenient. That sort of thing."

Lawson thought about it a while. "Okay, continue."

"Back to the Plan. First, we need to revamp the healthcare system. But that's a mis-impression. A mis-intepretation? Uhhh, what I'm trying to say is, its not 'First, you have to do XX', I just say First, Second because its easier, but really they should all occur simultaneously."

He wrote a '1.' on the whiteboard and then drew a huge arrow from the circled 'Homelessness' to it.

"1, revamp the healthcare system. Maybe thats too broad. Insurance companies, I mean. Those that exploit, urgh," He air quotes with his fingers, "pre-existing conditions. The insurance companies here are a parasite. Profit. That's shit. Money. Money makes the world go round, but it also makes shitfaces like those in charge of the healthcare insurance companies. And nobody has done anything to deal with this shit approach to healthcare! Its normal. Bullshit. Just because its been here forever doesn't meant that its normal. Heck, wasn't there something about building gallows next to funeral pyres because of a local custom?"

Joseph waved his hand next to his head. "Whatever. Let's continue."

"2, Subsidies. We make it easier for new upstart companies to grow. That means more jobs. That means less homeless."

"I've been meaning to ask this for a while, but why are you so flustered about the homeless?"

"Because it can be solved, but everyone is so busy with their head up their asses and also too afriad of their career mucking up to actually do something. See, thats also a problem. The culture here is all about money. It should be about helping each other, providing good concrete constructive criticisms on policies being passed but instead we get flatterers and yes-men."

"Well, go on ahead."

"Yes, yes, I'll continue. Make it easier for new companies to start up. Establish a trust fund or something. This is how it works. You allow it to be easier for new companies, that means new jobs, that means more employed, that means more taxes, that means more capital to introduce new and better reforms."

"This is going to cost a lot of money."

"Exactly! That's why I put in so much about that spiel on US-UK relationships and docking pay. We require a huge capital."

"Have you ever thought about asking billionaires to donate?"

"No, but I'll put it up there." He scribbled it down.

Joseph continued, "Then, we nationalise industries."

If Lawson was drinking a beverage, he would have spat it all over Joseph's face. As it stands, Lawson was drinking water after asking the billionaire question, and while water is not a beverage, it still did a good job of splattering over Joseph.

"This was my best shirt."

"Sorry, but wHAT? NATIONALISE INDUSTRIES?"

"More jobs! Also we deal a blow against China because we stop relying on them so much."

If you placed a coconut against Lawson's forehead at that moment, you may have been able to crush it open. "Are you coMMUNIST?"

"Shit, man, no! I love democracy. I'm just saying it has some beneifts, you know?"

"Oh, oh, I see." Lawson took a moment to put the pitcher down. His hand was starting to hurt, but he placed that hand under his chin and pinched it. "You want to implement Perestroika."

"In a Capitalist country." Joseph conceded.

"You do know what happed to the Soviet Union when Gorbachev implemented Perestroika?"

"Yeah, but this is a Capitalistic Democratic Country. It'll be different!"

Lawson uttered a curse in his native tongue and spat, "History repeats, huh!"

Joseph smiled. "We learn from History and amend its mistakes and disavantages. Perestroika was a good plan."

Lawson inhaled and counted to 10. "Okay. Okay. How do you plan to deal with the corrupt politicians?"

Joseph replied, "Speech."