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#TheValentineConstitution solar roadways would provide more security from shutdowns or hacks by allowing infinite rerouting and back up of energy and information.

#TheValentineConstitution solar roadways would not require the costs and time and traffic of excavating pavement to access what is now buried.

Using solar panels atop our roadways as our energy grid would save us the 50% of our energy now lost in transmission from the power plant to the user since the energy would be produced where it’s needed. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution will save us 50% off our current energy needs (now lost in transmission from power plant to end user) by using solar panels atop our roads as our grid.

#TheValentineConstitution solar roadways would heat up in winter saving the costs and damage of salting and plowing.

#TheValentineConstitution solar roadways would power and run alongside our communications infrastructure.

#TheValentineConstitution solar roadways would provide more security from sabotage by eliminating the single target power plant and allowing infinite rerouting and back up of energy and information.

#TheValentineConstitution solar roadways would eliminate weather related power outages from downed poles by putting the electrical grid under the panels.

#TheValentineConstitution eliminates internal combustion engines by 2024, with an exception for hobbyists and historical machines.

#TheValentineConstitution omits middlemen like Uber or Lyft and passes those savings onto the driver and rider.

#TheValentineConstitution requires that all motors or engines be clean-energy powered by 2024.

#TheValentineConstitution requires that all motors or engines be powered by clean-energy by 2024, but makes an exception for hobbyists and historical machines.

#TheValentineConstitution allows Citizens to work safely from driverless cars, increasing their earning power by 25% per year on average, the amount now lost on a 45 minute commute.

#TheValentineConstitution allows Citizens to work safely from driverless cars, increasing their earning power by 25% on average, the amount now lost on a 45 minute commute.

#TheValentineConstitution driverless cars will suit many customers: computer work, reading, exercise, eating, showering, massage, yoga, sleeping, card games, bar cars, watching movies or sports, sound cars with special audio, you name it.

#TheValentineConstitution allows high-speed inter-city over-night driverless sleeper cars in center highway lanes like individual mini railroad cars.

#TheValentineConstitution government will provide a ride share hook-up app free of charge and pass those savings onto the driver and rider, omitting the middleman like Uber or Lyft.

Driving one hour each way to/from work costs you 33% of your earning power: 10 hrs/wk = 1 wk/mo = 3 mos/yr  plus parking, fuel, insurance, maintenance and car costs. #TheValentineConstitution

Tinnitus, ringing in the ears, has no cure and causes sleep deprivation which crushes health and happiness. #TheValentineConstitution

America’s elevated “noise floor” has everyone turning their devices up to hear over everybody else’s devices, in an escalating unhealthy noise war with no winners. #TheValentineConstitution

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#TheValentineConstitution imposes noise restrictions before 7 am and after 9 pm M-F, and 9 am to 9pm Saturday and Sunday.

#TheValentineConstitution limits the noise decibel levels of loud cars, motorcycles, back up signals, car alarms etc that wake babies from their naps, night workers from their sleep and cause undue stress on our streets.

#TheValentineConstitution limits the noise decibel levels of loud bands, bars, restaurants, etc to mitigate the costly loss of hearing epidemic faced by our health care system.

Non-interchangeable thread patterns, diameters, lengths etc lead to a decrease in both productivity and competitiveness on the world markets, most of whom already use the metric system. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution ends the corruption that creates waste, frustration, stress and unnecessary expense in time and money to enrich a few tool and hardware manufacturers.

#TheValentineConstitution requires that the United States adopt the user friendly, internationally commonplace, superior, logical metric standard of measurement.

#TheValentineConstitution adopts the metric system to reduce the expense of two sets of measurements, tools and supporting hardware.

Our two mutually exclusive measurement systems and hardware inventories create unnecessary delays and frustration. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution requires that the United States adopt the metric system of measurement exclusively.

It costs extra money, time, stress and bulky inconvenience to have different electrical standards in an increasingly interconnected world. #TheValentineConstitution

None of our electrical products are exportable to countries with a different standard, so our trade balance suffers and we have fewer jobs as a result. #TheValentineConstitution

American businesses cannot carry their American made equipment with them on international jobs, forcing them to buy foreign. #TheValentineConstitution

We miss the opportunity for Americans and companies doing businesses overseas to introduce and showcase American products in foreign markets increasing sales and jobs here at home. #TheValentineConstitution

When we have no international electrical standards, American travelers face the hassle, expense, frustration and bulk of using at least adapters and at worse entirely new equipment. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution requires a worldwide standard for electricity.

The world is far too international for us to have a nonstandard electrical system. #TheValentineConstitution

No person or animal ever adjusts fully to the shift in daylight savings time, so just when the schedule starts getting normal, the next disruption takes place. #TheValentineConstitution

Changing clocks disrupts disrupts our bodies’ circadian clocks as well as the habits of livestock milking and feeding.

Changing clocks disrupts children’s schedules and sends them to school in the dark. #TheValentineConstitution

Daylight savings time has few advantages for few and many disadvantages for many. #TheValentineConstitution

Varietal clock changing among states and countries adds an unnecessary problematic variable both here and around the world. #TheValentineConstitution

The last thing we need is another nonstandard variable like time change to cause confusion, frustration, stress and miscues. #TheValentineConstitution

Having some states and countries changing clocks and others not complicates and confuses coordination in an increasingly interconnected world. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution will not change clocks for daylight savings time.

Some states change clocks; some do not. Some foreign countries change clocks; some do not, creating unnecessary complications, confusion and miscues among businesses, transportation, technology and people worldwide. #TheValentineConstitution

The primary reason we still change our clocks? Wall Street CEOs, not farmers, want the extra hours of evening daylight to extend summer spending. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution establishes standard time as our year round time standard. Our clocks will neither spring forward nor fall back anymore.

One of the reasons we change clocks is to save energy, not an issue when we’re using cheap, renewable, clean energy. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution standardizes the location, position and operation of knobs, buttons, switches etc.

#TheValentineConstitution ensures user friendly ease of use for common devices.

#TheValentineConstitution requires that interfaces be user friendly with standardized functions and positions providing efficiency, productivity, safety and stress-free ease of use.

Commonplace buttons will be in common places. #TheValentineConstitution

Today’s “proprietary” devices work on only one manufacturer’s equipment, are unduly expensive, aggravating to the user, costly to society, and horrible for our GDP. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution standardizes the location, position and operation of keys, keystrokes, swipes, pinches etc on all software and hardware.

#TheValentineConstitution standardizes the location, position and operation of menus, navigation, filters, interfaces etc.

#TheValentineConstitution standardization provides a safer, more efficient, more productive, less expensive, less frustrating, user-friendly work and play world.

#TheValentineConstitution standardizes connectors, cables, power supplies etc for all equipment.

#TheValentineConstitution puts commonplace things in common places.

#TheValentineConstitution drain provision reduces virulent mold and the resulting health care costs.

Any and all build-out or renovation work done to a building will cost 5 times more if the original structure is not plumb, square and level. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution requires a slight slope in the floor towards drains in rooms with plumbing to prevent all the stress, time and expense of leaks.

#TheValentineConstitution prevents expensive condo leaks that often do multi-floor damage costing billions of dollars annually, with the simple, cheap addition of a drain and a slightly sloping floor.

Every Citizen in our nation has had horrible experiences with a construction industry lacking in standards, skills and respect for the people they overcharge, delay, and cheat. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution puts an end to substandard, expensive, slow, shoddy workmanship.

#TheValentineConstitution requires that all work by building contractors be plumb, square and level.

Walls and vertical surfaces will have to be plumb; floors and flat surfaces, level, and corners, 90 square under #TheValentineConstitution

When plumb, square and level standards are not met, large amounts of aggravating time and expense are added to even the simplest work done later in the construction process or in renovations. #TheValentineConstitution

In winter skiers and ice skaters will have their travelways. Joggers will have dedicated cushioned trails. #TheValentineConstitution

Human powered bicycles, skateboards and skates will co-exist with electric versions of those vehicle. #TheValentineConstitution

Slopes and escalators and elevators would allow a calm, easy way to glide down gentle slopes to and from work without breaking a sweat. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution requires that a minimum of 25% of city, county, state and national land be natural parkland all be connected with adjoining, exercise-favoring, fee-free travelways:

#TheValentineConstitution provides good clean jobs required to build and maintain travelways and parks, and provide instructional, architectural and other services.

#TheValentineConstitution provides good clean jobs required to make the vehicles, clothing and related products.

Lots of healthy, stress-reducing parkland with exercise-friendly travelways improve our society’s health, reduce health care costs and the need for expensive drugs. #TheValentineConstitution

All health studies and data indicate the need for exercise and the benefit of physical motion. #TheValentineConstitution

Connecting adequate amounts of parkland with safe user-friendly travelways facilitates inexpensive access to all parts of town and encourages use, exercise and social interaction for both children and adults. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution provides a healthy, inexpensive, non-polluting way to get to and from work or play or shopping, and even between our cities.

#TheValentineConstitution parks and travelways will offer an alternative to recreational drugs and sitting in bars.

#TheValentineConstitution provides enough acreage to accommodate numerous paths, lanes, chutes, jumps etc separate for kids and adults.

#TheValentineConstitution requires that a minimum of 2% of the total square footage of any community’s buildings be reserved as a place for children to play, or learn or nap without paying a fee.

#TheValentineConstitution sets aside a tiny portion of our properties to support our children’s development, away from the dangers of the street, gives mothers a place to breast feed, etc.

#TheValentineConstitution requires that a minimum of 25% of city, county, state and national land be natural parkland, one third of which must be child-friendly.

The nature provided by parks are necessary for our children and adults to be healthy and well adjusted. #TheValentineConstitution

Parks are an antidote to mischief, crime, drug abuse, suicide and other social ills. #TheValentineConstitution

Kids with no place to go and nothing to do fall victim. Idle minds are the devil’s workshop. #TheValentineConstitution

Parks give kids a place to be kids. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution school students will use written agreements as a matter of course.

#TheValentineConstitution standardizes agreements and boiler plate clauses in templates online so that Citizens can rely on the meaning of certain accepted clauses in the agreements they can sign in their single accounts.

#TheValentineConstitution will provide perfectly legal standardized agreements for dummies that will be clearly spelled out and in keeping with the law.

Estimates and quotes are too vague, so #TheValentineConstitution requires that costs, dates and details be provided to keep the contractor and the customer honest.

#TheValentineConstitution standardizes fair, simply stated agreements to ensure both parties are aware of what they’re agreeing to, and to facilitate the review of any conflicts.

Our Courts will be better able to resolve conflicts with written agreements to go by. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution ensures that parties to any deal are businesslike, and that no party wriggle out of a written agreement.

No more than half up front and the rest payable upon completion is a workable and ethical yardstick and will be common practice in our society. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution keeps practices ethical and standard so no one gets cheated.

#TheValentineConstitution holds online and other agreements to a fair standard.

#TheValentineConstitution requires standardized written agreements including costs, terms of fulfillment and dates of completion, prior to any money changing hands.

#TheValentineConstitution prevents payees from charging more than half of the costs prior to completion of the job.

IF one wishes to pay 100% up front for some reason, no one’s going to stop them; but generally the contractor cannot demand more than half up front. #TheValentineConstitution

“Bait and switch”, “hidden fees” and other unethical practices are rewarded under our current Constitution but will not be rewarded #TheValentineConstitution

 #TheValentineConstitution prohibits contractors, repairmen, home improvement companies etc from charging more than the price quoted or agreed upon, or missing deadlines.

The pro is being paid for their expertise and knowledge and experience and will no longer be able to get away with unethical business practices. #TheValentineConstitution

It’s not the customer’s responsibility if the contractor failed to foresee a costly problem. That’s the pro’s job! #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution prohibits the pro from charging the consumer for things the pro should have known and foreseen.

Families who need to stick to tight budgets will no longer be upset by deceptive or incompetent businesses. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution requires that the price displayed include all hidden fees or the extra charges need not be paid.

The 5% transaction tax need NOT be included in the price quoted or displayed since it is a deduction not a charge. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution keeps things fair and honest by requiring all hidden fees to be disclosed up front in any transaction.

The 5% transaction tax is deducted from rather than added to the charges and need NOT be included in the price quoted or displayed. #TheValentineConstitution

Too often we are cheated by hotels, ticket sellers, online retailers, contractors and garages who hide fees and taxes and shipping costs and charge more than they estimated. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution requires that the price quoted, marked, or estimated include all charges and hide none and not exceed the final price.

#TheValentineConstitution requires that jobs and products be guaranteed for a reasonable amount of time.

#TheValentineConstitution ensures that products and services are guaranteed for a fair period of time.

Processing any order takes time, so any vendor telling us it’s too late to cancel is lying and unethical and will have to cancel the transaction without charging a fee. #TheValentineConstitution

#TheValentineConstitution requires that jobs be done as agreed, on budget and on time and be guaranteed for a reasonable amount of time.

#TheValentineConstitution ensures that we can return things within a fair period of time.

#TheValentineConstitution protects Citizens from being cheated when buying goods and services.

Sometimes we click a button and are unable to stop or reverse a transaction without a great deal of hassle or not at all, and get stuck with something we do not want. #TheValentineConstitution gives you an hour to back out.

#TheValentineConstitution ensures that we don’t get stuck with something we do not want.

#TheValentineConstitution ensures we can reverse a transaction made only seconds or minutes before.

#TheValentineConstitution allows us a little time in a hurried world to correct an error in judgement or a lapse in memory or the clicking of a wrong button.

#TheValentineConstitution allows any purchase to be canceled within one hour without incurring a fee.