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Obama is taking oath as the 44th president of the United States. There is a huge task ahead of him: fix an economy, save planet earth, improve foreign policy while being fiscally conservative. So let me suggest the new president a genius new plan that kills a lot of ducks in a single shot. The idea comes from an old Lee Falk comic where there is a whole air-conditioned city enclosed in a glass roof about a mile high. No, I am not talking about air conditioning America, but rather a new device of spreading democracy and freedom across the world.

It starts with Cuba. Fifty years of embargo has clearly not worked with Cuba since a Castro is still ruling the island. As Barack Obama himself has said it is time to stop doing the same things over and over again and somehow expect a different result. So, I suggest this far superior mode of sanctions.

In short, America should build a glass/steel dome roof above and around Cuba. We should build it around in the international waters respecting Cuba's maritime boundaries. As of the airspace, we invented the airplanes, so national airspace rules do not apply to America. Now, of course this would require a hell of a lot of glass panels and steel frames. This is where the stimulus part kicks in. The federal government should give out the contracts out to the automobile windshield and chassis manufacturers to fill the order. I'm pretty sure that this will save and even create millions of jobs in the dying manufacturing sector. And who is going to build the dome? Look no further than the beleaguered American construction industry who would never say no to such a bailout. This should bolster Obama's reputation among the blue collar workers and that could help him in reelection.

Now that the factories are overwhelmed with the orders and are working multiple shifts and are employing every employable American, pro-union or non-, let us go back to how this will bring freedom and democracy to Cuba. Once the glass roof encloses the whole island, we'll build major gas pipelines to transport the exhaust fumes from our coal power plants (clean and unclean) and pump them into the Cuban enclosure. This would help the coal industry meet the carbon emission norms while making life hell for Cubans and thus help mobilize the crowds to overthrow the Castro regime. So during reelection, Obama can easily claim Florida and the Coal belt to his column.

However, an analyst friend of mine to whom I ran this Idea pointed out that the Cubans would welcome

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