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DETENTION Saturday

ETA: ~~Mun jst got horrible news and will be AFK for a bit. I'm sure you can tell this is a pretty loose detention. Just don't blow anything up. I'll be back later to release you.~~ I'm back. Play this funny for me, ok? I need cheered up.

Visitors are welcome during LUNCH only.

The Danger Room has been programmed to resemble the press briefing room at the White House. On each chair is the student's name on an etched brass plaque. Make sure you only sit in the chair with your name on it.

At the ends of each rows are thick folders rubber banded to a large stack of books. Behind the lectern is a white pull down screen covering the seal of the United States of America.

CJ stands at the lectern, wearing her glasses. She looks up as the students enter the room and checks their name off the list.

Honor System, Gang. If YOU know you have detention, please serve it. Not all the teachers submitted information, or else there were late additions. Thanks.

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Ok. It's Saturday. It's detention. I'm supposed to mention about your wicked, wicked ways...yeah, not going to do that. Work harder. Quit screwing around. In some misguided attempt to keep you all sane and alive I signed up for this gig, so let's make the best of a bad situation, and make CJ happy, ok? [She smiles]

All right gang, this is going to be as painless or as painful as you choose for it to be. I want you in groups of not more than four. You each have a different stack of information. These are reports that are sent to the government so we can decide what to give money to. We had an intern, Winnie, and she's read them all and briefed me on them.

Your detention, since most of you are here for not doing your homework, is to consolidate the information, come up with a coherant presentation, and then get up here and present your findings to the rest of us. If you do it well, single moms and garbagemen get to keep on making a living. If not, you damage the environment, poison the masses, and generally create hell on Earth and destroy our noble Democracy as we know it.

But first, we're going to watch a couple films to help orient you to politics as I know and love them.

[Walks to the back, flips off the lights, and starts an old fashioned reel projector. Footage of the Kennedy-Nixon debates flashes on the screen at the front of the room and the lights dim so they can watch.]

I will post sub threads for different detention activities through the day.

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'cause it's cheap, right?

*flips through a few more papers*

I guess that makes sense, sorta.

Yeah, sorta. But, it's like... weird. I don't get a system that pays people to not do things. I mean, could I get a subsidy thingy just to sit around and not do anything back at the colonies? No way.

So, the things at play here are corn farmers, corn prices, and corn products. I feel like I've got corn coming out my ears just from reading this.

Corn, corn everywhere . . . ~~That would hurt. Ow.~~

If I'm reading this right, there seems to be a problem with huge companies that can produce lots of corn for much less than, uh . . . family farms and stuff can afford to do.

*scratches his head* So it's like, they get paid money to not grow corn because it's driving the value down? Why can't they get paid to get equipment so they can grow stuff besides corn too?

Cause that would make more sense? Or maybe spend the money to create a better market for corn, or research other possible uses of corn so there's a need that meets the production?

*scratches her head, and starts playing footsie again*

I don't get it. If corn is this cheap there's gotta be a way to make, like, biofuel or something out of it. Can't they put money into researching that, and use all the extra corn for the research? Instead of paying people to not grow it?

*plays footsie back*

Biofuel... wait... *flips through some of the pages*

Hey, looks like they have a horribly under-funded and under-researched thing along those lines, actually. Ethanol. *scratches her nose*

So, should this be what we talk about? How pouring money into ethanol research?

Sure. I mean, the program's already there. It makes sense.

*shakes his head* Figures. Some things in governments don't change, I guess.

*reaches over and pats Anders on the shoulder*

Yeah, I guess so. Can always count on politicians to screw things up. Always thought it'd be better if, like, a school teacher or something ran things. Somebody who's not all about personal power and stuff.

*starts writing down some notes*

So, we're recommending that the entire subsidy system be slowly overhauled and fed into an Ethanol Research plan. Got it.

*thinks about the school teacher thing* You might be onto something there.

*plays footsie a little more*

Do we really want to say the entire system should be fed into Ethanol research, though? 'cause, I mean, aren't there other things it could go to, too?

Well, yeah, we wouldn't want to put all our eggs in one basket, sure. Investments to allow the small-business farmers to branch out or do things other than not grow corn should probably be worked in, too.

Yeah. Stuff that helps out the small-business farmers. They're kinda frakked by the big corporate farms, seems like.

*looks around, then slides a torn-off piece of scrap paper with a heart drawn on it across the table to Cally*

*looks at the piece of paper, smiles, and the quickly cups a hand over it, then writes on it before passing it back across the table with a C on one side of the heart and an A on the other*

Yep, totally frakked. *grins at Anders*

So maybe . . .

*looks at the paper and smiles widely*

Redesignating the subsidies somehow. Yeah. Stuff so the small farmers are less . . . frakked.

Got it. Like, equipment, training, that sort of thing? *scribbles down more notes*

*reaches under the tables and squeezes Anders' knee*

Yeah, exactly. *resists the urge to scoot his chair right up next to Cally's*

*settles for drawing cute little stick-figure Cally and Anders and sliding the paper across the table*

*smiles, and doesn't resist the urge to scoot her chair next to Anders*

*points at her notes*

Okay, so, Ethanol and improvement for the small farms. Anything else we should cover?

Oh, there's that wholesale marketing of corn syrup thing. We should talk about that. Doesn't that drive the value down or something too?

*grabs hold of Cally's hand under the table and squeezes it*

LUNCH (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhigh/255494.html?thread=12510214#t12510214)

Oooh, food... We'll come back to this later. *stands up, still holding Anders' hand*

Yeah. We could feed each other again. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhigh/255494.html?thread=12510214#t12510214) *grins*

*comes back to the table after their ~~ridiculously cute~~ lunch*

Okay, so... what were we working on, again?

~~A way to sneak under the table so I can snuggle you silly?~~

I think we were on wholesale corn syrup marketing.

Yeah, corn syrup ~~though the snuggling sounds like way more fun~~.

*looks through the papers* Huh... I don't have the info on that, is it in the stuff you got?

Yeah . . . it's here. *hands some of the papers over as an excuse to squeeze Cally's hand*

Oh, ick, look . . . it doesn't act like sugar. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/12/AR2005071200751.html)

*flips through the rest of his stack of papers ~~and tries not to think about licking corn syrup off Cally~~*

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