The traditional Congressional-Political-Process could be helpfully informed - - - by The-Members-of-Congress creating individual public- advisory-statements in which each recommends the percentages by which they EACH-ONE believe the following rates of taxation-and-spending should be INCREASED-OR-DECREASED - - - by specified percentages of current rates. Total Federal Domestic Spending in support of: 1. WAR-ACTIVITIES; preparations-for, during, and essential-following-activities. 2. MILITARY-VETERANS' NEEDS that have been caused by their service in past wars. 3. INDIVIDUALLY OWNED FAMILY-FARMS within the U.S.A. 4. LARGER FARMING-CORPORATIONS that are based in the U.S.A. 5. PUBLIC-HIGHWAYS within the U.S.A. 6. PUBLIC-TRANSIT-SYSTEMS within the U.S.A. 7. PUBLIC-AIRPORTS within the U.S.A. 8. NON-FOSSIL-FUEL ENERGY-RESEARCH REGARDING NON-EXHAUSTIBLE SOURCES OF ENERGY AND REGARDING ENERGY-USE-EFFICIENCIES. 9. RESEARCH IN SUPPORT OF MORE EFFECTIVE HEALTH-CARE. 10. THE IMPROVEMENT OF foundational SCIENCE EDUCATION WITHIN THE U.S.A. 11. Expanding Inter-Planetary Humane Space-Research. 11. Expanding Inter Planetary Humane Space-Travel. 12. Expanding Inter-Stellar Humane Space-Travel. 13. Expanding Extra-Terrestrial Mining Efforts for scarce minerals. 14. Supporting Corporate Concentrations of Wealth-and-Powers. 15. Mitigating Systemic Distributive-Injustices. 16. Mitigating Terrestrial Material-Resource-Depletions. 17. Augmenting Terrestrial Material-Resource-Regenerations. 18. Mitigating NON-Sustainable Exponential-Growth-Patterns. 19. Augmenting Stable Economic-Growth-Patterns. 20. Augmenting Healthy Corporate Mergers. 21. Augmenting Fusion-Energy Resource-Developments. 22. Augmenting Oil Exploration and Production. 23. Augmenting Coal Exploration and Production. 24. Insuring Growth in Global Energy-Consumption. 25. Expanding the Growth in Global Natural Resource Consumption. 26. Preventing further Natural Species Extinctions. 27. Working for the Sustainability of Global-Civilization in the Long-Term. 28. Mitigating Our Own Alienative-Conflicts World-Wide. 29. Mitigating the Costs of the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complexes. 30. Mitigating the Winning of our Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception. 31. Augmenting Planing for Recovery from Major National Disasters in Timely-Ways. 32. Each other traditional kind of Federal Support Program. Given such public information about the recommendations from individual Members-of-Congress - - - it will be possible to identify The-Median Recommendation for changing each rate of taxation-and-spending in each identified kind of Federal-Effort. That information can be used by responsible- leaders to help build-consensuses about how to move forward responsively-and-responsibly in managing the Federal Budget - - - in thoughtful-well-informed ways. To be consistently gracious-and-sustainable - - - any process of setting the above kinds of priorities - - - needs to be interwoven with a complementary process of affirming through words, deeds and behavioral patters - - - mutually complementary patterns of ideals, values, principles, virtues, grounds for hope, etc. Such priority-setting-processes need to occur both within the formal processes of official governmental agencies - - - and within pervasive informal gathering. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THINK TOGETHER in SHALOM! Be-Together within Shalom's Sanctuaries Discerning Through-Open-and-Honest-Dialogues - - - What-IS and What-is-NOT ESSENTIAL-TO-CIVILITY-AND-SUSTAINABLE-CIVILIZATIONS!