Hello all of you powerful PWP, RATHER DON'T DELETE, BUT READ.......ABOUT *YOUR* POWER !!! The population of the USA is growing slowly. But let us assume for a moment that it stays the same all the time. That means that every generation is reproducing the same number of people into the next generation as there were in the previous generation. The genealogical tree looks like this: LIA X BOB KEN X ANN BEN X INA TIM X BEP ___|___ ___|___ ___|___ ___|___ | | | | | | | | ... X TOM JAC X MARY DAN X JANET RAY X TESSY PEG X ... |___ ___|___ ___|___ ___|___ ___| :^^^ | | | | | | | | ^^^: ANGELIQUE JILL JERRY BILL KAY PHIL JACQUELINE JAY If e.g. Janet has PD, her closest relatives would be: - husband Dan - father Ben and mother Ina - children Bill and Kay - brother Ray and sister-in-law Tessy - father- and mother-in-law Ken and Ann - Dan's sister Mary and his brother-in-law Jac Together that is 11 close relatives. (If a grandparent, e.g. Ann, would be the PWP, the names of the relatives would shift, but the number of closest relatives would stay 11 persons.) So if there are 1,000,000 PWP in the USA, they have at least 11,000,000 closest relatives. That's 12,000,000 voters! I assume every PWP and their close relatives have at least two friends: 24,000,000 voters. Together: 12,000,000 + 24,000,000 = 36,000,000 voters. I assume everyone has two neighbours: 72,000,000 voters. Grand total: family + friends + next door neighbours = 12,000,000 + 24,000,000 + 72,000,000 = 108,000,000 voters. Suggestions: 1) Everybody activates the voting power in family, friends and neighbours now or in the next elections. 108,000,000 voters in favour of those representatives that get the research for PD funded for as much and as long as needed to find the cure. 2) Everybody asks all of them 108,000,000 to call their congressman starting NOW, once a week until the Udall Bill is fully funded. Should keep the phonelines to congress "busy" all the time!! 3) Everybody asks the 108,000,000 to write a "letter to the editor" to their newspaper. 4) Everyone asks for next Christmas all your family, all your and their friends, and your and their neighbours to donate $10 (only $10) in the National Parkinson Research Fund (or whatever it's called). Then there would be 108,000,000 x $10 = $ 1,080,000,000 That would have Parkinson Direct Research funded for 10x the Udall Bill!! And this story only covers your family, your and their friends, and your and their neighbours. So everybody else in the general public, that you can activate, is extra!! PWP HAVE POWER, TAKE CONTROL OF THIS POWER, ACTIVATE THIS POWER....NOW!!! Hans.