Recently Volvo, the safety-first Swedish car manufacturer, has been advertising its safety pledge; by 2020, no one will die in a new Volvo automobile. Quite a bold promise to make! I applaud the manufacturer’s gumption, but question the likelihood of success.  Especially since I despised the one Volvo I owned — one electrical failure after another. Let’s hope the company has made tremendous strides in quality control!

I don’t know if Volvo can pull it off, but I do know that there are lots of other promises, pledges, and guarantees I would like to see by 2020. Who is bold enough to make these commitments?

PLEDGES I WANT FOR 2020: NON-TRUMP DIVISION

1. The airline industry will promise to utilize artificial intelligence to devise a system in which no passenger traveling from Chicago, Illinois to Fairbanks, Alaska gets routed through Miami, Florida.
2. The recording industry will pledge that I recognize at least one song nominated for the Record of the Year Grammy.
3. The Sox, Cubs, Bears, Bulls, and Blackhawks will each pledge not to be in Year 1 of a 5 Year rebuilding plan.
4. While the airlines are making pledges, how about a guarantee that there are no bumped passengers hauled off a plane by air marshalls, or better yet, no bumped passengers at all?
5. The Democratic Party will pledge to have a viable Presidential Candidate. (I know this one is a b-i-g stretch!)
6. Progressive Insurance and Toyota will pledge to swap Flo and Jan for a month. Just because it would be fun.
7. Brian Urlacher will promise to readopt the shaved head look so we can get rid off all the awful hair growth billboards along I-294.
8. NBC will pledge that “Chicago Streets and Sanitation” will be the last show in it’s “Chicago” pantheon, and will return the streets of Chicago to the residents of Chicago.
9. Wisconsin will pledge no new shootings by 8-year-olds legally licensed to carry a weapon.
10. Chip and Joanna, Jonathan and Drew, and all those House Hunters will promise to take a year-long sabbatical so my TV sets can take an HGTV sabbatical too!

What pledge would you like for 2020? Leave your comment on Facebook, or email me at les.raff@post.com. And check out our new Facebook FanPage!

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