Thursday, December 3, 2015

No presidential or U. S. Congressional campaign shall last more than 90 days.

No state level campaign shall last more than 60 days.

No lower level campaign shall last more than 30 days.

Each level must have a minimum of three debates between ALL candidates.

U.S. Supreme Court ruling over-turning corporate and political campaign contributions shall be re-instated. Limit shall be set at $100k. 
No candidate may have for national office, a campaign chest of more than $10m. All campaign costs must come out of that account, and that account alone. When it’s done, so is the candidate.

Overhaul the IRS and throw out the tax code. A new one might have a Value Added Tax that applies to everyone, no exceptions.

Throw out the Operating Handbook of Rules for both U.S. House and Senate, and re-write them to: Eliminate all sub-committees. 

No bill shall have a life of more than thirty days until either passed, or voted down. No more of this 9-months nonsense to pass a simple bill. 

No midnight pay raise riders attached to legislation. 

No off-topic amendments added to any legislation, period.

Pay no citizen to vote, and do not create punishments for those who don’t. The last time at least 60% of the American voting public did so was 1968. It should be a personal choice. Voting age shall be 18 nationwide, as shall be the drinking age. If those are raised to 21, than so shall the age for eligible military enlistment.

On national voting day for President, no projections shall be broadcast by any media by any means until the polls close in Hawaii.

Eliminate and ban all political parties. Eliminate and ban all lobbyists.

No semantic dance around the Constitution when declaring war, by any President. Only Congress may do so. Pretty clear.

All American corporations must bank inside America. No off-shore banking, no dual set of books. No avoidance of tax responsibilities to the very communities that provide the resources for them to make their profits.
Federalize the gasoline industry. Competition between companies is non-existent anyway. It is a commodity that affects every citizen and thus can no longer be exposed to the whims of the greedy pigs now in charge. Prices may only be changed twice a year, in either direction, by no more than 10% each time.

Eliminate the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Energy and Education Departments, and the CIA. More problems stem from these four agencies than any others combined.

Cancel the Patriot Act and the Affordable Healthcare Act. The former took away some of our freedoms and right to privacy, and the latter actually fines people who don’t buy it, because they couldn‘t afford healthcare insurance in the first place. The ACA is the 2,000 page document Ms. Pelosi famously swore no one read anyway because they couldn’t understand it. Why should we have to obey it?

Native Americans can no longer exist as sovereign nations within our borders. Segregation was tried once before in America. It led to civil war and nearly the permanent division of the country.

Secure our borders. Change federal law that now states public schools have to admit anybody that knocks on the door, citizen or not, speaks our dominant language, English, or not. The cost to states and districts is in the billions as a result and those same states and districts are now nearly destitute.

Change the anchor baby law, which allows women from anywhere to birth their children in America, automatically granting citizenship. We can’t afford it.

Change the way public schools are funded. Property-tax based systems favor the rich and the comfortable and the home owner, and always, always hold back, hurt, and discriminate against the poor.  Put all of a state’s education funds into one pot and all schools get what they need. That way, suburban schools don’t get extra practice fields, planetariums, indoor pools, and closed-circuit t.v. studios, while inner city schools and Appalachian poor go without windows, heat, books, computers, software, decent furnishings, and all the rest.

Ban HOA sub-divisions everywhere. Town and city govts love them because taxpayers pay property taxes but receive very little from their towns and cities in return, because HOA fees do so. Availability of non-HOA housing across the country is dwindling because of this communist concept that someone else has the power to tell you what you can and cannot do with your own castle.

Close all the law schools. We have far more lawyers than we shall ever need.

Shut down cash payments of foreign aid. Foreign aid shall consist only of trade items. It’s incredibly stupid to send billions overseas while our own country crumbles because of neglect and the improper distribution of taxpayer dollars. America First. We need to pay down our $18T debt, the constant and ever-growing elephant in the room.

All presidential candidates must produce valid proof of identity and birth, and background and education. No exceptions.

About half of the govt offices in Washington should be distributed to other cities around the nation. It would be an economic shot in the arm for those cities, lower traffic, housing, and over all congestion problems for Washington, D. C.

No Congressional representative shall serve more than two terms in a lifetime. All such reps shall, while in session in Washington, live in military family housing on a military base, for incredibly cheap housing costs and better security. The concept was never, that representation shall be a career.

Presidential term shall be six years and no one shall serve more than one in a lifetime, no matter if the officer holder dies in office. 

Supreme Court jobs shall last seven years, and no one may have more than one in a lifetime. It’s about restoring balance and authority to the original concept of Checks and Balances, currently all but non-existant.

Amtrak must privatize or disappear. Outside the NE corridor it builds terrible operating losses covered by the over-burdened American taxpayer.

Overhaul FDR’s welfare state. Once in a lifetime, two-year eligibility that would require mandatory no-notice drug testing. Checks to be spent only on basic food groups and not on alcohol, tobacco, or non-food items. During time on welfare, recipients must attend and graduate from job training program, and work at least 20 hours weekly on community improvement project, such as the Civilian Conservation Corps and other projects of the 1930s accomplished. Cleaning roadsides, clearing forests, removing debris from crumbling inner-city blocks, all will make a difference.

Overhaul the very comprehensive yet out of control Farm Bill, which first started to fall apart in 1933. Congress passed the latest five-year version a year ago to the tune of $952M, and admitted publicly they didn’t know how to fix it. I do. Stop paying farmers to grow crops. Stop subsidizing them by the billions. Let market forces dictate to them what to grow, how much to grow, and when. If they want to eat, they’ll figure it out.

Eliminate retail subsidies and enticements. WalMart receives over $7.8B every year from your govt (taxpayers). About $6.2B goes to pay for food stamps, subsidized housing, and Medicaid to their own employees, which the company should be paying for out of its gross profits. They recently announced a min. wage raise effective April 2015 to $9 hr, and again in Feb 2016 to $10 hr. Wonderful, except the feds have set the national poverty income level at $11.90 an hour, NOW. Since when should American taxpayers pay for the benefits of a privately owned family business? Just because we help out NFL owners by building their stadiums for them doesn’t mean we can help everyone.

At age 18, all citizens must mandatory do two years of national service. In the military, in hospitals, in food banks, in shelters, I don’t really care. But, just like the Mormons off riding their bikes all over the country for two years, spreading whatever, the rest of the populace should be helping as well. Beats getting blasted at Spring Break.

No federal mandates of any type without accompanying, at the same time, appropriate federal dollars to pay for them. Pretty simple. I think this is called State’s Rights.

I honestly believe that if we do not, at a minimum, restore Checks and Balances and get Tax and Spend under control, even our current Plutocracy form of government will disappear. The heck with Socialism and presidents and billionaires who support such nonsense. Country was established and developed by working people without any help from their government, save a well-defended country in which to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. Let’s try this again.  Thank you.


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