No you're right, he's not at all "in the pocket" (I would say "indebted" - they know where his bodies are buried) to the Chicago political machine. I mean with names like Daley & Blagovich how could corruption be possible in Illinois?
Look, first Rummy & Cheney weren't THE president. And if Bush went to bat for Dallas (where he now resides) as president with a infamous political machine / mayor nmae like "Daley", believe me, people would be talking. But that aside here is why I think this is relevant: He could of sent Michelle & Oprah (both of whom who went with him), whom are perhaps the 2 highest profile native Chicagoans after Obama himself, but he didn't. So you say "big deal", there are more important things he's dropping the ball on ... well I agree. But I think it is worth pointing out that it has been traditionally seen as "beneath" the president of the United States to do what at most (in government) Hillary's assistant should of done. You can mention those other heads of state, the Bishop, all you want - but they simply aren't on the level of a sitting US President (we're not talking morally in terms of the Bishop, I think you know what I mean here). But he doesn't care about "tradition", in particular traditions unique to the US, and I think it's worthy to make note of that.
My point is between that and the fact that the Chicago presentation lasted 45 minutes and he met with General McCrystal only 25 minutes on Air Force One while still in Copenhagen, is relevant because it tells us volumes about the Commander-in-chief. And while you or I have all the info we need on him to form an educated opinion, it is THESE sort of incidents that "everyone" gets - you have time to fly to Denmark for the Olympics but you've only spoken to McCrystal twice in 70 days, once for 90 minutes, the other for 25, forcing the general to take his case to 60 Minutes? I think the average Joe gets that on a gut level and thus it is worth illuminating ... that's all.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Let's be straight on one thing...
I don't give a tin whistle's toot whether or not Obama and Michelle went to bat to try and win the 2016 bid for the Olympic Games. None of us complained when Tony Blair did it to win London's 2012 bid, and no one is saying that His Most Catholic Majesty Juan Carlos of Spain was wasting time or money in his support of Madrid's bid. Are the masses rising in anger because Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama did his best to win it for Tokyo? Should we be calling for the resignation of Presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for going to Coppenhagen... or for winning the bid? That's pretty august company for a man that only 5 years ago no one outside of the Illinois State Legislature had ever heard of... and I can't say that I blame him for wanting to get the face time in.
In normal circumstances, I'd say that these sorts of duties would fall to the office of the Vice President... but even WE couldn't expect Obama to send Biden to Denmark to make a case for Chicago hosting the games, could we? I mean... honestly... can you blame him for NOT sending Biden?
This sort of trip highlights what ISN'T working in the Obama White House far more than it shows what is working (and obviously, the sales pitches aren't working). Obama and his team have spent so much time and energy on "blaming" others for what isn't working that they have no concept (apparently) of how to "spin" a loss or failure. I don't care WHO is President, there are going to be failures and mistakes, and how we deal with those is a huge part of how the nation as a whole learns to look at that particluar President.
For example, George H. W. Bush's Inaugural Address has come to be known as the "thousand points of light" speech, and I think it was the best speech he ever gave. However, what 90% of everyone that remembers his Presidency thinks of when they think of Bush Sr. speeches is the "Read my lips" quote (technically, a campaign speech... he wasn't President when he said it). That is what we (as a nation) will remember about GHW Bush for a long, long time.
Clinton? Does anyone doubt that the Lewinsky affair is what is going to be recalled? Please... say what you will about his foreign policy, or his domestic agenda... no one will ever get past Monica.
Obama is wracking up some big failures pretty quickly in his first term. He promised that his stimulus plan would keep unemployment under 8%... we've been at 9.7% for more than 3 months, and it appears to want to go higher. The value of the dollar continues to fall, and Obama has done nothing (literally, NOTHING) to stop it... even though there are things within his authority to do that could slow or reverse this trend. He promised (very loudly, and very often) that every middle-class family in this nation would see a tax cut of up to 15%... at least 9% if you made between $30k and $60k. His own economic "czars" have now announced that across-the-board tax INCREASES are all but unavoidable... starting in 2010. He promised uncounted times to be a champion of small busniess against the evils of BIG BUSINESS and WALL STREET... yet he gives WALL STREET literally billions in free money and additional credit and support, while the rate of small busniess (less than 25 employees) failure has risen since Feb of this year by 400% and is still climbing.
So now he is reaping the rewards of bad-mouthing America and her interests for the last 6 months with his inability to convince the IOC that Chicago, Ill. is the place best suited to host the 2016 Olympic games. I just don't want to hear anymore crap (and I'm not slamming Ryan... this is just ALL OVER the media, from TV to my Sat Radio) about how he is "in the pocket" of Daley and the Chicago Machine. Please... do we have to bring back conversations about Big Dick and the Haliburton contracts again? If it was okay for Rummy and Big Dick to "stick with what they know"... surely it must be okay for Obama to go to bat for his home town?
There's way better things to piss and moan about, isn't there?
In normal circumstances, I'd say that these sorts of duties would fall to the office of the Vice President... but even WE couldn't expect Obama to send Biden to Denmark to make a case for Chicago hosting the games, could we? I mean... honestly... can you blame him for NOT sending Biden?
This sort of trip highlights what ISN'T working in the Obama White House far more than it shows what is working (and obviously, the sales pitches aren't working). Obama and his team have spent so much time and energy on "blaming" others for what isn't working that they have no concept (apparently) of how to "spin" a loss or failure. I don't care WHO is President, there are going to be failures and mistakes, and how we deal with those is a huge part of how the nation as a whole learns to look at that particluar President.
For example, George H. W. Bush's Inaugural Address has come to be known as the "thousand points of light" speech, and I think it was the best speech he ever gave. However, what 90% of everyone that remembers his Presidency thinks of when they think of Bush Sr. speeches is the "Read my lips" quote (technically, a campaign speech... he wasn't President when he said it). That is what we (as a nation) will remember about GHW Bush for a long, long time.
Clinton? Does anyone doubt that the Lewinsky affair is what is going to be recalled? Please... say what you will about his foreign policy, or his domestic agenda... no one will ever get past Monica.
Obama is wracking up some big failures pretty quickly in his first term. He promised that his stimulus plan would keep unemployment under 8%... we've been at 9.7% for more than 3 months, and it appears to want to go higher. The value of the dollar continues to fall, and Obama has done nothing (literally, NOTHING) to stop it... even though there are things within his authority to do that could slow or reverse this trend. He promised (very loudly, and very often) that every middle-class family in this nation would see a tax cut of up to 15%... at least 9% if you made between $30k and $60k. His own economic "czars" have now announced that across-the-board tax INCREASES are all but unavoidable... starting in 2010. He promised uncounted times to be a champion of small busniess against the evils of BIG BUSINESS and WALL STREET... yet he gives WALL STREET literally billions in free money and additional credit and support, while the rate of small busniess (less than 25 employees) failure has risen since Feb of this year by 400% and is still climbing.
So now he is reaping the rewards of bad-mouthing America and her interests for the last 6 months with his inability to convince the IOC that Chicago, Ill. is the place best suited to host the 2016 Olympic games. I just don't want to hear anymore crap (and I'm not slamming Ryan... this is just ALL OVER the media, from TV to my Sat Radio) about how he is "in the pocket" of Daley and the Chicago Machine. Please... do we have to bring back conversations about Big Dick and the Haliburton contracts again? If it was okay for Rummy and Big Dick to "stick with what they know"... surely it must be okay for Obama to go to bat for his home town?
There's way better things to piss and moan about, isn't there?
"O" damn!
Ummm ... I wrote this last night (early this morning):
Well, Obama is up soon. He will be the "Olympic solicitor general." I can't imagine EVEN HE, a "citizen of the world", a "leader of the world" (versus being a world leader by being the American president) hasn't already secured the outcome. Not a conspiracy theory, just public management - no way he goes to make a personal pitch without knowing the outcome.
If I'm wrong it marks not just an embarrassing loss, but the affirmation that this is a very, very dangerous man presiding over even more dangerous times.
So the news just broke - Brazil will get the 2016 Olympics (Rio De Janeiro to be specific). Here's the thing, of the 4 cities in contention - Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo & Rio - Chi-town was eliminated first, along with Tokyo. Now, I'd have to double check this but I do believe that we were the ONLY contender whose head of state made a personal pitch. This is a European bitch slap, being eliminated in the first round. It occurs to me that Obama didn't realize that elitist European disdain for America outweighs their affection for him - put more simply, they hate us more then they like him.
But as I said above, even showing up at the Olympics was a belittling of the office (I mean imagine Truman putting off the "bomb" decision in order to go judge a fly fishing tournament), but to be eliminated, and eliminated FIRST ... well ... like I implied above: combining this man's ideology with his naivety and arrogance makes him a very, very dangerous man to America's future and continued prestige.
Well, Obama is up soon. He will be the "Olympic solicitor general." I can't imagine EVEN HE, a "citizen of the world", a "leader of the world" (versus being a world leader by being the American president) hasn't already secured the outcome. Not a conspiracy theory, just public management - no way he goes to make a personal pitch without knowing the outcome.
If I'm wrong it marks not just an embarrassing loss, but the affirmation that this is a very, very dangerous man presiding over even more dangerous times.
So the news just broke - Brazil will get the 2016 Olympics (Rio De Janeiro to be specific). Here's the thing, of the 4 cities in contention - Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo & Rio - Chi-town was eliminated first, along with Tokyo. Now, I'd have to double check this but I do believe that we were the ONLY contender whose head of state made a personal pitch. This is a European bitch slap, being eliminated in the first round. It occurs to me that Obama didn't realize that elitist European disdain for America outweighs their affection for him - put more simply, they hate us more then they like him.
But as I said above, even showing up at the Olympics was a belittling of the office (I mean imagine Truman putting off the "bomb" decision in order to go judge a fly fishing tournament), but to be eliminated, and eliminated FIRST ... well ... like I implied above: combining this man's ideology with his naivety and arrogance makes him a very, very dangerous man to America's future and continued prestige.
I want to go on record now ...
... the line in his "Olympic speech" that he uttered just seconds after I published my last post, to forever remember will be "moving around as a child from being born in Hawaii, living in Indonesia and living in Illinois I never have had the chance to lay down the roots of any one culture."
Yes .... he just said that.
I mean really - any more questions on just where this guy stands ideologically?
Yes .... he just said that.
I mean really - any more questions on just where this guy stands ideologically?
The dating game presents ...
Are you watching this?
The "Chicago Olympic Delegation" is live as I write this in Copenhagen, Denmark and is presenting its' 45 minute presentation to the IOC with the 9 participants sitting below and in front of the IOC like anxious participants in a game show ... and among the 9 in the plastic white indifferent stand, sitting below the IOC, is the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES and the First Lady. One at a time each are making their way to a podium like a Jersey lawyer presenting his case to the judge in a mafia crime family case with our president as the council in chief. All that's missing is an old man with an oxygen tank & attached mask.
Are we serious? With Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, health care, the border, deficit spending to the point of crumbling the US Dollar, our Commander-in-Chief is sitting as a game show contestant waiting for his turn to spin the wheel for Bob Barker? It's plain embarrassing.
20 year mayor Richard Daily is one of the 9, he just spoke. Think about that for a second, TWENTY YEAR MAYOR OF CHICAGO. Who the hell is mayor of anywhere for 20 years? Only a "Daily" can accomplish that. But here is something more to the point ...
... Barak Heussein Obama is a child, a product, the greatest home run of the Chicago political machine in the history of their city. Just 5 years ago he was an Illinois State Senator. FIVE YEARS AGO. My point being? Is there any doubt that this bid, the VERY FIRST sitting US President soliciting the IOC from an undifferentiated wide seated white plastic panel arranged game show style desk, is NOTHING MORE than old fashioned Boss Tweed, St. Tammany Hall style patronage, grist of the highest order, in the highest level of government? There is an estimated $16 billion dollars up for grabs for the winning city for private sector vendors, real estate moguls and "friends of the Mayor" of all stripes (although the public (non) revenue result will be a ballooning of the $469 million Chicago deficit to $729 million - police, security, public works, etc, etc).
Well, Obama is up soon. He will be the "Olympic solicitor general." I can't imagine EVEN HE, a "citizen of the world", a "leader of the world" (versus being a world leader by being the American president) hasn't already secured the outcome. Not a conspiracy theory, just public management - no way he goes to make a personal pitch without knowing the outcome.
If I'm wrong it marks not just an embarrassing loss, but the affirmation that this is a very, very dangerous man presiding over even more dangerous times.
The "Chicago Olympic Delegation" is live as I write this in Copenhagen, Denmark and is presenting its' 45 minute presentation to the IOC with the 9 participants sitting below and in front of the IOC like anxious participants in a game show ... and among the 9 in the plastic white indifferent stand, sitting below the IOC, is the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES and the First Lady. One at a time each are making their way to a podium like a Jersey lawyer presenting his case to the judge in a mafia crime family case with our president as the council in chief. All that's missing is an old man with an oxygen tank & attached mask.
Are we serious? With Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, health care, the border, deficit spending to the point of crumbling the US Dollar, our Commander-in-Chief is sitting as a game show contestant waiting for his turn to spin the wheel for Bob Barker? It's plain embarrassing.
20 year mayor Richard Daily is one of the 9, he just spoke. Think about that for a second, TWENTY YEAR MAYOR OF CHICAGO. Who the hell is mayor of anywhere for 20 years? Only a "Daily" can accomplish that. But here is something more to the point ...
... Barak Heussein Obama is a child, a product, the greatest home run of the Chicago political machine in the history of their city. Just 5 years ago he was an Illinois State Senator. FIVE YEARS AGO. My point being? Is there any doubt that this bid, the VERY FIRST sitting US President soliciting the IOC from an undifferentiated wide seated white plastic panel arranged game show style desk, is NOTHING MORE than old fashioned Boss Tweed, St. Tammany Hall style patronage, grist of the highest order, in the highest level of government? There is an estimated $16 billion dollars up for grabs for the winning city for private sector vendors, real estate moguls and "friends of the Mayor" of all stripes (although the public (non) revenue result will be a ballooning of the $469 million Chicago deficit to $729 million - police, security, public works, etc, etc).
Well, Obama is up soon. He will be the "Olympic solicitor general." I can't imagine EVEN HE, a "citizen of the world", a "leader of the world" (versus being a world leader by being the American president) hasn't already secured the outcome. Not a conspiracy theory, just public management - no way he goes to make a personal pitch without knowing the outcome.
If I'm wrong it marks not just an embarrassing loss, but the affirmation that this is a very, very dangerous man presiding over even more dangerous times.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Beijing bling.
New Yorkers are "outraged" over the Empire State building's being bathed in the colored lights of the communist Peoples Republic of China. It was done to commemorate the 10 years anniversary of the reclamation of Hong Kong.
Really? New Yorkers (whom are 6 to 1 left leaning in every poll & went overwhelming for Obama), you are really worked up over this huh?
Well, how about China being bathed in $800 billion of our 2 trillion reserve currency via DEBT, that's growing with each of this president's proposals?
Pissed over lights ... shut up.
Really? New Yorkers (whom are 6 to 1 left leaning in every poll & went overwhelming for Obama), you are really worked up over this huh?
Well, how about China being bathed in $800 billion of our 2 trillion reserve currency via DEBT, that's growing with each of this president's proposals?
Pissed over lights ... shut up.
Oh-my-lanta!
Bravo! Man, I REALLY like the 10th amendment push (as I've also heard of a handful of states pushing this), & the DOE, impressive.
Goodness almighty I enthusiastically agree with each of those. Let me first say that we could go on for hours, days and surely weeks with policy proposals we believe to be common sensical / effective, so I will go off the top of my head here.
To prevent simply reiterating what you wrote lets say my administration introduces each of those, and I would add:
- Politically
I would push strong in 2010 for the congress to change hands NOT simply for Party but rather anyone on record supporting my proposed agenda, thus assuming I had the votes to give my legislative proposals a chance to pass (in addition to my executive authority changes) I would...
- Afghanistan
A.) immediately respond affirmatively to the request of 40,,000 additional troops.
B.) request an increase, substantially, in defense spending (throwing contracts to increase employment domestically) in order to supply troops in theater AND send a clear signal to both Tehran & Moscow - our lone superpower status is safe for at least 4 more years ... tread carefully.
C.) provide a link for direct communication from the the theater commander McCrystal, to Mullen & myself for streamlined decision making when the CO's sign off is needed, thus speaking to the commanders I'm asking to lead on a regular basis.
- Energy
A.) IMMEDIATELY lift the bans on all federally controlled offshore drilling and make it clear to states like CA that are living off of life support federal dollars that as a condition to fed $ they will lift all offshore state bans on drilling.
B.) Using the bully pulpit of the White House assemble all private sector oil companies that can make possible oil shale exploration and natural gas recovery, and simply ask them what they need to reverse America's status as an importing country of energy, then put together legislation necessary to initiate their request - THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE ACT OF 2010.
C.) Remove any and all executive orders on the construction of nuclear facilities, and (as will be needed) introduce/pass legislation to allow for the construction - moon shot goal - of 100 new nuclear power plants within 10 years. For states like CA that would resist, instead of challenging state autonomy, as I'm an advocate, initiate state referendum ballots to make the deregulation and construction of nuclear plants LAW. I trust the voters to "choose wisely."
- Iran
A.) Immediately introduce crippling sanctions in the UN. This is less for an actualized effect but more to get the attention of our allies - "it's time to deal with this" - and when they don't and we do, we will show the UN is irrelevant, yet again.
B.) Alert the CIA, Israel, our contacts in Iraq and throughout the Middle East that the Iranian resistance (the internal reformers/opposition to the theocracy) will now have the support of the White House. Provide them with all logistical, force building, and Intel needed to make life uncomfortable as possible for the regime. If the French resistance could disrupt and derail the Germans then so can the Persians with the modern day fascists, especially with US backing.
C.) Install the missile defense shield in Poland/Czech Republic.
D.) Publicly announce in Prime Time Israel's right to exist. And make clear in plain language that any nation or group that attempts a second Holocaust will be met by the full weight of our military might.
E.)And add that any nation threatening such actions will face military embargo from NATO. And I don't know if Israel is a part of NATO come to think of it, but if not, sponsor their entry so that the "attack on one is an attack on all" provision applies.
F.) Draw up a military strike plan to destroy their centrifuges, and let the existence of those preparatory plans "leak" to the press.
- Health insurance
A.) real tort reform - caps on jury awards.
B.) eliminate the restrictions on intrastate policies, allowing all insurance companies to compete in all 50 states to increase private competition.
C.) Fulfill my federal mandate to seal the southern border through all humane, YET effective ways necessary to alleviate the untold billions built into the health care costs of treating illegal aliens.
- The Southern border (although addressed in part above)
A.) Complete construction of the federally MANDATED fence.
B.) employ all needed surveillance technology and man power required to make the fence meaningful.
C.) Put together and promote immigrant (assuming the passing of background checks etc) fast tracked citizenship for military service in the US Armed Services.
- Spending / Economic Policy (this is of course in addition to your proposals)
A.) An across the board freeze on all non defense / domestic security (FBI etc) federal spending.
B.) I can't stress enough your eliminating the capital gains & death taxes, along with the across the board tax cuts, although I would add a fundamental overhaul of the IRS - introducing a Flat Tax of 10%. There is no reason an American's income tax form need be longer than ONE PAGE.
C.) Repeal the requirement of "mark to market" company worth listing for publicly traded companies. In the wake of Enron the congress required that companies list what they were worth that day, rather than listing it quarterly so as to balance out their losses/worth. This would bring stability to the market disallowing the added daily dramatic swings in share prices that has been the effect since.
D.) REPEAL SARBANES/OXLEY. This is the 21st century equivalent to the Smoote-Hawely Act. It has virtually relocated the financial capital of the world from New York to London. It is the corporate equivalent to a governmental anal probe.
E.) Reign in THE FED with fundamental reform if not flat out disbandment.
F.) Given less than 11% of the $888 billion of funds in the "stimulus" package has been released, repeal it.
G.) Propose the Tax Payer Protection Act which prohibits any & all "bailouts" of any private sector company, and reallocates all remaining TARP funds back into the general budget (assuming there is any).
- Social Security
A.) The Social Security Reorganization Act. Give younger people the option to opt out if the amount they pay in currently is FROZEN at that rate for the rest of their life. With the provision they relinquish all claims to that money.
B.) Allow workers that wish to opt out COMPLETELY to do so - they no longer pay in, relinquishing all claims on monies already paid in. This is allowed PROVIDED they can demonstrate a an active private savings account (401k's, IRA's etc).
C.) Each of the money revenues provided, without the need to be payed out to those contributors, is used to pay out current benefits.
D.) For workers 50 years and under and opting to remain in the system all monies will be taken out of the general fund and quasi privatized into "safe" market investments. Any 10 year period of investment in the market's history yields a return greater than Social Security currently does.
- Pardons
A.) Immediately issue blanket pardons to any and all CIA et al interrogators already cleared by internal/DOJ investigations so as to guard from any future administration, as well as emboldening those agencies we depend on that we will support them for doing their job.
- GITMO
A.) Leave it open.
- Abortion
A.) Restrict all federal dollars from participation in performing abortions.
B.) Reinstitute the Mexico City law.
- Crime and Punishment
A.) Make pedophilia and kidnapping a federal crime (I believe the latter already is actually).
B.)Propose a minimum 25 years sentence for kidnapping or the sexual assault of a child over 13.
C.) For sexual assault of a child under 13 the death penalty.
D.) Pedophiles are required to only reside in Sr. retirement communities (they'll be seniors by the time my law lets them out anyway), and must have home & property searched weekly by an extremely beefed up parole division - it's time to protect the weakest among us.
Well ... at least that's a start.
Goodness almighty I enthusiastically agree with each of those. Let me first say that we could go on for hours, days and surely weeks with policy proposals we believe to be common sensical / effective, so I will go off the top of my head here.
To prevent simply reiterating what you wrote lets say my administration introduces each of those, and I would add:
- Politically
I would push strong in 2010 for the congress to change hands NOT simply for Party but rather anyone on record supporting my proposed agenda, thus assuming I had the votes to give my legislative proposals a chance to pass (in addition to my executive authority changes) I would...
- Afghanistan
A.) immediately respond affirmatively to the request of 40,,000 additional troops.
B.) request an increase, substantially, in defense spending (throwing contracts to increase employment domestically) in order to supply troops in theater AND send a clear signal to both Tehran & Moscow - our lone superpower status is safe for at least 4 more years ... tread carefully.
C.) provide a link for direct communication from the the theater commander McCrystal, to Mullen & myself for streamlined decision making when the CO's sign off is needed, thus speaking to the commanders I'm asking to lead on a regular basis.
- Energy
A.) IMMEDIATELY lift the bans on all federally controlled offshore drilling and make it clear to states like CA that are living off of life support federal dollars that as a condition to fed $ they will lift all offshore state bans on drilling.
B.) Using the bully pulpit of the White House assemble all private sector oil companies that can make possible oil shale exploration and natural gas recovery, and simply ask them what they need to reverse America's status as an importing country of energy, then put together legislation necessary to initiate their request - THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE ACT OF 2010.
C.) Remove any and all executive orders on the construction of nuclear facilities, and (as will be needed) introduce/pass legislation to allow for the construction - moon shot goal - of 100 new nuclear power plants within 10 years. For states like CA that would resist, instead of challenging state autonomy, as I'm an advocate, initiate state referendum ballots to make the deregulation and construction of nuclear plants LAW. I trust the voters to "choose wisely."
- Iran
A.) Immediately introduce crippling sanctions in the UN. This is less for an actualized effect but more to get the attention of our allies - "it's time to deal with this" - and when they don't and we do, we will show the UN is irrelevant, yet again.
B.) Alert the CIA, Israel, our contacts in Iraq and throughout the Middle East that the Iranian resistance (the internal reformers/opposition to the theocracy) will now have the support of the White House. Provide them with all logistical, force building, and Intel needed to make life uncomfortable as possible for the regime. If the French resistance could disrupt and derail the Germans then so can the Persians with the modern day fascists, especially with US backing.
C.) Install the missile defense shield in Poland/Czech Republic.
D.) Publicly announce in Prime Time Israel's right to exist. And make clear in plain language that any nation or group that attempts a second Holocaust will be met by the full weight of our military might.
E.)And add that any nation threatening such actions will face military embargo from NATO. And I don't know if Israel is a part of NATO come to think of it, but if not, sponsor their entry so that the "attack on one is an attack on all" provision applies.
F.) Draw up a military strike plan to destroy their centrifuges, and let the existence of those preparatory plans "leak" to the press.
- Health insurance
A.) real tort reform - caps on jury awards.
B.) eliminate the restrictions on intrastate policies, allowing all insurance companies to compete in all 50 states to increase private competition.
C.) Fulfill my federal mandate to seal the southern border through all humane, YET effective ways necessary to alleviate the untold billions built into the health care costs of treating illegal aliens.
- The Southern border (although addressed in part above)
A.) Complete construction of the federally MANDATED fence.
B.) employ all needed surveillance technology and man power required to make the fence meaningful.
C.) Put together and promote immigrant (assuming the passing of background checks etc) fast tracked citizenship for military service in the US Armed Services.
- Spending / Economic Policy (this is of course in addition to your proposals)
A.) An across the board freeze on all non defense / domestic security (FBI etc) federal spending.
B.) I can't stress enough your eliminating the capital gains & death taxes, along with the across the board tax cuts, although I would add a fundamental overhaul of the IRS - introducing a Flat Tax of 10%. There is no reason an American's income tax form need be longer than ONE PAGE.
C.) Repeal the requirement of "mark to market" company worth listing for publicly traded companies. In the wake of Enron the congress required that companies list what they were worth that day, rather than listing it quarterly so as to balance out their losses/worth. This would bring stability to the market disallowing the added daily dramatic swings in share prices that has been the effect since.
D.) REPEAL SARBANES/OXLEY. This is the 21st century equivalent to the Smoote-Hawely Act. It has virtually relocated the financial capital of the world from New York to London. It is the corporate equivalent to a governmental anal probe.
E.) Reign in THE FED with fundamental reform if not flat out disbandment.
F.) Given less than 11% of the $888 billion of funds in the "stimulus" package has been released, repeal it.
G.) Propose the Tax Payer Protection Act which prohibits any & all "bailouts" of any private sector company, and reallocates all remaining TARP funds back into the general budget (assuming there is any).
- Social Security
A.) The Social Security Reorganization Act. Give younger people the option to opt out if the amount they pay in currently is FROZEN at that rate for the rest of their life. With the provision they relinquish all claims to that money.
B.) Allow workers that wish to opt out COMPLETELY to do so - they no longer pay in, relinquishing all claims on monies already paid in. This is allowed PROVIDED they can demonstrate a an active private savings account (401k's, IRA's etc).
C.) Each of the money revenues provided, without the need to be payed out to those contributors, is used to pay out current benefits.
D.) For workers 50 years and under and opting to remain in the system all monies will be taken out of the general fund and quasi privatized into "safe" market investments. Any 10 year period of investment in the market's history yields a return greater than Social Security currently does.
- Pardons
A.) Immediately issue blanket pardons to any and all CIA et al interrogators already cleared by internal/DOJ investigations so as to guard from any future administration, as well as emboldening those agencies we depend on that we will support them for doing their job.
- GITMO
A.) Leave it open.
- Abortion
A.) Restrict all federal dollars from participation in performing abortions.
B.) Reinstitute the Mexico City law.
- Crime and Punishment
A.) Make pedophilia and kidnapping a federal crime (I believe the latter already is actually).
B.)Propose a minimum 25 years sentence for kidnapping or the sexual assault of a child over 13.
C.) For sexual assault of a child under 13 the death penalty.
D.) Pedophiles are required to only reside in Sr. retirement communities (they'll be seniors by the time my law lets them out anyway), and must have home & property searched weekly by an extremely beefed up parole division - it's time to protect the weakest among us.
Well ... at least that's a start.
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