Politics

 What exists to day is a great inequity. The wealth producers of this country are supporting an insatiable Monster. The wealth producers are you and me that create the wealth. The insatiable Monster is our Government. The irony is that the Monster borrows money from our enemies and requires the wealth Producers to pay this money back to our enemies at interest. Why would not the Monster borrow the money from the wealth producers rather than our enemies?

 You sa that the wealth producers do not have enough to lend. Than have the Monster stop the spending. 

Politics

If you wonder how you will learn to live as a socialist in America. If you wonder what it will be like when the socialists’ policies rule in medicine and business and all of the necessities of our life, you may want to learn by going to a US post Office and while you are waiting in line, as a meditation, blame yourself for why it is taking so long.

One of the problems with politics is that if a man has enough experience to do a good job he has probably got too many skeletons in his closet to get elected and if he has got no skeletons in his closet than he does not have the experience to do the job. Politics spends so much time paying attention to your past that it fails to see what you are doing today. Business on the other hand rewards or punishes you for what you do today. Politicians operate under the assumption that the last guy screwed it up and the next guy is going to fixit.

When I speak of Politics I mainly reference my experience within my own City, State and Country. Though I often draw parallels to other locations

The first qualification of a “good” politician must be love of country. Not to love it as they would have it but to love it as it was founded. If a qualified politician cannot be found than find some one qualified to buy him. That way he will act in a qualified way.

Our Greatest freedom is the freedom to fail and the freedom to raise ourselves from defeat. Do not let your Government steal this freedom from you, for from failure comes creation. Why doesn’t the government ever lay off workers when there is a “financial crisis”?

The government never has a financial crisis until they run out of people to take money from. But here I go you see. I have fallen into the trap of arguing politics as if it were something other than a business. You see, when I do not look at politics as a business I fail to look at it in a true light. I fail when I do not look at politics as a business to judge it based on economics. What any stock holder demands of his business is that it either increases in value or pays dividends. When the stockholder finds that his holdings are not profitable he makes a change. This stockholder has the freedom to make this change. The problem we have with the business of government is that we must continue to invest our money ,by force, in a business that does not pay a dividend to the investors based on their investment.

It is my opinion that an election is a form of revolution. The process was designed by our founders so that only in the most extreme cases would we ever have to resort to intimidation or violence. It also was designed that we may all bear arms so that we would be able to remain peaceful during our various revolutions. We have inalienable rights given to us through the constitution to revolt through peaceful means and debate. Every weapon is used during the revolution. These weapons are also known as our Freedoms. These freedoms are the Freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, and right to petition the government. In addition the Second Amendment states that the Right to bear arms will not be infringed. Even though the interpretation of this amendment is argued every freedom loving American would be wise to draw the line at this argument and err in favor of personal protection against the Government. No good ever came from disarming a population.
Among the legal weapons we may keep in our arsenal as citizens of the population are the freedoms, the rights, and the wealth that we can accumulate legally. Money may be our most powerful form of ammunition we use during a revolution. If we are armed but have no ammunition our ability to fight is reduced to words. Words are good and ideas are good. But money is how we spread the words and the ideas. And ideas help us to gather money. When a government over burdens the population with taxes it also takes away that populations ammunition to use in a peaceful revolt. “Power to the people” was a popular mantra during the revolt of the sixties. “Power to the People that pay”, might be a better mantra.
So again the argument comes back to Business. Capitalism and Capital are the weapons of the population who earns. I ask myself this question. Do I want to invest my money in a company that has proven never to bring me a return on my investment? Do I want to invest in a company that hires workers to collect more money from its customers by force in exchange for fewer services? Do I wish to invest in a company that has thrown its business plan into the trash heap and has no business plan with return on investment in mind? Do I want to invest in a company that exempts its management staff from the requirements of its stockholders? If you are a Union member in America today you may want to ask your self these questions. You may wish to think of taxes as union dues. Think of these taxes as Union dues that are wasted by the union bosses. Union bosses who on the one hand are taking dues by force and than refusing to pay these dues themselves.
There is anger from the blind that are being given visions of the truth. The anger is being aimed at those who show the visions rather than those that the vision expose. Change; there is plenty of room for change. Not change from but change back to what This America was founded and framed to be. True freedom, true equality, true equal opportunity through capitalism with ethics is what we need to return to.

A political Platform:

The following are planks of a political platform that could turn back the trend of a growing government and growing taxes in a more painless but speedy way. To actually change government into a profitable investment should be the goal of all political platforms. .

1.       Establish criteria for determining what a nonessential federal government employee is. Than those employees that qualify as non essential would be laid off with full pay for the duration of their career cycle. They would have the option to find other careers in the private sector and would pay taxes at the rate established by this new platform.’ It is our feeling that it would be less costly to pay them to stay out of the government work force than it would be to pay for the support systems required to maintain them. Consider the cost of energy, office goods, automobiles furniture equipment etc... That would reduce the over all cost of operation. It could be at the discretion of the government tax department to decide if their other work should be deducted from the amount they receive from the Government. If than they chose to work in the private sector it would be at their discretion. It would also be the intent of this platform not to replace these workers. The entire laid off work force would be off the government payroll in a maximum of twenty years depending on the status of their cycle. The Government would be responsible to keep their retirement intact as it was presented to them upon their employment.

2.       Though it is the intent to change the tax code to one of a more equitable system, the new government platform would begin at the present rates and adjust as costs were cut in the bureaucracy. In the first year no withholdings will be taken out of the salaries of the employee. Taxes will be filed on the 15^th of April of the next year. The government will send to each taxpayer a request for a loan of the amount considered to be owed by the taxpayer with an established interest amount due and standard language for a loan with interest and provisions. On April 15^th or the following year the taxpayer will file again and the Government will repay the previous loan with interest and apply for next years loan based on the income of the citizen. In this way the Government would be established as the servant to the people as it should be.

3.       The Government in the first two years could begin to re prioritize the programs for operation. Allowing the private sector to bid on the services competitively. Also in the 3^rd   year the money loaned in taxes would be spent on certain programs as specified in percentages by the tax lender. In so doing we could democratically establish what we the people of this country feel is important to spend money on. A list of programs that are specifically Federal Government services will be given to each tax lender and he will specify what percentages go to each item on the list. In this way individual state projects will be handled by the individual states. Again these policies establish for the Government entities, State and Federal a list of needs established by the tax lenders. At any time an individual or a corporation may tender a loan to the Government in addition to the tax loan at an agreed upon interest and payment contract.

4.       Another important change would be to establish a private organization funded by the government based on commissions to collect the moneys that were loaned in the so called stimulus packages. This private agency would set up the repayment schedule so that the entities could remain in business as they were held accountable to pay back these debts. The entities that would be commissioned to collect these debts would bid for the right to the contract and would be held accountable for the success of collection. The companies and individuals would be bound to repay these loans and if they default than the companies they owned if viable would be auctioned to other private companies to be run in a more efficient manner. No limits would be put on the capital gain of the company owners and stockholders except the limit induced by the repayment requirements.

Summary: The gist of my political idea is that the government is never held accountable in the same way any business or individual is held accountable. The money that government receives is never with a true return on investment based on the desires of those that put up the money. If in fact it is the function of the government to do other things besides protect our borders, enforce our laws and pick up our garbage than at least perform these other services with some return of investment to the “stockholders” of the government.