Friends activists, citizens,
The excitement of election 2008 is here and soon we will elect a new president. During this upcoming year ask yourself, if King George the 2nd has made the world a better place? Has he or his policies made your life any better? Ask Yourself Have the Democrats or the Republicans as a whole supported the people or Corporate America? Do you understand that you and each of your children are $30,000 in debt to pay for the war on terror? Do you realize that prices have doubled during the Bush Administration and are likely to double again before the end of this year!
If you come to the same conclusions that I have, you will decide that the reign of the Republicrats should be ended.
The combined Bush / Kerry 2004 campaigns cost a record one billion dollars. A billion dollars to brainwash the sheeple into believing that they have no other choices. The leading candidates in this years election are raising close to 50 million dolars a month each! Where is this money coming from and just what is it buying?
In 2004 I was the only candidate answering all questions about anybody's issues...
If you don't think you have any issues, think again, read the platforms, read the new laws, look at the future being created for you and your children with out your input...
Margaret Mead once said "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
I am looking for that small group of thoughtful citizens but will settle for a loose net of over enthusiastic, highly optimistic patriots seeking social change.
Iraq war and the War on terror
More and more Americans are coming to oppose the war, the war hawks and high
government officials and even the Republican Party are trying to distance themselves
from the president, and the U.S. citizens are more than willing to pull out of Iraq.
Cost of the War in Iraq 400 billion and growing. We went there to
find weapons of mass destruction and to kill the evil Saddam Hussein,
We bombed and destroyed the entire country. Saddam has been captured tried and hanged.
Still, Bush now wants another 100 billion for next year and he only thinks it will
take another five years to bring about a democratic self sustaining government.
The war in Iraq is costing $3.9 billion a month, as opposed to the $2 billion
a month that the Pentagon had originally estimated, it is now said that it's going
to take five or more years as opposed to the 60 day miracle war that Bush sold us...
Add to that the continuing war in Afghanistan is costing almost
a billion a month. We went there to find and Kill Bin Laden. Blew up the entire country,
toppled the government and never found the man. Troops to stay 5 to ten years?
That makes over $5 billion a month for the two battles for "freedom and democratic
change". And, still no rational planner has yet been able to put forward a credible
possible end-date for either enterprise.
I
will apologize to every country that has been attacked, bullied or coerced by the
military or
policies of the United States in the past three decades.
I
will recall all American troops posted but not invited on foreign soil.
In Iraq
I would support an international effort to divide Iraq into 3 smaller less dangerous
countries.
Troops out in 90 days!
If they are still in-fighting in ten years
we can always go back and kill them some more.
Call for International investigations
into War Crimes committed by the Bush administration.
The war on terror
will be turned over to Homeland Security
Social Security
The Social Security Systems problems
are inherent of the basic pyramid plan scheme that Social Security is...
I personally
believe that Social Security should be allowed to shrivel up and die and be replaced
with personal security accounts in banks. It's what they used to call savings. I
personally think that forced savings is an insult, but if the people have no will
power... However many people think that this would be cruel and unfair to those who
paid in so much and would get nothing in return. But hey, are these not the same
exact people who stood back and did nothing as the government spent our grandchildren's
future? Besides even if the SSI system fails we have other nets like welfare.
The
plan I would push for as President would be as follows
1. Lower the SSI withholding
to 10% and double the ceiling
2. Set up ISA (Individual Security Accounts)
for all U.S. Citizens 10% collected by the employer and direct deposited to ISA
in credit unions at fixed (5%) rates. Monies to be untouchable, except upon 65 aged
or becoming permanently or serious disabled.
3. After ten years make SSI optional
and free it from the government to exist as a publicly held insurance company and
what happens after that will be dictated by the wiles of capitalism.
Housing and Homeless
Rezone and remodel old industrial
Complexes with a mixture of homes and small business
suspend pending foreclosures
for an additional year. Bankers created this problem they shouldn't be benefitting
from it. Allow all Americans to use up to 40% of their ISA to secure, pay off or
fix up their homes.
Credit Crunch
Re-Evaluation of credit practices pertaining
to individuals. Regardless of what you are told, credit is all too easy to get in
this country. The reason behind this it is highly profitable for the banks and credit
card companies to fleece you for every cent possible. I would like to see legislation
enacted that would forbid banks and institutions from charging more for an overdraft
or credit extension, than the extension itself. Common practice by banks and credit
card companies is if you over draw by as little as a few cents, you are assessed
charges as high as $40. That is to say you over extend yourself by a dollar, and
they charge you $40 for the privilege of using a dollar for as little as a day? and
if it's a checking account, they will often send the check back for that dollar and
deduct $40 from your account, taking the cash for themselves and leaving you far
worse off than you were. Another way of fleecing the public is cash advance fees,
and ATM charges. Using cash machines you can be charged anywhere from 5% to 15% to
get money that is already yours, or to which you are entitled. This is on the spot
charges in addition to the up to 27% interest that some of these easy credit companies
charge. What ever happened to usury? All these fees are non-refundable, even if you
pay the money back, the next or even same day!!!
What to do?
Limit ATM
charges to $1
Limit credit cards to 18% max interest
Late charge limited to
smaller of not more than one month interest or $25
No more than a years earnings
worth of credit between all cards issued to a single person
Limit Housing loans
to 10% maximum interest, and require a minimum of 25 - 40% down payment.
Planet Earth Bicycles all around..
Candidate plans to
take in order to slow/attempt to stop the process known as global warming?.
I am a fan of alternative energy sources. I think geothermal and solar are
the most ignored and have the greatest potential. When most people talk about energy
the conversation usually turns to automobiles, for me it turns to homes. Do you know
that in the 1930's some homes and building were constructed that needed little to
no heat? Envelope houses, rock energy storage (solar and geothermic together), solar
heated and geothermic heating and cooling should be on top of our agenda when saving
energy... Super insulated houses can be heated by body and cooking heat alone...
Solar assisted systems for heating water, drying clothes and lighting of homes would
also save fossil fuels. I also am anti - trucking and anti-flight, rails are a much
more efficient use of energy. Along the same route I think we should support local
business instead of importing goods from around the world or across the country.
Full implementation of these ideas would cut fossil fuel use in half easily...
Build as many Windmills as there are radio transmission towers perhaps they could
be converted?
Serious promotion of people/solar/alternative/hybrid powered cars.
Particularly in cities and flat areas where they will implement the easiest.
A
serious cut back on all aeronautics from Personal jets to the Air Force.
Air
force jets alone used 5.8 billion dollars worth of jet fuel in 2006, that is about
2.6 billions gallons of fuel being burnt up in our atmosphere every year, just by
the air force. I am also sure we could use less air shows.
If there are serious
problems developing in the upper atmosphere, I would tend to look at Air planes before
cow farts.
Change driving age to 18 for the whole country. Saves lives, air,
gas, money, slows teen age parenting
I would by executive order suspend
the use aerial distribution of all herbicides
See also Global
Warming and the greenhouse effects
What can we do to help the Economy
enact the One
big fixx Plan
Create a Million jobs a year through small business loans and
grants
Create local opportunities, with ISA funds.
Health Care and Insurance
How does the candidate plan
to decrease the cost of health care for all citizens?
Law suit limitations,
Saying any man's life is worth $1million dollars is an insult to the rest of us who
will likely never see a million dollars in our whole lifetime.
Allow imported
prescription drugs and shorter patents on life saving drugs and procedures.
I am against any attempt to federalize Health Care. Reason one the federal government
screws up everything it touches... Reason two Not all citizens have the same opinions
on exactly what health care is... Heath care is something to be worked out amongst
church and community.
I would support a Program that would take 10% of earnings
to a local / county program to fund health care for anyone who does or doesn't have
any health care
Homeland Security
Repeal the Patriot Act. All the soldiers
I bring home will be looking for jobs. We need beefed up border patrols, on the borders,
at the shipping yards and at the airport. I would do everything possible to stop
the flow of Terrorists, Illegals and Dangerous imported narcotics. America will basically
be closed to those from abroad
Crime and criminals
In the United States we now have
the worlds highest incarceration rate, and the government seems hell bent on increasing
the number of people in the system. How can this happen in a free democratic society?
This is why we need change now not in forty years. With a high percentage of our
youth in jail, and millions more on probation or parole supervision the government
is trying to control what once were basic freedoms. The largest number of these people
are under government control for non violent drug offenses, most of them for marijuana.
For the most part these are youthfull indiscretions, the average drug user is 18
- 25 years old. These people have not harmed anyone, perhaps not even themselves.
A person convicted of these charges in this country (or a person who just failed
a drug test) are now denied student aid, employment, and welfare benefits. Now if
you can't get an education, a job or collect benefits, a life of crime is about all
that is left. A third of our population is being turned into criminals by our government
so they can fill future jails. If we want less crime we need less laws. I
will plead with Federal and State Legislators to end all mandatory minimum sentencing
and three strikes laws for non violent crimes and set higher penalties for violent
crimes.
Establishment of permanent Penal colonies, for people have proven they
can't act in a responsible way that society needs.
That is to say three strikes
at violent felonies and your are put away forever, never to have any contact or help
from the outside world again.
ISA (Individual Security Accounts)
One
big Fixx would
Create a Million jobs a year through small business loans, make more homes
available for Americans, help out during sickness, and maintain us during old age.
We could also create local opportunities, all while placing a permanent stablizer
on the economy with ISA funding.
