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12 step program to economic recovery

hypocritexposer

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It is more than proper now for conservatives to be able to say “I told you so.” Conservatives have spent hundreds of thousands of hours studying the political landscape. I did so as a Political Science major and Law School student. Today the headline reads: “WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the first time, more than 34 million Americans received food stamps”. Who is to blame for the current economic catastrophe?

During the recent Bush administration, Americans might have been alerted to the weakened economy, the devastatingly large unsecured debt in the private sector, and the incompetent regulation by the public sector, but instead, the Democrats and the media were vilifying a President who was consumed with a foreign war, a gentleman who unlike the current occupant of the White House did not respond to the liberal propaganda that misrepresented the state of the economy. But such utter and complete devastation of a once vital, industrial country did not occur in 8 short years of the Bush administration.

This present form of life created by liberal governmental policies that have devoured capitalism and spit out an economic catastrophe is only beginning to show its ugly face. This malformed political creature was not born in 1776 nor was it born during the Bush administration, and it will not die during the Obama administration. This new form of government is on life support waiting for the rebirth of the same American courage and spirit that won two world wars, and put Al Capone and others who robbed society behind bars.

How sad that we have come to this point in time when “due process of law” no longer exists. Where the protection of private property means government ownership of the means of production, where privacy means we can abort new life, but no longer means we can write emails to each other without the President asking Americans to turn in their friends for expressing an opinion. We can quote numerous Supreme Court Cases that have held that freedom of speech is so precious that even lies must be protected in order not to depress ideas, but is the privacy of the people who express them still protected from government interference? What purpose does a President serve when he wants the names of citizens who express opposition to his policies?

How did we come to this point? The Constitution has been shredded by Justices who apparently believed that in protecting the environment, the poor, the convicted, and the pregnant, they were doing the honorable thing. Even if we agree with them, we are no longer a country of laws. We are a country of men and women in office. We are a nation guided by a truly free and liberal press cloaked with Constitutional powers to persuade, and they do so with impunity.

The road to destruction is wide, and the danger signs were so numerous that only a misinformed electorate blinded by false assumptions could have allowed government officials to drive them into the depths of economic and social chaos. This monster government has killed the goose of Aesop’s Fable by crushing the industry that provided high-paying and secure jobs for millions of Americans. Consider what happed in Youngtown, OH, Garry, IN, Bethlehem, PA, and other places where a whole town full of people are now on welfare. They are the sons and daughters of Americans who for generations worked in the same factory, shared the same common existence, and remained in the same community.

We have the social engineers to thank. They were so vitally concerned about the welfare of people who might have been exposed to contaminants in the air, water, and land, that they essentially destroyed the backbone of the American economy. Industry leaders tried, but could not survive the weight of a government that drove profits below sustainable levels. Industry did what any creature would do. It fled. It did so, not out of greed as some would have you believe. It fled the soft tyranny of bureaucracy. The victim, which is capitalism, is now the villain, and the predator, which is government, has survived to play the part of the protagonist.

I am reminded of the first sentence in a 1940 typing tutor handbook. “Now is the time for all good Americans to come to the aid of their country.”

12 step program to economic recovery

1. A Strong National Defense: In these times of nuclear threats from rogue nations, America needs a strong national defense machine, the ability to deal with terrorists, not as common criminals, but as representatives of the nations that support them. These oil rich nations should not be allowed to develop nuclear power plants. They need nuclear power as much as a fish needs a boat.

2. Revise the Federal Reserve. Congress should require greater transparency and oversight. Reestablish a sound monetary policy that keeps the U.S. Dollar strong. A currency that is backed by gold can not be monetized. Limit the FDIC to individual depositors, and require that lending institutions have full asset protection for the loans they make.

3. Appoint judges to limited terms in office who will strictly interpret the Constitution. Federal Government must be limited to the expressed powers granted to it by the original States, and each State must have sovereign power over all commercial activities that take place within its borders

4. Establish liability for false news reporting, similar to the liability that exists for false advertising. The freedom to express opposing political points of view is meaningless if the FCC is permitted to censor content. The power to regulate is the power to destroy.

5. Amend the Constitution to allow national public referendums that will return to the people the control of their government by overturning taxation legislation passed by Congress, and social welfare programs that invite single parenthood and fatherless homes, and the decisions of the Supreme Court that are contrary to the will of a majority of Americans.

6. Healthcare will require deregulating the insurance industry to promote competition and give consumers the choice of which company offers the best coverage for them. Open the field to international participants, and return to doctors the right to make medical decisions they believe are best for their patients. Medicare and Medicaid are relics of a failed policy of government performing proprietary functions that belong to private enterprise.

7. Revise the Clean Air Act to immediately remove carbon dioxide as a toxic gas subject to regulation by the EPA. Create a public global warming database where scientists from the United States can publish their findings and gain access to all of the research on the subject. Hold public hearings to inform Americans, by presenting testimony from scientists who disagree on global warming and required a preponderance of evidence through a general consensus among experts before a regulation is place into effect, and if the economic consequences prove to be burdensome on industry, then public hearings should be held to resolve the dispute giving industry leaders and private citizens an opportunity to make their case. This certainly will depoliticize the process and allow greater transparency and voter participation in the ultimate decisions. The power to cast a vote every 2 or 4 years for a candidate who will deal with a multiplicity of issues can immunize public officials on issues that do not directly effect a majority of his constituents, or on issues about which the general voting public is ignorant.

8. Place a temporary moratorium on EPA regulations on manufacturing, mining, and fossil fuel production that do not directly contribute to the quality of air at the surface of the globe or the ground beneath until the effect of the proposed regulation on global warming can be quantified in the short term. Permit oil companies to build new refineries, drill for domestic oil, while they devote a portion of their profits to developing renewable energy resources. Return Bethlehem Steel to Americans as well as other industries that have fled from under the weight of the Code of Federal Regulations.

9. Prohibit the use of Federal funds for bailouts of private industry, including failed State and Local Governments. Competition among the States for tax revenues and credits will provide incentives to encourage economic growth and create high paying jobs, especially when the resources of those industries are not overburdened by both Federal and State imposed mandates and high taxes. The one-size-fits-all mentality of the congressional plutocracy has produced a failed economy, declining dollar, and is in the process of bankrupting the United States.

10. Prohibit government ownership or control of private enterprise. Currently we have incompetent bureaucrats running national concerns and these neophytes are dictating policies to highly qualified executives who have weathered the storms of government intervention, high taxation, and foreign competition.

11. Level the playing field by developing trading partners who impose the same mandates to combat global warming as are imposed upon U.S. domestic concerns. It is imperative for America to insure that the global community is able to freely trade their commodities and natural resources.

12. Return to free market principles. Central government planning has never proven to be effective and history has recorded a long list of its failures. Establish a flat tax that is proving to be successful in 24 foreign countries, which include those of the former Soviet Union.

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