I was once asked “How much is one?” I went through the
motions of determining what was meant. After long deliberations with friends we
still had no answer. The answer was revealed to us to be “a multitude.” This
was an eye-opener for me and my friends. Ponder that, one is a multitude. What
does it mean to you?
WE THE PEOPLE ARE tired of the political discourse that has
swept the nation in the last two decades. The malcontent with the governing
powers that be is ripe with the stirrings of violent revolution!
In order to contain the mess that is US politics, a strong,
resounding resolution must be made to demonstrate to the world, our leaders and
ourselves that corruption of those that serve WE THE PEOPLE shall in nowise be
tolerated nor left to tarnish the remnants of the Old
Republic.
WE THE PEOPLE cannot stand idly by and witness the erosion
of our rights, dignity, strength, global influence and respect, financial
stability, hard work and honor.
Many's the time that we have fought for freedom from tyranny,
persecution, destruction and human kind's right to live. Now is the time to
fight once again for our right to live.
Our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are
being sold to the current politicians in Washington!
Polling shows that most Americans feel the American Dream is lost. Politicians
exist to further the cause of the will of the people, not to further the cause
of their pocketbooks! WE THE PEOPLE are suffering!
Political corruption and immunity from bribery and forms of
political "insider trading" is the cause of the political climate it
is in its current form! This cannot be allowed to stand to fester in the bowels
of WE THE PEOPLE who work painstakingly hard to make this nation great. The
rumblings of our stomachs have little been heard and little has been done as a
redress of grievances to turn the course of this once-great working-man’s
nation.
The cries from the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street protests
have little been heard by those in "power" over WE THE PEOPLE. Even
at the polls our governing body no longer trembles. They have divided the
people to right and left; pitted friends against friends and family against
family in the sake of gaining a stronger voter base.
The Patriot Act has made us safer by limiting personal privacy.
Unacceptable! The "hope and change" we received was not the
"hope and change" WE THE PEOPLE expected nor sought. Unacceptable!
WE THE PEOPLE seek an absolution that seems will not come.
The rule of the many over the few is what this nation started with. The rule of
the few over the many is what the nation currently has. This must change.
A politician worth voting for would propose most, if not
all, of the following:
1. Revert the "temporary" Federal Income Tax back to pre-WWII rates...0%. NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX! This will dissolve all current tax law such as exemptions. Keep the promise of a "temporary" tax.
2. Institute a 10% Federal Sales Tax. This is easy to calculate, equal, fair and proportional for every member of each class: poor, middle and wealthy. The wealthy tend to spend more so they inevitably will pay "more." The poor tend to spend less so they will inevitably pay "less.” The middle class tends to spend moderately and will inevitably pay "moderately.”
3. Put all politicians and government employees on a sliding pay scale with a wage equivalent to the average middle class income. This will encourage all politicians to appeal to the poor, middle class and wealthy. Politicians would need to appeal to the poor to pull them to the middle class. They would need to appeal to the middle class to encourage them to the upper middle class and wealthy, and they would need to encourage the wealthy to become wealthier. This encourages job and economic growth. This would be essential to increase their average income base. The end result is a growing middle and upper class with a shrinking lower class by encouraging, endorsing and campaigning for states to develop programs for the lower and middle classes to strive to achieve the diminishing American Dream.
4. Cap individual campaign spending/total contributions to $5 million, none of which can come from public funds, associations, companies or any place where fees, taxes, etc are collected from the general populace by the local, state or federal governments. This will ensure that all candidates that are qualified to run for office will run and not just those with that have money and influence. Also, no contributions from foreign nations/supporters. It is a US election, not a UN or global election.
1. Revert the "temporary" Federal Income Tax back to pre-WWII rates...0%. NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX! This will dissolve all current tax law such as exemptions. Keep the promise of a "temporary" tax.
2. Institute a 10% Federal Sales Tax. This is easy to calculate, equal, fair and proportional for every member of each class: poor, middle and wealthy. The wealthy tend to spend more so they inevitably will pay "more." The poor tend to spend less so they will inevitably pay "less.” The middle class tends to spend moderately and will inevitably pay "moderately.”
3. Put all politicians and government employees on a sliding pay scale with a wage equivalent to the average middle class income. This will encourage all politicians to appeal to the poor, middle class and wealthy. Politicians would need to appeal to the poor to pull them to the middle class. They would need to appeal to the middle class to encourage them to the upper middle class and wealthy, and they would need to encourage the wealthy to become wealthier. This encourages job and economic growth. This would be essential to increase their average income base. The end result is a growing middle and upper class with a shrinking lower class by encouraging, endorsing and campaigning for states to develop programs for the lower and middle classes to strive to achieve the diminishing American Dream.
4. Cap individual campaign spending/total contributions to $5 million, none of which can come from public funds, associations, companies or any place where fees, taxes, etc are collected from the general populace by the local, state or federal governments. This will ensure that all candidates that are qualified to run for office will run and not just those with that have money and influence. Also, no contributions from foreign nations/supporters. It is a US election, not a UN or global election.
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I
work the more I have of it." --Thomas Jefferson
5. Dissolve special interest groups and ban lobbyists at the federal level. This alone will save billions annually. Lobbyists and special interest groups should be at the state and local levels, not Federal. Programs such as Planned Parenthood should be state-run, not federally-run.
6. Let the states govern themselves as originally intended by the Framers of the Constitution. Limited Federal influence/regulation. Also calls for the dissolution of the Federal Reserve Bank as stated by Thomas Jefferson, "Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."
7. Dissolve unions in the public sector and replace them with a federally/state regulated pay scale similar to how military pay is determined. There is no reason public jobs' pay should be negotiated; they should be automatically set and adjusted for inflation.
In 2010, approximately $4 billion was spent on midterm elections alone. In 2008, it was at $1.7 billion. This money is first, ill-spent, second comes from everywhere imaginable, including foreign nations/supporters, and third demonstrates this nation's lack of restraint. No nation would take us seriously spending/accumulating debt the way we do while claiming to be a wealthy nation.
At noon today, November, 16th 2011, the US has reached the $15 Trillion debt mark. No easy feat for the average Joe the Plumber, but a cake-walk for a US politician.
5. Dissolve special interest groups and ban lobbyists at the federal level. This alone will save billions annually. Lobbyists and special interest groups should be at the state and local levels, not Federal. Programs such as Planned Parenthood should be state-run, not federally-run.
6. Let the states govern themselves as originally intended by the Framers of the Constitution. Limited Federal influence/regulation. Also calls for the dissolution of the Federal Reserve Bank as stated by Thomas Jefferson, "Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."
7. Dissolve unions in the public sector and replace them with a federally/state regulated pay scale similar to how military pay is determined. There is no reason public jobs' pay should be negotiated; they should be automatically set and adjusted for inflation.
In 2010, approximately $4 billion was spent on midterm elections alone. In 2008, it was at $1.7 billion. This money is first, ill-spent, second comes from everywhere imaginable, including foreign nations/supporters, and third demonstrates this nation's lack of restraint. No nation would take us seriously spending/accumulating debt the way we do while claiming to be a wealthy nation.
At noon today, November, 16th 2011, the US has reached the $15 Trillion debt mark. No easy feat for the average Joe the Plumber, but a cake-walk for a US politician.
WE THE PEOPLE need to thwart corruption and greed. The problem is that those negative aspects of society are always present and are as old as time. What WE THE PEOPLE can do is limit their influence and impact. To do so we need to exploit these negatives with a solid checks and balance system as has been outlined here, primarily with the politician floating pay scale and special interest groups/lobbyist dissolution.
"The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered."
--Thomas Jefferson
This is the “hope and change” WE THE PEOPLE need and seek!
This is the privacy and protections WE THE PEOPLE SEEK! This is the nation WE
THE PEOPLE expect and will have! This is the transparency that WE THE PEOPLE
demand!
This coming election they will tremble at the
sound of our pens! Vote in every election! WE THE PEOPLE must regain control of
our government! WE THE PEOPLE are one voice, one body, one mind, and one soul
vying for the heart of American ingenuity, stability and freedom!
We cannot fail, we cannot stray, we cannot allow these
corrupt politicians to destroy what has lasted for centuries for a fracture in
time’s worth of personal gain while neglecting the gain WE THE PEOPLE and WE
THE FUTURE PEOPLE desire.
Start with one….make it a multitude!
