|
|
Post by The Resister on Oct 5, 2023 21:04:42 GMT
Yesterday I saw a post by some guy with a pessimistic view of the Internet and discussion boards. He wrote, "as if anything we say on the Internet is going to make a difference." Actually IT DOES make a difference. For over a year now we've had about a half dozen regular posters with most people afraid to post here. I just happened to research some older boards and many folded after a few weeks of the site admin posting and nobody joining. But, we stayed here. While nobody has the courage to join and post on this board, there are usually over 100 viewers in any given 24 hour period. People are reading the threads on this forum for a reason.
I suspect that we DO make a difference since you would have to do a lot of research and I mean a lot to come up with the information and documentation to back what is being said. And nowhere will you find the strategies offered. If you've ever heard of six degrees of separation, you are never more than a few people away from knowing someone at the top. For example, I was once a Republican Party County Chairman. At that time I met with my counterpart in Cobb County, Georgia. His name was Newt Gingrich. He later became a U.S. Congressman and he knew both U.S. Senators and the President. Utilizing that, I had some voice, some influence if I could simply come up good ideas. We did, but that's not what this thread is about. It explains WHY it exists. An idea isn't worth a tinker's damn unless it is articulated. And so, if I were running for office this is what the American people would hear - and it is not a hodge podge of ideas nor a rewording of existing political stances. If I were running, the basic ten points would be:
1) On day ONE I would rescind all unconstitutional Executive Orders regardless of who signed them into law
2) All regulatory agencies would have to submit proposals for a 10 percent reduction in regulations or face the prospect that I may unilaterally decide them
3) I would demand that Congress audit the Federal Reserve immediately
4) There would be an active move to get the federal government out of education and welfare. These are best handled at the state level
5) The BATFE would be trimmed to the bare bones and many of their regulations would be eliminated so that real criminals could be pursued
6) All persons on welfare would be required to go to work or go to school and learn a transferable skill set in exchange for their welfare money
7) We would be talking a Declaration of War for those countries that are attempting to flood our country with foreigners. If the states would donate the buses, the federal government could provide the manpower to arrest, identify and then deport 250,000 foreigners on my first day into Mexico on buses. If they return, they would be unable to ever get a Green Card or become citizens at a later date
8) I would summon federal legislators and present them with a plan to reduce the misuse of firearms by those on drugs and / or known to pose an imminent threat to others. The plan has already been developed and the basic idea is the subject of a thread on this board
9) Congress would be encouraged to give tax breaks to employers that hire an all American workforce; corporations that seek to operate on U.S. soil would have to be American owned or no business licenses issued
10) We would wage a war against censorship and require all those who have to seek approval provide some air time for alternative points of view
I could go on and on, but these things are things that should be done on the very first day. If anyone thinks of something we should do, feel free to post your ideas. You never know who is shopping for a new idea.
|
|
|
|
Post by noclevername on Oct 5, 2023 22:54:35 GMT
What about term limits?
|
|
|
|
Post by The Resister on Oct 6, 2023 2:31:44 GMT
We have term limits. They happen every election cycle. The Republicans have been tossing that idea around for years. It would end up like their income tax and voting " rights" amendments. It's just more bad legislation to be used against themselves... and us. It's how we got Barack Obama as president. If you want to change the status quo, let me give you something to think about: All of your federal legislators are eligible for pensions and free medical care for serving AND the longer they serve, the more they make. Here is a quote regarding Nancy Pelosi based on 2015 estimates: " But, according to CRS, it would take at least 66 years of service before Pelosi, who will turn 75 in 2015, could retire and immediately begin receiving even 80 percent of $221,467, which is the average of her highest three years of salary" www.factcheck.org/2015/01/congressional-pensions-update/If Pelosi retired back in 2015 her pension would be $177,180.80 per year and free medical. That is more than TEN TIMES what people on Social Security are being paid and Congress is looking to end Social Security! Instead of that gimmicky B.S. of term limits, why don't we end pensions for serving as a legislator? The framers of the Constitution never intended public service as a legislator or president to be a permanent job. End the perks and pensions and then see how many people want to keep their jobs in Congress. With term limits a career politician could do two terms in Congress and two terms as a U.S. Senator which would give them 16 total years of service. IF the law is ruled to mean that a politician can serve two consecutive terms and come back later, then they could easily get their full 20 years and the maximum retirement benefit. Why should people be entitled to a pension for being a politician? A term limit does not allow the people to vote for the candidate of their choice. In the case of U.S. Senators, I would advocate repealing the 17th Amendment and going back to the Republican Form of Government the Constitution guarantees. Repealing the 17th Amendment would be better than term limits. |
|
professorx
Global Moderator
Site Administrator
Posts: 413 
|
Post by professorx on Oct 7, 2023 23:21:46 GMT
It started out that this Resister message was going a little over my head. It is making sense to me. Instead of passing new laws your suggestions are to repeal the laws that caused the problems. That should be easier to do because the primary job of politicians is to stay in office. It would be nice if somebody out there would play the devils advocate and give some reason why repealing that amendment is not a good idea.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Resister on Oct 8, 2023 4:06:45 GMT
It started out that this Resister message was going a little over my head. It is making sense to me. Instead of passing new laws your suggestions are to repeal the laws that caused the problems. That should be easier to do because the primary job of politicians is to stay in office. It would be nice if somebody out there would play the devils advocate and give some reason why repealing that amendment is not a good idea. Allow me to show you why term limits are a gimmick that will not do a damn thing... save of maybe help the left: I live in the state of Georgia. From the first presidential election where Ronald Reagan got elected up until Trump, the state of Georgia was Republican. When Trump ran, the entire state went blue (in terms of " democratic" numbers.) Today Georgia is predominantly Democrat and, as the third world takes over the cities, their numbers increase. BEFORE the 17th Amendment was ratified U.S. Senators were picked by the Georgia legislature. Senators of the United States Congress were originally chosen by state legislatures. Citizens would vote for their state legislators, and those legislators would vote a man into the U.S. Senate. Are you with me? What this method did was to give equal representation for smaller districts. Your state legislator may have 100,000 constituents. Another state legislator may have a district of a million people. So, in a direct election (aka democracy or mob rule) by popular vote, bigger districts can control most anything. In Georgia there are 159 counties. Here is a map showing how the state breaks down into what counties are red and which are blue: duckduckgo.com/?va=b&t=hc&q=how+many+georgia+counties+are+red+state&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fgottwurfelt.files.wordpress.com%2F2021%2F01%2Fgeorgia-2016-2.png%3Fw%3D500 As you can see close to 80 percent of Georgia (in terms of counties) is red; however, within those small blue areas there are more Democrats than Republicans. Over half the available votes in the state are in those small blue areas. A candidate can run for office in the twelve most populous blue counties and win the election without setting foot in a red county. In this " democracy," those right of center have NO representation. So, term limiting Republicans at the national level means that it only creates opportunities for the Democrats. Republicans have to fight hard just to be elected. We suffer. IF we abolished the 17th Amendment, state legislators would pick more conservative candidates than a popularity vote AND each county would have equal representation regardless of the county population. Voters would only get a democratic vote in the House of Representatives. Now, that's a Republic.Thinking that legislators are going to actually vote for term limits is like believing in Santa Claus. Nobody really wants term limits. People who run for office want the perks and the pensions. There is no way in Hell they will actually vote for term limits. Suppose they did. What they would do is to construct the law so that it would fail constitutional muster. The courts would over-turn the statute and you would be back to square one. The better way is to remove the perks and pensions and then repeal the 17th Amendment. Problem solved. The framers of the Constitution didn't want a democracy because they did not want career bureaucrats that call themselves legislators. |
|
professorx
Global Moderator
Site Administrator
Posts: 413
|
Post by professorx on Oct 8, 2023 16:23:27 GMT
This has been interesting so far. The topics that people really want an answer to are the immigration crisis and what to do about Ukraine. Both situations have gotten out of hand. The one liner solutions will not work for these kinds of hard issues. Is there a short cut or easy answer for either issue?
|
|
|
|
Post by The Resister on Oct 8, 2023 16:54:25 GMT
This has been interesting so far. The topics that people really want an answer to are the immigration crisis and what to do about Ukraine. Both situations have gotten out of hand. The one liner solutions will not work for these kinds of hard issues. Is there a short cut or easy answer for either issue? Let's start with Ukraine first. The prevailing thought is you simply quit funding Ukraine and that's it. That is a terrible approach. Putin is liable to attack countries like Poland, Latvia and Turkey for supporting Ukraine. So, suppose we pull out of NATO and Ukraine falls. Then Putin invades Poland or goes after Turkey or one of the other NATO countries helping Ukraine. The U.S. is then obligated to go to their aid. We will do so without the aid of Ukraine which we allowed to fall into communist hands. Whether we should or should not have gotten involved in this whole debacle is the subject of an academic debate at this juncture. But, when we have too much to lose, if we aren't in it to win it we may be involved in World War III and it might be OUR troops on the front lines. For that reason all NATO countries have to be supportive of stopping Russia and ending the war without the capitulation of the U.S. On immigration: I want to acknowledge those state governors that have bused foreigners into Sanctuary Cities and liberal areas that didn't understand the crisis. They've gotten Biden off his ass and not hiding behind what the Democrats wanted all along. However, rest assured IF the nutty wall idea gives even a temporary reprieve, Biden will be claiming that he did something about the surge of foreigners crossing the border. But, the solution? This is going to be a hard issue to deal with, but we've ignored some unpleasant facts. The Mexican government used to print up pamphlets telling border crossers how to avoid the U.S. Border Patrol. While Mexico has agreed to spend 1.5 BILLION dollars toward building a wall, that is NEVER going to work. In the U.S. the people who can best protect their borders are the states. The federal government has got to leave the states alone when they are protecting their border lines. It may be that we have to declare a state of war and Congress issue a Declaration of War where we stop all immigration for a period until we get the situation under control and Congress passes some kind of bill that deals with immigration and guest workers across the board. This will take a separate thread to address. But, at the end of the day, the simple bumper sticker solutions aren't worth the bandwidth it takes to post the meme. It is going to be a complex problem that will require all kinds of considerations: abolishing the Dept. of Education and giving that job to the states while eliminating free educations for all - in other words, we have to systematically eliminate the incentives for people to come to the United States in the first place. |
|
professorx
Global Moderator
Site Administrator
Posts: 413
|
Post by professorx on Oct 9, 2023 3:34:37 GMT
While watching the news they were discussing Jim Jordan and his years of experience in politics as qualifications for House Speaker. He could not have gotten that experience with term limits. It was a good point to make that legislators do not believe in term limits. The belief that Congress would never really vote for term limits is not without some strong evidence.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Resister on Oct 12, 2023 3:05:03 GMT
While watching the news they were discussing Jim Jordan and his years of experience in politics as qualifications for House Speaker. He could not have gotten that experience with term limits. It was a good point to make that legislators do not believe in term limits for presidents. The belief that Congress would never really vote for term limits is not without some strong evidence. Let's talk term limits for a moment before I switch gears: Originally, the office of President was (and is) based on the electoral college which gives everybody a say in who becomes president. That is certainly not a hallmark of a democracy. What began the problem at the federal level was the 17th Amendment and the direct election of Senators. So, if you repeal the 17th Amendment and let the states pick the Senators, you begin undoing the problems you have today that have the low information public demanding term limits. If you have democracy and term limits, you still have the same problems you always had. Since 1951 we've had term limits. Isn't that what caused Barack Obama? Switching gears... The Israelis went to war this week and the media is feeding the sheeple that are crying crocodile tears over the Jews because the Palestinians breached their border and began a campaign of terror. It's not like Hamas has a conventional army. But, that's not the point. The key thing to bear in mind is that the Israelis had implemented gun control. The Jews have been notorious about stopping people and asking if they have a weapon. Then, when they are hit by terrorists, nobody has the capacity to fight back. What is the first thing Netanyahu does? He lifts the restrictions on arming civilians. Now the people at large will insure the security of a free State. Aside from that, DJT and his cult followers are promising to get out of Ukraine. Oh, it costs too much and they accuse the Ukrainians of being corrupt. When the Israelis are attacked, the sheeple are raising Hell, wanting the United States to stand behind the Israelis. And what do the Israelis do? They kill women and children - and any other civilian that just happens to be in their way. Neither side in that conflict is can claim the higher moral ground. Wonder how the Trump crowd justifies sending money to perpetuate a war over a terrorist attack? If I were running for president, the message would be consistent. If we cannot to help the people of Ukraine after they were attacked, we cannot help the Israelis. If we can finance one war, we can help finance another. We just need to be consistent. |
|
