Libercontrarian

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Twelve Planks Of The Platform

I was thinking about what would happen if a candidate ran for office with these planks for his platform:
 
1. Close the borders, immediately. Give everybody who isn't supposed to be in this country 6 months to get out, or to register as a temporary worker. Anyone found falsifying documents about his citizenship or nationality gets deported immediately, and if found in the U.S. again, receives a minimum jail sentence of 20 years with no parole in the newly created Federal Alien Prison system.  Every employer with a Federal Tax ID number would have to submit documentation of every employee they have upon demand to surprise inspections, and any corporate officer found in violation of the laws would personally face felony charges for illegal hiring and taxation practices. The government would create the standard by which citizenship is verified, so as to standardize the process and shield employers from risk when hiring workers.
 
2. Create a guest worker program so that honest people who are here to work can do so, with clear  limits to the number of times they can come and go - and they have to have a job waiting for them,  unless they're on vacation here. Pump up the machine by which foreign nationals are able to legally enter the United States to become U.S. Citizens, and make them pass a high-school-level English equivalency test. No persons born here where neither of the parents is an American Citizen shall be an American Citizen. No person in the U.S. who is not an American Citizen will be able to avail himself of any public service, unless he is able to prove his legal status as a Guest Worker, a vacationer, or a Resident Alien. Persons found in violation of the laws and in need of emergency services will be sent to a prison hospital, whereupon they can serve the remainder of their sentence in the prison, after which time they will be deported. Any person who has a violent criminal history in his home country will be summarily denied entry and citizenship to the U.S., permanently - and this includes foreign heads of state.
 
3. Take the lessons learned from the Israelis about erecting and maintaining the security fence they have placed in the West Bank region, apply them to our southern border, and then create an Iraqi agency with their oil money to create and maintain two fences, one on the Syrian border, and the other on the Iranian border. Utilize cheap RC drones with cameras to monitor the fences to keep the manpower requirements low. This will reduce the number of foreign terrorists looking to cross into Iraq AND the United States.
 
4. Tell the pinheads who will call you a "racist homophobic Nazi" to PUBLICLY go shove it where the sun doesn’t shine. Do this on national TV, and don't use any of those hokey political slippery-isms that water-down the intent of your words. Tell the hate-mongers that they're HATE MONGERS, and that  they need to shut-up, and NOW, or we are going to have a nation that gets mowed down by cowards,  Communists, America-haters, the hangers-on, the under-producing, and the ignorant. Tell the whiners that if they're just going to whine, without offering any solutions, they are going to be IGNORED in the political debate.
 
5. Study and debate the top three taxation models for our country. The debate will go on for one year   - draft at random a 1,000-man think-tank of American citizens over the age of 30 to pick the top solution out of three, and disband the federal agencies that utilize political and paramilitary means to enforce compliance of the tax code. Make it all fair, simple and easy on the people making less than $30,000/year. Eliminate all regressive federal taxes for the people who are the least capable of paying it, and eliminate every possible loophole for everyone who is obliged to pay. This will remove the gigantic opportunity cost of tax avoidance on the economy, and greatly reduce the cost of goods and services to consumers as there won't be layer after layer of tax-raised prices involved in the creation of the goods and services.
 
6. Closely investigate the oil companies for complicity in what I am sure of is a gigantic scam - the oil industry's phony price for oil. Drill in ANWAR, put more rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and off California, and study the shale oil deposits in Colorado. Force the auto manufacturers to increase  CAFE standards to 2X where they are today, and create an independent body of scientists to carefully  study how to make Hydrogen in mass quantities from geothermal, solar, wind, and hydrodynamic power,  all of which are renewable, and in lieu of being utilized, go to waste anyway. Give GIGANTIC tax  breaks to both the consumers and manufacturers of the first fuel-cell powered car, and force the oil  companies to have a hydrogen fueling system at 30% of their stations by 2010, or they will lose their  permits to refine, transport, or sell oil in the U.S.
 
7. Force Congress to study a bill which requires that every law they make be studied on a regular  basis for its actual effects on society - no more "creeping Communism" whereby laws are built on  false premise after false premise to slowly morph society into a model of some Lefty-kook's paradise.  Every law would have a sunset. Such a law would have likely kept Congress busy making sure the stupid  laws that were passed preventing motor-cars from scaring horses by going more than 5 m.p.h. would not  have been in the books after, say, 1898.
 
8. Tell Islamofascists all over the world that if a nuclear bomb goes off inside the borders of the U.S., or Americans become sick and die from some terrible biological weapon, that Mecca and Medina will be vaporized, and that any country that has given aid to terrorists will have the choice of being turned into a smoking parking lot, or become the 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th, etc state, and all the oil/riches/gems underneath will be ours too. The state religion will be Judaism (just kidding, it’d stay secular). Muslim mosques will be watched more closely than the Ottomans watched the Orthodox Christians for 400+ years, and will be opened upon demand for regular inspections, as there is a 600-year-old tradition of imams hiding weapons in mosques to empower Islamist radicals to foment trouble in every non-Muslim society they've ever infested.

9. No more Federal involvement in public education. Let each state decide what programs will give the citizens of that state the best advantage in life. The cost savings alone for U.S. Citizens resulting from tax breaks may be enough to send children to private schools, where there is the same competition model that exists in the real world for the school to emulate.

10. Stop criminalizing people's recreational drug use. It's just stupid, and the cachet of using an illegal intoxicant causes much idiotic glamorization of the act, which predictably attracts teenagers.  Use the funds generated from the taxation of the sales of these drugs to locally fund drug/alcohol awareness training in schools.

11. Disband the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Remove all the Federal portions of the 22,000+ gun laws that infringe on the right of the American Citizen to keep and bear arms. Recognize that every honest armed citizen is a stanchion against criminality and terrorism.

12. Reduce the malignancy of illegitimate lawsuits by forcing the party who loses the case to pay for court costs. This will shepherd the rise of non-judicial negotiations via magistrate, and free Americans to once again innovate in business to the benefit of society without the worry of frivolous lawsuits brought by sleaze-balls looking for an easy buck.

Not very Libertarian or Republican positions, are they? I'd bet that a plurality of Americans would embrace a candidate with these views. Too bad the politicos from either party keep offering more and more Left-leaning namby-pamby ass-kissers to the great confusion - and the great disinterest - of the American voting public.

posted by: underwhelmed at November 03, 2005 21:16 | link | comments |

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