OHOOOOOOOO! So now they have the answers; after the fact. What a
visionary bunch of Monday morning quarter backing........
Peace,
Doc
On Sep 17, 7:56 pm, Jim Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 1.Since Fannie and Freddie has been introduced to the American
> vernacular let’s start here. The government needs to get out of the
> mortgage business, once and for all. Both of these companies have been
> suckling at the teat of bloated federal plutocracies far too long.
> Fannie and Freddie need to be broken into a thousand pieces and
> privatized. The federal government should have no attachment or
> responsibility. And, the bailing out ends now, for good.
> 2.In promised entitlements our government is indebted $57 Trillion
> dollars. If not dealt with, it will destroy our country. Since
> government has proven that they are incapable of running anything…
> Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid should be privatized. The
> switch to privatization will be costly and take time to implement. To
> cover the initial cost increases see solution three.
> 3.There are far too many people in this country who have chosen to
> ride in the wagon while too few of us are pulling. Our tax policy
> rewards failure and punishes success guaranteeing less of one and more
> of the other. We should institute the, “Fair Tax” which abolishes the
> IRS and incorporates a federal sales tax instead of a payroll tax.
> With the fair tax, the burden is shared and pimps, hookers and drug
> dealers will finally carry their share of financing our federal
> government. Just maybe, with everyone pulling the wagon and sharing
> the burden, those not paying attention to federal spending might start
> doing so. Forty percent of Americans pay no federal tax yet take
> advantage of a great and greater share of our services.
> 4.Stop corporate pillaging, called the Breck girl law. Corporations
> spend billions of dollars each year defending themselves from John
> Edwards and the trial lawyers. A recent study found most of the
> plaintiff suits to be unworthy of litigation. The most egregious
> caveat of these suits is punitive damages. Compensatory damages
> compensate a plaintiff for any loss of earnings, medical bills or even
> the loss of life. Punitive damages are a punishment to a corporation.
> Yet, the corporation is not punished, the shareholders are, the actual
> owners who had nothing to do with the original wrong. Settlements
> should be limited to compensatory damages only.
> 5.As long as we are speaking of lawyers let’s right another wrong of
> jurisprudence. I’ve had it with perps across the fruited plain
> escaping punishment because their rights were violated. This is the
> dumbest ruling ever to come out of the United States Supreme Court.
> It’s known as fruit of the poisonous tree. Look, if some child rapist
> has his rights violated by some flatfoot in Podunk Louisiana then
> punish the damn cop. The raped child violated no ones rights, the cop
> did, punish him and lynch the rapist. The fact that his rights may
> have been violated does not affect his guilt or innocence.
> 6.Drill for oil everywhere. Let’s start by drilling through Harry
> Reid’s head, though I doubt we’d find anything. We have enough natural
> resources in this country, and off our shores to make $2 dollar gas
> plentiful for the next three hundred years. Standing in the way of
> this are Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Energy is the engine of our
> economy and must be secured at a reasonable price. So, first we drill
> through Harry and Nancy’s head and then we put oil derricks in the
> well of the senate and the house.
> 7.In a massive, “Manhattan project like” energy solution we approve
> licenses for 500 additional nuclear power plants. This will create
> millions of jobs while helping to make us energy independent. And, we
> should insist that they are breeder reactors allowing us to use the
> spent fissionable waste over and over. We shouldn’t stop building
> until America has that fluorescing green glow. Now that’s going green!
> 8.We should stop pussyfooting with countries who have sworn to destroy
> us. Iran has threatened to annihilate Israel and the United States.
> They are currently building nuclear weapons to do so. What in the hell
> are we waiting for? We should squash these little pissants like the
> bugs they are. How do you negotiate with those animals intent on your
> destruction and are building weapons to do so?
> 9.In Chicago, just recently, a teacher was caught on film, not
> teaching but robbing a bank at gunpoint. Because of the teachers union
> this extra curricular activity was punished by removing the teacher
> from the classroom and giving him a much higher paying job in
> educational administration. In some cities we are spending as much as
> $25 thousand dollars per student, per year, only to have a drop out
> rate of more than fifty percent. Education must be privatized and the
> teachers union emasculated. Hey, aren’t liberal always harping on,
> “the children”? If they really cared, many teachers and union leaders
> would be hanging in our town squares.
> 10.The federal government needs to get back to enumerated powers,
> those authorities given to them by our constitution. The federal
> government enjoys the constitutional ability to provide for a common
> defense, print a national currency and settle disputes between the
> states in the area of commerce, PERIOD. {emphasis mine} The tenth
> amendment provides, “The powers not delegated to the United States by
> the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to
> the States respectively, or to the people. Simply put; if powers are
> not within the text of our constitution then they don’t exist. The
> federal government has their respective fingers in every pie and we
> the people need to cut them off and remind them of our founders’
> intent. After all, if we don't do it, who will?
>
> Conservative Springfield 18 Sep 08
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