Mock Political Platform: Would you vote for me?

[Moparmike]

The following is a series of issues that I would find important if I were running for POTUS. I have not addressed the issue of terrorism because I dont know much about it.

Abortion

Personally, I find it to be abhorrent. But, until we can come up with a suitable definition of life, I will veto any legislation that places the government's hands in the matter beyond partial birth abortions. Those I would vote to make illegal.

Budget & Taxes

*Please note that all department numbers were pulled from http://harvester.census.gov/cffr/asp/Reports.asp *
*Budget reductions were random numbers that seemed good at the time. *

2002 GDP = 10,416,818,000,000
2002 Expenditures: 1,917,600,000,000 Direct Expenditures and $912 Billion for other Federal Assistance (loans and Insurance programs)

10% sales tax would yeild 1.04 Trillion dollars. I am sure that is more than we need. Cut the loans. The United States Government is not a bank.

Cutting the fat:

Drop the Dept. of Health and Human Services to about $50 billion from $506.3 billion. That should run CDC and whatever else is needed. $1,917,600,000,000 trillion becomes $ 1,461,300,000,000.

We just broke even, and we ain't done.

Social Security Administration: Pay out what has been paid in, and terminate the program in 10 years. Current cost is $491.5billion, but is paid for not with federal income tax. $1,461,300,000,000 becomes $866,546,900,000. (If non-personnel expenditures nearly cease. Who covers the buildings/electricity? )

Department of Defense: Bring all the troops overseas home, keep enough for national defense and reserves incase of war. Defense is $277.9 billion, cutting to $175 billion shouldnt be a problem. Still leaves plenty for R&D, and new whiz-bangs. $866,546,900,000 becomes $763,646,900,000.

Department of Agriculture: Private sector and state Dept. of Agri's can handle each state's Agri needs. Nix the US Dept of Agri. $763,646,900,000 becomes $679,246,900,000.


United States Postal Service: Ugh. The private sector has to have better ways to do this. Use the USPS for .gov business only, and if a study finds that the private sector can do it better, do it. Reduce the USPS budget from $67.4 bil to $8 bil. 8bil should handle all of the .gov mail quite handily. $679,246,900,000 becomes $619,846,900,000.

Bastards Always Terrorizing Firearms Enthusiastsâ„¢** (BATFE): You all know what we can do with that. I am unsure of how to regulate explosives though. C4 and Semtex really doesnt need to be sold at the hardware store. If you think otherwise, please convince me . $ 550,861,000 no longer being wasted. $ 619,846,900,000 becomes $ 619,296,039,000.

Internal Revenue Service: Well, seeing as how we just replaced them with a sales tax, we have absolutely no use for the IRS. Consider them sacked. $ 619,296,039,000 becomes $ 589,316,375,052.

The Department of Transportation: Abolish it. The states can handle the air traffic control, transportation security, oversight of rail, maritime, etc. FAA may need to be resurected to maintain saftey of flight. Please suggest alternatives. Incorporate the Coast Guard to the Department of Defense. Increase funding to the CG from $ 3,586,360,484 to an even $ 5 billion. So, $ 58,033,206,973 minus $5bil for the CG becomes $ 53,033,206,973. So, the yearly budget for FY2002 goes from $ 589,316,375,052 to $ 536,283,168,076.

NTSB: This is now a state to state matter. Each state is in charge of its own. $ 536,283,168,076 becomes $ 536,243,150,076.

NASA. Make it the FAA of space. Safety inspections and flight planning/traffic control. Budget reduced from $ 14,196,496,602 to $3billion. $ 536,243,150,076 becomes $ 525,046,653,474.

Labor Department: Abolish it. Make the states responsible for anything they feel neccessary. $ 525,046,653,474 becomes $ 460,618,661,653.

EPA: Get rid of it, or make it a "suggestion office" where it does studies and finds that things are bad. It has no power to enact fines. (Should I leave it be, or do this? Abolish it completely?) Make its budget $1 bil as well for studies. $ 460,618,661,653 becomes $ 454,855,830,753.

Department of Education: Abolish it. Having graduated from a rather good, small public school and seeing just how downhill it is going now and before, I know there has got to be a better way of handling our children's education. $ 53,186,388,380 and they cant do much. $ 454,855,830,753 becomes $ 401,669,442,373.

Housing and Urban Development: Abolish it. If you think otherwise, please convince me why we should keep it. $ 401,669,442,373 becomes $ 367,257,654,643.

Veterans Affairs: They deserve better. See if increasing funding from 44bilion to 50billion would help. $367,257,654,643 becomes $ 373,257,654,643.

Homeland Security: I have no information about this department.

Drug Enforcement Agency: Consider it axed. Its time that people took responsibility for their actions, and time for people to stop dying defending some plants. If someone doesnt want their kids doing drugs, take an active role in the kids life. PUNISH them for disobeying you. Its called "Parenting." Maybe you have heard of it. And if you need pot for your glaucoma, cancer, or just to chill once or twice a month, you just get some seeds and plant it, just like an kitchen window herb garden (no pun intended). $373,257,654,643 becomes $ 373,063,799,643.

FINAL TOTAL BUDGET: $ 373,063,799,643.

So, I have just cut $1.6 trillion out of the budget hitting the more well known departments. If I were to hit the small commissions and such, I am sure that I could sqeeze another 200mil out. And with some indepth review by people with .gov experience and a more libertarian philosophy with rational explanations of why other things should be cut, I am sure that the budget could see 300bil and that would still be kinda fatty.


*Federal government expenditures covered in the CFFR total $1.9 trillion for fiscal year 2002. This amount does not represent all federal government expenditures. Amounts excluded from the CFFR can be grouped into two general categories-conceptual exclusions and agency/program omissions.*

**Yes, I did make that up.

Defense & Intelligence

Abolish the Civil Liberties infringing parts of the Patriot Act. Let the CIA do its job abroad. I will have NO Orwellian BS on my watch.

Guns

Gun control is hitting what you aim at. If you buy anything over 1" in caliber, I would make an Executive Order requireing you to invite me to shoot it at an agreeable date. And maybe rent it on the holidays...

Oil

I would search for new means of oil production while keeping the environment as safe as possible. I would try to negotiate with OPEC while trying to find ways of distancing the US from their oil. Right now in Carthage, MO there is a plant capable of turning organic matter to oil, like "Just converting all the U.S. agricultural waste into oil and gas would yield the energy equivalent of 4 billion barrels of oil annually"*. In 2001 the US imported 4.2billion barrels.

*A Discover Magazine article that you can read part of here.

Foreign Policy

Kick the UN out. Stop paying for them, and get out of the UN. Take a "You want to be our friend, we will be your friend. If you want to be our enemy, we will be watching you very closely." approach. That shouldnt sound as aggressive and antagonistic as I think it does. We need more isolationism. We are not going to hand ourselves over to the UN and become mindless drones in the "Global Village."

*edit again* Also, if you as a country need loans, the US is not a bank. We will consider loaning a small amount to get you on your feet if your account is in good order. If you have paid us back or are paying us back, we will see what we can do. Otherwise, go to the EU.

*Edit: I seem to have neglected to mention that the Bill of Rights will actually mean something again in my "administration."

Other topics you would like to know about? Let me know. What do you think about my policies?

 

[pax]

A pretty good start.

Now, how are you going to convince folks that the end result is going to be worth the massive short term upheavals all this will cause?

pax

 

[Jrob24]

Not perfectly to my liking but far better than socialist kerry and socialist lite Bush

EPA: Get rid of it, or make it a "suggestion office" where it does studies and finds that things are bad. It has no power to enact fines. (Should I leave it be, or do this? Abolish it completely?

I've heard stories about the EPA behaving in a jerkish manner, so it oughta be reformed as far as regulation enforcement goes. OTOH I don't want significantly more pollution in order to help the economy. America has environmental problems but the former USSR which didn't have an EPA is much messier.

NASA. Make it the FAA of space. Safety inspections and flight planning/traffic control. Budget reduced from $ 14,196,496,602 to $3billion. $ 536,243,150,076 becomes $ 525,046,653,474.

I wouldn't cut NASA that much. The private sector really can't get into space too well without the gov developing enough technology to make it profitable. I.E A company isn't going to mine the moon until the gov sets up a permanant colony.

Also you might want to ax the DEA. Nobody should be in prison for owning the wrong plant


Otherwise you're on the right track

 

[fjolnirsson]

What Jrob said. Mike, you are the man.
I'd vote for you. Hel, I'll campaign with you, hold the hat for collections and all!

 

[Moparmike]

Wow. I dont know how I forgot to axe the DEA. Staring at the FY 2002 for 3 hours and crunching numbers must have done it. BTW, the environment wouldnt suffer too much, and I would ensure that the states took up some slack as well. After all, your state taxes are about to tripple, but you will still be paying less.

So edited.

After the deficit is paid off (note the $700 billion surplus every year) the tax would go down to about 5-6% and not be incurred on food, clothing under $100, and housing under $80,000. Yes, I did pull those numbers out of my head.

Hell, after the 7 years if we so chose, we could fund the SSA entirely out of surplus. But I have zero plans to do that.

 

[cracked butt]

I think I agree with about 95% of your positions, You'd get my vote every time.




DEA: I would keep them. At least from my dealings with them through work, they seem like an agency that is very professional and has their stuff together. As much as I'm for people doing whatever they want as long as they aren't hurting others, I'm not for legalizing drugs. With the abolishing of social agencies (I'm behind you on this one too) you would have to create a new department that deals with removing rat chewed corpses of what were once drug addicts in order to prevent health problems to the rest of society.

 

[cracked butt]

The environment: I think you're right about states and probably private property owners/businesses taking care of the problem. The people who live in states where they have thoroughly trashed the environment will pay big bucks to vacation in states that have wilderness and clean environments left. It only makes economic sense to preserve and somewhat restrict what is left.
There is a reason why hundreds of thousands of people from Illinois vacation in Wisconsin every year.

Socialist insecurity: If you can abolish this program, you would get my vote on that alone. You could be the biggest gun grabber and I still might vote for you if you could pull this off.

 

[Langenator]

Housing under $80k, Mike? Where do you live? Can I move there?

$80k will barely get you a closet in most major cities, and maybe a singlewide in suburbs of same.

I also don't think you can lop $100 billiion of the DoD in the middle of a war that's probably going to last at least the next 40-50 years.

 

[Firethorn]

Hmmm...

I mostly agree, but have a few minor points:

You can redistrict the overseas bases, but please don't pull us out of everywhere. We've tried isolation before, and it doesn't work. Especially in the modern world, the best defense is a good offense holds true. Even we can't win a defensive war.

Department of Transportation: Keep it. It's one of the few constitutional areas. Reduce it's power, certainly, but we need a place for the states to argue out the highway/air/train systems. NTSB wouldn't be a separate system. Part of the reason for keeping this is that otherwise you'll be duplicating efforts in 50 states. For example: A 'safe' car in the USA isn't considered a 'safe' car in Germany and vice versa. The pollution standards are mutually exclusive.

NASA: Get rid of the shuttle program. Return to a goal oriented with occasional loss to be expected culture. Goals: Manned Moonbase & visit to Mars. Heck, see if you can make it charity based.

USDA: I'd nix all the entitlements, but combine the USDA & FDA to give consistant protection against contaminated imports.

OHSA: Nix this department. Individual states can do this if they feel it's necessary, but businesses make workplaces safe more effectivly than all of OSHA's byzantine rules. It's simple good business, as injuries cost money.

Tax free food, clothing and home: I think the clothing over $100 is reasonable. The only items that would exceed this for 'poor' people would be things like winter coats.

I'd raise the limit to $100,000-120,000 for a home though. I live in Minot, ND right now, and a 'fixer-upper' runs $80k. If you do set the limit at $80k, charge it on the excess, so you don't have the gerrymandering to get the 'price' at 80k.

*edit: forgot to have OSHA in here

 

[TechBrute]

As much as this hurts my feeling to say, the IRS (or similar) needs to be in place to make sure that 10% sales tax makes its way into the coffers. Personally, I'd kill the IRS and make a new .org.

Also, you've just put about 2 million people out of work. Now what? They're just SOL?

Isolationism worked 100 years ago when it took weeks to cross the ocean. Isolationism doesn't work in the age that missles can cross the ocean in 15 minutes.

Moving from an income tax to a sales tax based system discourages spending. The good news is that people will save more money. The bad news is that they'll need it when they lose their job because they are layed off due to decreased income for their company.

Don't forget luxury tax, sin tax, and all the other little taxes out there. What do you do with those?

All in all you're off to a good start. There's a lot of overhead and initial issues to overcome, though.

 

[flatrock]

Social Security Administration: Pay out what has been paid in, and terminate the program in 10 years.

What about the people that were forced to pay into the program all their lives, and are now relying on it to suppliment their personal retirement savings?

It's not those people's fault the the governement forced them to contribute, and then failed to make sure it could provide what it promised.

You can't just pay out what's in the program and stop. I do believe that Social Security is a flawed system that can't survive, but it needs to be phased out over a lot longer than 10 years.

Department of Defense: Bring all the troops overseas home, keep enough for national defense and reserves incase of war.

I'm definately not an isolationist. Shutting out the rest of the world just means we don't have any allies when things go wrong. The US has played the isolationist game before. Sooner or later the world's problems become our own.

Department of Agriculture: Private sector and state Dept. of Agri's can handle each state's Agri needs.

Not all states produce a lot of food through agriculture, and it's not smart to rely on state departments to make sure the country has sufficient reserves for the nation if a fammine occurrs, or we go to war, and lose our ability to import food from elsewhere. This is especially important if we aren't keeping strong ties with allies.

United States Postal Service: Ugh. The private sector has to have better ways to do this. Use the USPS for .gov business only

You obviously haven't read reports on why the USPS loses so much money. They lose money because they keep offices open in areas where there aren't enough people to support a private sector equivalent.

It's not cost effective to keep offices open in small towns. It's not cost effective to have mail pickup in less populated areas. The post office provides a needed service, that the private sector won't provide, because they make more money if they don't.

The Department of Transportation: Abolish it. The states can handle the air traffic control, transportation security, oversight of rail, maritime, etc.

So you want to have each state make agreements with other countries on what is safe? You expect to keep our country safe when there's poor coordination between air traffic control in different states? You want every state to have to purchase their own radars and such? There are some states that don't rely on air traffic a whole lot. Do you really expect them to spend a significant portion of their budget to support a system that benifits others more?

What about roads? There are a lot of parts of the country that really don't need the best high capacity roads for the benefit of their state citizens? DO you expect them to spend their budgets to make roads that benefit out of state travellers that are passing through. You'd be seeing toll roads with large fees for out of state travelers, and possibly out of state gas taxes pretty quickly in states.

Transportation is also a huge national security issue. How do you expect to move troops around the country if you don't have the infrastructure?

There some things I agree with you about. However, I don't think you've thought things through or researched the effects of your plans.

There's no way I'd vote for you with this platform. You're suggesting changing things without considering or learning why the way they are now.

We need a lot of changes in this country, but we don't need change without understanding the consequences.

 

[Daedalus]

Increase the defense budget to $300 billion and spend $50+ billion on a new branch that is solely responsible for space defense. Missile shields, spy satellites, space stations, the works.

 

[riverdog]

You need to work on the U.S. military and Naval presence overseas.

 

[GigaBuist]

<Jerry Maquire Mode>

You had me at Bastards Always Terrorizing Firearms Enthusiasts; You had me at Bastards Always Terrorizing Firearms Enthusiasts.

</Jerry Maquire Mode>

Remember people, the president isn't a dictator (yet) -- they don't control policy entirely on their own. All this stuff would have to go through both houses. Now, if somebody that supported such things made it into the oval office perahps the legislature would stop handing out of money -- seeing as how that's what the voter's are favoring. It's unlikely that they'd let ALL of that happen though. That's why we've got the 3 branches of government.

I got all warm and fuzzy inside reading that. Thanks.

 

[Smoke]

Moving from an income tax to a sales tax based system discourages spending.

No kidding, with a state, county, municipal sales tax at or near 9% that 10% federal tax is gonna discourage big ticket spending. I can dodge the current sales tax via the interent. Is there a loophole for dodging the Fed sales tax?

Dept of the Interior: You're Fired!

What about CIA?
What about all the little taxes, gas, tobacco, car registration, property tax, etc? Still gotta pay all that?

Smoke

 

[Moparmike]

Remember, I did this "for a good start" sort of thing. I knew it needed refining...

And I appreciate all of your inputs.

You can redistrict the overseas bases, but please don't pull us out of everywhere. We've tried isolation before, and it doesn't work. Especially in the modern world, the best defense is a good offense holds true. Even we can't win a defensive war.

Department of Transportation: Keep it. It's one of the few constitutional areas. Reduce it's power, certainly, but we need a place for the states to argue out the highway/air/train systems. NTSB wouldn't be a separate system. Part of the reason for keeping this is that otherwise you'll be duplicating efforts in 50 states. For example: A 'safe' car in the USA isn't considered a 'safe' car in Germany and vice versa. The pollution standards are mutually exclusive.

NASA: Get rid of the shuttle program. Return to a goal oriented with occasional loss to be expected culture. Goals: Manned Moonbase & visit to Mars. Heck, see if you can make it charity based.

USDA: I'd nix all the entitlements, but combine the USDA & FDA to give consistant protection against contaminated imports.

OHSA: Nix this department. Individual states can do this if they feel it's necessary, but businesses make workplaces safe more effectivly than all of OSHA's byzantine rules. It's simple good business, as injuries cost money.

Tax free food, clothing and home: I think the clothing over $100 is reasonable. The only items that would exceed this for 'poor' people would be things like winter coats.

I'd raise the limit to $100,000-120,000 for a home though. I live in Minot, ND right now, and a 'fixer-upper' runs $80k. If you do set the limit at $80k, charge it on the excess, so you don't have the gerrymandering to get the 'price' at 80k.

Ok, lets say we keep teh DOT but reduce its budget to 15bil and incorporate the NTSB in with it. Takes care of safety and the FAA. Make states responsible for their own roads, as we already have a good interstate program that they only have to maintain.

Osha: I thought I nixed that. One more thing to add...

Housing over $80k: I like the idea of charging it on the excess. Done. (I said 80k because 10acres w/ small house is like 90k here).

Social Security:How about privatizing it for 15 years and slowly phasing it out slowly then? If we privatize the funds in a safe manner (mutual funds, etc) it already makes more money than currently. So we use the excess to cover any gaps. Just stop making people pay in right now, and tell them to take some personal responsibility for themselves.

DOD: Get us out of places we dont need to be, like Germany and Japan. There are places we dont need to be. I would also want a larger Navy. And by God, I want some battleships placed back in the fleet!

USPS: Maybe we should just force them to restructure.

 

[Moparmike]

No kidding, with a state, county, municipal sales tax at or near 9% that 10% federal tax is gonna discourage big ticket spending. I can dodge the current sales tax via the interent. Is there a loophole for dodging the Fed sales tax?

Dept of the Interior: You're Fired!

What about CIA?
What about all the little taxes, gas, tobacco, car registration, property tax, etc? Still gotta pay all that?

All taxes would be zapped in favor of the 10% sales tax. So gasoline automatically becomes 40 cents lower.

Internet companies would simply charge sales tax if located in the US. Being a straight 10% tax, it makes it simpler.

 

[fix]

National Sales Tax

Moving from an income tax to a sales tax based system discourages spending.

I think I'd be inclined to spend more money if I had that $26k I sent to the Feds back in my pocket. The increase in prices will be fairly temporary, and relative to the increase in take home pay. Temporary, because elimination of corporate taxation will help reduce prices and further increase salaries.

 

[BigG]

Well, Mike, if you do get elected I can tell you 535 people will be opposed to you from the get-go. The people that have to pass the laws that allow you to implement your policies. Their constituents are used to the critters bringing home pork, not telling them to go without.

 

[TechBrute]

DOD: Get us out of places we dont need to be, like Germany and Japan. There are places we dont need to be. I would also want a larger Navy. And by God, I want some battleships placed back in the fleet!

The battleship is a nearly obsolete platform from days where ships would duke it out on the high seas. Nowadays, our Navy would be better serviced by aircraft carriers and missle cruisers. I will miss the battleships.

I think I'd be inclined to spend more money if I had that $26k I sent to the Feds back in my pocket. The increase in prices will be fairly temporary, and relative to the increase in take home pay. Temporary, because elimination of corporate taxation will help reduce prices and further increase salaries.

I won't say that you're wrong, but I will say that you're argueing against one of the most basic principals of accepted economics. You're looking at paying 18.75% sales tax on anything you buy in Fort Worth, for example. 16.25% on any car purchase in the state of Texas, not counting the luxury tax of 10% over $30K. You wouldn't think twice about buying that Lincoln or Infiniti at 26.25% sales tax?? That Porsche that you want now comes with $26000.00 in taxes!! That's more than most people spend on the car itself. Yes, you have more income, but the high sales tax makes people rethink individual purchases. You'd likely put off buying a new TV if your old one worked if you were going to have to pay nearly 20% sales tax on that $1500 big screen. That's nearly $275 for tax in Fort Worth.

I'm curious on what basis you claim that corporations will raise salaries.

I'm not exactly sure why I'm debating economic pricipals on my favorite gun board. I get enough of it at work.

 

[Moparmike]

Texas has its own luxury tax?


THE ONLY FEDERAL TAX CHARGED WILL BE THE 10% SALES TAX. No luxury taxes, no marriage taxes, no death taxes, no tax taxes.

And besides, no one is buying a Porsche everyday. Even though there is less money going to the Federal government, there are still things that have to be paid for. Its the job of the states to pay it, not the fed though.

 

[TechBrute]

Missed that part, but the principal of what I'm saying stays the same.

 

[Smoke]

All taxes would be zapped in favor of the 10% sales tax. So gasoline automatically becomes 40 cents lower.

So where do the states get their money?

States that collect sales tax get a lot of their revenue from that source.
Now we're back at that 18-20% tax rate.

Or are you going to give some money back to the states. Fuel taxes go back to the states (sort of) to pay for road maintenance. Lot of federal money is doled out to the states to pay for infrastructure and projects. If the states are now picking up the full bill for all this and more, they are going to have to increase their revenue somehow.

 

[tyme]

BigG, 534. I think Ron Paul would support Mopar's platform.

I like the idea of a defense budget addition for space platforms, but $50 billion per year might be a bit much. I think we also ought to spend a few billion on Zubrin's Mars Direct plan, and another few billion on fusion research. We should restart the SSC project, with modern technology, making it even more useful than it might have been if built last decade. If all of those programs totalled $50 billion, that would still leave $35-$40 for space-based defense programs. Some of that $50B could come from traditional defense budget cuts.

I don't like getting rid of H&HS. I know healthcare places an enormous tax burden on people who are true libertarians/anarchists. With genetic engineering, soon all this will be irrelevant, and until then I think there are good reasons to pay for healthcare and not SS. Necessary and emergency healthcare should be picked up by the government if the patient doesn't have insurance through a private carrier, because it is impossible for the average citizen to allocate enough money to prepare for unknown and potentially catastrophic health problems. Outside the corporate umbrella, private health insurance costs are astronomical for those aged 50+. Costs are partly the government's fault, after all. There's been no meaningful tort reform, and the government over-regulates both drugs and the medical industry in general, driving prices up.

The CDC is important, too. Just because they publish an occasional BS story about firearms doesn't mean they should be disbanded. Someone simply needs to inform them that firearms aren't a disease. I'm a big health sciences fan, so I'm not excited about CDC or NIH budget cuts.

flatrock, SSA primarily provides post-retirement income. Retirement is a perfectly predictable event. There's also nothing forcing anyone to retire. It may not be fair to retirees to eliminate the SS income they've been "promised" (I'm not sure a government promise should be taken seriously by anyone), but neither is it fair to tax working citizens to pay for retiree entitlements when retirement, again, is a perfectly predictable and unnecessary event.

Isn't the bulk of the EPA's budget allocated to cleaning up messes? If so, I don't want that cut.

And I hate to rain on the parade, but as I recall, the BATFE generates billions ($12+B IIRC) in revenue from alcohol and tobacco taxes. Eliminating those branches of the BATFE would increase the federal budget. Eliminating only the F&E branch would be great, since that branch does in fact eat more money than it generates. The arson investigation and firearm forensics ought to be merged with the FBI.

In addition to fusion research, more money ought to be allocated for research into fossil fuel alternatives like fuel cells. Dependence on foreign oil is bad, and we can't supply all our own oil. Everyone's house ought to have solar panels and feed excess power into the electric grid, at least until fusion becomes viable. Even without being integrated into the grid, making solar panels popular in hot sunny states might avoid power crunches... AHEM... California...

No tax decrease should be implemented until the national debt is paid off, which could easily be done within a decade at current taxation levels.

 

[woerm]

solid platform

Great start, just needs some work.

Dept of education only task becomes making sure every 16 yr old can effectivly shoot the current issue mbr and operate at least one heavy weapon.

and intelligently discuss the federalist papers and the historical development of the US constution.

Judical reform

all judges have to get off the silly bench and down where they can be seen.

at inital hearing under penalty of death the judge must publicly disclose any connection with the plantiff/defendant if any, the judge is suppossed to be impartial if they golf with the either legal beagle how can they be impartial?

the JURY decides the facts of the case they are the only people to pose questions to the witnesses...

the Jury can summon witnesses if they require them the leagle beagles do not get to stage manage the trial...

the JURY will be informed up front that THEY alone are the sole determinant of the FACTS and LAW.

If a citizen is placed under detention, before they get sent to jail they get attorney, and they must have written summary of charges and opportunity to rebutt those charges...no written charges or legal representation no jail...(most people in Jail are waiting to see the judge what is wrong with that picture?)

no plea bargaining period

charges must be placed before a jury.

FAA/NASA

NASA goes back to r&d

FAA goes away period let the market set its own standards ditto with NTSB etc. unless there is a NTSB thing set up for every profession (Doctors/lawyers/Accountants/etc) as well with PUBLIC disclosure of all investigations and reports.

MEDIA reform

Publication of the name/address/image of person accused of any crime is capital offence. Accused has right to trial by jury not the media. no more 'perp walks for the press'

If person accused of crime is identified, hang without trial, reporter/editor/news dir/ceo/board whole chain of cretins that have ignored constutional rights except their 1st ammd.

convictons by Jury may be reported. peroid.

that's my quick additon,

what party are you running with and were do I send the $20 I was about to send the tratiors at the NRA-ILA?

r