Wednesday, June 3, 09 by Joe.

When we left off last, I talked about Freedom.  With Freedom comes responsibility.  Part of the Freedom we are responsible for is that of being involved in our government.  For some this has been limited to just showing up to vote.  Others, like myself, have a gone a bit further, but many don’t do anything.  They don’t vote at all, and they have never written, spoken to, or even e-mailed their legislators.  

The right to abstain your vote is important, in that on occasion refusing to vote is, in and of itself, a statement to be conveyed.  But too many don’t vote because they believe their vote makes no difference.  Many think that Electoral College is a bad thing and because it is used, their personal vote makes no difference.  Sadly these folks could not be more wrong.  Once again, this is yet another failing of our school system.  People are not educated as to the purpose of the Electoral College, or how their vote affects it.

Without the Electoral College, Los Angles and New York City would decide every President we would ever elect.  The electorate is what allows States like Kansas to have a say at all.  Since most people only think of a vote as related to Presidential election, they transfer the same beliefs to the midterm elections and all local elections as well.  The localized popular vote is what directs the Electoral College, and thus places the value on the individual vote.  If you don’t vote you leave your order for the Electorate to other people.  I don’t know about you, but I’m not real comfortable with total strangers making all the decisions that affect my life.  And that is why I VOTE.  I may not get my way, or the candidate that I want, but at least I placed my order.

THE LEGISLATURE

I think the duty of our citizens might serve another important role.  We have far too many career politicians who hide in the State and Federal Legislatures.  These are typically people have sold themselves to their constituents and then due to shear laziness on the part of the public they are re-elected over and over until they are a fixture.  The end result is someone like Ted Kennedy, who has had a lifetime career, trying to undo everything his brother tried to do as President.  We have these kinds of people at the all levels of government. 

Term limits would be a great first step into a better plan, but ultimately I’d like to a see a shift that would ensure that more people get to, and more important are required to be involved in the government.  Our Jury system calls a group of people who are then screened for bias that would impact the case, and then given instructions on how to decide the fate of a defendant.  It would seem reasonable that a similar system could be used to provide legislation.

A group of people could be selected to study, report and come to conclusions on a particular issue, problem, or proposal.  Then draft legislation as needed, vote on it, and if passed send it to the executive branch for signature or veto.  All provided it meets the Preamble test of course.  The idea is to get more people involved on being the government.  Further, multiple issues could be worked on at once by several different legislatures much like several different cases are worked on by multiple juries.

Now this will be nearly impossible to get pushed through, unless the people get involved and tell their senators and representatives very strongly and repeatedly that this is what they want done, or the next election we find a candidate that will push it through.  Remember a government of the people, for the people, BY THE PEOPLE.

It comes back to US each and every time.  We are the electors.  We are the ones to blame when those we elect continue to screw things up and we keep electing them again and again.Like anything else the whole jury type, legislative idea will need to be developed complete with checks and balances to would keep selection of legislators unbiased, and uncompromised by conflict of interest.  We can’t really rely on an oil company executive to be on a legislative session whose vote will decide if he can drill in your back yard.  At the same time, we need to make sure the legislature selected has at least a basic knowledge of what they will be asked to look into.  This means the selection process will be lengthy and tedious.  This also means we would for the first time, have people debating an issue that have some idea of what they are debating.  Wouldn’t that be refreshing?

ABORTION

Here’s a hot button issue that is bound to come out of the wood work.  It’s also perhaps one of the greatest nuisances in the political spectrum.  On the one hand we have a people who want the “right” to choose, while the other side claims to be all about “life.”  Strangely the Pro-lifers are the ones who try to kill people, while the Pro-choice folks can’t seem to choose to use a condom.  The bottom line to all this lunacy is that Abortion should not be a form of birth control nor should it be illegal.  Sounds like a contradiction doesn’t it?

We know that there are, shall we say, loose women out there that get knocked up, get an abortion and then get knocked again and then get another abortion.  This crap can be stopped by case review that might require sterilizing the woman, in a reversible fashion upon completion of her second “accident.”  On the other side of the fence people need to get over themselves and realize that abortion was illegal once and the result was in and of itself an abortion.  Women under desperation were killing themselves trying to do the abortion procedure with a coat hanger or any one of a dozen other methods.  They died by the hundreds.  It is far better to have the job done right, by a professional, than it is to leave desperate people to their own devices.  Then of course there is the rape victim who should never be required by law to keep a child forced upon them.

Many claim these unwanted children can be adopted but very few of those making that claim step up and adopt.  Unless you’re willing to put your money where your mouth is, shut the hell up.

CHARITY

Many people have come to rely on the government as a charitable institution.  This needs to change in a great many ways.  First, the idea of helping someone needs to first come from the efforts of the individual.  There is no point in trying to help those who will make no effort to help themselves.  This task needs to move back to churches and other charities where they are better run and the help is better managed rather than the government trying to do it all for everyone.  Further the family, if there is a family, needs to be placed back in the forefront of solving issues with troubled individuals.

Let’s assume we manage to get rid of the insanity of trying to control what people put in their own bodies, and the natural progression leads to a dysfunctional soul causing problems within a family.  Much like a jury of one’s peers, a family could be given the tools, complete with consequences for abuse, to deal with the particular problems themselves.  Let’s say, a group of six family members be required to sign a particular “problem” loved one into a charitable rehab center.  They will all be legally responsible for their actions if found to be fraudulent, and the “patients” finances are to be frozen while in treatment.  These safe guards should be geared to insure the treatment of a genuine problem rather than “gaming” the system in order to steal a relative’s money. This could even reverse the whole generational dependence problem some families seem to harbor, and get them off the welfare rolls.  By make a child walk they learn to walk, likewise, making a group of people stand up and do for themselves, they will learn to do for themselves.  No one every taught their child to walk by carrying them all the time.  Some tell me that I need to have more compassion.  The fact is, that it is cruel to keep someone down because you wish to keep believing they are not capable of taking care of their own problems.

DISABILITIES

Much like with my views on charity, so too is true with my views on the disabled.  People who are truly disabled are quite obviously so.  But there are way too many with their stupid stick figure wheelchair signs, who are no more disabled than I.  I am a bit mean in some peoples view, in that I think the handicapped want to have equal treatment, and they should get just that. 

Quit making special accommodations for everyone with a handicap and treat them like everyone else.  It’s not the whole worlds fault they are handicapped, so why does the whole world have to upset their lives to create special environments for handicapped people.  Reasonable efforts to make things accessible are sensible, but requirements to make special parking spaces, bars heights, remodels to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars on the off chance that a “handicapped person” may come into a business and spend five dollars are ridiculous. 

Further they are still capable of being productive in most cases, so why are they not?  A Quadriplegic is a genuine case for the need of assistance in every aspect of their lives, as is a real mental failure.  But short of the extremes, most “handicapped people can still be productive in business and make it one their own.  Telephone jobs require only the ability to talk, not walk.  There are a great many jobs to be filled by those less fortunate.  Let’s stop making excuses and start making a living.

GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS

A great deal of tax money is wasted with some rather questionable contracts.  We pay millions for road repair that never seems to be built to last anymore.  We then spend millions more on paper forms and printed documents used by our government.  If we have people in need of “paying their debt to society” then why are we not using this labor force to its best purpose?Prisoners could learning a trade, while building infrastructure, and helping with government logistics.  Not a new concept, just a forgotten one, which had real value. 

The money saved on labor, could then boost the quality of materials and our roads and bridges, and thus they would last much longer.  No more, lowest bidder crap.This could extend to auto repair, construction, fabrication, and many other things the government needs to operate.  We then create a value for the time people spend as guests of the state prison system, rather than just cost.

Perhaps I’ll have more later, but that’s all for now…

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Friday, March 27, 09 by Joe.

TAXES

Before anything else can be addressed we must first resolve tax issues.  Ben Franklin favored a consumption tax as it would allow the individual to decide how much he or she paid in taxes due to what they purchased.  Myself, I think Ben was a pretty smart guy, and having studied the Fair Tax, I believe that to be the best plan to adapt to the State tax system.

A study will have to be done to see exactly what revenue is truly needed to pay the State’s expenses, to include the variances needed for those counties who have elevated sales taxes.  Once this figure is known, we must calculate to best degree of certainty, the amount of new goods and services sold in the State.  This will then be used to calculate what percentage of State Fair Tax will need to be included in all prices for all new goods and service.  This included tax will then replace all other State and County taxes.

Many will assume this will make our cost of new goods and services increase.  It will take a great deal of patience to educate people to the fact that prices will remain at or near the same as they are now.  When all the other taxes go away, that “cost,” will no longer be included in the price, and thus the State Fair Tax, will in effect replace the very same taxes leaving the prices about the same.  The difference will be in the way in which the taxes are collected, and how people will pay their taxes.

People will only pay taxes on the new goods and services they choose to purchase, and thus decide for themselves, how much they pay in taxes.  Furthermore the drug dealer down the street who currently pays no income tax on his illegal income will now pay the same tax as everyone else.  The same thing would apply for the prostitute on the corner.  Tourists, people passing through, out of State buyers, and even foreign consumers will be paying our State taxes, just as we do.  This will also promote the use of “used” items as a way of avoiding tax burden, meaning the ultimate recycling plan.

This will place Kansas in a unique position of being a corporate tax haven.  With no State corporate taxes, or State withholding to have to deal with, many companies will come to Kansas.  These companies will then of course bring jobs with them, and these jobs will be filled by more consumers who will then buy more goods and services and thus the State will collect more taxes.  Conceivably, once in play, the amount of the State Fair Tax will be adjusted downward, due to this effect, meaning prices could actually decrease over time.

To better understand the Fair Tax, I recommend everyone read the book.  It spells out in very clear terms, how the price structure will have little or no change, and how the whole thing works.  Our task will be the adaptation of this plan to the State level.

CRIME

The next area to be addressed will be that of our criminal code and prison system.  Our government spends far too much time and money saving us from ourselves.  I’d like to see many of our current laws reviewed, and put to a test to see if they measure up to or fit the ideals presented in the Preamble of the United States Constitution.

Seat Belt Laws, Smoking Bans, and other impositions of Health Nazi mentality will have to go if at all possible.  Along those lines the “war on drugs” will have to change.  We will need to be consistent on all fronts.  Meaning we will quit wasting money and prison space saving the druggies from themselves as well.  With that said, we will require drug screening before allowing any government assistance to these fine folks as well.  The government should not be in the business of supporting drug habits.  If one needs help, it must come first from trying to help themselves.  Laws against human vice have never worked since the dawn of time and rather than trying to outlaw them the State should work to regulate and license them.  Prostitutes should be licensed, as should the drug dealers.  Make them taxable goods and services like any other business.

Now bear in mind that I’m a student of history.  This whole drug issue has been here before.  In the past when many of these same drugs were sold over the counter to anyone, we saw a great many problems arise for the community, and most particularly the families of those who abused the drugs.  Many of these problems will likely return, and will have to be dealt with accordingly.  Back then the family structure was greatly dependent upon the bread winner of the family and had little recourse to deal with a drug problem.  Today, that dependence is diminished and thus the family can likely wield more corrective influence.  This may well create new opportunity for rehab businesses, for those who choose to help themselves.

For those who do not help themselves with a self inflicted disaster, the government will not assist, and they may well turn to crime to support a habit.  At this time however they will commit a crime against another which will be worthy of the space to occupied in prison.

Some will argue, “Why do we want to promote criminal activity?” to which I can only respond, by pointing out that this criminal activity is taking place now.  The difference will be that we will not be giving so many a pass just because of the lack of prison space available.

This leads to an off subject point that I must make.  I can not make any promises of results, because the office is only one part of the legislative puzzle.  It will take the efforts of myself and my team to get the constituents to tell their Representatives and Senators, to act as needed to make any changes you agree with.  Remember, a government of the PEOPLE, for the PEOPLE, by the PEOPLE.

A close look will have to taken at preventative laws as well.  DUI check points are effective in revenue generation and may well have some deterrent value to drunk driving, but the sad fact is that people are still being killed by drunk drivers despite all the freedoms that have been traded in the name of such security.  The consequences need to be the real deterrent rather than the failed prevention measures we have now.  Someone who damages another’s property while driving drunk, made the decision to drive that way and thus should be held accountable for not only the damages, but also the criminal negligence.  Likewise, if that drunk driver kills someone, it’s not an accident, its homicide, and should be charged as such.   On the other hand, if someone drives home and neither hits or damages anything in the process, it’s hard to say there is any victim.

HEALTH CARE

Today there is much about nothing in the world of health care.  Our socialist President is trying to shove the issue up everyone’s butt as if to say no one need ever have a choice in the level or type of care they can buy with their own money.  They have people believing health care is a right rather that a privilege.  The reality is that the “right to health care” does not exist.  This is America where we earn what we have.  To say health care is a right would like saying automobiles are a right.  Health care is a privilege, it is a product one buys as one can afford.  Can we do a better job of getting costs down?  Hell yes we can!  If we simply let the health care system face the same pressures of the free market everything else has too.  By allowing competition, health care costs will drop.  Insurance companies will shop for those doctors and hospitals which are most cost effective, thus doctors and hospitals will have to compete by offering better services and a better price in order to get the better business.

Another thing that could be explored, is to work a deal with an insurance company, to provide insurance to those who chose to buy it at a group discount through the State itself.  Assume we have a pool of, say, three million customers (citizens) that wish to buy a group plan provided the rates are affordable enough.  Many insurance companies would jump at the chance to secure that kind of volume, and would offer greatly reduced premiums because the risk would be spread out over so many people.  This would create a group policy greater than Boeing’s wildest hallucinations.  Furthermore, like anything else that people actually have to pay something for, they will actually appreciate, and respect it much more than they would some socialized medical plan.  Just a thought…  Just a thought.

FREEDOM

This issue is a pet peeve of mine.  People in a given community want to live by and around people who live and act like themselves.  This is perfectly natural, but it needs to be tempered with the caveat of not trampling the freedoms of another in favor of your own.  If you buy a home in a neighborhood which has covenants and you agree to live by the contractual rules of that community, then so be it.  But if you buy a home in an area with no such rules, don’t expect your neighbors, many of whom have been there far longer than you have, to suddenly have to change how they live, just to suit you.

Conversely, if you live like a pig and your property is breeding rodents, expect to get a bill for your neighbor’s pest control.  Your freedom to live like a pig imposes on your neighbors, when your pets invade their home.

The point to all of this, is simply to move to put freedom back on the forefront of our thinking.  Freedom without free is just dumb.

Other issues I’m not thinking of that you guys may have, need to be explored, first by the test of the Preamble, and then by the test of favoring one’s rights over another’s.  I can’t explore the issue if I’m unaware of it, so please tell me what’s on your mind so we might have the opportunity to see if it’s an issue to take on, or not.  Remember, I make no promises.

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Friday, March 27, 09 by Joe.

I’ve been pretty vocal for quite a few years about my political views, but with the latest changes in our country I’ve been seriously thinking of a run for office.  More and more I hear people everywhere who are misinformed, misled, misguided, or just plain missing any sense.

They run the gamut from believing the Auto companies are evil empires to conspiracy theorists who believe rhetorical non-sense because it was in some kooks film or book.  People today don’t seem to know who is supposed to be running the government, or even what the role of government is supposed to be.

One poor guy at the bank today was trying to explain to the teller that just because the General Motors missed their projections they “claim” they have a loss and thus need “bail out” money, when they still are showing a profit.  Just not as large as they thought.  His view may well have been properly applied to many in the finance world who indeed post a profit of some lessor percentage than expected only to claim a loss because of it, but in the case of the auto industry it is simply not the case.  GM is loosing money on each vehicle sold, due to the legacy costs of their union contracted retirement plans.  GM execs were complacent and allowed the drunkenness of their success thirty years ago to influence business decisions that are now too expensive to maintain.  Sound business principal gave way to guilt trips and “share the wealth” mentality and contracts were put in place that now dragging them under.

When you have a million people on the retirement roles and only a hundred thousand working to produce the margin needed to pay for it all, it makes profitability questionable at best.  Ever wonder why a car in 1979 cost $3500 and had ten times the human labor, is now ten times as much with only on tenth the human labor?

At the club I get people all the time with their “grasping at straws” views of how the government is “out to get them.”  While still more think the government should take care of all their problems.

In every case I ask the same question, and I’ve had only one in ten years give me the right answer.  “What part of the Constitution spells out the role of government?”  Short of the one, who happened to be a history teacher, I always get that “deer in the headlights look” followed by some guess that ranges from “Article 1″ to “The First Amendment.”

The idea that people don’t understand the written lay out of the Constitution, illustrates a fundamental failing of our school system.  If there was every a ”conspiracy” to believe in, it could be that the schools have indoctrinated our country into thinking the government is there to insulate them from all ills, and fix all their problems.  Strangely enough the Constitution says nothing of the kind.

Most people who understand a business mission statement, would recognise the lay out of the Constitution if they looked at it in a business context.  The Preamble is the mission statement, and the Articles and Amendments are the systems by which the “mission” is to be achieved.  The Government is after all a Corporation.  A CEO or President, leads a Board of Directors or Congress, hello?  Is it really a mystery why the United States is so incredibly business oriented?

The key difference, is that we have not been in a business mind set as a people for quite some time.  The 1950’s saw the prosperity brought about in the aftermath of war industrialization, and people became more oriented to being workers rather that business people.  Business was viewed as risky because of the crash of ‘29.  Schools were built to look and feel like factories, and the school day was structured to fit the typical work week.

Now the fifty years of indoctrination has produced more workers than businessmen and politicians have seized on the class warfare they have created to gain power.  This coupled with the now generational dependence of the poor on the government welfare programs, has yielded the dumbest and laziest generation we have ever seen.  It’s truly an Obamanation.

I dismiss the whole conspiracy concept, as no group of people has ever been able to keep a secret for very long, and thus a conspiracy falls apart quite easily.  The School System, and it’s failings were not part of some diabolical plan but simply a product of the events that shaped the times.  What needs to happen now, is a shift in the thinking of our people toward our origins.  We need to re-learn the values of self reliance, and self accountability.  Stop blaming the government, the rich, the neighbor, and machines for all your ills and realize your life is the result or your actions, decision, choices, and little dumb luck, be it good or bad.  People once made their own way through life, and now they just want to “go along for the ride.”

With in the Preamble, we find the entire role of government, and in the collective writings of the Founding Fathers, we find the wisdom and intent of the government as it was designed.  Ben Franklin was opposed to income tax, and stated it would lead to an over sized and corrupt government.  Hmm.  Jefferson, wrote, that when you trade freedom for security, you soon find you have  neither.  Hmm.  One might conclude, they had it it right on the money looking at the mess we have currently.  They gave us the proper plan. complete with the way we could adjust for future challenges.  We need to return to that plan, and rid ourselves of the departures we have made in the name career politics.

I think that current laws need to be put to a simple test that will place a large portion of what the government does now, back into that of the private sector and the home where it belongs.  The test is simply ask what part of the Preamble does the law in question conform to or support?  For example a burn ban during a windy season would fit squarely in the realms of “provide for the common defense” because a fire out of control can threaten an entire community.  But a Smoking Ban is not a good fit to any part of the Preamble.  It says to “promote” the general welfare, not impose one groups idea of it.  Cigarette smoke does not pose a particular threat anyone but the individual smoking thus “common defense” does not apply.  However the reference to insuring the blessings of liberty would seem to quite clearly defend the individuals right to do most anything that does not impose on another.

If you buy a home in a community that has covenants, then you agree to live by a set of rules when you contract to buy the house.  But if you buy a house where no such covenants exist, then you should have the right to live on your property as you see fit.  With such freedom comes responsibility, and when the rats growing in the yard you never mow,go next door, your neighbor should be able to send you the bill for the pest control.

We should stop saving everyone from themselves, and start letting them make their mistakes, and successes on their own.  If they are allowed to fail, they will learn to be better, or die, and that makes for the best motivation possible.  Allow their success, and the whole community will benefit.  We can’t teach a child to walk by carrying them everywhere, so why then do we think the government should carry us everywhere and we will be successful?  Compassion is sometimes not giving people a crutch, but rather making them learn a new way to stand.

Well, folks, it’s getting late and I’m sure I’ve bored many of you to tears, so I’ll go away for now, and rant some more later, with more of the views I may well throw into the political furnace.

I’m thinking Governor.  What do you think?

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Thursday, March 26, 09 by Stix Drink Guru.

We have all read the news, seen the stories, some us may have even experienced a natural disaster first hand. I am here today to tell you America we are currently in the middle of the WORST Disaster to ever impact our lives. It is not a Hurricane, a Forest Fire, Tornado, Tsunami, or even an Earthquake. While all those previously mentioned are terrible events none of them can compare to Our President Obama. In less than 100 days he has already cost our children over 3 Trillion Dollars. Hurricane Katrina that almost destroyed New Orleans cost about 30 billion in insurance claims our Presidential Elect has already cost us 100 Million times that in the first two months of his administration and he still has almost 4 years left.

Mr. Obama also promised to honor our Constitution but he is failing us America. He wants to remove our 2nd Amendment Right to Bear Arms. James Madison recognized this right as being so important to maintain what this country stands for that it came second to our Right to Free Speech. The Fathers of Our Country knew that a society without protection from the government would be victims of our government. Wake up America Obama does not appreciate Democracy he does not stand for Democracy he envisions a country under a Socialistic Government. He knows the only way to succeed in this will be to disarm America.

There are countless more injustices on the horizon and already at hand and either myself or the other Authors of this will be reporting on these topics in the coming days, weeks, months, and years. I will leave you with our Bill of Rights. These unalienable rights were considered so important to the success of our Country our Forefathers drafted them over 200 years ago to protect Us the citizens of the United States of America. Mr. Obama should actually sit down and read these himself because there is no need to fix what isn’t broken…..

Bill of Rights

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment II

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Amendment III

No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Amendment VI

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

Amendment VII

In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Amendment VIII

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Amendment IX

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X

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.

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Thursday, March 26, 09 by Stix Drink Guru.

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Thursday, March 26, 09 by Stix Drink Guru.

This is the new home for all of our ideas on the Political Situation at hand. Warning this Blog in no way will be politically correct and should not be viewed by liberal jerk off’s whom are easily offended by bad language or VERY Conservative Ideas. From time to time there may be some actual News about Stix Pool and Darts in Wichita, Ks.

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