My Vision for America

Due to popular demand I have decided to outline my vision of what America should be.

1. Our energy policy is sadly inadequate. I want an America that invests heavily in alternative energy and energy transmission technology so we can wean ourselves off of fossil fuels and, hopefully, into clean and renewable energy sources. That way we have enough clean, cheap energy to meet our needs.

2. America has the best and most accessible medical care in the world. The only problem is that it is also the most expensive. To bring the cost of medical care down without socializing it is a big challenge that must be looked into for a comprehensive solution. Two good starting points are medical practitioner shield laws that protect doctors from frivolous and expensive lawsuits, and regulating insurance costs involved in malpractice, unemployment, and worker’s compensation, all of which gouge medical practitioners, and the last two gouge every other employer in America. There is more to be done, much more actually, but the best way to make the right things happen will need the study and involvement of experts on the industry, which I am not. And I will never support socialized medicine.

3. American agriculture practices are becoming more environmentally friendly without sacrificing production. We should encourage and speed this process.

4. Crime needs to be better controlled. In previous posts I have outlined ideas and suggestions on what we could do to make crime as unattractive as possible without overburdening the prison system. It includes mandatory execution for all murderers, rapists, and terrorists. Criminalizing membership in a gang or Mafia. Corporal punishment for petty crime. Choking off the drug trade by executing all drug dealers and aggressively attacking foreign drug lords with military operations aimed at assassinating them and all of their support personnel they happen to have with them at the moment. Sentencing drug users to rehab rather than prison. And I am open to any other ideas that stand any chance of working to try to get the crime problem under control.

5. The best communities are close-knit ones where the people all take an interest in each other’s well-being. There is reduced crime, delinquency, teenage parenthood, drug use, divorce, and single parenthood in such communities across the economic spectrum. I want to see this become the way of life for all American communities.

6. I would more responsibility and less personal bias in the press. It won’t ever happen since it has become such an ideological industry, but I would like to see it.

7. There are situations where scientific education has been stifled by ideology. This is wrong regardless of the science or the ideology. Ideology has no place in science. Unfortunately, part of the problem is the grant system that basically pays people to find a predetermined outcome to a scientific question or problem. I have no idea how to fix this mess, but I would like to see it fixed.

8. We are steadily becoming more regulated as a nation. On this issue I tend to side with the Libertarians on a less is more philosophy. I love my freedom, and I would not see it restricted just because some special interest has an axe to grind. The prohibition of alcohol was a mistake caused by one such group. Nuisance laws are a modern trend where our freedoms are being restricted because some people happen to find certain behaviors annoying. On top of that, if you were to look at any locality’s lawbook you would find multiple laws covering the same behavior but under different titles and names. This is silly and unnecessary. I would see the legal streamlined.

9. Taxes. Cut ‘em and quit spending so damn much money.

10. Speaking of taxes, a simplified, more equitable tax code would be fantastic.

11. I want to see our education system overhauled. This means firing incompetent teachers even if they do have tenure, in fact, eliminating teacher tenure altogether would be a very good start. Graduation exams for students to pass from grade to grade are being implemented, and I approve. But what we teach and how we teach it needs to be changed too. There is a small school district in New York (or was it Massachusetts?) that changed its entire curriculum to focus on racism in all aspects of education, and not just in history, but science, math, English, EVERYTHING! Civics has all but vanished. Classes on the Constitution are rare outside of the universities. Kids are graduating high school who cannot read or even do basic math! This is unacceptable.

12. I would see a more restrained court system where the judges quit inserting their personal views, ideas, and biases into the Constitution so they can justify any predetermined ruling they want to issue. The role of the courts is to enforce the rule of law, and ensure that laws that are passed do not directly violate the Constitution, the words of which are plain, but also has the full spirit and intent of it outlined in the Federalist Papers. Nowhere in any of these documents does it say that the responsibility of the courts is to protect the minority from the majority. Any serious study of the Constitution and the Federalists Papers, which were written by the same men who wrote the Constitution, will show that his idea is in direct opposition to the very concept of democracy.

13. Religious freedom is very dear to me. I value my freedom to worship my God as I see fit. I also value the freedom of others to worship their God as they see fit, as well as the freedom we have to not worship any God if we choose not to. What I do not approve of is people stripping away this freedom by perverting the Constitution. If there is a display of a religious nature on public land it should be left to the local voters to decide if it stays or goes. If they want it gone they can not only vote it away, they can also vote every representative involved in erecting the display right out of office. This is part of the freedom that democracy is intended to allow. Freedom of religion does NOT mandate stripping religion from sight and hiding it away in the dark corners of our country as some zealots are currently attempting to do.

14. I do not approve of providing free money, power, food, and medicine to countries who have declared themselves to be our sworn enemies either by official decree or by repeated malicious misdeeds. This appeasement has been tried and has been one continuous failure. I say we cut those countries off and use the savings to build up America or cut taxes.

15. Boot the UN out of America. I’m not saying that we absolutely must leave the UN ourselves, although I would like to see that happen, but we really don’t need an organization that has demonstrated a general hostility to the US while bungling almost everything it is supposed to do for the good of the world AND sticking the US with an overabundance of foreign spies and misbehaving diplomats who abuse diplomatic immunity based out of the US. Let them build themselves a new headquarters in Europe or some other more welcoming country that is willing to put up with that mess. On top of that, I am not convinced that the UN is really a force good in this world. There are too many problems with things like having the worst human right abusers in the world on the human rights committee, and that is just one example of how ludicrous and ineffective the UN really is.

16. I am a very traditional guy. So when I see good traditions under attack by small special interests who just want to have their will imposed on an unwilling supermajority I get rather outraged. One example of this is the way the homosexual activist movement, a movement comprised of some 2% of the total population and only a bare majority of homosexuals, if that much, has been using the courts to bypass the will of what has been shown in recent elections of at least 60% of the general population even in the most liberal states regarding marriage. People just don’t give up or change good traditions just because a puny group of people, no matter how loud and annoying, want that tradition altered or eliminated. I only used the homosexual activists as an example because I have been blasting them on a rather regular basis on this blog, and it is a familiar subject as a result. I also take issue with groups of people who promote hatred of anyone, wish to eliminate hunting and fishing, ban guns, promote single parent lifestyles, support abortion on demand, ban the military, and a myriad of other very bad ideas. On top of that, if it aint broke I see no reason to fix it, if it’s a bit creaky though, I will be happy to oil it.

In short, want a clean, safe, secure, prosperous, free America that upholds tradition and the Constitution. Anyone got a problem with that?