Some Suggested Solutions by James Jaeger
The survival of the U.S. Republic would be greatly enhanced if all or part of the following, not necessarily in this order, were effectuated:o All members of the U.S. Congress, with the exception of Ron Paul, should be voted out of office and new members continuously voted out each election UNTIL the corporate/K-Street lobby influence and the revolving door stops and Congress is back under the guidance and control of the WE THE PEOPLE.
o The 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks, as well as the major banks that own the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and San Francisco, should be audited. Such audit should include all natural persons and corporate entities (commercial banks, investment banks, trusts, brokerage houses and insurance companies) holding more than 5% of any issue.
o Any person or corporate entity suspected of suppressing a vital energy technology (such as COLD FUSION) should be investigated in a court of law, such investigation broadcast on C-SPAN as it proceeds.
o Major portions of the Glass Owen Act should be cancelled and the Gold Standard reestablished. Fractional reserve banking should be declared the fraud it is and outlawed. All taxes should be removed from the sale and transfer of gold and silver. Hoarding gold or silver should be criminalized on the level of tampering with the mail or counterfeiting.
o Corporate entities should not be permitted to include the phrase "and any other lawful business" in their Articles of Incorporation as this business practice opens the door to conflicts of interest and excessive consolidation.
o The Sherman anti-Trust laws on the books should be enforced and government should be forbidden to grant ANY subsidy or special privilege to any natural person, partnership, (corporate) entity, trust or foundation.
o The production of all fossil fuels (especially oil and natural gas) for the purpose of BURNING should be phased out by 2015.
o Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution needs to be advertised in public service announcements until the public is aware of its significance. The significance of Article II, Section 2 is that Congress has the power to tell the Supreme Court that it does not have jurisdiction in certain circumstances. If WE THE PEOPLE more widely knew that our Congress had this power, perhaps we might be more concerned about who has influence OVER that Congress. It's time the People start demanding the Congress and the Supreme Court play their distinct parts and stop rubbing each others backs, and stop creating one-size-fits-all laws. The Constitution stipulates a FEDERALIST system, meaning different laws for different people in different states are sometimes preferable and more pragmatic.
o The Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution must be reinstated to the intent of the Founders. It is high-time citizens refuse to permit the federal government to use the Commerce Clause, as re-written by a rogue Supreme Court, to stick its nose into every aspect of private business. When the government uses the Commerce Clause to remove citizens right to keep and bear arms -- as it is already doing -- this needs to be the last straw. The bastardized Commerce Clause must be killed and replaced with the Commerce Clause as written by the Founders. Anyone who opposes this can be identified as an apologist for totalitarian government.
o All drugs and prostitution need to be de-criminalized on the grounds that the Federal government has no business invading the personal affairs of its citizens. Drugs and prostitution should be left up to the citizens of each state.
o The National Security Agency (the NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should be dissolved. The NSA and the DHS are unnecessary because they duplicate and confuse the functionality of the FBI and the CIA. The FBI was established to investigate and prevent crimes within the U.S. and the CIA was established to investigate and prevent possible conflicts that originate outside the US. To have additional agencies is confusing, wasteful and dangerous to US citizens. It is dangerous because such citizens, and even their elected representatives, are not able to maintain proper oversight. This opens the door to conflicts of interest from outside elites and agendas.
o If the reasons for so-called terrorism are removed, terrorism will cease. The Patriot Act was passed without the proper review of the U.S. Citizens and has thus opened the door to spying on U.S. citizens and all the civil rights abuses that go along with same. The Patriot Act should therefore be rescinded.
o The U.S. should bow out of NATO and cut the military budget by 50% over a 5-year period. The U.S. should cease and desist in all military adventures, including Afghanistan and Iraq, and withdraw all military forces from the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia. The U.S. has no reason and no business defending the world and stationing over 700 bases in over 140 countries around the world. This activity is antagonistic and expensive and is the CAUSE of 9/11. Potential future terrorism, if any, should be investigated by the FBI if internal and the CIA is external, and handled strictly as a criminal matter. The Patriot Act did more damage to the United States than the terrorists that damaged only a handful of buildings.
o All para-military outfits like BLACKWATER should be declared illegal under Constitution law and disbanded. The US government has no business hiring private military services that are not under the direct control of WE THE PEPLE. This goes for the US military as well. The Constitution authorizes and demands that each of the 50 states maintains a separate and distinct citizen militia whereby all able-bodied men and women between certain ages are trained and participate in defending their areas and country, if called upon by the President. The Militia of the Several States should be immediately revitalized per the Second Amendment and any and all standing armies defunded and disbanded. See http://www.mecfilms.com/mid/movies/oi/clip5.wmv for more information on this topic.
o The Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid system should be abolished and phased out by 2020. The U.S. government has no business in the health care business or providing support to citizens that can't "make it." Citizens "can't make it" on their own because the government competes for the very money and resources they need TO "make it." In other words, social security and government-provided benefits are self-fulfilling prophesies. They ultimately reduce the GENERAL WELFARE of the nation and grow the government into a totalitarian state collective.
o Taxpayer investments in science, technology and space exploration should be increased such that such allocations are never less than 10% of the national budget. The national budget needs to be DEFINED, not ALLOCATED. There are two ways to budget money. Method I and Method II. Under Method I you start with a LUMP SUM of money and allocate it in accordance with certain re-established PERCENTAGES, percentages established upon MONETARY ALLOCATION PHILSOPHY. Under Method II you simply see what everyone wants and then ADD UP what everything comes to. Any shortfall is then borrowed. Financers and taxpayers like Method I. Government contractors, bankers and special interest groups like Method II. Method I should be used and Method II phased out. Method II is poor financial management and leads to debt and insolvency. See the BOOK OF BUDGETS at http://www.mecfilms.com/moviepubs/bk0001.htm
o Citizens, by direct referendum if necessary, should instruct the U.S. Treasury to default on all portions of the national debt that were funded by the Federal Reserve System monetizing Treasury bonds.
o The U.S. should immediately impose (VAT) taxes on any nation that imposes them on the U.S. This simple act would remedy the balance of trade deficit.
o The U.S. corporate income tax should be reduced to 10% - 20% and there should be no taxes on capital gains or inheritance. Why should the U.S. have some of the highest taxes in the world and an insane system of deductions that opens the door to endless tax-accounting expenses, legal expenses, fraud, special favors and threats from IRS agents?
o Commercial banks should not be allowed to sell or handle equities. Trust banks should not be allowed to practice commercial banking or insurance. Insurance companies should not be permitted to practice commercial banking or brokerage services. Brokerage houses should not be permitted to practice commercial banking. All of these mixed practices do nothing but serve greed and create massive conflicts of interest in the business world. So long as fiat money is in use, government should probably establish general ground rules, NOT regulate business.
o IF business insists on comprehensive lassez-faire (government keeps hands off business), THEN businesses that fail MUST be permitted to go bankrupt without any possibility of government bailout, directly or indirectly, overtly or covertly. Accordingly, all of the money that was given to bail out the Wall Street banks and AIG should be immediately given back to the taxpayers with interest, and all of the banks and AIG should be permitted to fail, even if it crashes the entire world financial system. A crash of the entire world financial system would not be a "bad" thing. It would only be a "bad" thing for the plutocracy, rogue politicians and corporate fascists that have hijacked the productivity of the world's citizens in the trap known as "Globalism." With the advent of PEAK OIL, probably here now, it is inevitable that Globalization will end. This is good news for the middle class of the U.S. and the average world citizen.
o States have no business participating in, or regulating the gambling business, nor do they have any business participating in the revenue stream generated by cigarettes, alcohol or any mind-altering, recreational drug or substance.
o The Drug Enforcement Agency (the DEA) -- founded by the same criminal who encouraged trade with a Communist country, axed the Lunar Space Program, removed the US from the International Gold Standard System, defaulted on foreign debt obligations and broke into the Watergate Hotel in order to spy on his competitors -- Richard Nixon -- should be abolished. This agency has never won any war against drugs and has done nothing but help stock the world's largest penitentiary system with relatively innocent citizens, much of the system a for-profit partnership between corporate fascists and government.
o Anti-trust laws should be applied to the 6 major studios and the consolidated corporate media in order to break them up. It is unacceptable that almost all the news comes from 6 global corporations. This is no news at all. It is unacceptable that the cultural Marxist be permitted to indoctrinate entire populations with social, cultural and political spew. Violence that passes for "entertainment" in the movie and game industries is destroying an entire generation of children. The CEOS, boards and major stockholders that permit and profit of this war against traditional culture need to be run out of town and/or jailed.
o Insurance companies should not be permitted to reimburse for any sickness caused by over-eating obesity or drugs, whether legal or illegal, or reckless behavior, such as behavior in connection with committing crimes or extreme sports, such as sky-diving or bungee jumping.
o The LEGAL profession, CLERGY, BANKING profession and MEDICAL professions should all be non-profit industries. There is something wrong with people who enter these industries in order to profit from the confusion, fear, ambitions and sickness, RESPECTIVELY, of their fellow citizens.
o All Congresses, at the federal and state levels, should be required to have 50% male and female representation. Why should women, who comprise about 50% of the population, be excused from participating in a self-governing, representative democracy?
o Torture and the death penalty should be banned on the grounds that such is immoral, ineffective as a deterrent and cruel and unusual punishment. The entire "punishment" system should be phased out and replaced by a system that accentuates education, counseling, training, preventive health and medication in extreme cases. The current draconian system of fines, jail, torture and punishment is no longer acceptable in the 21st Century and does nothing but compound an environment of hate and destruction.
o The no-bid and cost-plus contracting system used by the U.S. government should be abolished. Any and all contracts offered by any government agency, whether federal, state or local, should be broadcast as a continuous public auction interactive with the Internet and the name, office, term and contact information of any and all public officials that have been involved in the proposals of such expenditures be made available in real-time. Citizens should be able to see WHERE their governments spends WHAT tax dollars and WHO budgeted their allocation in real-time, in writing, over the Internet.
o At least 50% of all the laws on the books (federal, state and local) MUST be consolidated OR struck. Any law physically WRITTEN by any person or entity who is NOT the specific elected Congressman or Congresswoman should be struck. Citizens cannot be expected to understand let alone obey overwhelming laws or laws that were not even written by their elected representatives. Put bluntly, any congressman that does not have the time or the ability to PHYSICALLY DRAFT his own legislation personally, is not qualified to be a legislator and has no business defrauding the public with credentials that s/he does not posses.
o The U.S. prison system needs to be downsized and readied for members of the Federal Reserve banking system, their cohorts/cronies in Congress (federal and state levels), top executives, board members and major stockholders of corporations (and other entities) who are convicted of participating in, or abetting, unjust enrichment at the expense of U.S. taxpayers and citizens.
BY THE ABOVE, I AM NOT SUGGESTING THAT I HAVE PUT TOGETHER ALL THE BEST SOLUTIONS TO OUR PROBLEMS OR A LIST THAT EVERYONE, EVEN ANY MAJORITY, WILL AGREE WITH. NEVERTHELESS I DO FEEL THAT THESE SUGGESTIONS WOULD MOVE US ALL TO A COUNTRY AND WORLD THAT WOULD BE MORE PROSPEROUS, PROVIDE GREATER DIVERSITY OF LIFE STYLE, RESPECT THE RULE OF LAW, EMPHASIZE INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, PROVIDE A MORE APPROPRIATE LEVEL OF SECURITY, AND ALLOW PEOPLE TO MORE HAPPILY MAKE THEIR WAYS THROUGH LIFE.
Many of these points are embodied in a new documentary film entitled ORIGINAL INTENT featuring Ron Paul, Pat Buchanan, G. Edward Griffin, Edwin Vieira and Ted Baehr. The above points are my own synthesis and should not be construed to necessarily represent the views of the just mentioned experts. You can screen clips from ORIGINAL INTENT or get DVDs at http://www.OriginalIntent.Us
21 December 2009
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