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Title: A Conservative Plan to Fix the Economy (Exposing GO65's Big Lie)
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Published: Sep 30, 2010
Author: Me
Post Date: 2010-09-30 17:56:13 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Views: 7320
Comments: 37
GO65, as you all know, is a liar. His tag-line is "Where is the conservative plan for growth (or the economy)?" I've posted this before and he ignores it. So I decided to post it for all to see that GO65 is, like all Liberals, a liar. This agenda is from Karl Mellinger. It's conservative to the core and unlike the "Spend, spend, spend" morons who infect DC, it would fix most of our economic problems. Here is THE CONSERVATIVE AGENDA: Ok, let's look at an actual path forward. Do this, we win. Don't do this, you need to come up with a path that does as much as this one will. Shut down the Chinese abuse engine. Right now. Either they revalue up 20% today, and to 40% within two years, or we hit them with tariffs representing the full wage and environmental differential in their products. I know they say they can't, and that it will cause "problems." But the problems are of their own making - slave labor wasn't our policy, it was theirs. They could have enacted labor and environmental reforms over the last 10 years, and kept making promises they broke. We, for our part, didn't enforce the mandates. Ok, we start. Right now. Oh, and incidentally, this is not just China. The same thing applies to Mexico, Vietnam, India and everywhere else. This will get rid of the $3 T-shirt and $30 DVD player. I recognize this. That's ok, because..... We're going to build nuclear power plants. On each and every military facility. We will pre-empt state and local challenges and lawsuits, and just do it. Those who don't like it, too damn bad. The Navy will run them at a supervisory level and civilians will build them. We will build a mix of Pebble Bed, Fast Breeder and Thorium Salt reactors. The first two will be built in a fuel-cycle neutral mix. The latter will get its fuel from coal ash. This is a sustainable, green, and permanent energy solution. If the Government is going to spend money, this is what we will spend it on. Those who are on welfare may either take one of the jobs at the above plants or lose their benefits. Exceptions are available only for documented full disability. Fraud in that claim will lead to 20 years in the slammer. No exceptions. If you're able, you work or you starve. End of discussion; no more freeloading. We repeal the 16h Amendment and all other income and payroll taxes. The Fair Tax is implemented immediately. January 1st 2011 - cold start. This will result in an instantaneous flood of capital and businesses coming to the US. The electrical plants above will produce the power they will need. It will also instantaneously restart Capital Formation which is NECESSARY for us to get entrepreneurship and innovation going again - right here, in this country. We either repeal Obama's Health Law and implement my plan OR we set a percentage of GDP we will spend on health care at the Federal Level and implement the Canadian system. Choose one. Have the debate in public, pick one, make it happen by 12/31/2011. The ability of companies to bill out $5,000 for an MRI to "uninsured" people while the insurance company pays $150 is an obscene rip-off and must end. Further, the idea that you can show up with no money and no insurance and force someone else to pay, instead of having that responsibility attach to you as a valid debt to the government is also obscene. This is rank profiteering on people's DEATH and must end - right now. No more illegal immigrants. Period. This is non-negotiable. Come here legally or you will be held to account for a criminal offense, serve your time, and then be deported. End birthright citizenship when your mother comes here unlawfully. For those who are here now, they can stay - as adopted kids. If that's unacceptable they can leave with their parents. We have too many people for the number of jobs at present, and those who are not here legally must lose first. I am all for LEGAL immigration - and once we settle out our growth plans, if we need more workers then let's start letting people in, starting with those who lawfully stood in line. ALL of the frauds in the financial system are prosecuted. Every one. We will make space for these crooks in the prisons by legalizing marijuana and treating it like alcohol, except that we will sell it at Pharmacies where the people doing the vending have a lot to lose (their six-figure annual income!) if they sell to minors. It is time to end our failed prohibition experiment and besides, we need the prison space for all the banksters. They're a HELL of a lot more dangerous to our society than some dude smoking a joint. Clarify and extend The Federal Reserve Act to require that actual price inflation, measured by a basket of items representative to the spending in the actual economy (goods and services) deflates at 1/2% per year. Yes, deflates. Technology improves. The natural progress of a society is toward better efficiency and lower costs. Therefore, this should result in small deflation over time. I recognize that this will make lending for speculation or consumption inherently dangerous as in such a regime recessions are necessary to contain balance in the currency and banking system. This is how it should be! This also means that you can save your retirement over your working life without engaging in ridiculous and dangerous speculation in which virtually EVERY person ultimately loses. Recognize that this growth will be a one-time deal. We'll get something approaching 10% GDP growth for 3-5 years. But then it will be over. Government spending must decrease as entitlements are removed and debt must be paid off - no more games. We cannot build or guarantee indefinite compound forward returns - that's mathematically impossible. This rock is vast but it is finite. We use the above plan to stabilize and grow our economy, restoring what we had in the 1950s and 60s - and to prepare for a more-or-less steady-state future where the gains of the future come from technological advance, not leverage and financial fraud. You want a growth plan? There it is. Now GO65, you can and must change your tag-line.
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This would also break the backs of the Mexican drug cartels, and end the violence on our border. Californa marijuana debate resonates in Mexico A debate about legalizing marijuana and possibly other drugs – once a taboo suggestion – is percolating in Mexico, a nation exhausted by runaway violence and a deadly drug war. The debate is only likely to grow more animated if Californians approve a ballot initiative on Nov. 2 to legalize marijuana for recreational use in the state. Mexicans are keeping a close eye on the Proposition 19 vote, seeing it as a bellwether. "If they vote 'yes' to approve the full legalization of marijuana, I think it will have a radical impact in Mexico," said Jorge Hernández Tinajero, a political scientist at the National Autonomous University. Discussion about legalization flew onto the agenda last month, the result of President Felipe Calderón's pressing need to win more support for waging war against criminal organizations profiting hugely from drug trafficking. As he held a series of forums with politicians and civic leaders about faltering security, Calderón suddenly found himself amid a groundswell of suggestions that legalization – which he described as "absurd" – should be considered. Among those throwing their weight behind legalization was former President Vicente Fox, a member of Calderón's own conservative National Action Party. "We should consider legalizing the production, distribution and sale of drugs," Fox wrote on his blog during the forums. "Legalizing in this sense does not mean that drugs are good or don't hurt those who consume. Rather, we have to see it as a strategy to strike and break the economic structure that allows the mafias to generate huge profits in their business." Calderón immediately said Mexico couldn't act on its own to legalize. "If drugs are not legalized in the world, or if drugs are not legalized at least in the United States, this is simply absurd, because the price of drugs is not determined in Mexico. The price of drugs is determined by consumers in Los Angeles, or in New York, or in Chicago or Texas," he said. Such public debate would have been largely unthinkable a few years ago. Since Calderón came to office in late 2006, however, a national gloom has descended on Mexico from relentless cartel violence and a death toll topping 28,000. The grim mood has provided fertile ground for public figures who think legalization would undercut the power of the drug cartels. Among them are business tycoons such as billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego, who controls broadcaster TV Azteca, and retailer Grupo Elektra. With his own pro-legalization statement, Fox aligned with another former president, Ernesto Zedillo, who suggested last year that prohibition isn't working. Still, some analysts say debate about legalization – coming most strongly from the political left – was an effort to needle Calderón as much as an exploration of whether legalization is feasible. Edgardo Buscaglia, an expert on Mexico's criminal syndicates, said Mexico's government is too weak to legalize and regulate narcotics and marijuana. "You need to have regulatory capacity in place," he said. "Mexico does not even have the capacity to regulate its pharmaceutical products." Without a better framework, any move to take away penalties for narcotics would "amount to a subsidy to drug organizations," he said, as prices and demand remain buoyant for illegal narcotics in the United States and other countries. Legislators in August 2009 quietly decriminalized the possession of less than 5 grams of marijuana, the equivalent of about four joints. Tiny amounts of cocaine, heroin, Ecstasy, LSD and methamphetamine also are no longer subject to criminal penalties. Further measures have been blocked, however, such as one before two committees of the Chamber of Deputies to permit the use of marijuana for medical purposes, as 14 U.S. states allow, including California. Others have been put before the Senate, the legislative assembly of Mexico City and a local congress in the state of Mexico. Hernández Tinajero, the political scientist, said Mexican society may not be ready for such moves, but that the California ballot measure would energize the debate. "Whatever the result may be, it will have a positive impact on Mexico," he said, and give way to "a far more serious discussion." Experts said they can't fully weigh arguments about the impact that legalization of marijuana in California might have on this country of 111 million or whether steps toward legalization here would weaken drug syndicates. That's because so little is known publicly about the revenue streams of cartels, the extent of production of marijuana, crystal meth and heroin, and the range of revenue from other criminal enterprises. Counternarcotics officials say several Mexican cartels, particularly La Familia Michoacana, are deeply involved in marijuana production and sales in California.
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