Posted on 02/04/2004 4:14:19 PM PST by Remember_Salamis
Whatever happened to the 1994 Contract with America?
Looking back, 10 years later, I think it's time for us to build a new contract with america, and I want everybody to design it, toegether. I plan on building a website for it, and circulating to members of congress. contact me at: bradleytn001@hawaii.rr.com
Here's a rough draft (I'm putting the number at 10 right now, but we can work on it):
1. implement constitutional controls on non-defense spending; non-defense spending cannot exceed a growth equal to that of the rate of inflation plus annual cost-of-living adjustments.
2. Defense spending must remain within set brackets: 4 -7% of GDP; Defense spending never exceeded 7% of GDP during the Cold War and is only roughly 3.5 - 3.75% of GDP right now in the war on Terror.
3. Financially assist any state that wishes to switch to a fully-privatized public school system; This is necessary to allow a "transition" perion in which massive droves of students leave poor schools for better ones. Once schools reach an ultra-low capacity level, states should begin shipping remining students to surrounding schools and begin finding a buyer for the public school.
4. Shift as much of the budget down to the state level as possible; the only excluded items should be national security, infrastructure, and Science and Technology (Space exploration, nanotechnology/fuel cell R&D, etc.); States, and their local voters, know best when it come to whether they want health care, education, farm subsidiesce, or anything of the ilk. Local governments should decide whether or not to have a large budgets, high-tax welfare state or a low-budget, low tax state built on rugged individualism and the entrepenurial spirit.
5. Create a agancy, similar to the Federal Reserve Board, that will decide when -- and when not to -- expand or contract the immigration labor pool. To achieve this, we must also control our borders. This can be achieved through rigorous enforcement of current anti-illegal immigration laws and using advanced technology, namely Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to patrol the US-Mexican border. Also, reintorduce assimilation policies that worked so well before the 1970s. Our nation cannot be both multiracial AND multicultural.
6. Tort Reform; work to ensure that malpractice rates dramatically drop. This can be done in many ways. One way is to "lock-in" malpractice insurance rates to the level of frivilous lawsuits in a given county. Malpractice insurers will have a "base-line" rate, and any county that has an above-average number of lawsuits will have to make their taxpayers pay the difference. Simply put, everytime a juror approves a frivolous malpractice lawsuit, he of she will be raising their OWN taxes. This way, only the truly deserving cases will be approved.
7. Demand massive reform at the State Department and the CIA; an increase in political appointees will help achieve this objective; As it currently stands, the CIA has literally no political appointees and those at STATE are marginalized by the career beaurocrats. STATE should stop represening their client states to the US and start representing the US to their client states. All issues regarding immigration should be removed from STATE's imcompetant hands
8. The Coast Guard, the Army and Air National Guards, and "enforcement" departments of the INS should be incorporated into the US military's Northern Command (NORTHCOM, based out of Peterson AFB, Co). This new-and-improved NORTHCOM (still in it's infancy anyway) should also develop a strong relationship with it's civilian sister organization, the Department of Homeland Security.
9. the FBI should spin off all intelligence gathering assets into a new domestic intelligence agancy, along the lines of the UK's MI-5. The intelligence and law enforcement arms of the FBI were fearful of stepping on each other's toes for years, which in part was responsible for 9-11. This will no longer be an issue.
10. reinforce America's moral standards. There should be a constitutional amendment preventing Gay marriage. A constitutional Amendment to ban partial-birth abortion should be introduced if the court system once again snares our latest efforts. Activist judges who are trying to implement a state-enforced religion, ATHEISM, should be removed from the bench.
I Wrote all of these off the top of my head. I need your help. Please contect me at Bradleytn001@hawaii.rr.com, or post what you can do. We are the core of what's right in America. We can make a difference.
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