You can sign up to be a part of (i.e. infiltrate) this group.
They talk one way (that this is good for you) while laying out a plan of action that if taken will do the opposite (and ignore that part).
We should be using their 20 theses as a psychiatric test. if you agree with more than 10 of their points then you are hopelessly insane.
We can create our own 99% group and publish “other” platforms.
19. requiring free air time and public campaign finances to all candidates who obtain sufficient petition signatures and/or votes to participate in the primaries and/or electoral process, to shorten the campaign season and to allow voting on weekends and holidays.
Could you imagine 10 million people running for office?
So what happens when Michael Moore makes a moronic speech at an awards ceromony? Is he frog marched out? People seem to think these plans are good but what happens if me and a few friends take out an advertisement promoting a particular political view point. Are we arrested? Fined?
Sorry to be such a pest, y’all, but I don’t see any signatures on this Declaration or Constitution or Manifesto or whatever you want to call it.
Damn good idea. Why didn't somebody think of this before.
We can call it "Public Schooling" or some such thing.
Yeah, yeah. I know it sounds all pie-in-the-sky, wish-upon-a-star, Pollyannish and whatnot but, dagnabbit, I think it's worth a try!
Just an observation: Since McCain’s illegal limits on campaign contributions, the rinos and the DNC have taken over the country.
The socialists in both parties enjoy free and a limitless leftist media and entertainment campaign advertising.
My plan is simple: Amend the US Constitution to remove (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) - The ‘commerce’ clause, from which all evil propagated by the Federal Government emerges. Kill it and you kill the evil.
Hey! Free gourmet food too!
http://newyorkpost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/occu_pie_the_kitchen_PIZ7EsDJEZqzPgzzEWKX7I
Their twentyfirst demand was that all lending institutions and corporations be put on double-secret probation.
Why don’t we just call this “Directive 10-289”?
Bang on your bongo drums and sing Kumbaya until we stop laughing?
An American Citizen Committed to Upholding the Constitution
BE IT RESOLVED THAT:
WE, THE 53 PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA who actually pay taxes and are not whiners demanding others pay for mistakes under threat of incarceration or death, in order to restore a more perfect Union, by, for and of the PEOPLE, shall oppose any steps taken to undermine our glorious Constitution.
1. Recognizing that beyond simple conversation or yelling, all communications entail inherent cost which nigh unto always involves an exchange of currency. BE IT HELD that the right to free speech, and the right to free association, means that citizens may pool their resources to facilitate one citizen’s voice as to reach millions of ears.
2. The continued sustaining of the holding in the “Citizens United” case by the Supreme Court, which recognizes the right of any associative group of citizens to pool their monies and donate those funds to politicians to facilitate the high practical cost of free speech on a large scale. BE IT HELD that nobody may stifle the right of one person to voluntarily pay for the use of microphone, press, or website by another in the exercise of protected speech.
3. In recognizing that it is human nature to leverage concentrated power thru financial influence of leadership, and that prohibiting such influence to any meaningful degree is impossible due to the scope, complexity, and leverage of laws, the sociopolitical imperative must be to minimize the influence of the federal government by reducing federal revenue and spending to the minimums intended by the Founding Fathers and embodied within a plain reading of the Constitution.
4. (See #3.)
5. A complete reformation of the United States Tax Code to require ALL citizens to pay a fair share of a flat income tax thereby eliminating loopholes, unfair tax breaks, exemptions and deductions, subsidies, and ending all other methods of evading taxes. The current system of taxation favors the poorest Americans, 47% of all citizens, as a whole pay an order of magnitude less taxes to the United States Treasury than 1% of citizens. We, who bear the burden of taxation are becoming outvoted by those who pay no taxes, find this income tax disparity to be fundamentally unjust.
6. Removal of all distortions of the healthcare market, encouraging all citizens to choose and pay for services rendered as they see fit. A medical “safety net” may be erected for those who forgo preparatory coverage, and will be billed for use thereof with the option of negotiating long-term payments evaluated on a per-case basis in consideration of means (ex.: lifetime payments of $5/day, sale of “luxury” items such as HDTVs and XBoxes).
7. New simplified regulations to give the Environmental Protection Agency limited powers to shut down corporations, businesses or any entities that intentionally or recklessly damage property and/or criminally prosecute individuals who intentionally damage property. We also demand the immediate rejection of the most recent international protocols, which rely in large part on transference of guilt to those with deep pockets, and on harnessing energy via means little more practical than unicorns on treadmills.
8. Adoption of an immediate plan to eliminate the national debt by 2041. Reduction of the national debt to be achieved by BOTH across-the-board spending cuts achieving an immediate end of deficit spending AND a flat income tax code that does not allow the majority of citizens to evade taxes by rank idleness. We agree that tax cuts are necessary but those cuts must be made to optimize revenue according to the Laffer Curve.
9. Passage of a comprehensive jobs act in the form of letting employers and employees agree on a wage, removing the prohibition of jobs worth less than an arbitrary amount.
10. Student loan debt relief. Our young People and students are, being bright enough for college, smart enough to decide how much debt they can afford and whether their pursuits have reasonable odds of providing an income suitable for paying it off in a reasonable time. To achieve relief, the one who agreed to the loan must, by whatever means, earn enough to pay it off. Getting a degree is no guarantee of getting a job.
11. Immediate enforcement of immigration laws. There is to wit a front door which anyone may request entry through in accordance with established laws mirroring international practices, and anyone coming in the window without permission shall be shown the door.
12. Recalling all military personnel at all non-essential bases and refocusing national defense goals to address threats posed by the geopolitics of the 21st century, including terrorism and limiting the large scale deployment of military forces to instances where Congressional approval has been granted via declaration of war involving the literal phrase “declare[s] war”.
13. Mandating new educational goals of excellence achieved through competition fostered by school vouchers, and paying our teachers a salary that is competitive with other private educational institutions.
14. Elimination of corporate tax loopholes and exploited exemptions by eliminating corporate taxes. Corporations are nothing more than the aggregation of individual taxpayers, and are therefore taxed enough already. Incentives to businesses to remain in the United States and hire its citizens rather than outsource jobs entails removal of blindly prohibitive taxation, regulation, and prohibitions. By permitting employers to pay what jobs are worth, and eliminating welfare for the able, will give jobs to the 9.1% unemployed.
15. Implementing of immediate legislation to remind trading partners that currency manipulation serves only to damage their own economies in the long run.
16. Immediate repeal of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Dodd-Frank Act, and other increased regulation of Wall Street and the financial industry. Commencement of a Justice Department criminal investigations into the Securities and Banking agency practices that led to the collapse of markets by requiring them to make loans to people who could not afford them.
17. Adoption of a plan to let the market sort out the government-induced mortgage industry mess on its own terms. Anyone who obtained a mortgage without reason to believe they could pay it, and any company which issued such a loan, shall enjoy the obvious consequences of doing so.
18. A review of all foreclosures to assure claimed debt holders are in fact so.
19. Subject to the natural right to free speech and free association, taxpayers shall not be compelled to pay for speech they do not agree with nor agree to support.
20. An immediate restoration of a modernized form of the Militia Act of 1792, coupled with full respect for the Second Amendment, recognizing that everyone who lives here is obligated to their part in defense of self, home, community, and country.
- Constitutional Amendment - And here I thought you all were of the opinion that the Constitution is antiquated - I guess that's only when it serves your purposes, huh?
- require ALL citizens to pay a fair share of a progressive, graduated income tax - do you realize that you would then have to pay taxes??
- Medicare for all American citizens; Passage of a comprehensive job and job-training act; Student loan debt relief; Immediate passage of the Dream Act; An immediate one year freeze on all foreclosures - and just who would pay for all of these entitlements???
My proposal for a Constitutional Amendment: All students receiving any form of government loan or scholarship must take and pass Economics 101.
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