michael fiedler for president version three
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Patrick Henry ‘s famous quotation “Give me liberty of give me death!” was credited as the deciding motivation delivering Virginan troops and George Washington to the Revolutionary War. How many of you today would be willing to give up you’re lives to defend our constitution? Well we know that hundreds of thousands of men and women have risked their lives defending this country in the immediate past. But are they defending this country and its symbol the Statue of Liberty and all it represents or the United States Constitution? I wonder how many of those people who have taken the oath to defend our Constitution have actually read it. I wonder how many of them have reflected on the possibility that the Constitution may have been fundamentally flawed. We know that the constitution was a compromise between two basic fundamental theories of government. Thomas Jefferson believed in strong State rights and a weak Federal Government, no Federal bank, and very limited associations of the Federal Government with businesses. Alexander Hamilton believed in the opposite. The constitution should have been designed to follow the precepts of the Declaration of Independence, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The question is has it? Let me ask you to be patient and suspend you’re disbelief when I say our country is great despite the extremely harmful effects of our Constitution. That the Constitution needs to be erased and replaced! Wow! After this opening statement people are going to think I’m nuts. I like that phrase “nuts”. It was said at a critical stage in US history. At the moment of the greatest crisis for American soldiers near the end of World War Two. At a place called Bastogne, Luxembourg in the Ardennes forest, a German army surrounded our forces. The German commander asked for our surrender. Our general replied with one word “nuts”. So I say nuts. I will use the oratory of our great second to last president, Barrack Obama. I’ll have to say he does have a pretty cool name. I wonder if he knows in Hebrew his first name means lightning? Anyway, I believe I can design a transition of our federal government without affecting any of the beloved social programs presently in existence. So in the words of our dear president, you can have the same Doctor now as in after my changes In order for you to continue reading, I must make you aware that I don’t believe any of our politicians past or present, republican or democrat intended any harm to befall on our great nation. I take no sides. I am neither a Democrat, a Rebublican, a Libertarian, a socialist or an anarchist. I share many principles supported by all of our parties present and past. But I say none of us have the right to enforce our principles by politics on our fellow citizens. That is simply not consistent with why our country was miraculously created by long gone patriots. When I mention disparaging remarks about any politician current or historic, I am using it to emphasize a point. I have nothing against any of these people. They are fellow Americans. I have to believe that all of them thought they were helping our country. Almost all of the damage they have created to this country and world were just unintended consequences.
While it is true that in the history of our planet that there have been many civilizations that have enjoyed some measure of individual freedom under various forms of government. Their economies, their arts and sciences have flourished. Some have even enjoyed “Golden Ages” where there have been monumental giant accomplishments in all areas of human endeavor. But they have all fallen to a morass of corruption, been uprooted by violent upheaval, suffered a “coup de d’état”, or were swallowed in part or whole by war with a stronger foreign power. We have been FED a load of crap (pun intended). That our nation has become a beacon of liberty because of the beauty of our form of Democracy as defined by the perfect balance of power of our unique constitution. If we could bring those gentlemen, the writers of our blueprint of freedom to our present time they would be aghast. Simply the mountain of devastation that was caused directly or indirectly by our nation since it’s founding would have left them crestfallen. The power usurped by our heads of state would have made them befuddled. The volumes of laws passed by their perfectly balanced congress that have destroyed much of our individual liberty would have stricken their hearts. The truth is that our country has become great despite our constitution and our democracy. It has been a beacon of hope and amazing accomplishments because of our wonderful people born here and those that have sacrificed everything to travel to our beloved and awesome country. The truth about Democracy is that it is only as good as its citizens. If all our citizens present in America today would truly believe in their hearts give me liberty or give me death it wouldn’t matter what form of government we had. None of what has occurred over the last two hundred years would have happened. But that’s an impossible dream. It shocks me to think that the tens of thousands of scholars who have become educated in Political Science have blinded themselves to the reality that Democracy and freedom go hand in hand. Show me a democracy that over time individual freedom has not declined. In point of fact some democracies become totalitarian states shortly after their formation. An extreme example of this was Adolph Hitler who was elected democratically. All of the other Democracies including ours have become less free as time goes on. It’s inevitable. By definition in Democracy the majority rules and the minority, the individuals lose. It’s the majority who choose representatives that continuously pass laws that are suppose to correct some injustice or benefit the people that elected them. They all lead to unintended consequences that require more rules. Over time this endless loop of laws, rules, and taxes to pay for the laws and rules leads to an exponential decline in freedom. Albert Einstein once said the most powerful force in nature is compound interest. If you went back in time to 1776 and could invest $1000 at 4% interest, it would be worth about eight million dollars in 2015. I say the same force works in government. If we started with one hundred laws in 1776 it has become 80,000 laws today.
The United States constitution is unique. The founding fathers brilliantly conceived of a system of checks and balances to prevent this political decay. But it only has delayed the inevitable. It should now be as plain as the nose on all our faces that the check and balance system has failed. Think about what has happened in Washington since the start of the great depression in 1929. An incoming President has been elected sometimes even without a popular majority. He announces a new sweeping policy change to our system of life. Sometimes we are lucky that he can’t garnish enough support to get his new policy made law. But usually some form of it is passed. These policies are especially easy to get passed immediately after a period of economic downturn when our citizens are desperate for a quick fix, or as the result of a scary terrorist attack. Congress passes a bill that has so many pages that none of them probably even read it, much less analyze the consequences to our people individually, our national economy, or the world at large. Parenthetically, we know that in our congress these new laws in order to be passed are a shadow of what their constituents desired and almost definitely not what the minority desired. Then of course most of these bills have many pieces of unrelated special interest “trick or treats” commonly called “Pork Barrel” additives that are required to insure that the main bill will be passed. These representatives hand deliver the bill to our great and powerful wizards of presidency and who with great fanfare sign them into law. So the first check of the balance of power created by our founders, the presidential veto is only employed when the president doesn’t get most of what he wants. Not because he believes its wrong to put more burdens on our citizens. (Presidents have begged for a line item veto for decades to prevent these artificial additives. Good luck on that!) Of course now we need tens of thousands of new bureaucrats that interpret and execute the new policy. Because these bureaucrats are individuals and not a mindless hive of ants that march exactly to the orders of the queen ant (The President) the hundred-‐page bill becomes a thousand regulations. Oh by the way isn’t interesting that in the insect world it s the female that rules! The new beurocrats cost money. Taxes must be increased. Then over time our individual freedom of choice becomes more and more limited. And of course each new regulation has unintended consequences that require more bills and more regulations to “fix them”. And from small acorns to the giant oak tree of our great country it increasingly rots from the inside out. Congress has a duty to watch how their new bill is working. But with the size of our present federal government, which has three to four million people, that doesn’t include the department of defense or our armed forces or our security agencies. (No one seems to know exactly how many! But it is at least ten times the number of people who ran the country in 1932. How can a few hundred members of congress monitor the progress of their legislation? They are all too busy checking how good they look on the Internet. Oh and by the way we are supposed to be a free society. But we have no idea how many people work for the CIA or NSA or homeland security.
Oh and where is the Supreme Court the third check to the balance of power. Guys these are just twelve men and women. When the country was created this might have seemed sufficient. But now how can it. There are so many disputes outside the arena of politics. How can they devote much time to monitoring the behavior of Congress or the President? But if they are handed a political football to judge, do you really think they judge laws by the constitution or by their personal political biases? I think they are more interested in who is the quarterback (the guy who writes the majority opinion) that scores the touchdown. He or she gets in the history book! Supreme court decisions have many times changed the law of the land. The constitution never intended for that to happen! They are supposed to be judges not law makers. Ob you might say we did have presidents where policies restricting individual liberty were reversed. How about President Reagan? Yes we do have occasional winds that blow our government back towards liberty. Fewer taxes. Fewer regulations. But that trend is inevitably reversed with the next administration. In actually, it matters not if republicans or democrats are in power. The degradation of liberty sometimes crawls, sometimes marches and sometimes runs towards eventual disaster. Enough said of the sad state of affairs of our political process. Let’s examine the constitution in light of the three principles that our county declared independence. LIFE This principle expressed here by our Founding Fathers is the belief that individual life is sacrosanct. That at that times a King living in Britain could theoretically sentence to death anyone at his whim. But I think the idea is more universal. Those of us who believe in a supreme being who has commanded us in the bible that murder is a sin whether done by an individual or a group have an appreciation for that fact. But I think for them it should be more clear because as a Supreme Being God could have created our planet with millions of human beings not just one. Jewish lore states the reason God created the world with just Adam was to show that causing the death of one man is as if that person destroyed an entire world. On the opposite side; the atheists, the evolutionists, and those that agree with Stephen Hawking’s that all of creation can be explained by modern physics without resorting to an all powerful God whatever their reason for a moral stance that human life is sacrosanct, they too must realize the beginning of humankind must have been started with just a handful of individuals. So that there too if those first intelligent self aware beings had been murdered it also would have been like destroying the whole world. They also must understand that causing the death of one human being
could result in an Einstein, a Graham Bell, a Thomas Edison, a Gandhi, a Martin Luther King or any of the greater or lessor people never having been born. Therefore how can we have a government that a president without any oversight launches a drone strike and murders a group of people half way around the world and maybe one or several of them are would be terrorists? But as we all know there is always collateral damage the euphemism for the senseless slaughter of innocent women and children. As citizens of this country all of us are responsible for his actions. If this happened in the 1960’s spontaneous protests would occur all over our nation. I guess as a nation we have become numb to the evil perpetrated under our name. That of course is just the smallest of outrages committed by our Presidents over time. But that fault lies with our founding fathers. It was written in a Constitution that created the authority for this possibility to happen. Our founding fathers drenched all of us with the responsibility for a sea of blood and pain from the very beginning of the creation of our great county. Can any of us now have let a constitution be written that allowed slavery? Think of all the lives destroyed by this act. It would have been better if we had remained a loose association of states then to give a moral blessing for such an outrageous miscarriage of justice. Don’t forget that women were not even considered to be citizens when they wrote the Constitution. They had no representation. They could not vote. Yet we got what we deserved. The saying “What comes around goes around” hit us with full force during the civil war. Six hundred twenty thousand of our US citizens died. Another five hundred thousand were severely injured. That doesn’t even scratch the surface of the property loss, the economic devastation and the long-‐term consequences. Let’s discuss the creation of a single person as the head of our executive branch in the constitution. Lovingly called POTUS by our secret service. Parenthetically. Just the act of our nation creating a body of men called the “Secret Service” should strike fear in our hearts. What secret acts have these men and women done? Our free society should have no room for secrecy. But lets leave that aside for now. What are some of the highlights of the history of our early Presidents? Between 1801 and 1805 the United States became involved in a war against the so-‐called “Barbary Pirates” of North Africa. The war was fought on the behest of American merchantmen that were captured, enslaved and held for ransom. The negotiated ransom first paid was one million dollars. That was 10% of the entire US budget. The USA continued to pay it for fifteen years, until Thomas Jefferson built the US navy. Self-‐defense is a righteous and appropriate use of Federal power. But in this case, our navy and marines were used in a way to protect special interests. The merchantmen knew that the Mediterranean was an unsafe place to travel. But the profits were high and worth the risks involved at least to the owners of these ships. But when their sailors were enslaved they cried to our government to take
action. Our president Thomas Jefferson with just a wink from congress authorized action. So American and foreign blood was spilled for the sake of a few American businessmen. A very dangerous precedent was established. There were many alternatives then the use of Federal Governmental power and it violated an important moral precept. It was the beginning of “special interests” influencing our government without regard for its people. I’m sure the mother’s of the dead and wounded sailors and marines were very happy that it was now safe to send shipping through the Mediterranean. You could argue that protecting commerce is an important part of our Federal Government. I agree. I also agree that a justified use of our armed forces gives us vital training in the art of war unavailable in peacetime. But it must be used judiciously, with great care, on a voluntary and well paid basis by the men involved and the costs should be born by the direct beneficiary’s. Just shortly thereafter was the war of 1812. I wonder how many Americans know that the song, our national anthem, the Star-‐Spangled Banner is about the war in 1812? When it mentions the rockets red glare and the bombs bursting in air. Those were the latest weapons of the British Army! Yes ladies and gentlemen we were stupid enough to get involved in another war with the greatest military power on the planet! It was just a couple of decades since we miraculously won our freedom. Our president and congress risked the entire existence of our country on the throw of the dice of war! It doesn’t matter now why they did it. Some say we didn’t like them taking our sailors who believed had deserted from the British navy off our vessels in open sea. Not that it matters, but I think most historians would say we thought the British were tied down with Napoleon in Europe and we could steal Canada away from the British. The war lasted more then two years. Our capital was burned to the ground. What idiocy it was to allow our Federal government, mostly just at the whim of our president, the power to start conflicts. There are always alternatives to resorting to war. “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” Isaac Asimov. I have been an amateur military historian for most of the forty-‐five years of my adult life. I have spent thousands of hours reading about wars and battles and have played tactical and strategic simulations of most of the battles from the level of the platoon all the way up to simulations of the entirety of World War One and World War Two. There have been relatively small battles in the last seven hundred years whose outcome changed the course of history. Each of these battles was affected by random events that could have turned the outcome either way. They were all mostly preventable. They were often mishandled at every level of the conflict. Especially by the meddling of the Politian’s overseeing the military. The last thing a country wants to do is subject its citizens to the fog of war.
Let’s talk about the constitution making the president the Commander-‐in-‐chief of United States Armed Forces. Maybe back in the late 1700’s it made sense that a President without any military training becoming Commander-‐in-‐chief. Wars were still relatively unsophisticated. Men would stand in a long line pointing their muskets at the enemies line fire away and then charge with bayonets. The strategy and tactics of such a war were easy to understand and easy to teach an incoming president. But today, the complexities of our world and the varieties of weaponry, strategy and tactics are vast. I’m sure even our Joint Chiefs of Staffs after a lifetime in the military would be the first to admit they are overwhelmed by the possibilities of warfare in our time. Yet from President Roosevelt to the present, (with the notable exception of President Eisenhower) all of our presidents have been eager to use our military as their private toy. Hundreds of thousands of precious American lives have been lost in the last one hundred years directly because we have a President as Commander-‐in-‐chief. None of those wars had to be fought by the US. Or at least in the form and ill preparation they were fought. From the extension of the length and destruction of World War One to the horrors of all the wars that followed they were all the result of unintended consequences of our government. Ladies and gentlemen you have been sold a bill of trash. It was the mishandling of the US government that got us involved in both great wars. I can show World War two was an unintended consequence of the US government! When you begin to doubt the historians eager to laud the US, you will understand that our government also created most of the evils that followed World War Two. I will discuss each one of them individually later. Those of us who were brought up in the 50’s and 60’s experienced first hand the emotional impact of the worry of a world ending in a nuclear holocaust. Every hour there would be a test of the emergency broadcast system in the event of a nuclear attack on TV. I remember at age seven a fallout shelter for sale at the neighboring gas station in the suburbs of Chicago. My whole family glued to the seats of our dining room watching the latest news of the Cuban missile crisis. If you haven’t seen them, you should watch On the Beach, Failsafe and Dr. Strangelove. At the age of twenty-‐one I began trading stocks by the side of my broker at Rodman and Crenshaw in Chicago. It was the middle of the Yom Kippur War. Across the ticker tape came a message that as a result of the Soviet Union mobilizing its airborne division to aid Egypt, President Nixon raised the nuclear threat level. I guess he was willing to play the Nuke card on his own authority. It’s a miracle the world is still here. But giving all that power, the so-‐called nuclear football with one man, the president, who can destroy the entire planet at a moments notice is insane. (By the way why isn’t it called the nuclear baseball that’s our national sport!)? What if one of them wakes up in the middle of the night with a sudden medical condition that makes him paranoid and sure that we are under nuclear attack. And he orders a preemptive strike. I assume there are safe guards but after the shocking event of 911 can we be so sure? So by the test of Life as an important precept of the United States Constitution, the office of presidency fails miserably.
This is why I am not only running for president but I am running to be the final president. I will write the presidency out of our new constitution. I will discuss the presidency in light of the other precepts of our great country as we go on. I assure you the office of presidency fails liberty and the pursuit of happiness as well. In my constitution I will also describe a more rational method that involves as much of our citizenries approval as possible in the use of our military power, the power over life and death. LIBERTY The idea of liberty in the Declaration of Independence meant that Americans demanded the right of individual freedom of choice and freedom of will. The former meaning that all Americans wanted the right to choose whatever course of action they desired. The freedom of will meant that all Americans wanted the right to choose to think anyway they pleased. So the founding fathers believed they had created a constitution that supported this precept. How well do you think they have done? Well let’s leave the glaring mistake of allowing slavery aside for now. They believed they had created an ingenious document. A document where there would be three branches of government that would balance out each ones power over the other. A congress that would be represents each state according to their size (The House of Representatives based on the population of a state) and their existence (The senate with two members per state). An executive branch composed of the President and the cabinet. And the watch dog Supreme Court with just twelve old wise men and women in power for life answering to no one. So our nation is created. Let’s look at the function of our Congress the legislative branch. We already had states that had been in existence for decades. The States all had a detailed set of codes of laws. The States were further broken down to Counties that had their own set of laws. The counties were further broken down to municipalities with their own laws. The lawful governing of our citizenry was already in place. It was working well with no great burden to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. So what did the founders think the Congress would do to enhance the freedom of its individual citizens? Well the main function of congress is to legislate. That means to write even more laws. Does anyone believe that another law on the federal level would help create more freedom for its citizens or less? If the writers believed it would cause more freedom why did they amend it so quickly with the bill of rights? What else does congress do? They watch over the budget. They decide the allocation of Federal money. Considering that the debt is now 18 trillion dollars they have done a crackerjack job! What else? They are supposed to have exclusive
power to declare war. Well it’s estimated that before 1970 the president has ordered military actions 149 times without congressional approval. And we all know it’s been even worse since then. This should have been a clear impeachable offense by the president, which is another power of congress. It’s been threatened but never used. What else? They are supposed to regulate commerce between states and foreign powers. Does anyone believe that any congressmen has the know how to run even the simplest of businesses? So how do we expect them to help run the biggest economy in the world? What else? They are supposed to watch over the executive branch to make sure everything is Kosher. Well during my lifetime there has been scandal after scandal in the executive branch. I can’t remember a single time that congress made the slightest difference after months of hearings except maybe when they caught tricky Dick Nixon at Watergate. They approve nominations by the executive branch. I doubt that matters. The executive branch ultimately gets what it wants. They are supposed to approve treaties with other nations. Well firstly our present President has been side stepping this power. And second of all, treaties by their nature are an agreement that excludes the freedom of choice of some of our citizenry. The United States should not make a treaty with anyone because they contradict the principle of individual Liberty. Ah the US Post office enough said. Patents and copyrights, I doubt a single congressman has ever been involved in reviewing these very important ideas. Oh taxes. Wow there they have created the most complex tax code in the history of the world! Big Kudos! Congress grants approximately thirty billion dollars of foreign aid given yearly. I don’t know where they got the authority from the constitution to conduct this policy. But forcing our citizens to give this vast some of money with little oversight to regimes that are hardly similar to our own is a huge travesty of justice and individual liberty. In point of fact private charitable foreign funds greatly exceed government aid. That’s because we are the kindest and most generous group of individuals on Earth. I refer you to read the excellent article written by the former house representative and former presidential candidate Ron Paul in an article online in Antiwar.com. So in the constitution that I will write there will be no congress! It’s totally unnecessary and extremely harmful. Besides in present day United States the president has stolen most of the power of the congress anyway. The great benefit of no Congress is no federal taxes in my constitution! Don’t stop reading now. The United States Federal government has many ways to finance itself without confiscatory power. I am not a lunatic. Well since it isn’t the full moon while I am writing this maybe you should be worried. (That was a joke. Humor always has a place in life. One of my greatest teachers told me to be truly wise you need a good sense of humor.)
Let’s turn our attention to the executive branch. We are a modern people now so lets examine the cabinet, as it exists today not at the time of the constitution. How well does the cabinet function and how should it really practice in protecting our lives and liberty. THE MAJOR CABINETS AND AGENCIES Office of the Vice President. Well there will be no President so any need for an office of the Vice President. Secretary of State. Serves as the President’s principal advisor on U.S. foreign policy. Well again no president so no need. Conducts negotiations with foreign governments. Well we are the United States of America the most powerful nation on the planet. And do we have 5000 nuclear warheads or ten thousand? In all this confusion I forgot. We don’t negotiate we dictate. Besides we are a nation of individuals, no one person can make decisions that we all must abide. Please my fellow citizens remember the military draft still exists. If a treaty gets us involved in a major war, you’re children may be forced to fight and die. Grants and issues Passports. Ok we need that to travel and reentry our land. Advises on what foreign emissaries can reside or visit the USA. Well we are a free country. Anyone should be allowed to visit our country and stay as long as they wish, and work in the US as long as they are not criminals or violate our laws. (As noncitizens there would be a much higher standard they would be held to for remaining in our Country.) So this is an important function. Every law-‐abiding person that visits or works in our country not only increases the wealth of our nation, it brings back our culture to foreign lands. Parenthetically, President Hoover blocked immigration right after the onset of the great depression. That certainly did not make the economy better. I think to keep our ports of entry running as smoothly as possible. We should make all foreigners visit one of our overseas consuls and be preapproved to visit the US. The granting of these Visas would be totally done on the authority and investigation of our State Department. We can never be one hundred percent sure that no evil doers will slip through the cracks. But we need to keep attracting the best and the brightest and the most freedom loving people in the world to increase our wealth and opportunity. Once this policy is in effect, going through immigration should be a breeze. We should allocate as much resources as necessary to review all applications overseas. We should greatly increase the size and personnel overseas
in our counsels. The only disqualification should be a check of crimes on previous visits to the US, or crimes overseas, or serious illness. But traditionally the Department of State has its own intelligence division. They should give the final approval of any visas. It’s a dangerous world out there they should reject those they suspect of harmful activities. But there should be an appeal process if someone states they have been unjustly accused or convicted of a crime outside the US. They would have to pay for the investigation or there could be a charitable fund created in the US to help these people that may live in sketchy countries. We should not grant diplomatic immunity. Half of these diplomats are spies. And do we really want foreign powers being able to smuggle dangerous items in their diplomatic pouches? And screw them taking parking places illegally in Manhattan and getting away with it. Oh and by the way did you know that during World War two, some of our scientists betrayed nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union? Stalin started building his own weapon before ours was completed. However the Soviet Union had no source of Uranium until they occupied the Czech republic in 1945. And that source they didn’t start mining it until 1947. Guess where they got their Uranium before that. They stole it from the United States in a diplomatic pouch, two tons worth. That must have been some big Kangaroo. Anyway if you allow a legal and significantly less costly and dangerous way of arriving at our country without crossing deserts with coyotes; Or being stuck in cargo containers for long voyages; or before they just opened Cuba small boats across the Florida straits; we wouldn’t have to build a wall on the Mexican border. We aren’t the Soviet Union that walls people in or out. We are a country of people who have come here to seek freedom. Are we going to allow a Nazi like action and round up 11 million mostly hard working people and throw them out? Almost all the people that have come to the United States have helped to build it. There were two and a half million people in this country 1776. Now there are three hundred and twenty million. If we had not let the country be built by immigrants we would be a third of the size we are now. Let’s not forget that this country and world owes it’s greatness to just a handful of immigrants. I invite you to explore the biography of Nikola Tesla. He was the greatest inventor of modern times. (Yes that’s the guy whom Elon Musk named his company after.) It’s a fact that the economy and opportunity go hand in hand with freedom and size of population. If they can, people tend to stay where they were raised with their friends and family. It’s only the biggest risk takers and hardest workers that struggle to travel to the freedom of the US. By allowing all people almost unfettered use of our ports of entry, we will be a more secure country. Anyone that law enforcement becomes aware of trying to enter the country illegally, by crossing the desert, using Canadian wilderness, or entering illegally by sea, we can assume they are criminals and are dangerous and act accordingly.
I will have much more to say about the issues surrounding customs and immigration laws and border safety when I write my suggested constitution. What else? They are supposed to negotiate treaties. Well we’ve seen how well that has gone with Iran. Again treaties are against the principal of liberty. Our citizens should not have to abide by an agreement with a foreign power. Treaties can be very dangerous to the safety of the world. It was a network of treaties that entangled the world in the First World War. Helps our citizens abroad. This is a proper and important function of the State Department. So yes to a limited form of the Secretary of State. But I think all the proper functions I have described above can be administered by the second in command at office of Secretary of State. The most important part of the state department is the Secretary of State himself or herself. That being the resolution of important disputes with foreign powers that may involve us in military action. I will describe later in my suggested new constitution how this person should be selected. We shouldn’t have a secretary of states that have had no experience with diplomacy like Hillary Clinton whose only use of her position was to travel around the world more times then any of her forbears. A person who enriched her family to the tune of over a billion dollars by misuse of her position. A person who authorized the sneaky ploy that allowed the Soviet Union to steel one sixth of the world supply of Uranium. Oh and by the way I never had sex with that woman (Hillary)! Department of Treasury The United States of America has the largest collection of assets in the world and also the largest debt. So of the executive branches this should be one of the most important. It is also the most hated. What do they do? Manage Federal finances. That seems to be a very vague duty. I guess it means they write all the checks to the other departments. Anyone with a checkbook could do that. What else? Collect taxes, duties and any other money due to the US. Should be a no brainer. But they manage to foul it up completely. They make everyone hate them. I guess one of the sneaky things they do is let you pay them on the installment plan. I think most people know that we have to work the first three or four months for the IRS until we get to pocket the rest of our dollars. If they
acted like the tax collectors in the Middle Ages where they came to you’re home the first three months of the year and took all your earnings the country would have an immediate revolution. Because when you look at income taxes in this light you realize that income tax is outright slavery. They print currency and make coins. This is called counterfeiting. Some would say that if the government does it, it cannot be called counterfeiting. But forcing our citizens to use pieces of paper and numbers in our bank account that cant be redeemed from the government with something objective what else can you call it? We were once on the Gold standard. Every dollar created by the Federal Government was backed by gold. But for United States citizens in 1933 the right to change our paper money to something physical and valuable like gold was taken away. But it was worse then that, all American citizens had to turn in their gold for paper money. Most of you probably don’t know or remember but it was illegal to for us to own gold until 1975. Only foreign countries could redeem US dollars into gold until 1971. Can you believe that under our beautiful constitution a President not only stole our gold, but he took away our right to own it! The government had many rationalizations for this brutal attack on our rights. But the government insists they have been granted this power from god. Congress passed this act in 1861. “Our nation under God” They supervise national banks and institutions. Well gee they did a hum digger job of this the mid 2000’s. They almost succeeded in destroying the entire world’s financial institutions. And now of course they are doing equally just as great a job. The Federal Reserve is supplying almost unlimited funds to the banking system, but the Department of Treasury is making sure very few people can borrow any money. So basically the Department of Treasury are Chinese. They believe in Yin and Yang. They tried Yin letting everybody borrow money even if they weren’t credit worthy. That ended with the housing crisis. And now Yang only the insiders the big boys can buy out other companies with all this extra cash. Everyone else you have shown you cant be trusted with debt. This is one of the real reasons the economic recovery has been so slow the last five years. All the small businesses, the small startups that could normally get loans are not able to get anything until they prove themselves. Our citizens believing in themselves and getting loans from banks built America. We need to close shop on the Treasury as far as administering our financial institutions. Oh they are the ones that will take you’re property when you don’t pay you’re taxes. They will also put in jail if you print your own money. As Rand Paul said don’t steal from the government they don’t like competition. They also run the following services. The secret service. They protect the president and have large booty parties.
Alcohol, firearms and Tobacco. Alcohol department enforced the Volstead act made the Kennedy family very rich. Oh we in Chicago got three great pieces of entertainment out of it. The TV show the Untouchables. The movie the Untouchables, and a piece of the series Boardwalk Empire. (I am going to be liberal in the use of idea’s and themes created by Hollywood films and fictional writers. I am using these ideas to emphasize points. I know they are fiction. but Hollywood movies represent American culture. Aspects of Hollywood films have undeniably even shaped our culture and our patterns of thought. There are many instances of fiction in films and books predicting real life events.) Firearms. They are good. They ran Project Gunrunner also known as “Fast and “Furious”. That worked out real well. Guns sold by our government were used in numerous crimes on both sides of the border. Well I guess this violates our sanctity of life test. Tobacco Well I guess they do a very good job. American cigarettes are prized all over the world especially Marlboros. Department of Defense Oh my god this department is stuffed with so many functions I am not going to bore you with an analysis. The following is copied from the defense.gov website. Major elements of OSD Start_Module_618 ▪ Secretary of Defense ▪ Deputy Secretary of Defense ▪ Executive Secretary of the Department of Defense ▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and
Logistics (AT&L) ▪ Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller/Chief Financial Officer
(USD(C)/CFO) ▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence ▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (P&R)
▪ Under Secretary of Defense for Policy ▪ Deputy Chief Management Officer ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (ASD(A)) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian & Pacific Security Affairs
(APSA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs (GSA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (HA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global
Security ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
(ISA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs (LA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel
Readiness (L&MR) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Chief Information Officer (DoD
CIO) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear & Chemical & Biological
Defense Programs (NCB) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and
Programs (OEP&P) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (PA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering
ASD(R&E) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs (RA) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low
Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) ▪ Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans and Capabilities ▪ General Counsel of the Department of Defense ▪ Inspector General of the Department of Defense ▪ Director of OSD Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) ▪ Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) ▪ Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight (IO) ▪ Director of Administration and Management (DA&M) ▪ Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Advanced Systems and
Concepts ▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy ▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Manufacturing and
Industrial Base Policy
▪ Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment (I&E)
▪ Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Material Readiness
▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy
▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy ▪ Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Wounded Warrior Care and Transition Policy I can’t find the data of how many of the people in these multitude of sub departments are actually serving member in the military. But for certain the Secretary of Defense is a civilian. There is no requirement that this person has served in the military or that he has gone through our various war colleges. Anyway this is the guy that is supposed to advise the president on the preparedness and the use of military power. So now we have at least two levels of Bozos the clown deciding the fate of our nation. I have no idea how many other personnel without any military training theoretical or actual work in this department. Ladies and Gentleman the most important people in our lives are our physicians. Would you want decisions that affect your life determined by non-‐physician Hospital administrators or the physicians themselves? If you really want an inside look at the functioning of the Department of Defense during a crucial time in our history, I urge you to watch the documentary “Fog of War”. You tell me if this makes you feel sanguine of the way our Department of Defense conducts itself. I have to mention one quote from that movie because it is just so poignant. General Tecumseh Sherman was one of the most revered generals in the history of the United States. He was under the direct command of Abraham Lincoln the second most revered president after Washington. Sherman came with his forces to the city of Atlanta Georgia. The mayor begged the general to spare his city. Sherman responded “War is cruel”. And then Sherman torched the city and burned it down. (I have been told that this quote in the fog of war is inaccurate. That General Sherman said this to his aides not to the mayor. I don’t see much difference. He said it and he burned Atlanta.) An American general destroying a great American city! Lets contrast this with the Nazi General Dietrich von Choititz. This is a man who had carried every order of his beloved Adolf Hitler including the extermination of Jews. But when Hitler ordered this general to burn down Paris he refused. Food for thought.
The current organization of the military could certainly use vast revisions. There also definitely needs to be a civilian structure that supervises our military. But the civilians that supervise the military who make the most important decisions affecting our nation the conduct of military force, must be professionals with life long training in all of our military colleges. They must be independent of the military with no cronyism. They must dedicate their lives to this mighty responsibility. They must represent as closely as possible the individual wishes of our citizens. They will get no glory for their decisions. They will never have or develop monetary or friendly relationships with our defense industry. I will describe my ideas more fully later when I write my replacement constitution. Department of Justice The principal duties Attorney General who administers this department are: Represent the USA in legal matters I see no harm in that. Supervise the massive bureaucracy of this department I won’t bore you with a case-‐by-‐case analysis, When I’m elected I would ask every part of this organization to justify its existence. Represent the government before the Supreme Court. I find no fault with that. The drug enforcement agency is a division of this department. It was established to stop the use of illegal drugs. To date it has spent more then a trillion dollars on an endeavor that has had just as much success as the Volstead Act that required a constitutional amendment. (Can you believe that alcohol was illegal for seventeen years!)? It has criminalized many of our citizens, violating their individual liberty. Jeopardy problem. The enacting of the War on Drugs. Who was tricky Dick Nixon? Last year the Federal Government spent 25 billion dollars on drug control. The state and local levels governments in total spend 35 billion dollars. Unbelievable. Did you know that almost 1% of the citizens of our great nation are in prison. It would be a lot more if we had the space. Of those prisoners about 20% are serving time for drug offenses. Oh by the way, Afghanistan is the source of almost all-‐illegal opium in the world. If we had just opened a new super, super big Wal-‐Mart and traded nice American goods for the opium don’t you think we would have made out like bandits? For a few items of cheap Wal-‐Mart crap we could have cornered the whole illegal opium market! Then we bring it back to the US and charge a comparatively huge amount selling it to our drug companies! The Taliban would have gone bankrupt. We
wouldn’t have had the longest war in US history that probably cost us 1.3 trillion dollars! We wouldn’t have lost two thousand great Americans and seventeen thousand wounded. We wouldn’t have fought in a country that hasn’t been conquered by anyone since Genghis Kahn. If you don’t know this if Genghis Kahn had died six months later then he did, the Mongols would have controlled the entire landmass between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean! Only Alexander the great came close to the amount of territory he conquered! Not bad for little guys on horses with bows and arrows! Next time we go to the Middle East we should ask our native tribes to fight! The US cavalry said American native cavalry were the best cavalry in the world! We all have read accounts or seen movies of the billionaires created by our drug laws. I think anyone reading this knows the same thing happened during prohibition. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it (George Santayana) I have to comment on the injustice of our justice system nationwide. There has to be a better way to manage crime and punishment. We spend twice as much per year keeping someone in prison as we do educating our children. I will describe a much more rational way to manage criminal justice that does not involve prisons as we know it. That can actually make crime pay for the rest of us, while making the possibility of rehabilitation much more likely. Department of Interior This is another one of those convoluted departments that managed relationships with the native tribes of America and Hawaii and all federal land. This department has been totally mismanaged from day one. What our country did to the indigent population of America was criminal. Hitler used our behavior towards our native population for his moral justification of resettling the Ukraine with German citizens. So you know if Hitler liked the activities of this department we should cheer it on to oblivion. Department of Agriculture Oh great a bunch of non-‐farmers telling farmers how to do their job. Then there is that program they subsidize to turn corn into alcohol. Hey guys, there is a crude oil glut in the world right now. Stop giving our money to farmers to help fuel our cars. We don’t need it. It hurts the environment too. Handing out money to not grow crops, its ridiculous. Keeping a silly import duty on sugar so that all citizens have to
pay a higher price for sugar then the world price. The United States has no strategic interest in keeping uneconomical sugar industry alive. I’m sure if most of the honest remaining US farmers knew I was disbanding this department they would certainly vote for me. Any of you commodity traders like me know that this department makes or breaks you with trading grains. Totally manipulative and totally pathetic. Department of Commerce These guys could never run their own company. Government has no business getting involved in commerce. This is clearly a department opposed to individual liberty. They do collect interesting data. But this is certainly a function better suited to the private sector. Delete! Delete! Delete! Department of Labor This department works on the basis that there is a war out there between employees and employers. What do you think? I think not. Get rid of it. Department of Health and Human Services Hmmm. Human services does that mean there are some nonhuman services out there? I’m a physician. I have a huge bias against Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, the US Food and Drug administration and governmental health research. Basically the whole shebang. But what I said in the beginning would be part of my program. I would delegate all these programs and agencies to the state level. If a state wanted to keep all of this going for their citizens it would be their choice. But on a federal level no more no more! Department of Housing and Urban Development This is the department that has the most responsibility for the housing crisis of 2008. They encouraged people to go over their heads in debt to own a home. This is one of the most socialist piece of crap organizations in the government. I would get rid of it in its entirety. Department of Transportation What a joke. These guys think they can help with our roads, our railroad system, and airline travel. Most of our roads have been maintained very well on the state and local level. The problems come in that the money collected by all of us when we
buy fuel is not directed at keeping our highway system functioning. It goes into the big Federal money pot. The air traffic control system is so out of date it’s laughable. We would be much better off if the airlines themselves created a private association that would take on this responsibility. The airlines are the experts in air travel. They have a vested interest in making this travel as efficient and safe as possible. As a side note it was the FAA that made 911 possible. They made it a rule that the pilots had to let hijackers enter the cockpit. The use of an aircraft as an instrument of massive destruction had already been published in a novel written by Tom Clancy in 1994 titled Debt of Honor. In this book a disgruntled Japanese pilot flies a Jumbo Jet into the state of Union address killing everyone in the Capital, basically decapitated our entire government. Lady’s and gentlemen what a failure of the tens of thousands of governmental bodies that are supposed to prevent just this type of attack. Do none of them read popular fiction? Simply telling our pilots never open their door to terrorists would have saved thousands of lives and billions of dollars. The patriot act was drafted as a result of this horror. It has been a terrible infringement on individual liberty. Yet I do believe there is a role of the government in the interstate highway system. This system was ordered to be built by President Eisenhower who saw how difficult it was transferring our military forces across the nation in a time of crisis. If the Japanese in world war two knew how slow our response to an attack of our nation would be, they could have invaded our west coast and would have been very difficult to dislodge. I think Federal control of the interstates remains an important function in protecting individual liberty. I will describe why in my constitution. Department of Energy This august body were the people that ran the Manhattan project. The story of the building of the Atomic Bomb and later the more powerful hydrogen bomb should be required reading of all citizens of the United States. We are the only country in the world that has used these weapons to kill people. I personally saw the monument of the shadow of people imprinted on a building in Hiroshima. It made me very emotional. It still makes me sigh when I think about it. The costs and benefits, the history, the betrayals, the espionage, the ethics remain important topics to our citizenry. It’s impossible to put the genie back in the bottle, but let us not forget that the architect of this weapon announced after the first nuclear test explosion that he had become “Death the destroyers of worlds”. Albert Einstein sent the letter to President Roosovelt advising him to construct the atom bomb. Late in his life, Einstein said that letter was his only regret. I studied the Manhattan project when I was eighteen years old. I read every book in the Library. I was fascinated. The librarian helped me look through periodicals with details of this project. As a result of my extensive research, I wrote my first paper in
college titled how I could build an Atomic Bomb. I also learned considering the enormous size of this project, all of the science that had to be invented, the sheer number of highly gifted physicists, chemists, engineers and out of the box thinkers, the building of the infrastructure, it could not have been built in peacetime. It could not have been built by Germany. I personally spoke to one of the architects of the Hydrogen Bomb. I was his anesthesiologist. I asked him in retrospect would he have helped build a bomb, one thousand times as powerful as the original weapon dropped on Hiroshima. He emphatically said no way on earth! There continued role supervising the development of nuclear technology is controversial. I think we need a nation wide discussion of the future of nuclear technology both for peaceful and military uses. Considering that these weapons can result in the destruction of the planet its importance cannot be emphasized. Department of Education This is a euphemism for the department of propaganda. All kidding aside, it has no place in Federal Government. It violates our freedoms and our pursuit of happiness. This department just represents the way our whole executive branch is bringing us closer and closer to total central government planning. I know we are still far away from being able to compare our executive branch to the old Soviet Union which collapsed because of central planning, but that is the direction we are headed. Department of Veteran Affairs Well we all should have heard recently of the failures of this department. I personally worked for many months in the West Side VA hospital in Chicago both as a medical student and as a resident. It’s basically a place where our veterans are treated as guinea pigs for the training of our physicians. It needs to be replaced. Part of the benefits we should give our armed forces for their service should be life long private care by the best of our medical system. Shortly before the 2004 election, the New England Journal of medicine had a description of the new state of care for battlefield injuries in the Middle East. It was amazing to see how the new policies saved more lives then in all previous conflicts. But the graphic pictures were heart breaking. If Kerry had used these pictures in the presidential campaign he would have had a great shot of winning. Anyway the long-‐term care for these gravely injured soldiers should be on the same level as the treatment that saved their lives.
President Bush should have personally pinned purple hearts on each of these soldiers. Maybe that would have persuaded him that our troops should have been brought home. Department of Homeland Security When President Bush coined the term “Homeland”, it brought up thoughts in my head of the “Fatherland” Nazi Germany. I wonder how many other Americans had the same thought. Shortly after world war two the Central Intelligence Agency was created because of the intelligence lapse at Pearl Harbor. They were supposed to collate all the intelligence gathered by the other alphabet soup of agencies into a unified outlook. After 911 our government decided that wasn’t enough. This policy is a failure of the understanding of the psychology of individuals. All the heads of our law enforcement services compete with each other for money, for power, for attention. That’s why they keep all their secrets to themselves. This has to stop. All these agencies need to be either disbanded or unified into one. The whole subject of espionage, counter-‐espionage and the medaling in the affairs of other nations should be questioned. My favorite quote of Benjamin Franklin is “They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”. This quote should be made into a big sign at the entrance of all of our federal security and enforcement agencies. Finally we have two agencies that seem to live in a world of their own. The Environmental Protection Agency I graduated as a Chemical Engineer in 1975. I actually applied for an internship at this agency as a sophomore. I was way too honest about myself on my application. All my friends at least got interviewed. I was ignored. Maybe even put on a watch list! The Wall Street Journal has been going bananas about this agency in the last few months. It seems they want to destroy all use of fossil fuel in our country and use windmills. Well maybe that would work in Holland. Also it could work where I spend my summers in Hood River Oregon wind surfing capital of the continental US. But the WSJ states this will at least triple the cost of energy for our citizens with no proven benefit. I have no reason to disbelieve them. The Federal Communication Commission There are three Democrats on this commission out of five people. They fall in line behind Obama’s agenda. They are supposed to be independent. The Wall Street Journal also hates these guys. They are out to destroy the Internet. Rub a dub dub,
Three fools in a tub, And who do you think they be? The butcher Jessica Rosenworcel probably was doing her nails with a knife when she passed this new regulation. The baker Mignon Clyburn, he was probably stoned. The candlestick maker Thomas Wheeler, who was definitely an arsonist as a child. Turn them out, knaves all three. That brings us to the Supreme Court and liberty. I have already touched on there proclivities. I would say that the Federal Court System is one of the few departments I would greatly increase in size. But I would rearrange them into many distinctly different areas of responsibility. Stay tuned for my details. Well I guess that brings us to the pursuit of happiness. Happiness is the most elusive goal of mankind. Not much help explaining what it is by Webster. One site on the internet states happiness is that feeling that comes over you when you know life is good and you cant help but smile. I guess that person believes in legalizing pot. Ayn Rand whose philosophy I followed from age 16 to 21, states happiness in non-‐contradictory joy. Well I’ m going to make some assumptions of what the founding fathers meant when they went to war over the pursuit of happiness. Happiness is keeping the fruits of you’re labor. Those guys hated taxes. Happiness is being able to practice you’re religion without interference. Happiness is freedom of speech and thought. Happiness is not having you’re land confiscated for any reason. Well I guess the founding fathers forgot about this when they allowed “eminent domain” in our constitution. Happiness is being able to raise you’re children and educate them without interference. Happiness is being able to leave the fruits of you’re labor to you’re children without confiscation. Inheritance taxes are an anathema! Happiness is not being treated like a slave in any manner. No false imprisonment. No involuntary labor. No military draft. Well I guess at least a couple of these joys still exist in the US, the rest need to be returned. That’s all I have to say before I start writing out my new US Constitution. Aren’t you excited? Oh I do have one other agency I forgot the Federal Reserve.