I need to state hear this is a long Blog and I apologize for that, but please be patient and read it all as it will put a lot of things in perspective for the real reason I’m am writing this. I will start out with a little background on me.
I have served in two branches of the US military one tour in the USAF and one tour in the USN, the first one being during Vietnam. I dedicated my life to serving the US as an Employee of the DOD for a total of just a little over thirty two years in the Submarine repair business. I am an NRA member a concealed carry permit holder and I am not a Democrat nor Republican. I do not vote party as I think that is the SHEEPS way out. I vote for the people that i think will do the most good for the Country and I do my do-diligence. I have seen Presidents come and go and I am old enough to remember the Kennedy Assassination, the race riots of the 60’s and the Nixon scandal.
Our problem stems from even further back than that. It started after WWII. The Korean War was the beginning. It’s when the United states fresh off the defeat of Germany and Japan began the assumption that the United states, bolstered up by the newly formed United Nations, was destined to be the Worlds Police officers. We made exceptions to the idea of non-interference in another countries internal strife. Even after the stalemate of the Korean conflict, this same thinking got us into Vietnam which was a disaster. Then military action in Afghanistan, even after the Soviet Union gave up. Desert storm was the one of our righteous endeavors and George H W Bush ended it correctly. We drove Iraq out of Kuwait and then stopped and left. That was the right thing to do! Then came the Regime changes in the middle-east countries. More disasters one after another. which brings us to now.
Now we are still on the DMZ with South Korea, in Syria, still bolstering up Iraq and still fighting in Afghanistan. I watch on CNN at work when the twin towers came down. We have hunted down those who perpetrated those attacks with prejudice and rightly so. Now we are getting involved with Venezuela. When will we ever learn?
Some how the United States has always been quick to fix the Worlds problems all the while at home a festering cancer is eating away at our democracy. That Cancer is a combination of Money Power and Greed.
The founding fathers looked upon their roles in Congress and the Presidency a ” service to the country”. This is where we have gone astray from true democracy. The changes that i am about to recommend will most likely never be adopted as the status quo will never agree or let the changes happen, as it would destroy their worlds. I also know that these changes seem like there might be some age discrimination in them. However, we are talking about nuke launch codes and the ability to go to war or the country being driven into bankruptcy . With the increasing development of dementia in our society it’s just good business I’m all most 67, just saying! Under the new rule i laid out I couldn’t even be sworn in for a second term even If i wanted that job , You couldn’t pay me enough to take that job in the first place! Washington has become a den of vile power hungry grifters, lobbyists, Con-men and Crooks!
I will try to lay out what needs to be done to save our great democracy
#1 All congressional positions, Representatives and Senators, shall no longer be paid by the United States government. Their compensation shall be provide and controlled by the state that they represent. Pay raises allowed only by a vote of the people they represent to be based on the Federal government Cola. There are no pensions. It’s called “service to your country”. All congressional positions shall not exceed two terms of 4 years each. All Congressional positions must have reached their 30th birthday by swearing in date. No person over the age of 70 may hold office in Congress. Attendance shall be for the entire years of the terms with absences allow to fund raise in the fourth year only.
#2 All Presidential candidates both President and Vice President age requirements shall be as follows: Candidates must have reached their 40th birthday by inauguration date and candidates must be no older than the age of 70 at the inauguration date of their second term. anybody that doesn’t meet the age requirement are ineligible to serve. Terms shall remain the same 2 elected terms totaling no more than 8 years. Age requirement to be absolute in all situations no exceptions.
#3 The Electoral college shall be abolished. All Presidential Elections shall be decided by Popular Vote of the People of the United States.
#4 All candidates selected for an appointment to the SCOTUS shall be selected and submitted by a bipartisan House of Representatives committee and confirmed by a roll call vote of the entire House of Representatives and Senate. SCOTUS shall be fully manned at the total level of 9 Supreme Court judges and a new judge shall be appointed with in 6 months of the loss of a sitting judge. The bipartisan committee must maintain a list of judges at all times to expedite the replacement of a loss of a sitting judge
#5 The DNC and RNC Shall only exists to fund raise for the Presidential/Vice Presidential election. All funds raised can only be used to promote a Presidential/Vice Presidential candidates. No DNC/RNC funding shall be provided to state political campaigns. Funds may be rolled over to the next Presidential/Vice Presidential election. No corporate funding shall be allowed, only individual contributions shall be allowed and all contributions over $5,000.00 shall be declared for transperancy.
#6 All funds raised to promote Congressional Candidates must be spent in their respective states. No transfer of funds from state to state. Funds may be held in each individual state accounts for second term re-election or new candidate election. Funds may only be utilized for Political candidates running for office within that state. No out of state contributions allowed personal or outherwise.
These Six things are just the tip of the iceberg that is this corrupt Government that exists in this country. and are Common sense changes that will put us back on the right track
However, getting these things implemented will be very hard without a major change in the way we think about our government This would almost take a Revolution to make these changes Which I am NOT advocating. But these are just some things that could solve allot of our problems.
Trump is not the problem He is just a sad mentally sick old man that needs attention to make everyting to be about himself and to feel good about himself. He is a symptom of the greater problem of how bad our system is broken! Just look at Mitch McConnel he is one of the worst power hungery Senators there is in the Senate
Don’t get me wrong here. I don’t profess to have all of the answers, just some common sense observations! We have bad people in our government that want to take away our freedoms on both sides of the aisle.
The 1st amendment guarantees our right to freedom of religion the freedom of assembly and the freedom of speech. When they take away your rights to object verbally or to assemble to disagree with their policies and you have no weapons to defend your self then you have tyranny. Just step back and take an objective look at what is going on. The Dems do have some good ideas getting rid of Citizen United is one of them That was the worst ruling that SCOTUS ever handed down.
The 2cd amendment guarantees our right to keep and bear arms. It is the main defense of an overly oppressive Government. Even if I am an NRA member I don’t think a mandatory back ground check for anybody selling a weapon or 10 round clip limit is all that bad. If you can’t hit your target with one or two you shuoldn’t be using it anyway! if it was going to help curtail gun violence, yes, but it won’t. It might stop the sale from individual to a felon but they aren’t going to do the background check anyway even if it is the law of the land. Most gun violence is committed with a stolen gun or one taken without consent from a family member. No gun law is going to prevent that. I also agree that the mass shooting incidents are horrible and tragic, but the guns are not the problem. The Problem is with these people not getting the mental health help they needed before they got their hands on the guns in the first place.
The Republicans do have some good ideas I feel that an Abortion should only be an option in the first trimester unless the life of the mother is threaten. If you can’t make up your mind in three months then carry to term and give the baby up for adoption. Yes I know I just touched a live wire and will probably lose the Evangelicals with that one! The founding fathers made it so their was a distinction between church and state. That provision gives everybody the right to believe and worship or not as they see fit Sometimes I think that they just don’t get it that they cannot impose their beliefs on everybody in the Nation. Anyway I digress and need to get off this subject and get back on point!
It’s time for all the career politicians to go away. We need new people who will stand by these provisions and tackle the looming problems of Climate change., the National debt, get us out of the business of being the worlds police force and get us out of the foreign wars. We need to focus on our internal infrastructure to upgrade our electrical grid, repair our roads, re-define our military’s role and get rid of outdated legacy platforms that don’t make sense any more. Re-build for the next 100 years. Start using renewable energy get rid of the coal and oil fired power plants. Build more solar farms, wind farms and wave action generators. Build some desalination plants to augment our water sheds. I could go on and on. Sometimes you need to take two steps back to get four steps ahead!
We also need our government to crack down on our Ciber enemies and Scam artists. We don’t need Russia and others telling our people who to vote for with their bots on the internet! We lose billions of dollars a year to Ciber scammers. That money could be used in other places We don’t need Trump’s Space Force - However we do need to revitalize our space programs for exploration. We don’t need to Militarize Space we got enough down here on Earth.
I invite anybody and everybody to start a dialog on what I have written. But please keep this clean no vulgarity and Please stay off the abortion topic that is one that I probably should not have touched and I won’t debate that issue as it is a personal issue for me and not anybody else’s concern as it won’t change my view. I don’t want it taking over the blog because the other topics are more important than that topic. I don’t want this to get mired down in that topic!
We are the first Country or Empire (Donald Trumps vision) to have ever lasted over 200 years with out a over throw of the government or a total collapse. Think about that We are ripe to be Taken over!
And it is happening very slowly right under our noses in our own government! One day we will all wake up to a USA that we never thought would become real. Remember what happened in Germany in 1939!!! History does repeat itself!!!!