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Founder of the non-existent Bald Eagle Political Party, (TBEPP)

 

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The Bald Eagle Party is dedicated to the separation of national government from the individual citizen. It is a balanced party, opposed to extremism in any direction.

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I can be reached at, S.H.Gritz@Hotmail.com .

 

Please be civil, respectful, and not self-righteous; bear in mind that every idea we think are the products of personal value judgments. I operate on the conviction that there is no such thing as right or wrong, or true and false, unless it comes from an original provable source; there are very few original sources that can be found. Every thought is based on personal perception of what we read and hear, and, the lessons we learned during  our childhood, therefore every thought is a value-judgment. With that always in the minds of all involved in an exchange, there can be no, “I’m right, you’re wrong!” which will avoid arrogance by all parties.

 

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This site is dead serious. I believe, truly, that American society will begin a downward slide toward oblivion in about 2029, and take a nosedive directly to the bottom in 2031, when everyone will be learning to speak Arabic, and Chinese. I will probably not be here, which is a pleasant thought.

 

What will be the cause of the crash? The liberty of “Big Banks” and the existing gambling approach in the stock market that leaves buying and selling to people and computer’s decisions based on nothing concerning the firm that had issued the stock; the corruption our government has been selectively prosecuting without having put anyone in prison, and without having stripped them of their ill-gotten wealth. The money market produces nothing; banks not lending to small businesses produce nothing; the total effect of all the above exceeds the sum of the parts.

 

Additionally, the personal wealth of the few that has an unjustifiable and overwhelming effect on a money-driven election system, and our observation that The U.S.A. has lost most of its definition, as Schwarzenegger is losing his, (body), completes the cause. Federal involvement in our local activities not only exacerbates the above causes of a weakened national life, but makes a genuinely healthy economy unachievable.

Being so heavily indebted to other nations leaves us belly-up to acquisition by those creditors, without firing a single shot, and, the lack of substance in our currency; the United States is fast becoming a bankrupt civilization, not only financially, but in definition; it lives on smoke!

All the movers and shakers who will lead us over the brink will move to their homes on islands in the Caribbean, where their wealth already is. (Count those in Congress and big, big business who own a home off-shore.)

 

What follows is a step-by-step procedure to avoid the final downturn, and is the TBEPP’s official platform. I am not a negative weirdos; I’m quite a funny old guy, good-looking, sexy (In the eyes of one gorgeous 31 year-old, who likes older men), brilliant, humble, and balanced.

 

Due to the fact that the USA is a nation of too many selfish and ignorant voters, I am convinced that America has no future. That’s because, even if each of our readers accepts any of our ideas, I am positive that not even one percent of you will do anything about it; not writing your congressmembers, a letter to the editor, or to email me with well-considered opinions.  But, to keep me busy until I get a break by being assigned to life on another planet, here are my steps to avoid the crash of ’31 on this one.

THE FOUNDATION

 

Only a tightly set, and tightly enforced, system within which over 300,000.000 people can thrive together without misery inflicted on us by movers and shakers, can prevent the crash. Centralization of government over so large a country as ours had opened Americans to abuse, loss of control, and ruination; we need a safe and successful return to state management of our local and personal affairs, exactly as the constitution permits. (There is government, and there is management.)

 

Every one of the following ideas, as they are developed, would solve the unemployment problem. That means JOBS in the private sector! Civil service does not add wealth to the economy!

IF YOU DON’T KNOW, DON’T VOTE!

 

What follows is the platform of The Bald Eagle Political Party; the party of balance. Now that the taking-half of the voters re-elected Barry O, and the Democratic System, we need a plan to replace the Republicratic Party with a new one in 2016; A party of balance; the Tea Partyers are too manic, the Libertarians just short of Anarchy, the Democrats too humanistic and lack appreciation for balanced books, and the Republicans are loaded down with two "evilists": self-righteous religionists who want to eliminate religious freedom for others, and the movers and shakers who are trapped in the lust for wealth that reduces their value to society for their creating and nurturing national prosperity. We need a party of balance, and a nation of true freedom…from each other.

The main thing is that the nation has, and continues to lose definition; Think of a body builder letting his musculature go to ruin; this nation no longer has character and personality. We have become an unidentifiable country, and people, be it government, set of principles, or dependability. Rather than coming together, we are falling apart. This party seeks those who want a nation uncontrolled by passionate, self-righteous people who want their religions and political/social beliefs to rein over all. We need a complete re-organization of our system of government.

TEN STEPS TO PERFECTION

 

STEP ONE

DEFINITION AMENDMENT

 

Voters should coerce Congress into passing an amendment to the constitution defining the term, “Speech” as, “written, or oral, communication of thought; the giving of a thing is not speech.” This would open the door to eliminating money, or gifts to candidate’s campaigns for elective office.

This amendment is to make way for step two, without which nothing can be done to avoid the anarchy and the crash of freedom and prosperity that Burton foresees.” (He’s from the fourth planet in the third quadrant of the Milky Way. Jon Luc Picard once slept there.)

 

STEP TWO

FECMA

     

FECMA is an acronym for, Federal Election Campaign Management Act, and the Agency it would establish. The act would not promote taxpayer support, or political maneuvering of campaigns as they are run today, but it would eliminate money-driven elections, and criminalize any and all contributions and gifts to candidates regardless of purpose; the financial impact on taxpayers would be minimal. This law would leave it to the voters to make it work, or cause it to fail. Sadly, because of the recent Court decision regarding private financing and corporate giving to candidates, FECMA would not stop “big-money” from establishing massive funds to drive us all up the wall with obnoxious ads for candidates who choose to run outside of this system; voters, however, would have the final say about such candidates. Americans will truly get what’s coming to you - good or bad - after a FECMA goes into effect. That’s a certainty!

 

Nothing can stop the crash without FECMA, and FECMA cannot exist without step one: “The Definition Amendment.” I regret that you will have to read the book – not scan- but Read it; it explains all facets of the system. 

 

“The FECMA Conspiracy” by Burton S.H. Ridgeway (A pseudonym)

 

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Amazon:

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The public lieberry

 

Comments on the book, other than on style and bad editing - which was the result of my belief at the time that I would be dying soon - are very welcome.

 

S.H.Gritz@Hotmail.com

 

STEP THREE

OUR TAX SYSTEM

 

Begin to separate the national government from the individual American by making the Infernal Revenue Bureau a small staff within the treasury department, while transitioning to a system which bills the states for their proportionate share of each year’s federal budget; each state would have their own system of taxation. Following this legislation should be those bills that withdraw the national government from our lives where it need not concern itself; activities that do not impact the nation itself, or more than one state. The system of taxation that would help save the nation is as follows:

 

I suspect the sixteenth amendment of 1913 was intended to by-pass our founder’s Republican system by sneaking around the states to gain control of the individual. I tend to think that it was a genuine conspiracy by those who preferred a nation without semi-independent states. Let’s do as so many people want: delete it.

 

1.     Each year, we would take the average state economy throughout the nation as 100%, and determine each state’s position to the average. The federal treasurer would then bill each state based on its economy and population, from, say, 50% to 150% of the average.

2.     Each state would then create their tax system to include paying the annual federal tax bill over the following year (Monthly). This will permit poor states to decrease their taxes as a result of paying less to the Fed, which would make it possible to increase their own income, and help their economies, according to their own judgment.

 

3.     This system would allow people to take care of their own state, counties and cities. Federal management would gradually surrender control of the American people as individuals.

 

4.     Replacing our present tax system with the above will freeze in place tax-breaks such as 401-K, other deferred-tax income; each state would then choose what, if any, benefits to adopt.

 

5.     Life would be less complicated by the elimination of deferred income, and fringe benefits for new workers that escape taxation; The IRS book of regulations would shrink a few pounds, and higher after-tax income would fund one’s own plans for the future; keep government out of it. All fringe benefits provided by employers should be taxable to the employees. (This would reduce tax percentages.)

 

6.     As this new system of federal and state direction of our domestic affairs, the national budget, and the debt, should shrivel, and the states would choose what to adopt as Washington closes or reduces the size of each bureau that is not essential for national administration. Then, at a future date, Congress should meet only every six months, and the District of Columbia would become a bedroom community. (LOL).

 

7.     The flow of taxes should be from the bottom to the top; from the citizen to the city, to the county, to the state, to the nation. Our present tax system is totally out of our control!

 

8.     Now, bear in mind, states cannot just print money; funds must be available to support anything they do!!!!!!

 

9.     Mortgage and other loan- interest should be terminated as a tax deduction. If we don’t have government giving incentives to buy homes, there would be no reason to consider interest as anything other than part of the cost of things financed. To whom it matters, Rent! Why should government incentivize buying; let businesses do that.

 

S.H.Gritz@Hotmail.com

 

STEP FOUR

NATIONAL “PAPERS”

 

A President cannot get even close to resolving the domestic problems we are faced with. It will take a new dedicated party in power, with a balanced set of values, and the collective chutzpah to resist criminality and opportunity to dominate the legislatures of the nation and the states. Only then can we hope to see a candidate who will actually lead us toward the maturity we should have achieved a long time ago.

 

The Republicratic party works hard to resist the natural inclination of most people to want a daddy and mommy-type of government supported by independent, high earning fellow citizens. In return, Democrats, not limited to members of congress, accuse republicans of being a power-seeking, and money-driven gang of heartless ogres. The fact is that the constitution dictates that we be a republican form of government, not democratic.

 

·        Democrats, for the most part, believe in serving the people; they are humanistic. Therefore, to them, we are a democratic system, which we were not meant to be.

·        Republicans know that we are a republic; leaders being elected by the people, rather than by elected representatives. The United States is not a democratic nation, it is a democratic republic. It was designed to have popularly-elected representatives make decisions based on their own judgment; not their constituent’s, but with their preferences in mind.

·        We call ourselves a Democracy because the people can input our desires, so we forget that our system is not run by the demo’s, but by the leaders the Demo’s chose.

  

·        Each side of the aisle has members of extreme thinking; either toward the left, or the right. Each party-member is faced with decisions to join the majority of the party-members, or go with his or her convictions, if any, and not actually contributing their true values.

 

·         Each party has “gangs” among them; representatives with independent and balanced members must go with the majority to get bills passed, or rejected. Presidential candidates are those selected by a few leading members, with a vote of the officially adopted candidate of the party. Qualified members of a party, who are inclined to reject too many of the party’s favored legislation have no chance to be nominated for the Presidency, and a balanced-minded member will not have the support of one’s party, either Democrat, or Republican.

 

·        The Bald Eagle Party will not run candidates for president until we have 25% of both houses. ( Naturally, I am compelled to think of the possibility of actually creating a real party-not a Tea Party type-not that I take it seriously.) Only by the Bald Eagle Party’s balanced values disturbing congress, will the direction our downward slide to oblivion be reversed, or at least, halted. It’s a conundrum that all predictions of collapse are treated as lunatic-ravings, even if we know that all things must end. But not yet! Why not tomorrow?

 

·        We are The United “States," not the United “People.” The people constitute the states, and the states constitute the nation; an unbreakable relationship. All national domestic law passed by our representatives should be administered by the states where national administration is not essential. We should sever the national government's relationship with the individual. Only in the sense of our sharing the same nationality are we “A united people.”

 

·        This Party will fight for a national ID card for every living soul in the U.S.  Our having a lifetime ID card, with only our picture, and finger-print on a ribbon that only a single particular computer can read - in a language of its own - which would be available only through government extensions - not commerce, or privately-owned - is the solution to so many of our immigration, law enforcement, and deficit problems that, not to have one is in my judgment, ridiculous!  Only political paranoids compare a plastic ID card, to needing “papers” to move around the country. We do not permit law enforcement officers to ask for the card without just cause. And moving among the states would not require “papers,” as the constitution dictates.

 

·        Additionally, as for all legal applicants for residency should be required to swear under oath, that they believe in the separation of “religion and government.”

 

The only problem we will face is handling the troubles of illegal’s children, and good quality parents who are contributing to our society. Our solution to that is the good idea of processing them to legal status. Why now? Because, with a National ID card for every soul legally in the country, we could assume that there will no longer be an expensive illegal entry problem to fight; an ID card for every employment, or legal transaction to replace driver’s licenses and actual social security cards; every employer who fails to check for the official ID card should be heavily fined, or hanged.

All illegals, having lived in the U.S. for longer than two years, and have received no welfare benefits for at least eighty percent of the time they’ve been here, should be permitted to apply for legal residency upon payment of federal and state taxes equal to the average of all taxpayers in the same income bracket during the past two years.

   

I support the amending of the constitution to define a natural born citizen as one who is born to a citizen; a child born to an illegal, permanent, resident who is not a citizen, or married to one, should not be considered a citizen.

·        There would no longer be people jumping the border and dropping a baby in an American hospital for the benefits due a citizen.

·        Legal residents, upon becoming citizens, should have their citizenship include their minor children.

·        All adult children of former illegals who become legal should be given legal status, on application.   

  

STEP FIVE

 

Restoring a Bracero program would be good-if enforced, and I know no reason to not do so, except to not provide unemployment payments to any legal resident out of their type of work for longer than one year who rejects a job offer of any kind.

 

As for Braceros not returning home after season, a national ID card, indicating their temporary status, and expiration, would take care of that; reasonably.

 

S.H.Gritz@Hotmail.com

STEP SIX

SOCIAL SECURITY

 

Transfer all FICA tax income to the twenty-six most stable private national life, disability, and annuity companies to manage and distribute payment to recipients - one insurer for each of letter of the alphabet-  who should be free to invest the funds with the most conservative approaches- as they currently do for life insurance and annuity beneficiaries, with much success.

 

Insurers would be allowed a small percentage of the payments for their management services, plus a reasonable share of the return on investments each year as profit. The rest of the earnings would go toward funding the reserves to the level at which they should be. Over 98% of SS taxes would go to beneficiaries.

 

This would remove SS tax funds as an asset of the government, and out of the hands of congress and the administration – we would then know the real deficit.

 

Insurers invest with prudence, increasing the pulse of the economy, and produce absolute safety of principle and a reasonable return on investments. After a time, as the funds increase, retirement income to beneficiaries would increase with inflation. (No involvement in investment decisions by beneficiaries!) 

 

STEP SEVEN

PEDOPHILES

 

See to the realization of my solution to this problem, as illustrated and explained in my novel, “The Winner, Gritz.”  

You could save the lives and psyches of millions of kids, and their parents, and save billions of dollars to boot. Let us do what Solomon Hochman did with his money.

 

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B&N actually lets you read the first chapter.

 

STEP EIGHT

 

A NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN

(Not a “healthCare” plan)

 

I have an idea for a national health-care financing plan that no one is paying attention to, because it calls for thinking outside the box. Here is a précis’ of it:

Congress and the president should have designed a basic national plan of benefits designed by a committee of three of the largest national insurers. The plan should be issued and administered by participating private insurers within the states; Americans would be automatically covered even if not registered. States must be allowed to require minimum residency, and mandated to continue coverage for ninety days should an insured enter or leave the state. The states will pay this premium, based on their own average medical costs. They should not, though they may, mandate their citizens to buy additional coverage, but let the people who choose to not buy a private Major Medical plan suffer the consequences with the lowest cost care; no bells and whistles; this would give such people food for thought. (There are always charitable organizations that could help pay for Association group insurance on all its members, where all premiums are paid to insurers in a single transaction.) Each state should be free to decide their approach.

 

State taxpayers would cover only the cost of minimum provisions to make the patient whole, at minimum cost. There should be no heart-bleeding for those who made a choice to not buy coverage; we should operate on a wise, and fiscally sound, and genuine, concern for people’s developing quality of character; continuous dependence on government is very harmful to character.

We should discontinue being led by social heart-bleeders =’s naive children in adult bodies, as to what we-all should do for each other - by mandate. (I suspect that such people do not chip-in for any of the benefits they demand from Big Daddy and Mommy.)

 

Insurers within each state can offer a variety of Major Medical policies – with guaranteed insurability during a sign-up period - to come into play when the basic coverage does not cover certain problems, or runs out. Employers, associations, and charities, would pay all, or part of their members/beneficiary’s premium for major coverage, through reduced-cost of administration: group insurance.

 

The result? People on, or near, the bottom step of the ladder would be covered, healthcare providers would lose less money, the poor, and homeless  would get check-ups, and some preventative care, and the many members of the middle class would afford to buy Major Medical policies - if not top-notch, then a compromise plan. And, no new government insurance bureau would come into existence, giving us more civil servants who do not contribute new money to the system.

 

Medicare would no longer be needed; both the national basic plan, without premiums, and partial payment for a private Major Medical policy of their choice - total benefits being equal to present Medicare - personal charitable giving would take care of the rest.

 

To repeat; insurers within each state can offer a variety of Major Medical policies – with guaranteed insurability during a sign-up period - to come into play when the basic coverage does not cover certain problems, or runs out. Insureds, employers, associations, and charities, would pay all, or part, of their members/beneficiary’s premium for major coverage, through the mechanism of wholesale insurance.

The result? People on, or near, the bottom step of the ladder would be covered, hospitals and physicians would lose much less money providing for them, the poor would get check-ups, and preventative care, and the many members of the middle class would afford to buy Major Medical policies, if not first class, then a compromised plan; and, no new government insurance bureau, and no more Medicare department. Personal charitable giving would take care of the rest.

 

NOTE: I think that the top five insurers should get together with congress and create a major medical policy they could all live with, designed to ride on the automatic national basic plan. Such a major plan could be the standard from which insurers in all states can design alternative plans. Their particular operating expenses and profit margins would promote competitive premiums.

 

S.H.Gritz@Hotmail.com

 

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People earning over $150,000 annually should be relieved of premiums for SSA life and health benefits, with the proviso that, years in which they earn less income, they will be returned to the system, without penalty during such years.

 

Congress should eliminate laws that permit a state to reject insurers from doing business unless it is due to reputation, coverage, or fiscal concerns; there should be no state monopolies!

We don’t need to buy across state lines, and certainly should not want states to conspire with an insurer to monopolize the business. I believe this to be an instinctive pursuit by people who can think only of a single nation by helping to convert the USA to a single government, with no states. As it is, each state has a different economy, political system, and life style, therefore different premiums for the same intrastate coverage, even down to difference premiums for each county. By buying over state lines you would average the premiums over the country, and deprive states of the benefits of the economy they built.

 

Health care providers who add profit margins to supplies and equipment in addition to their charges, and overhead for dispensing their own services should not be honored. Medical billing should show the actual cost of the supplies and the use of equipment, then, show their overhead and profit as separate entries. {Aha!}

Medical care billing is not like charging for merchandise. An aspirin in a hospital should cost the wholesale price plus cost of delivery, if separate; 8 cents?

 

I had sold health insurance and handled medical insurance claims for fifty years, so my insight is limited.

 

One thing is certain: Insurance premiums and HMO care will never, ever, decrease, or even remain the same percentage of our personal ability to pay, until we revalue our currency. Not with the ever-increasing medical technology growing full-bore; we really are going to make “Bones” on Captain James T. Kirk’s Starship Enterprise, look uncivilized, but it will get close to equaling the cost of our homes, per year; all because we think we have a right to it with no limitations, for $1.98 a year, and everyone should be required to chip in to pay it.

 

STEP NINE

 

MARIJUANA

 

We will work to legalize the use of marijuana nationally, and permit states to prohibit it, control it, and tax it at their discretion. All national personnel currently enforcing laws against the growth or use of hemp will be given other duties, or be terminated, which is to say, dis-employed, not killed.

All funds saved as a result of this move will be used to reduce the national debt.

 

The problem with legalizing the weed is the battle with the monolithic businesses that have everything to lose if marijuana is legalized; graft will move billions of dollars into the pockets of legislators. The war to keep marijuana illegal will be won unless Congress is made up of people dedicated to eliminating the billions of dollars of wasteful expense from the budgets of the federal and state taxpayers. Of course, we also lose out by not being able to tax these businesses. And, don’t forget the Lawyers who make oodles of $ defending dealers.

Now, we have a “triple whammy”: no sales tax on marijuana sales, no income taxes on growers, distributers, and retailers, and the taxes we currently pay to fight this impossible battle to “purify the race.” 

 

How many lives and limbs will be saved by this approach?

How much less will we have to chip-in for police, medical, and court trials connected with law enforcement of laws that will forever be broken?      

 

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Without a purpose, life is not worth living. Without diversions from the serious issues in your life, there is insanity, and without reasoning, there are few intelligent decisions. So spaketh Burton Ridgewaythustra!

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While the above steps are taken, (LOL) there are many more things for us-me and Burt-to address. I will add our thoughts, as well as you readers, and edit this site daily until my fingers are too weak to control, and I fade into the netherworld like a rejected suitor.

If you don’t know, don’t vote

Turning in a blank ballot is an act of good citizenship

It would give us better results and statistics

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Speak to me; we’ll talk; like grown-ups!

 

Most important: If you want to see this party get off the ground, even as just an association, then submit your “membership.” No fee. True names and addresses!!!

 

S.H.Gritz@Hotamil.com

 

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·        Check out: Americans United for Separation of Church and State. www.AU.org I’m leaving them all my assets.

 

 

THOUGHTS TO PONDER

 

·        Separation of church and state: As long as the church has tax advantages for being one, they must obey man’s laws; surrender those advantages and man will let them do as they wish. “Very logical!” Says Mister Spock.

 

·        Where Republicans force religion and morality on us, Democrats force bankruptcy; Bald Eagles would force nothing but the containment of self-righteousness in the minds of the movers and shakers.

 

Have you heard the expression, “Single facet thinking”? Of course not, I thought it up. Relative to a diamond that has many “facets” to it: some people deal with only one facet of a many-faceted question - which most questions are - and ignore all the others. Of course that makes dealing with the question easier than trying to reason through all the facets, and adopting a legitimate viewpoint of the whole subject - on balance; I get the impression that not many people do that! Seinfeld would say: “Not that there’s anything wrong with that!” Sure there is! What follows is a challenge to tunnel vision.

 

SOCIAL

 

1.                 We need a bill submitted to Congress to limit retirement funds offered by multi-state employers, or associations, to plans administered by reputable disinterested third-party firms - with no executive, or owner, related to the employer. These fund-managers should be governed by the U.S. Secretary of labor. They should guarantee a minimum interest rate, a share of excess earnings, and assume all the risk.”(Like insurance annuities); leave it to employees to risk their disposable income without their employer, or union, involved; and we should eliminate tax incentives for such contributions, which would increase the net benefits when claimed.

 

2.                 Deleted. (Too vulgar!)

 

3.                 Permits and licenses to do business within a single state should not need federal involvement, if the business or personal activity does not affect a federal facility. State legislators should outlaw permits and licenses designed to keep newcomers out of a type of business. Let competition be truly free, without politics, and let “little people” start their own businesses without laws promoted by those already in it, to protect themselves. Florida is entertaining the idea of protecting Morticians by requiring makers and sellers of coffins to be licensed after years of education. That’s ugly!

 

 

4. As I believe home ownership is not necessarily in most people’s favor, the tax deduction of the interest should be eliminated as a deduction for new buyers, or re-financers. It’s said that deducting home interest was to give people an incentive to buy; in this economy, home ownership is too expensive and troublesome. It will be a long time before anyone is going to see equity; renting, for the tenant should cost 50% less than owning, leaving lots of money for savings, and purchases; personal homes should not be looked upon as an investment, except as a business.

Yes! “Landlords” (they’re not Lords, you know!), lose out on this idea, because tenants are not always as loving to apartments. But those who want to own their home for the sense of security it provides can have an easier life living middle-income by not having to carry the year-to-year burden of paying for potential equity, along with interest, home maintenance, taxes, etc. It’s for them to decide, and to "eat" loss's in value.  Punishment for economic downturns should be shouldered by themselves, not the rest of us, certainly not by the President, Congress, or the State with money that does not exist; we live on smoke, you know!

 

S.H.Gritz@Hotmail.com

 

EDUCATION

 

1.     Public schools should modify their systems to begin with five-year-olds on how to listen, and to focus, on anything - and to reason, in addition to the “three R’s.” Everything else should take second place; memorizing should be in last place.  How to reason one’s way through life should be the Prime Directive; [reasoning how electric traffic lights and the "walk" signal really work would be good!] anything else should be privately run options offered by each school, in competition with all others. Schools – public and private - should be overseen by states, with the least national involvement as possible. Every grade should have a class on reasoning, relative to the attained age of students.

 

2.     States should feel free to order their cities, and counties, to sell their schools to close-corporations set up by the teachers of each school, for the value of the “plant’s” property, equipment and hardware, on a fifty-year non-interest-baring note; the notes would be held by the State, and used for the general interests of their counties. Those teachers who don’t buy shares would work for the corporation owned by their associates, and the new owners would know what it’s like to be on the other side of a union. God!!! That would be painful!

 

3.     All employees of schools for students below college level should be licensed by states, mandated to clear all applicants for any position through a national computer for any reports of pedophilia; and the Principle to report all employees proved to be pedophiles within three days of the dismissal subject to personal penalty.

 

FOREIGN COLLEGE GRADS

I would like to know what special interests prohibit national and states from giving foreign students with diplomas automatic residency permits. We educated them and insist they go away. Why?  

 

The U.S. Postal service

7.        I think we should look into making it a commission issuing franchises to intra-state corporations who issue county franchises to private parties, required to deliver any and all mail (one way or another); mail to be distributed by the national distributors to the state distributors, who would be free to partner with private mail services in distribution, and delivery. Bonding will, of course, be essential. I believe Article 1; sec. 8 of the constitution does not prohibit this.

S.H.Gritz@Hotmail.com

 

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VERY SERIOUS STUFF

 

1. In golf, clubs are referred to as right, or left handed; we are either right-eye, or left-eye-dominant, regardless of what hand is dominant, so I think the golf industry and professionals should change their references to apply to the eye, not the hand. Make it so, because I use left-eyed clubs. In the hands of an Octogenarian, they’re pretty dangerous!

 

2. The Eleventh Commandment is of course, “Be ye therefore perfect.” Well, you’ve read perfect solutions to our nation’s problems, and if you disagree, I dare you to argue with me.

 

3. Did you know that Hong Kong’s average IQ is 107; South Korea is 106, Japan is 105, Italy, and Germany are 102, England is 100, and the USA is 98?

 

4. In this holiday season, once again we are reminded that free enterprise and our dependence on economic transactions to support ours, and governments, needs, moves manufacturers and retailers to bug us with commercials and sales, which results in them continually moving Thanksgiving and Christmas up a few days every year. I imagine that by the year 2020, we’ll be faced with Thanksgiving sales for 2021 three days after January 1^st of 2021; and Christmas sales the following week. Then we would have to create new holidays to follow Chanukah.

 

5. Seriously; a business with hundreds of employees in a single campus could be situated on property that provides *rental* housing for employees.

* The rent would be absolutely minimum, non-profit.

* Those employees who move into such apartments would be paid less than those living elsewhere.

* The property would provide the popular retail outlets, where people would pay non-profit prices.

* There would be no need for the use of vehicles ( golf carts would be appropriate) to and from work; no gas, electricity, less maintenance=less cost-of-living.

* It would be private property with controlled ingress/egress, and private police; no gangs, no theft, all non-profit.

Result: The cost of manufacturing in the U.S.A. would be very near the cost in Asia, with no cost for overseas shipping, and total quality control. Put this in your pipe and suck it in! Then give me arguments.

 

LOSING DEFINITION

 

Additional proof that we are losing it, is the way we use words; e.g. Amagine for imagine; amergency for emergency; etc. We have to learn to tawk good!

 

CHRISTMAS

Aka, THE HOLIDAY SEASON

 

“Christmas” means Christ Mass. It is a religious day.  It had long ago, as you know, become a gift-buying season = Commerce. We Americans give thanks in November; commerce takes over on Thanksgiving night, and Christmas lasts from November 26^th at 6:00PM until the same time Christmas night, after which the sales of leftovers ( Newly made for the occasion) begins. Then there’s New Year’s Eve, and a hangover on January 1^st; then the debt.

 

I would like to see a growing change in America where people of Christian orientation celebrate “Christ Mass,” when gifts are not the point and shopping is replaced by going to church, and sitting cozily with the family. (Invite a single person of the faith who is without family.) Never mind shopping!

 

What to do with the continual drop in business? Spread shopping for gifts over the next year, as you go about your activities; buy gifts for particular people for particular reasons and accumulate them for a special day. That way, as everyone joins in, buying would be spread over the year, creating permanent jobs instead of temporary holliday jobs. The economy of one month would be spread out.

 

What day? You ask. A day you, and each member of the family, will select each year known only to each of you; (A secret!). On that day, each member of the family would, on their day, invite everyone over for a surprise party and give them the gifts you had purchased throughout the year. They will all be shocked, surprised, grateful, and full of love and joy. Then the Christmas music would fade out until it is played only December 24^th, and 25^th. (This would also guarantee an eventual gift for you from each of the guests. Aha!)

 

Now, before Christ Mass, stop wishing Jews a Merry Christmas and give them a Hanukkah card, or gift, instead. Then there would no longer be the need for a “Holidays” card. There are cards for every culture/religion. We, with friends and acquaintances of different cultures and faiths, would make note of their holidays, and send them a card, or gift, as well. God! What would December be like without it being a commercial season?     

 

I’m thinking that, maybe we don’t need birthday gifts either! Nahh!!!

 

 

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Reply to an email:

RE: the book, “Divinity of Doubt.

 The God Question”

 by

Vincent Bugliosi

 

Vince “stole” all the words and ideas I had written in 1998; I wish I still had that hard disk. There is absolutely no difference between his and my thoughts on this subject; he just wrongly defines Atheism. He has in mind professional writers who leave no room in their arguments for the possibility that they may be wrong, and does not recognize that such people are not only atheists, but egocentrics, if not just debaters who speak with certainty.

 

Because my war-cry is, “there is no such thing as right or wrong, or true or false in philosophy,” I am an Atheist because I *believe* that there is no such thing as a God – Christian or otherwise (He is Jewish, you know); I am wise because I know I could be wrong. Vinchenzo has in mind the un-wise, as Atheists, and the wise, as Agnostic. My being a wise Atheist would have Vince call me an Agnostic.

An agnostic, as he notes, is one who doesn’t know, or care, and in his battle to defeat the verbose and self-righteous wrongly defines Atheism to include ego-centrism; I disagree. Vince is an Atheist! 

 

I have spoken!

THE ORIGIN OF MARRIAGE

 

Today, 2/6/13, As a curiosity, I googled, and ask.com’d this question, and found answers mostly based on limited, and self-serving guesses, so I decided to inform you-all of the truth, because my friend Burton says he was there at the time, so this is his take on it.

The origin of marriage predates all known current religions and traditions; it began when one cave man having been thinking of what was going to happen with his well-furnished cave, favorite axe, and pitching staff, noticed that the man-children in his women’s cave looked just like him, so he pulled her by the hair into his own cave, and took possession of the kids. Then he trained the boys to join him in going for groceries, while mother and the girls cooked and kept the cave and environs clean. After a while, the others in the tribe noticed how well it worked that they did it too. That was the beginning of marriage; it was an economic creation.

 

When cavemen evolved into Homo sapiens people eventually came to think of marriage as a necessity for “legitimacy,” because those who needed to be leaders could have authority by declaring the necessity for “legitimacy.”   So a marriage ceremony was designed to give more importance the leader.

From then, marriage became a means to disperse personal “estates;” Religion eventually took it over, but it was merely an economic tool until Love redefined it. It is still, to many, just a means to legalize ownership, and transfer of possessions.

Love, and the desire to live together does not really need “legitimacy; living in a society, makes it desirable to the majority of humans.”

Burt says that on his former planet, simple personal contracts, registered with the local administration, took care of everything- without a lawyer! 

They do practice the prohibition of mixing bad blood with good, which is to say intelligence, and culture. (Not religion; it doesn’t exists there.)   And they have no wars. Sounds like a good place to live, but Burt says they’re not as exciting as us earthlings; intelligence is so boring.

 

Who was Thomas Jefferson ?

 

At 5, began studying under his cousin's tutor.

 

At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.

 

At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.

 

At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.

 

At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.

 

At 23, started his own law practice.

 

At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.

 

At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America ? And retired from his law practice.

 

At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.

 

At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence .

 

At 33, took three years to revise Virginia 's legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.

 

At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.

 

At 40, served in Congress for two years.

 

At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.

 

At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.

 

At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.

 

At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.

 

At 57, was elected the third president of the United States .

 

At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation's size.

 

At 61, was elected to a second term as President.

 

At 65, retired to Monticello .

 

At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.

 

At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.

 

At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams.

 

Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff. A voice from the past to lead us in the future:

 

John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

 Thomas Jefferson spoke thus:

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe ."

 

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

 

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."

 

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

 

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

 

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."

 

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

 

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

 

"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

 

In 1802:

 

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

 

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

 

As I’ve said at the beginning, America will bite the bullet before 2031 for not basing its decisions on the above.

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If you have read this far, and have no opinions on any of the subjects above, or, you see no reason to comment, and you have complaints about the way The USA functions, and you vote;

(1) Whose opinions do you vote?

(2) Why do you vote?

(3) If you see my point, please turn in a blank ballot in the next election; at the least, vote only on issues on which you have your own opinion.

P L E A S E !

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MORE TO COME

 

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