(09-23-2010 08:35 AM)Rebel Wrote: ...and you guys solution would be?
Small practical measures:
- You're required to repeal two laws before passing one.
- Cut the number of overseas bases in half.
- If you receive more than $1,000,000 in a year from federal, state, and local government combined ... you are required to sign a contract forbidding you from lobbying.
- Pass an executive order immediately repealing all prior executive orders which overstepped existing law.
- Nobody in Congress gets paid until entitlements are either eliminated or fully funded immediately.
- Congress is REQUIRED to have the same medical care its citizens get under ObamaCare.
- Constitutional Amendment to move up the in-office date to January 1. Also amend the replacement of lame duck Congressman such that they have two weeks after certification of election results.
- Restoration of habeas corpus
- All Patriot Act gag orders are immediately lifted
- Allow anybody to cash out and opt out of Social Security, but require that money be put into some sort of savings account.
- Allow anybody to opt out of Medicare, and Medicaid.
Serious reform goals:
- Elimination of ObamaCare
- Elimination of the employer-linked health care system.
- Allow people to buy insurance across state lines.
- Allow people to band together like companies to buy insurance.
- Tort reform
- Elimination of ATF.
- Elimination of Federal Reserve.
- Return to Gold and Silver backed currency.
- Elimination of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
- Elimination of the Bureau of Land Management.
- Elimination of all parts of the USDA not dealing with food quality and food safety.
- Elimination of the Dept of Education.
- Elimination of the Dept of HUD.
- Elimination of the Dept of Energy.
- Elimination of the Dept of Homeland Security. Funding that would have gone to DHS for a period of 2 years will still be allocated, but used in partnership with the EFF, ACLU, and other watchdogs to sue and/or investigate and/or immediately terminate employment of all entities within all levels of government which abused Patriot Act provisions to gain undue power over US citizens for non-terrorist related activity.
- Drinking age lowered to 18. If you can take a bullet in a far away country for Uncle Sam, you can drink a ******* beer.
- Legalization of marijuana
- Mandatory parole of drug offender if insufficient space in prison for violent crime offender
- Repeal of the Patriot Act
- Elimination of the Dept of Labor.
- Repeal of the 16th Amendment. Fair Tax instated. Elimination of the Internal Revenue Service.
- Withdrawl from the UN, 3 year ultimatum to leave the country.
- Withdrawl from IMF and WTO. Declaration that so-called "international laws" have no jurisdiction here beyond a few basics (Geneva Conventions, International Waters, Sovereign Water Zones, etc)
- No American bases anywhere a carrier taskforce can be deployed.
- Balanced budget constitutional amendment. Unbalanced budgets can only be passed when Congress is under a Declaration of War AS PASSED BY THE US CONGRESS, not simply imposed by the President
- Constitutional amendment making executive orders which exercise federal power where no law authorizes it, or that are unconstitutional, an impeachable offense with mandatory trial.
- Repeal of the 17th Amendment
- Federal recognition of gay marriage
- Repeal of all tariffs
- Repeal of all import quotas
- Repeal of NAFTA, CAFTA, and all other "free trade" agreements
- Increase legal immigration quotas
- End of Cuban embargo
- Reinstatement of Jeffersonian foreign policy with one exception: states which harbor terrorists are subject to the full force of the US military, without warning, without restriction, on terrorist threats in their nation.
I think that's a good start.