Friday, August 30, 2013

The Laws And Regulations We Need, But Will Never Get.

You go to the doctor. She tells you a significant portion of your body is broken and you're going to die. It must be fixed for the good of your entire body and everybody else's body too. She comes back with a 1000+ page stack of paper full of medicalese that explains what she is going to do to you to "fix it".

You ask what's in the 1000+ pages. She tells you it's good for you and will save you money. You ask her how exactly it does that. She sends you to a bureaucrat who speaks "economist" at you for two hours, no questions allowed. You return to your doctor's office and ask again what the procedures will do and how much it will cost. She tells you'll find out once the work is done and the fix is in.

You wake up wondering what's going on only to find that some key parts of the procedure have been postponed because they couldn't figure out how to do them in the time they promised. You find out that they also missed 72 of 84 key checkpoints on the list of things they said they had to do to fix you. You also find out that a some of the doctor's favorite crony-organs got an exemption and don't have to suffer through "the fix".

You decide to get a second opinion (Yeah, a bit late, but hey - it sounded so good why would anyone have questioned it..). This doctor says that what they have started to do to you will damage your life significantly and stands a good chance of killing you. You ask what's in it that could kill you. The doctor says "pretty much all of it". As he's walking off, he mentions that the IRS will be managing "the fix" ongoing.    

If a doctor, a lawyer, or a hair stylist could not, or just chose not to, tell you what they were going to do to you and what it would cost - then went ahead and did it, or at least part of it, and still did not tell you the mid and long term effects and costs - they would fined, fired, jailed, beaten to a pulp - or preferably, all the above. 

Yet that is exactly what politicians did to us with "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act", aka Obamacare. They passed a bill with many thousands of pages that apparently, no one read and is not understood. They seem to be making up for their lack of planning by applying massive amounts of bureaucracy and exempting themselves and their cronies from the effects of the "law" they passed.


We still do not know to and degree of certainty what the consequences of the bill will be, both intended and unintended. We have politician-speak assuring us "its for our own good" - which is exactly what a despot would say when they are taking over you life and that of your fellow citizens. 

I believe we need to make a change that everyone except politicians and their appointed lackeys can believe in. We need laws and regulations on office holders such that when they vote to pass a bill, and the bill passes, each and every one who voted for it is liable, criminally and civilly, for the consequences of that bill.

Further, each politician must create a document of no more than 10 pages explaining in clear English (no politician-speak allowed) exactly what the bill will and will not do. They must sign and notarize that document (I don't trust them) and send a copy to every one of their constituents and put a copy on the website.

Failure to honestly, accurately, clearly and thoroughly explain to the people what the bill will and will not do is a federal felony offense punishable by heavy fines, loss of office and prison time.

Before the final vote is taken by both houses of Congress, every Congressperson would be required under penalty of law to sign a binding legal contract with the American people demonstrating, in their own words, that they have read, understand and are proficient and knowledgeable enough on the bill's intended and probable-unintended impacts and costs to vote intelligently and honestly for or against the bill.


And the office-holder will be held legally accountable for their vote.

Politicians, more accurately called power-mad liars, are screwing us over on a daily basis are taking more power from us every day - they have placed themselves well above the law and far above the people.

Elected and appointed officials are our servants - not our masters. That is how a government elected by free people to govern themselves is supposed to be and is the only way our democratic republican can be sustained and prosper.

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Immigration Reform Is Not About Immigration - It's About Power And Control.

To understand what "immigration reform" is about starts with understanding two simple truths: One, that this is not the first time politicians have sworn they are going to "Secure the Borders!", assuring us that "This time they really mean it!" yet our borders are still porous.

Second, one needs to understand the primary rule that drives the politics of mass illegal immigration: "If politicians and their cronies benefited from stopping mass illegal immigration it would have been stopped a long time ago and most likely would never have started."

Politicians lie. Duh. They will lie and lie again over and over, they will lie by filling thousands of pages of a bill with legalese that no one reads - but politicians are not going to stop mass illegal immigration because it is beneficial to them and their cronies. That you can count on.

This time is different only because it is for all the marbles... This bill is designed to grant unprecedented power to elite politicians of the ruling class and huge sums of money to their cronies. If "immigration reform" gets out of the House & Senate and is signed by Obama this is what itwill do:

1) The bill will ensure that poorly educated, low-skilled workers and STEM - IT (Science Technology, Engineering, Mathematics - Information Technology) workers from foreign nations will flood working-class and middle-class labor pools with cheap, compliant workers. American citizens in the working  and middle class labor pools will be "fundamentally transformed"
to use Obama's term, losing jobs, working fewer hours, getting lower pay. Their lives will be "changed" in ways that benefit politicians and their cronies and devastate real American citizens.

2) The bill will import 18M to 35M (11M already here plus their relatives outside the US via "reunification") mostly under-educated, govt-dependent citizens of foreign nations and convert them into mostly under-educated, govt-dependent "pathway-citizens". And they will vote - which is the whole idea from the politician's perspective. And the overwhelming majority of those manufactured votes will go to Democrats. The bill is an corrput, artificial means to create more than enough votes to give the Democrats complete, undisputed control of the federal government in 2 to 3 national election cycles, depending on how fast liberal activist lawyers can speed up the "pathway" to become a "superhighway"...

So, why is the GOP seemingly committing political suicide to help the Democrats gain complete control of the government? Well in short, they went insanely stupid after Romney's loss and made some terrible decisions - they believed the chanting from the left and some RINOs that 'white people are going away'... Think about it: The GOP (Rubio, Ryan, et al) swear to us that in the big picture, by shifting to the center-left just this one time to push this bill through, the "Latino vote" will give the GOP a politically-significant number of votes... Even if you believe that, what Rubio/Ryan and the rest of the GOP "leadership" *don't* talk about is what the GOP will have to do *ongoing* to keep those "Latino votes" coming in election after election after election... Obviously, the GOPs shift to center-left is permanent. They think their new BFF "Latino vote" will more than offset the "old white conservatives" they lose by doing so.

And therein lies the "bipartisan" nature of this virulently anti-American escapade by our Congress and President: The agreement between Schumer-Obama (whose staff wrote 98% of the Senate bill) and Rubio/Ryan/GOP-leaders is an agreement to share the effectively absolute power that "immigration reform" gives to America's ruling elite...  


Look at it this way: If the government of a 3rd world banana republic crammed a "law" through that created a decisive and controlling number of votes out of thin air - thereby assuring the ruling class remained in power, history would call that government an "elected tyranny"...

That is why both parties are pushing "Immigration Reform" so hard - it is all about manufacturing votes to keep them in power and ensure that with all those government-dependent, easily controlled votes, there will be no democratic way to stop them from doing anything they want.