Is America the policeman of the world?
Almost every kingdom (country) in the Middle East is currently experiencing civic unrest. There are many reasons for the demonstrations but primarily it is all about financial freedom. Follow the money. Many people want us to step in and solve the problems. Not I.
Since 1945, America has found itself in the forefront of world politics. Americans are entrepreneurs. We immediately applied our political strength for financial advantage. We have continued to do so for decades now. Through major conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iraq (again) we seem incapable of understanding that nations want to determine their own futures as we did in 1776.
Europe has united into a larger political block. China and India are straining at historical restrictions. Russia is reuniting. Africa is in chaos. And so on. There are lots of issues currently. Many of them will influence the future for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Four decades of news reports tell me that the “Ugly American” will always be envied for what we have in America and hated for our meddling in other countries.
If we spent more time solving our national issues perhaps we could lead by example instead of trying to force our views on the deaf ears of others.
Google US military foreign bases. After you stop laughing, or crying, perhaps you can understand why this must stop. Bring everybody home and take care of business on our side of the Atlantic.
Canadians and Afghan Terrorists
Adopt a terrorist!!
A lady Canadian Libertarian wrote a lot of letters to the government, complaining about the treatment of captive insurgents (terrorists) being held in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities.
She received the following reply:
National Defense Headquarters
M Gen George R. Pearkes Bldg, 15 NT
101 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa , ON K1A 0K2
Canada
Dear Concerned Citizen,
Thank you for your recent letter expressing your profound concern of treatment of the Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists captured by Canadian Forces who were subsequently transferred to the Afghanistan Government and are currently being held by Afghan officials in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities.
Our administration takes these matters seriously and your opinions were heard loud and clear here in Ottawa.
You will be pleased to learn, thanks to the concerns of citizens like yourself; we are creating a new department here at the Department of National De fence, to be called ‘Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers’ program, or L.A.R.K. for short.
In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we have decided to divert one terrorist and place him in your personal care.
Your personal detainee has been selected and is scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your residence in Toronto next Monday.
Ali Mohammed Ahmed bin Mahmud (you can just call him Ahmed) is to be cared for pursuant to the standards you personally demanded in your letter of complaint.
It will likely be necessary for you to hire some assistant caretakers. We will conduct weekly inspections to ensure that your standards of care for Ahmed are commensurate with those you so strongly recommend in your letter.
Although Ahmed is a sociopath and extremely violent, we hope that your sensitivity to what you described as his ‘attitudinal problem’ will help him overcome these character flaws.
Perhaps you are correct in describing these problems as mere cultural differences.
We understand that you plan to offer counseling and home schooling.
Your adopted terrorist is extremely proficient in hand-to-hand combat and can extinguish human life with such simple items as a pencil or nail clippers.
We advise that you do not ask him to demonstrate these skills at your next yoga group.
He is also expert at making a wide variety of explosive devices from common household products, so you may wish to keep those items locked up, unless (in your opinion) this might offend him.
Ahmed will not wish to interact with you or your daughters (except sexually) since he views females as a subhuman form of property.
This is a particularly sensitive subject for him and he has been known to show violent tendencies around women who fail to comply with the new dress code that he will recommend as more appropriate attire.
I’m sure you will come to enjoy the anonymity offered by the burka over time. Just remember that it is all part of ‘respecting his culture and religious beliefs’ as described in your letter.
Thanks again for your concern. We truly appreciate it when folks like you keep us informed of the proper way to do our job and care for our fellow man.
You take good care of Ahmed and remember we’ll be watching.
Good luck and God bless you.
Cordially,
Gordon O’Connor
Minister of National Defense
Alternative to ObamaCare – Free Medical Clinics
There are some free or inexpensive medical clinics in some of the major metropolitan centers. Not nearly enough. They are financed by charities or churches. With President Obama spending trillions on health care, why is this not a central issue?
Most of the egregious aspects of the US health care system would be solved by a sensible, effective system of municipal medical clinics.
The first criticism of all clinics is that they only get the bad or inexperienced doctors. That is true. Consider these solutions:
Define medical personnel as doctors, nurses, medical technicians etc.
New Medical Personnel – Pay rate range should be from twice the minimum wage to four times the minimum wage. No interest or principal due on student loans during full time service at the clinic. At the end of full time service, student loan principal reduced by the amount of pay received while employed by the clinic.
Experienced Medical Personnel – Zero salary, only tax benefits and student loan benefits. Compensation calculated on a basis of 200 work days per year. Use income tax paid last year divided by 200 as the daily compensation rate realized as a federal tax credit. For example, if a doctor paid $50,000 in federal income tax last year, then his daily rate would be a $250 federal tax credit per day worked at the clinic. Furthermore, student loan principal would be reduced yearly by the total amount of compensation received from the clinic by the doctor during that year. Furthermore, as long as a doctor worked at the clinic 20 days a year, then all student loan interest would be suspended for that year.
The poor performance of the economy provides a window of opportunity with regard physical facilities. There are many vacant buildings which are fully functional as offices in all metropolitan centers. Some of these are in foreclosure, some are available at severely discounted leases or purchase prices. The medical equipment necessary should be available at very attractive pricing. But we cannot allow the federal government to do the facility or equipment procurement.
There Oughta Be A Law
That expression has been used too many times.
Our legal code is completely !?#.
Contradictions and duplications abound. No one has time to delete outdated laws, statutes and regulations. It is a complete mess. Our system of law by precedent not only by our specific choice, but also by necessity because of the volume of laws and regulations currently somewhere on the municipal, county, state or federal books. I do not even what to think about the international aspects.
The last couple of graduating law classes have not enjoyed the same placement success as previous classes. Accordingly, there are some underutilized first and second year graduates in our society. I recently encountered a very bright law graduate at the INS while attaining my US citizenship.
What I propose is that we utilize these legal manpower resources. Teams of these graduates could be organized to start reviewing the legal code with the main purpose being the identification of redundant, contradictory or confusing laws, statutes or regulations. This probably should be supervised by the US Supreme Court. Which should delegate to the State Supreme Courts. Which should delegate to the County Courts.
We should structure the investigating teams in groups of 3. Each or the three reviewing the same material. There should be parallel teams of 3. One identified as Republican or conservative, the other identified as Democrat or liberal.
The pay rate should be twice the minimum wage. The sweeteners should be that no student loan payments are due during this service AND the student loan is reduced by the same amount as the gross pay received during this service.
Mandatory Service After Highschool
Switzerland and Israel required military service from their citizens.
Our government schools and nanny state federal government are not preparing our youth for the realities of life. Perhaps two years of service would help our youth appreciate what we have and how important our freedom really is. At the same time perhaps they will get in better physical condition, understand self defense with and without weapons, appreciate teamwork etc. Consider the following:
The service should start 2 weeks after graduation from high school. If high school graduation is not in the youth’s immediate future, then the service should begin on his or her 18th birthday.
The service should begin with basic training as currently conducted by the army. The starting pay rate will be the minimum wage with room, meals and clothing provided. After completion of basic training, the inductees will be utilized as needed by the city, county, state or federal government for local or national community projects. An example would be park maintenance.
The term of the service should be 2 years. After completion of the two year term there will be options for careers in the civilian or armed forces. After completion of the two year term, they graduates will receive:
-voter registration identification, US passport if American citizens, military service identification allowing px privileges, access to health insurance at a discounted rate and other similar rewards.
Also consider the possibility that these graduates could be phased into the National Guard. A National Guard will not only maintained their military skills but also contributes to the local community by helping with projects such as park maintenance, litter clean up, demolition abandoned buildings etc.
To create this training system for our youth, the mandatory systems in Israel and Switzerland should be investigated for both their strengths and their weaknesses. There will be individuals who rightly will be excused from this training for health or similar reasons. Again let’s not reinvent the wheel, look to see how the Swiss and Israelis handle the inherent problems associated with required service.
Stimulus Projects
We have all heard about some of the ridiculous projects which were part of the almost one trillion dollar stimulus package in 2009. Despite all the claims of shovel ready ideas, very little immediate action occurred and very few jobs were created. In fact we were recently informed that there is no such thing as a shovel ready job by our illustrious leader.
I dearly hope that we do not go down the federal stimulus path again. But knowing the spend-crazy mindset of Democrats and the lack of backbone of Republicans … here are some suggestions which are at least worth consideration:
1) wifi the whole country, then everyone would have the ability to have high speed internet and access to shopping, news and information.
2) provide electronic voting machines for every voting parish in the country. Side note – Is it not remarkable that as soon as the electronic voting machines were installed in Georgia that Republicans starting having some success at the polls? Yes electronic voting can be subject to fraud, but it is more easily secured than hanging chads and missing ballot boxes. It is certainly more secure than New Orleans or Chicago precincts both with high percentages of dead citizens on voting lists.
3)cancel the virtual fence project. What idiot proposed that waste of money? Did no one ever look at the actual geography, flora and fauna of our southwestern border? Perhaps there might be a few improving ideas on the following, but build a chain link fence as follows:
***two 12 foot high fences
***50 foot dead zone between the two fences
***ask Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio from Arizona what is an effective way to patrol the fence and what manpower would get the job done.
***have a fence repair crew on standby for weather damage, wildlife damage, and illegal alien damage.
***post signs on southern fence that say: Persons found in the dead zone will at a minimum be arrested and returned and any resistance will be met with deadly force. Another sign would say: Dead zone is patrolled by attack animals, anyone harming an attack animal will be subject to arrest and return, any resistance will be met with deadly force. Signs should be in Spanish, Portuguese and English.
***every 50 miles (or less) there should be a crossing area where legal immigrants are processed.
***do not use large construction equipment except where absolutely necessary. This is a double edged sword. Build a fence, create jobs.
And several others including: free medical clinics in all metropolitan areas of 500,000 or more, bike lanes and sidewalks on all new suburban and city road construction, stock more game fish in more lakes, raze abandoned buildings in downtown areas of big cities and replacement with parks or playgrounds.
Isn’t it amazing how many wonderful things could be done with a trillion dollars? Who did they ask for the their list?
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