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If Elected I Promise ;) part I.
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Posted by: laborat
If Elected I Promise…Part I
(Some things you can ponder while I try to solve the word puzzle of how many nots are in knots.)
It has occurred to me, during this upcoming Presidential election year, that someone, everyone, anyone, should be talking about--our future and:
1) the tough choices this country is going to have to make.
3) some radical options this country may have to choose from.
Since I don’t see any candidate of either major party or minor for that matter that doesn’t come from that select group known as “Them” and not from that perpetually screwed group known as “Us”, it looks like another election yawner full of the usual vote pandering smoke up your ass bull shit you get from candidates or incumbents wanting to be elected or re-elected by telling you what their pollsters think you want to hear.
Suspend reality for a moment, and imagine that Laborat (me) is running for President. If you are still with me and not unconscious or in the bathroom throwing up, imagine that I am representing the Cheese Puff Fizzie Party running on:
a platform of Separation of State from State as well as both Church and Business.
I will be examining several popular and unpopular issues (see post IF I WERE PRESIDENT in Rants and Raves)
Huh? Backup a minute. What did he just say? Separation of State from what? Well, in a nutshell, Laborat the Candidate thinks it is time to admit to ourselves as Americans that Capitalism (Corporate America) occupies the same niche that the Church in Europe did (way back when) that led us to insert the phrase Separation of Church and State in our Constitution in the first place. We didn’t want people who represented God running our country because it was bad for business back then.
Now that we are older as a Country though not wiser, it’s time to say that we don’t want people who represent God or Business of any kind or stripe running the country because its bad for our system of law and justice in general, our elective system of representation of the people, our environment and food/water supply, job security, the Economy, and our societal values as a whole.
Well, in a nutshell without Separation of State and State, it’s pretty much bad for everyone except for those who claim to represent God (who have become very good at Business) or Business (who have become very good at deifying money).
There are those, myself included, who feel that our Founding Fathers of the U.S. Constitution were a group of privileged drunkards, landed gentry, slave holders and rebel rousers who collectively voted on a good basic concept of government simply because they had no idea what Thomas Jefferson was writing about.
Phrases like “We the People” and “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” were supposedly put in to spruce up a fairly dull document that most of the folks in the country at that time couldn’t read anyways.
Since then those phrases, though empty then and empty now (at least to the have-nots), have inspired generations of Americans as having that certain homegrown “pizzazz” both we (us) and they (them) use in our definition of ourselves when all of us start thinking we are better than anyone else in the world in governing ourselves.
But back to God and Business for a moment. In my opinion they have both led to corruption of State. You can see this by the way we have been doing things in government lately -- acting in the name of God when it’s plain for all to see that it’s Business that profits and acting in the name of Business when it’s plain to see that it’s people who say they speak for God that profit. Things have become so bad that even State is infighting among it’s various selves of State, especially those selves corrupted by God and Business.
So how would I go about separating State from State? Well, the candidate Laborat would call for dismantling the government bureaucracy by at least 50%, agency by agency, cabinet by cabinet.
I would do this because I and the people I represent suspect it doesn’t really matter who is elected to office if the bureaucracy remains in place from one administration to another. (on a related note I would also call for All government employees INCLUDING CONGRESS to be on Social Security like the rest of us. Nobody in government is worrying that their retirement plans are going to go broke by 2010.)
I would start with the IRS (go to a flat tax for individuals and corporations) and then go to the State Department (suspend all foriegn aid and kick the UN out of New York), followed by the Department of the Interior (put a freeze on any development of our national resources), Department of Education (require all schools be in session from 6am to 6pm) and reorganize ALL agencies that regulate business in any form or fashion like the FCC and FDA. Assuming I survive all the assassination attempts, I would then take on Welfare and Human Services(suspend all welfare payments, nationalize drug companys, draft all doctors and nurses into the Armed Forces).
All these cuts in the bureaucracy could be done through Attrition, Hiring Freezes, Tragic Accidents, Blackmail, Arrests, and Forced Retirements.
In upcoming columns, I will deal with the issues one by one with my own particular views on what should really be done. Who knows. Maybe one of these days what needs to happen will really happen.
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